Dale gets a Paddlin’

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After a nice chat about the quality of my blog entries, this week’s entry is going to be a long and interesting one. After taking a look at some of the first-years blogs and seeing the different way they are approaching the blog has made me realise that mine is not up to scratch.

From now on I will give a more detailed evaluation of the work I have produced and start to plan what I will be doing for the week ahead. I will also show or link to sites or work that I like and comment on them.

On Tuesday I handed in the A10 assignment “Culture Vulture”. I found parts of this assignment difficult, especially the reverse design process. Before the assignment I would have thought having almost infinite scope for a design would have helped.

This was not the case and rather than help it made things harder. I would come up with ideas and then quickly discard them as other ideas came into my head. I now see how important an in-depth brief is and feel this is a lesson learnt, particularly for the based client projects.

The assignment was to produce a surface design pattern for an unknown object. This object was an Adidas trainer and was part of a competition, the winner having the design produced and available to buy.

I based my design on the work of Piet Mondrian, as I felt it work transfer well to any medium and the amount of white space would mean I could include any company logo’s ect. on the design.

The other two assignments haven’t had as much work on them as I would have liked. By next Tuesday (21st) I will have completed both web plans and will post my time planning sheets, to show the improved use of my time outside college.

Also thanks to anyone who has posted a comment on my blog and I will get round to posting a response on yours.

Thanks for reading, Dale.