Dinosaurs, mostly.

Information Design.

2010-05-28T12:14:00.002+01:00

Information design is the skill and practice of preparing information so people can use it with efficiency and effectiveness. Where the data is complex or unstructured, a visual representation can express its meaning more clearly to the viewer.

For a more in-depth description of the design concept;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_design

I took a look at various artists who use information design, and a few really caught my eye;

http://www.jonburgerman.com/Work/comments/brain_drain/- this work is incredibly bright and colourful, and details modern life in such a way that the work doesn't even need text to get its message across!

It also has some very cool sculpture, as well as;

This piece, which really helps get my earlier point across.

I also really like this one due to the similarities between the illustration and my work.

One thing I've noticed so far is that a lot of very good information design gets it's message across without using font, this is also an excellent way to get around the language barrier!

An old form of information design would be the london underground map;

http://www.visit-londoncity.com/london_tips/pictures/underground_map.jpg

Looking at this piece again and actually seeing it really shows just how brilliant the piece is, a minimum of form and a maximum of function; Some more information on it;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_map

and it's fairly brilliant creator;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Beck

Unfortunately after some research I realized that there isn't very much else by him, but this is one thing I actually quite like about information design, it's more about the work than the artist, a truly brilliant piece of information design really immortalizes the artist who created it, even if no-one remembers his name.

Relating this back to my own work, my pieces really do need to have font on them, as the pieces themselves are a narrative, I really could push forward with the environmental side of my pieces, and I'd love to see them mocked up on a wall of an exhibition (or actually attached to the walls of an exhibition).

If I was going to change anything about the pieces, I'd change the font so it was all made of individual bits of paper, and create a few more posters based on the eco-friendly paper argument (more points on carbon usage and recycling etc).

Final Major Project.

2010-05-23T12:28:00.010+01:00

For our final major project we were tasked with writing our own brief in effect, as long as our final piece had a message, we could design and create anything based around

"The Power of Paper"

A project based around paper is basically a project based around anything, so I immediately had to narrow down my options or spend too much time thinking about all the things I could do;

Environmental;

The effects of paper production on the environment.
The effects of paper waste.
The recycling process.
Use of recycled paper products.

Artistic;

Origami
Collage
Sculpture
Posters

Practical;

A list of the paper products I use;

Cups
Packaging
Bags
Teabags
Leaflets
Reciepts
Toilet paper
Books
Photos
Identification
Money
Sketchpads
Magazines
Wrapping Paper

Now several of these things could be elaborated on; but I don't think being too specific with any one paper item I use is the way to go, I could go into a huge amount of detail with money or books, but I'm not sure I could make them interesting, and to get a message across (the point of the brief) I've got to hold the person looking at my piece(s) attention.

So going with the term "The Power of Paper", I'll see how many different messages/ideas I can come up with;

To create a flower that will never wilt (origami).
Played a huge part of my life in many different ways.
Taken for granted but incredibly versatile.
What else would you wipe your bum with?
To bring out the worst in people (money)
To help people in dire need (also money)
To make the world a much smaller place (plane tickets, money, passports)
To hold imaginary worlds and people (books)
To teach (books)

In the end I went with the idea of creating several collage posters detailing how I've used paper since I was born, using my own art style and habit of inserting (or trying to insert) humour into my work.

Research

Other people's work;

http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/PaperFolding/index.shtml- a link to a site on origami, arguably the oldest of all paper art forms, and whilst it isn't really related to what I'm doing with my posters, it's certainly very important overall to this project.

http://dinostudios.com/2010/03/interactive-paper-art/- very cool interactive paper art pieces, unfortunately only two pieces are displayed (I love the one with the cute little robot and dinosaur) I'd like to do something like this but the brief is the power of paper, not the power of, well, power.

http://current.com/groups/art-and-style/91632064_interactive-paper-art-show.html - an absolutely brilliant video of an exhibition of various different types of paper art, with some of the artists from "Paper", raises an interesting point; We all take paper for granted, never really noticing it at all, especially not as an artistic medium.

http://inventorspot.com/interactive_paper_makes_music_1- The future of paper based art works?

I've kept this a little vague as I didn't want to be too strongly influenced by others works (this may sound like a copout but I had a stong idea of what I wanted from the start, and I really didnt want to feel like I've ripped someone elses ideas off).

Materials;

Really, anything made out of paper, especially things that relate to me (teabags, and books for example, although I'd be loath to damage any books).

http://rps.gn.apc.org/ a site with all kinds of recycled paper, whilst my posters arent really all about recycling, but this is definitely a very important part of the role paper plays in society, as it is so easily recycled.

http://www.conservatree.com/learn/EnviroIssues/TreeStats.shtml- some useful statistics on the amount of trees used to make types of paper, where I will get the information I need for my posters. Also, did you know that one tonne of non recycled office paper uses 24 trees?

http://www.quotemeprint.com/- a green newspaper printer based in the uk, I could contact them if I needed bulk amounts of paper for this project (luckily I don't, its just nice to see a green newspaper printer).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/22/sainsburys-cereal-box- using cereal boxes would be an easy way to add colour, although I think I may want more of block colours rather than random ones that cereal packaging would give me. This article shows how packaging may be in the future, less paper, more plastics (hopefully biodegradable ones).

Website terminology

2010-03-05T11:32:00.005Z

Looking into terminology for the website brief;

A site with a massive list of terms.

Reading through this took a large amount of willpower, but I did learn a fair bit, for example; the definition of domain name:

Definition:

A domain name is a case-insensitive string of letters, numbers, and hyphens that is used to define the location of a website. Domain names are used as pointers to IP addresses. Domain names are typically arranged hierarchically, with the more generic names on the right. For example in my domain name:

webdesign.about.com

There are three parts (separated by periods). The most specific is my site name "webdesign". This is followed by the company name "about", and finally the top-level domain name (TLD) "com".

Most website domain names start with "www" because they were placed on the www or Web machine for their company. A company might have other domain names that are not websites, such as FTP sites or email servers and older technology like gopher.

Fascinating.

Analysis of existing websites/portfolios.

2010-01-20T14:38:00.021Z

Starting with sites that are free to use (collections of portfolios grouped under one web address), I took a quick look at carbonmade, figdig and deviantart.

carbonmade.com;

figdig.com;

deviantart.com;

These three websites are pretty similar, being designed purely for people to create a portfolio as easily as possible and for free (although each site also has an option to pay for extra features), Carbonmade has the most options for customising your profile page, whilst deviantart has the least (at least on the unpaid version), overall I think I'd go for carbonmade over the others I've looked at, if I wasn't going to get the site hosted under a domain myself. (As an aside I wouldn't reccomend deviantart for anything, its badly laid out, ugly and absolutely jam-packed with users all clamouring for attention, it is the myspace of folio sites.)

Individual websites (on the internet);

gettheglass.com;

This site is an amazingly animated game designed to encourage people to drink milk, it even made me learn a little bit about why milk is so good for me. Granted it isn't a portfolio site, but it has inspired me in my own work (this is where some of my more ambitious ideas originated)

jamfactory.com;

A fantastic website displaying the works of Gavin Strange, it is well laid out, interesting and the dude has a hell of a lot of work, also there are a lot of neat little mouse overs, although with my limited abilities in flash I think I'd prefer my site to be a little more simplistic.

jessewillmon.com;

Another portfolio site, this time named after the designer, it shows all of what they're up to (assuming it's up to date of course) and has a link to all of their work. It's nice and simple and you get a clear idea of the designer's style as soon as it loads.

m1-design.de;

I'll be honest, I don't speak Danish, but this site is fantastic (looks wise, and I enjoy the bizarre layout), despite the irritating music (which you can thankfully switch off), I think this site would have influenced my ideas a fair bit more if I understood any of it.

okaydave.com;

Probably my favourite of the bunch, this site is obviously very personal to Dave Werner, as you can see when you find the easter eggs of him singing/rapping about various aspects of design, it seems that simplicity is the key when it comes to designing a portfolio (at least looks wise, if not in coding), so I've got a good idea of what to do with mine.

Pikaboo.be;

Once you get past the interesting background and look of this website, it's really not all that great, it's easy to navigate, but the work doesn't really inspire me. I'd say this site shows that a decent layout makes all the difference when it comes to displaying work.

sidlee.com;

The "agency of the year" has the simplest website, I think this says enough.

sectionseven.com;

Another simple looking site; this one takes quite a long time to load, which could be an issue if the prospective employer had a list of agencies to look through before choosing to contact any, it has a simple mission statement which you can see with a mouseover, and is very easy to navigate, I also like the way it's almost book like, which is something to look into.

An idiot's guide to Julian Opie.

2009-12-06T17:18:00.006Z

By an idiot;

To start off with I shall write down what I know about Julian Opie.

His name is Julian Opie.

The dude did some album artwork for Blur.

Boosh.

Now to get some actual information, and to provide you with an image of my self in the style of Julian Opie.

Of course, as with anything else, the easiest way to get a vague idea of who Opie is is to read the wikipedia article, or visit his website (which has a rather nice interface).

After checking these out I can add a few more things to the list.

He was born in 1958, this makes him fairly old, by my maths at least 32.

His name is Julian Opie.

The dude did some album artwork for Blur.

He is incredibly prolific, his artwork has been exhibited in many countries, from America to New Zealand.

His style is "derived in part from Patrick Caulfield and Michael Craig-Martin, involves the reduction of photographs (or short films) into figurative reproductions (created using computer software). In his portraiture, the human face is characterised by black outlines with flat areas of colour, and minimalised detail, to the extent that an eye can become just the black circle of the pupil, and sometimes a head is represented by a circle with a space where the neck would be. Opie uses computers in art for other works. His Imagine you are... series, demonstrated how activities such as driving, walking and climbing could be represented by simple reductions. In addition, Opie uses sculpture and light installations to present items of everyday life.

"I am simply using that which is available to describe that which is experienced.""

My own image;

Lovely eh?

The start of the web portfolio/portfolio brief.

2009-11-12T10:24:00.009Z

The task for this brief is to create a website/portfolio in an aim to take it to job/university interviews, this'll mean that I will also be creating a brand identity for myself.

Unit 14; The Portfolio

Assessment criteria for pass

To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to:

1 Research and analyse the historical origins of personal style.

Collect and analyse copies of artists’ work and identify the major points of style.

Generate examples of a wide range of techniques, marks or mixed media that contribute to a personal style.

2 Communicate effectively using a personal style.

Communicate effectively and imaginatively using a personal style.

Evaluate effectiveness of own style in communicating.

3 Be able to use a wide range of media appropriately and imaginatively to

Demonstrate personal style.

Use personal style imaginatively and effectively in a wide range of media.

Present a strong body of imaginative and wide-ranging work.

4 Evaluate personal style

Evaluate personal style in terms of communicating effectively.

Evaluate personal style in terms of range of media and challenging preconceptions.

The Brief;

Assignment Title: Portfolio HND /C

Suggested Solution Unit/s: 14 Developing a personal style

Assessors: JD & RJ Date Set 29.4.09 Date Due HND 19.6.09

As potential designers it is vital that you can discuss and present your work to the highest standards in order to demonstrate your creative skills and flare. This assignment aims to build on your confidence as a designer as well as your ability to present and discuss your work.

TASK:

For this assignment you will be collating your creative work into a portfolio suitable for a uni/work related interview. This will involve both group and individual sessions with tutors to discuss the most suitable work to be included and in what format.

See moodle for grading criteria for further guidance. You must however achieve all the pass criteria on a relevant unit to move on to merits grades and likewise with merits to achieve distinction grades.

You will need to provide/purchase the following: (all available in the college art shop)

Portfolio – A2/A3

Portfolio wallets min of 8 to fit in portfolio

Spray mount

Black Canford card – enough for min of 8 wallets

Sketchbook for collating and annotating examples of artists work and styles

There is nothing amusing about a velociraptor attack.

2009-10-27T22:40:00.009Z

Magazine brief redux.

This will hopefully compile all the of the information I need for the magazine brief (and I was one of the unfortunate majority), I've also reread the brief and the unit because I was fairly sure I covered it all, but I've realised that I haven't.

I started by looking at existing magazines, unfortunately this consisted of the few that my family reads, first of all my Dad;

Shooting Gazette.
Classic Military Vehicles.- Whilst this is well laid out (done by a professional after all) it's still pretty ugly.
That is it.

My mum reads very few magazines, though she occasionally picks up Woman's Weekly or Heat or some other godawful glossy aimed at middle aged women (no offense mum), so, using the magic of the Internet I looked up a few existing magazines for analysis;

Twenty inspiring magazine layouts.

Analysis of magazines

1. Modern Design Magazine issue 13, July 2008

With the contents page, the hierarchy on the left hand page draws your eye to the large contents header, then towards the images down the right hand side of the page, then on to the text on the left hand side. With the right hand page the eye is drawn to the pictures first and then the text, with the black background creating a pleasant contrast and easing the eye slightly, although this would cost more to print.

Both pages on the Zero Carbon House use a two column grid on the left hand page and a three column grid on the right hand page, the left hand being used for the body copy, the right hand page uses its columns in a fairly unusual, with a little bit of information in the left hand column, and the middle and right hand columns being reserved for a large image.

2. Dwell Magazine

This is my favourite of all the magazines I looked at, it uses columns in an unconventional way; for example, it uses a three column grid for most of its pages, but uses two slightly out sized text columns and leaves small amounts of visually pleasing white space (I think perhaps that the designer was influenced by the Bauhaus, and whilst I would love to emulate this, I suspect that I wouldn't be able to pull off breaking the rule of thirds whilst still making my magazine look good)

It also makes use of the Golden Rectangle on its page titled "Clearly Canadian", and whilst it uses a large amount of colour, it really seems to blend them together well, sort of like a charming patchwork, rather than an overly busy distraction.

3. Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine

Of all the magazines I looked at, this was the most poorly laid out (which is strange seeing as they're all being designed by highly paid professionals). One thing that I have noticed with magazines (specifically gaming ones in my experience), when the artwork is important, but not central to an article, the designer never seems to know quite what to do with it.

The other thing I noticed about this magazine is the lack of positive space, they seemed determined to fill up as much of each page as they could, doing daft things like having unnecessary photos (everyone in PlayStation Magazine's target audience is going to know what a PlayStation controller looks like) and large splashes of eye jarring colour, combined with a poor use of hierarchy create difficult to read pages whilst upping print costs for no reason.

4. MM Magazine

This one doesn't seem to work oddly enough.

5. Modern Design Magazine issue 13, July 2008 (again?)

I think the link to this one is broken and going to the wrong place, but the pages displayed have some simplistic but very nice layouts, with the use of large images and large amounts of positive space.

6. MAP Magazine

This is a very rare thing, a magazine (or any kind of design work really) that manages to be busy in a good way, even though Dwell achieved this too, it doesn't go to anywhere near the the extent that MAP does.

It also makes wonderful use of block images and walls of text, but these seem to add to the charm, the designer consciously making it look like the type of magazine aimed at an older audience, with the content keeping it interesting for its target.

Information on printing costs and various things like that were hard to come across for a time, this is where moodle (the college database) and google come in, whilst I've linked to some of this before I shall now do it again comprehensively (and delete the old post);

This is a link to the Gloucester College website. It has a lot of information on printing costs and the technical terms for printing, also their is a quiz, although you can only access it if you have a log in.
An interesting article on starting a magazine on a shoestring budget.
An enormous list of various publications that are doing something different with their layouts.
The one thing I really listened to; a fantastic little article about laying out a magazine front page by Brad Hammerstron.

The next step is to compare methods for production and printing your magazine, then compare it to to PDF or POD (print on demand) magazines;

Now of course I didn't know very much about this, I've already looked at costs for printing but that's not too much help, it was clearly time for a quick google;

Info on full colour magazine printing. For costing.
Normal Printing
The pros and cons of PDFs
Print on demand Magazines.
An online magazine that is either pdf or print on demand (saving massively on costs whilst limiting its audience).

Now the issue with normal printing is that most of the magazines won't be bought, as the last link says only about 40% of printed magazines leave the shelves, but the simple fact is that a magazine needs as much exposure as it can get if it wants to survive, hence why normal printing is the only viable option. Simply put; 40% of 1,000,000 magazines is much much better than 100% of 1000 (say for Pod or pdfs).

The Internet is massively popular, and this creates the problem of over saturation, if you simply see a magazine in Marks and Spencers that catches your eye, when you see its on your chosen study topic or how you make a living, you're more likely to pick it up than randomly searching for design magazines online (also who does that? No one, that's who).

After looking at all this I started sketching up my own ideas, which I have written about in the post below this, and once I'd gotten a fairly good idea of what I was doing I went on to create my magazine layouts.

Computer thumbnails for the cover.

2009-10-23T22:31:00.010+01:00

Cover.

I chose the purple to contrast nicely with the cream of the artwork, and also because it's a fairly unusual colour to see on the header of a magazine colour, the title is paraphrased from a quote by "David Carson".

I've realised that this needs to be improved, it's got a little but too much information, and the image needs to be on the other side, as well as the fact that the grey doesn't stand out enough, I'll start by rearranging the layout and see what I can come up with (it turns out that long the way it's going to get much worse before it gets better).

To get my head around the problems that I'd created for myself I decided to really mess around with the layout without using the grid, the result is this cover which looks more like a book than a magazine, a badly designed book, I went on from this with a bit of a clearer head.

The cover is still far too busy, by this point I was struggling to find a way to fit all four cover stories on the front cover, I eventually realised that this was not to going to happen, the main headline was bothering me too, until I eventually figured out just what to do with it;

Using the Golden Section really helped the layout of the front cover, and whilst I've pruned off a little too much text I felt like I was getting close to a final piece I could be happy with.

The final cover! With a bit more jiggling about of the font and colours, and removing the bottom rectangle to make it look more like a magazine rather than a book, with the combination of Rockwell and Century Gothic finally working well together with the use of only two colours.

I used Rockwell and Century Gothic, as this creates a nice contrast between serif and sans serif fonts, whilst I could have used a more Gothic font for the article on John Heartfield I feel that this would have made it much harder to read, possibly stopping those with sight problems from reading the magazine or even purchasing it in the first place.

Sketch thumbnails.

2009-10-22T15:01:00.009+01:00

Sketch Thumbnails.

With the background writing being completed along over the next few weeks, I recently moved on to doing the drawing up of thumbnails and experimenting with layouts, arguably the most important bit of this brief, and I've scanned these in (because it makes my life easier).

The X's represent pictures whilst the grey lines represent type, with white spaces being white spaces, the first few I did were taken from existing magazines before I started coming up with ideas myself.

These were the few semi professional ones I tried, but I'm not sure I want quite so much white space on them.

I liked the three on the left and have decided to use those as my editorial (feature) page and double page spread.

I also liked the double page spread I'd done, although I was originally planning to just stick two normal pages together I decided to go with this.

The rest of the thumbnails were experimental once id come up with the layouts I liked.

One day long magazine cover design brief.

2009-10-16T23:37:00.000+01:00

Just to get this over with; DISCLAIMER: I do not work for Computer Arts, their logo was used entirely for learning purposes and I do not own any of it, all trademarks go to their respective owners.

I suppose I should put the bad up with the good on here, yesterday we were all given the task of creating a Computer Arts magazine cover using our own artwork.

I had several techinal issues along the way (printer, photoshop, colour modes and velociraptor attack) , which was nothing compared to some issues other classmates had (I've never heard such inventive swearing James).

Paul Rand

2009-10-12T16:28:00.000+01:00

Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (july 15, 1914 – March 2, 1995) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT. He was one of the originators of the Swiss Style of graphic design.

Kurt Schwitters

2009-10-11T21:21:00.000+01:00

Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 - 8 January 1948) was a German painter (with incredibly cruel parents, apparently) who was born in Hanover, Germany. Here is a link to a biography.

Schwitters' artwork immediately caught my eye when I took a quick glance through the artists works (using the magic of google images), now his friendly, mildy psychopathic grin has made me want to base my brief around him even more. I seem to be being drawn to the more serious artists with this brief, which makes a bit of a change from my normal approach.

Feeling Blue template.

2009-10-11T18:48:00.000+01:00

After some work in photoshop I've created an image which I feel is surreal enough to turn into a painting (why a painting? Because I haven't done one in ages, and it'll look nicer than this five minute ps job, that's why);

John Heartfield

2009-10-11T16:04:00.000+01:00

John Heartfield (19 June 1891, Berlin – 26 April 1968, East Berlin) was the anglicized name of the German photomontage artist Helmut Herzfeld. A link to a biography.

This was the first designer I looked at for this brief (I decided to just pick a random name to start with), choosing to base my work around this guy would give me a solid structure to build around, the man had an incredibly interesting life, and produced many extremely strong pieces (which are made even stronger when you consider the times he produced them in).

One out of two so far, that isn't bad!

A.M Cassandre

2009-10-11T15:40:00.000+01:00

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (January 24, 1901 – June 17, 1968) was an influential Ukrainian-French painter, commercial poster artist, and typeface designer. This is a link to a biography.

I've always quite liked Art Deco, which is what drew me to this chap in the first place, but it is proving difficult to find much information on him, other than the boring stuff that you can find on wikipedia.

It also doesn't help that his official website is totally nackered, so that's the first of the few artists I found interesting written off.

Initial Idea 2

2009-10-08T23:30:00.001+01:00

A rough idea that I can actually see developing into something cool.

And unit 22 itself.

2009-10-08T18:49:00.000+01:00

Assessment criteria
To achieve each outcome a learner must demonstrate the ability to:

1 Research, evaluate and demonstrate a clear understanding of text and typography tools. understand the function of typographic tools. Select and use the typographic tools necessary for the design of text material.

2 Use skills imaginatively to explore methods of representing illustrated text material effectively, produce imaginative and effective representations of illustrative, photographic and graphic imagery within page layouts. Use text material techniques effectively

3 Produce an imaginative range of rough ideas for page structuring and organisation of text/images. Create rough ideas for design solutions using illustrated mass text, make decisions about designs based on aesthetic and practical considerations and create a fully finished presentation rough of an effective design solution.

4 Produce effective and creative design solutions, evaluate the effectiveness of rough ideas for page structuring in terms of visual effect and creative impact, produce an imaginative and effective design solution.

Editorial Design Brief

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The body of text;

"The aim of this brief is to identify and solve the problems involved when arranging information (text and visual information) on a page. Magazines require different priorities of elements such as images, headline type, running heads, pull quotes, captions and info boxes. You will examine the concept of the grid and evaluate its usefulness. Text setting for readability and style, decorative elements such as drop caps and rules should be discussed. By the end of the assignment you will be able to identify the different elements and combine them effectively to produce creative and readable layouts.
You are asked to use one of the designers from the list supplied as a basis for the style and possible content of your magazine
You are required to look at methods for production and printing your magazine. You should produce in-depth investigation into the pros and cons of using this method over as opposed to PDF or POD (print on demand) magazines."

What I need to do;

Unit 22 Editorial Design
Research files containing your preparatory notes. In addition you will need to source a text file and images about a leading graphic artist of the 20th century (list attached.) for use in your layouts.
Idea development sheets showing many different layout approaches. Use appropriate and recognised methods to indicate images and grey marker or "greeking in" lines for text areas.
All development work should be presented in a suitable format
A magazine “dummy" comprising of: a contents page, a double page spread followed by a single page editorial plus any other pages you feel enhance your design ideas. The design will show consistency over the pages, showing how selective design elements combined create an overall "look". The article must be about a graphic artist of the 20th century. Produce your page layouts in InDesign, print out and mount on foam core.

Herbert Bayer- Created experimental typefaces.

Abram Games

Malcolm Garrett

A.M. Cassandre
- Very cool artwork.

Jamie Reid

Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

Piet Zwart

John Heartfield- Admirable, interesting images too.

Kurt Schwitters- I like this guy's work.

Alexander Rodchenko

Initial Idea 1

2009-10-05T17:09:00.000+01:00

This was very easy to put together, and there isn't much of a thought process behind it, it just sprang into my head.

Feeling Blue.

2009-10-05T16:37:00.001+01:00

"You have been given an idiom that uses colour to help describe something...your task is to use this idiom to produce a piece or pieces of art work You have 2 weeks from the date you receive this envelope."

Last week everyone in my class was given an envelope with this message along with a phrase involving a colour (such as "Tickled Pink" or "Paint the Town Red"), it seems like I'll finally have something to use this blog for! Now I'm off to take emo looking pictures of myself (a poor model is better than no model).

A fresh start.

2009-08-04T23:33:00.000+01:00

Anyone who read my old blog will be able to tell you that it was pretty naff, but this time I actually have a direction to go in, this blog will be used for anything and everything related to graphic design. (As I write this I am inbetween the first and second years of a hnd.)