Monday, December 19, 2005
franzer
Personal statements you can send to my institute email - awindle@surrart.ac.uk
Sunday, December 18, 2005
How to write comments
Click to enlarge.
They're not set-the-world-on-fire exciting but since none of you are actually writing anything, presumably since you've got lives, comments would be a nice.
Friday, December 16, 2005
Referrals and not yet acheived units and plan-chests
There are a few students on the foundation and the ND courses that are getting on with the referral tasks or work that has been indicated as 'not yet achieved.' The deadline for this was the 12th December but as we didn't get chance, that will be extended until the 9th January. Remember to bring this in with you on the Monday to college so we can have a look at it, the plan chests at the back of the room are for you so you can store your work in there (and overnight) if we need to see it again on the Tuesday or the Thursday you can keep it there instead of trudging it home. The planchests are for you all so stick your name on a drawer and use them.
I made this clear to those of you that were in on Monday but many of you were missing so this is a reminder.
I made this clear to those of you that were in on Monday but many of you were missing so this is a reminder.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Comments, trip and UCAS
Comments
I have enabled comments for you, I'll leave it up to not noodles to let you know what they are...
TRIP
Good to see people today at the Design museum and the ID-magazine show and yes I do exist out of the Garnsworthy! I hope you paid particular attention to the Johnathan Barbrook moving type and the sketchbook work in the Eileen Gray, the names of those designers next to the LP sleeves etc were worth noting as they are some of the giants in your field.
ID- there is a lot of reading I can recommend to anyone interested in identity. For those of you interested in fashion or advertising you will need to get your head around identity at some point. It's a good thing to tackle in your UCAS statement.
UCAS
I am in college tomorrow to specifically go through anyones personal statement and choices, I may ring you or email you. I wil be doing the references then.
I have enabled comments for you, I'll leave it up to not noodles to let you know what they are...
TRIP
Good to see people today at the Design museum and the ID-magazine show and yes I do exist out of the Garnsworthy! I hope you paid particular attention to the Johnathan Barbrook moving type and the sketchbook work in the Eileen Gray, the names of those designers next to the LP sleeves etc were worth noting as they are some of the giants in your field.
ID- there is a lot of reading I can recommend to anyone interested in identity. For those of you interested in fashion or advertising you will need to get your head around identity at some point. It's a good thing to tackle in your UCAS statement.
UCAS
I am in college tomorrow to specifically go through anyones personal statement and choices, I may ring you or email you. I wil be doing the references then.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Comments
Blogger has a comment function... any chance we can have it turned on so we don't end up with loads of topics and no replies?
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Rochester Trip
10am
We're sitting in a 53 seater coach. 15 people put their name down and 4 showed up, 5 if you include Sue. Beautiful weather, crystal skies with light cloud. Our coach is heading to our Rochester campus, part of what used to be KIAD, right on the coast of Kent. With me is Nick from Graphics and two fashion pathway people, Steph and Tracy. By the look of the prospectus, Rochester is a large campus thats heavily focused on Fashion and Graphics like us, but their courses sound much more specialized including the intriguingly named "creative pattern cutting". If you're into Fashion, this is probably the campus for you.
The day is hands on with lectures and free food laid out. I'll be joining the Digital 3D Modelling while Nick is attending the Marketing, Branding and Advertising in Design. I've brought a camera so hopefully you'll get a feel for the place.
11.10AM
Arrived after an interesting series of interesting wrong turns in a coach thats large enough to stop both lanes of traffic.
We were warmly welcomed and shortly introduced to their showreel. We got free T-Shirts and they're mailing us a copy of the reel. Also have prospectuses if anyone is interested.
12.00
Treated to some live poetry/music. Curtis Tappenden & Andy Cherry. Curtis is one of the tutors and a kickass performance artist that does work for the Daily Mail. Andy is one of Curtis' students and does a great Bobby Dylan impression. A (poor) recording of their performance will be uploaded along with the photos at some point.
12.45-1.45
Digital 3D Design - Underwhelmed. The course is very new and I don't think they've found their way yet. They were emphasising the software over and over as well as the potential of CG. Which is all fine and good but they don't teach advanced compositing or generative art which cover at least half the work in the industry (and about half their examples of CG in action). Their animation is obviously nowhere near Farnham's standards and neither is their cinematography and textures were HIDEOUS. Which means you MUST be a modeler and they don't have AutoCAD which means no serious architectural and product design. New course = no contacts in the industry. No motion capture. No 3D scanners. No collabaration with actors and coders. Just PC's in the deepest, windowless basement. Which would all might be forgiven if they produce sublime, high detail models. They didn't show us any.
2.00
Photography - In complete contrast, the photography course is ANY photography student's wet dream. Spread over the two top floor with a fantastic view over the bay but you won't care! Why? Massive studios in several sizes with high ceilings should you want to shoot from above, try unusual lighting or suspend things. Several darkrooms for b&w, colour and specialist process. That's several of each! A large equipment store that also bulk buys film so you get it cheap. All types of expensive gear is availible, both traditional and digital. They even have the industrial developing machines so you can get your negs done in 7 mins and print them equally quickly. Dedicated kitchen, lockers, meeting rooms, lecture theatre, open access computers and workshop space all just for the photographers. You need feedback? They have a board spanning a corridor for it. The work that the students have done is hand on heart indistinguishable from professional work and some of them hadn't done photography when they started in September. Just wow.
3.45 - Fashion Show
Not much I can say because its not my field. Good show, very professionally done garments. Someone (no names) told me our pattern cutting is much better though. I'll let the photos do the talking later.
Great trip. Definately going there if I'm doing photography.
We're sitting in a 53 seater coach. 15 people put their name down and 4 showed up, 5 if you include Sue. Beautiful weather, crystal skies with light cloud. Our coach is heading to our Rochester campus, part of what used to be KIAD, right on the coast of Kent. With me is Nick from Graphics and two fashion pathway people, Steph and Tracy. By the look of the prospectus, Rochester is a large campus thats heavily focused on Fashion and Graphics like us, but their courses sound much more specialized including the intriguingly named "creative pattern cutting". If you're into Fashion, this is probably the campus for you.
The day is hands on with lectures and free food laid out. I'll be joining the Digital 3D Modelling while Nick is attending the Marketing, Branding and Advertising in Design. I've brought a camera so hopefully you'll get a feel for the place.
11.10AM
Arrived after an interesting series of interesting wrong turns in a coach thats large enough to stop both lanes of traffic.
We were warmly welcomed and shortly introduced to their showreel. We got free T-Shirts and they're mailing us a copy of the reel. Also have prospectuses if anyone is interested.
12.00
Treated to some live poetry/music. Curtis Tappenden & Andy Cherry. Curtis is one of the tutors and a kickass performance artist that does work for the Daily Mail. Andy is one of Curtis' students and does a great Bobby Dylan impression. A (poor) recording of their performance will be uploaded along with the photos at some point.
12.45-1.45
Digital 3D Design - Underwhelmed. The course is very new and I don't think they've found their way yet. They were emphasising the software over and over as well as the potential of CG. Which is all fine and good but they don't teach advanced compositing or generative art which cover at least half the work in the industry (and about half their examples of CG in action). Their animation is obviously nowhere near Farnham's standards and neither is their cinematography and textures were HIDEOUS. Which means you MUST be a modeler and they don't have AutoCAD which means no serious architectural and product design. New course = no contacts in the industry. No motion capture. No 3D scanners. No collabaration with actors and coders. Just PC's in the deepest, windowless basement. Which would all might be forgiven if they produce sublime, high detail models. They didn't show us any.
2.00
Photography - In complete contrast, the photography course is ANY photography student's wet dream. Spread over the two top floor with a fantastic view over the bay but you won't care! Why? Massive studios in several sizes with high ceilings should you want to shoot from above, try unusual lighting or suspend things. Several darkrooms for b&w, colour and specialist process. That's several of each! A large equipment store that also bulk buys film so you get it cheap. All types of expensive gear is availible, both traditional and digital. They even have the industrial developing machines so you can get your negs done in 7 mins and print them equally quickly. Dedicated kitchen, lockers, meeting rooms, lecture theatre, open access computers and workshop space all just for the photographers. You need feedback? They have a board spanning a corridor for it. The work that the students have done is hand on heart indistinguishable from professional work and some of them hadn't done photography when they started in September. Just wow.
3.45 - Fashion Show
Not much I can say because its not my field. Good show, very professionally done garments. Someone (no names) told me our pattern cutting is much better though. I'll let the photos do the talking later.
Great trip. Definately going there if I'm doing photography.
Sam...
You need to create a label for a container that you can either make yourself or use one already. The packaging is additional if you manage to do all of this then you package your labelled box. Imagine, you have a label for a beer bottle and six beer bottles are packaged together with some sort of cardboard structure. In this case, you are designing the lable, and the package, mocking up the label onto a container as well as presenting two flat designs on A1. Look at the assessment stuff again. Hope that helps?
Copyright
Links on violation of copyright and legal consequences
10 Big Myths about copyright explained. An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
10 Big Myths about copyright explained. An attempt to answer common myths about copyright seen on the net and cover issues related to copyright and USENET/Internet publication.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Outline for next week
A letter to all graphic design pathway students has been posted this week, here it is electronically for you...
The last week of term will be a combination of independent study, studio time and an external trip. The range of activities provided will enable you to contextualise your practice, manage your time independently, preparing you for independent study during the christmas break.
Monday 12th December - Studio time in the Garnsworthy
Tuesday 13th December - Independent study conducted at home, or library (the Garnsworthy will be closed)
Thursday 15th December - Study trip to London
The last week of term will be a combination of independent study, studio time and an external trip. The range of activities provided will enable you to contextualise your practice, manage your time independently, preparing you for independent study during the christmas break.
Monday 12th December - Studio time in the Garnsworthy
Tuesday 13th December - Independent study conducted at home, or library (the Garnsworthy will be closed)
Thursday 15th December - Study trip to London
No kidding! Yes this is the next brief, online for all to see...
This brief starts next Monday and would be good if you could read it prior to attending on Monday... I have indicated some books you may want to purchase on Amazon or reserve from the the library prior to the Monday morning rush.
Brief:
Co-content is a two-week brief. It introduces your course as the content of an editorial brief. As a pathway cohort you have a strong identity, image, dynamic and a united set of interests. Rather than create a pathway handbook for you… you will design it for the teaching staff and for next years’ students. You will be provided with the basic content outline of which you need to editorially consider, illustrate and design.
The handbook will be once folded A5 size and you need the normal amount of print trim so that the production can be cheaply photocopied and distributed. You will need to find this out by a. trial and error with a photocopier or b. reading a book or website page on print trim. I suggest you do both. This brief is in the format of the handbook you will create. Use it as your template.
Aim:
This brief is about creating your own distopian or utopian view of your educational experience. You might want to subvert and pervade the Edexcel criteria you have to comply to day-in-day-out. In other words, take the criteria and illustrate these bits of legal jargon. Make your own visual interpretations of the assessment criteria, write your own list of designers that are of importance to you and others, list websites that you think are important, etc. Consider all the elements on the template and incorporate these into your editorial design. Make sure you also think beyond this and put in information that you think should be in there that perhaps teaching staff wouldn’t know. You are in a way the client and the designer so you should know best!
Objectives:
You will be able to...
• Create a double-paged spread that will include at least two illustrations (of your own), page layout and sequencing of text and image.
• Create a hand-made set of numbers to use as page numbers (1-25)
• Using your own fonts, create the type for three artists’ or designers’ names.
• Use a blog to discuss design solutions, problems and further discussion over the Christmas break.
• Research design layout and content through reading Rem Koolhaas, ‘Content’.
Procedure:
a. Produce 6 sketchbook pages exploring layout, (consider balance and harmony, type and image), research into known illustrators and designers,
b. Create a small A5 handbook, which will include front cover, back cover and a middle, double paged spread.
c. Content and wording has been given to you as a template on the course blog and on blackboard. Use this as your skeleton for creating the course handbook.
Resource Requirements:
Sketchbook, You do need Internet access for this brief.
Deadline: First Monday after christmas
Assessment:
1. 6 pages of sketchbook research
2. A small A5 handbook, which will include front cover, back cover and a middle, double paged spread.
3. An A5 layout of page numbers 1-25 created in your own hand-produced type.
4. An A5 layout of three artist/designers/illustrators names in your own hand-produced type.
Further Information:
Illustrators:
Christine Berrie, Michelle Thompson, Kerrie Jane Stritton, Lucinda Rogers, Lucinda Roberts, Laura Lees, Olivier Kugler, Delta, David Foldivari, Richard Beacham, Marionh LeFebvre. Bernie Reid, Isabel Bostick, Frauke Stegman, Mode 2, Laurent Fetis, Nina Chakrabarti, Deanne Cheuk, Maja Sten, Kenji Cho, Jo Ratcliffe, Edwina White, Julie Verhoeven, Marie O’Connor, Matt Ducket, Otto, Seb Jarnot, Lucy McLaughlin, Lizzi Finn, Billie Jean, Aude van Ryn, Rinzen, James Graham, Sara Fanelli, Sue Williams.
Most of which can be found in the book, ‘Contemporary Illustration’ ISBN 1-85669-339-2 (add it to your Christmas present list) Or google!
Design layout:
Hans-Georg Pospischil, Peter Saville, April Greiman, John McConnell, Hans Rudolf Lutz, FHK Henrion, Pentagram, The Why Not Associates. Abram Games.
David Dabner, Design and Layout; Understanding and Using Graphics ISBN 0-7134-8838-7
Ellen Lupton, A Miller, Design, Writing and Research
William Lidwell, Universal Principles of Design
ID magazine, Zandra Rhodes, Gallery (study trip for this brief)
Adbusters, Novum etc.
Content:
Rem Koolhaas, Content, ISBN 3-8828-3070-4
Brief:
Co-content is a two-week brief. It introduces your course as the content of an editorial brief. As a pathway cohort you have a strong identity, image, dynamic and a united set of interests. Rather than create a pathway handbook for you… you will design it for the teaching staff and for next years’ students. You will be provided with the basic content outline of which you need to editorially consider, illustrate and design.
The handbook will be once folded A5 size and you need the normal amount of print trim so that the production can be cheaply photocopied and distributed. You will need to find this out by a. trial and error with a photocopier or b. reading a book or website page on print trim. I suggest you do both. This brief is in the format of the handbook you will create. Use it as your template.
Aim:
This brief is about creating your own distopian or utopian view of your educational experience. You might want to subvert and pervade the Edexcel criteria you have to comply to day-in-day-out. In other words, take the criteria and illustrate these bits of legal jargon. Make your own visual interpretations of the assessment criteria, write your own list of designers that are of importance to you and others, list websites that you think are important, etc. Consider all the elements on the template and incorporate these into your editorial design. Make sure you also think beyond this and put in information that you think should be in there that perhaps teaching staff wouldn’t know. You are in a way the client and the designer so you should know best!
Objectives:
You will be able to...
• Create a double-paged spread that will include at least two illustrations (of your own), page layout and sequencing of text and image.
• Create a hand-made set of numbers to use as page numbers (1-25)
• Using your own fonts, create the type for three artists’ or designers’ names.
• Use a blog to discuss design solutions, problems and further discussion over the Christmas break.
• Research design layout and content through reading Rem Koolhaas, ‘Content’.
Procedure:
a. Produce 6 sketchbook pages exploring layout, (consider balance and harmony, type and image), research into known illustrators and designers,
b. Create a small A5 handbook, which will include front cover, back cover and a middle, double paged spread.
c. Content and wording has been given to you as a template on the course blog and on blackboard. Use this as your skeleton for creating the course handbook.
Resource Requirements:
Sketchbook, You do need Internet access for this brief.
Deadline: First Monday after christmas
Assessment:
1. 6 pages of sketchbook research
2. A small A5 handbook, which will include front cover, back cover and a middle, double paged spread.
3. An A5 layout of page numbers 1-25 created in your own hand-produced type.
4. An A5 layout of three artist/designers/illustrators names in your own hand-produced type.
Further Information:
Illustrators:
Christine Berrie, Michelle Thompson, Kerrie Jane Stritton, Lucinda Rogers, Lucinda Roberts, Laura Lees, Olivier Kugler, Delta, David Foldivari, Richard Beacham, Marionh LeFebvre. Bernie Reid, Isabel Bostick, Frauke Stegman, Mode 2, Laurent Fetis, Nina Chakrabarti, Deanne Cheuk, Maja Sten, Kenji Cho, Jo Ratcliffe, Edwina White, Julie Verhoeven, Marie O’Connor, Matt Ducket, Otto, Seb Jarnot, Lucy McLaughlin, Lizzi Finn, Billie Jean, Aude van Ryn, Rinzen, James Graham, Sara Fanelli, Sue Williams.
Most of which can be found in the book, ‘Contemporary Illustration’ ISBN 1-85669-339-2 (add it to your Christmas present list) Or google!
Design layout:
Hans-Georg Pospischil, Peter Saville, April Greiman, John McConnell, Hans Rudolf Lutz, FHK Henrion, Pentagram, The Why Not Associates. Abram Games.
David Dabner, Design and Layout; Understanding and Using Graphics ISBN 0-7134-8838-7
Ellen Lupton, A Miller, Design, Writing and Research
William Lidwell, Universal Principles of Design
ID magazine, Zandra Rhodes, Gallery (study trip for this brief)
Adbusters, Novum etc.
Content:
Rem Koolhaas, Content, ISBN 3-8828-3070-4
Monday, December 05, 2005
Subversive, pervasive
Great papillon, you should share what clicked for you... I am sure several people didn't quite click with it. I'd like it to be a contagious activity, spread the eureka moment!
As for the trip, I was thinking of the NFT and may be a Hitchcock movie for us all, coffee and crepes along Gabriel's wharf and a trip to the Design museum and possibly the Zandra Rhodes just along. Or bookshops and graphic comic shops for some ephemera collecting. Lots of ideas but there is 67 of us to chart around London!
Take care,
Amanda
As for the trip, I was thinking of the NFT and may be a Hitchcock movie for us all, coffee and crepes along Gabriel's wharf and a trip to the Design museum and possibly the Zandra Rhodes just along. Or bookshops and graphic comic shops for some ephemera collecting. Lots of ideas but there is 67 of us to chart around London!
Take care,
Amanda
pervasive subversive pervasive subversive pervasive subersive....... i think i finally understand it!! :P
Oh i've just managed to connect onto the blog but a trip into London sounds good amanda! uhhhh not sure to do what though!
Oh i've just managed to connect onto the blog but a trip into London sounds good amanda! uhhhh not sure to do what though!
Friday, December 02, 2005
two things...
Don't forget to do these things for Monday:
10 difference versions of labelling
2-3 experiments with packaging - i.e. prototypes
Suggestions:
We possibly have a trip in the last week of term, where do you want to go... Cinema (NFT) , london, out of town? Let me know any suggestions. I need to plan this next week. Blog to let me know.
Amanda
10 difference versions of labelling
2-3 experiments with packaging - i.e. prototypes
Suggestions:
We possibly have a trip in the last week of term, where do you want to go... Cinema (NFT) , london, out of town? Let me know any suggestions. I need to plan this next week. Blog to let me know.
Amanda
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Added a redirect
http://its.untypeable.com/ now points to this blog so its vaguely easier to remember.
