It’s difficult to work on all these new projects without taking a look at my own brand speculatively. I don’t have time for a full re-work so I just gave the design a bit of a spruce up. Beige and teal have replaced grey and cyan!
Simple yes, but it satisfies me for a bit longer. If you revisti the site in a few weeks time and it’s purple laced with crazy sparkly gifs then don’t be surprised!!
Due to high demand following my Unit 1 Square project, I am posting photos of my final outcome here for all to see.
Thank you everyone for such awesome feedback. I have had loads of messages comments/twitter/facebook/email and texts about it, and whilst the project was great fun to do, the fact that it is totally focussed around user interaction means it’s nothing without you guys <3 I never knew you cared!
It's always nice to get feedback on work you spend alot of time on. Once I have taken some proper photographs I will upload some previews of the artwork.
Enjoy!
So I handed all my work in for unit 1, aka the square project, on Monday and the next morning at 10.30 I was given the briefing for unit 2. Such is life. Not even 24 hours later and I am rammed with work again.
In short, this 2nd unit is all about planning for the 3rd unit. The 3rd unit being my final major project.
The two projects on the, go as of yesterday, are my final major project proposal (a 2k essay describing the work I plan to do in the 3rd unit) and a project called Design Rhetoric, which involves compiling all the work I will be undertaking in order to decide on my major project.
Essentially it requires that my final major project be epic, and that I spend the next 3 months working on ensuring this!
I’m not panicked, I think that I already have an idea of what I am going to do, it will involve creating an extension of the main things I looked at in my first unit… which I will explain fully when I have figured it out.
At the moment, I am still working on Elective A (that’s silk screenprinting to you) and Elective B – “Branding and Identity” starts in a week. When I have wrapped those up I will let you get a peek ^_-
Watch this space! I will update this post with the new briefs once I have scanned them in.
Today was the day I handed in my Square project, as part of Unit 1 of my MA in graphic design at the LCC. It developed from looking at just the form of the square to a brief about perspective and space, inspired by David Hockney and his ‘ways of seeing’, I explored the ways of creating a square in a depth of field by using abstraction as a reverse methodology.
It took 4 months to finish the whole thing, an expansive project with loads of different aspects, I decided to contain it in this box, with my books printed by the magical Ripe (they were a huge help I cannot thank them enough!)
The box was an added extra, four layers, hand made, foam slots for all the books. I am a bit of a perfectionist and wanted it to look “whole”, I am super pleased with it, let’s just hope the tutors think the same! ^_-
There are more picures over in my Flickr stream
UPDATE: Also posted pictures of the actual end outcome in the more recent blog post here
I’m working on it!
What?
You know what! My whole site is busted and It really is on the top of my ‘to do’ list, along with the Design Discourse essay (view the discussions here) oh by the way my topic is “The Digital Economy and the Future of Copyright” should be interesting, I get to rant about my qualms with the Digital Economy Bill whilst completing a unit. I call that a win!
2000 words on that shouldn’t be too difficult… she says. I will post it online for you to see when I am done, which should be soon, as I need to plug all my time and energy into the Square project.
I had my presentation the other week about my progression and the route I had chosen to pick for a final outcome. I have chosen [clears throat] “using abstraction as a reverse methodology, how can perspective be used in an imaginative way to create a square?” Oooooohhh!!
Would it tantalise you to know I already know what I am going to create as a final outcome??
There is a downside though. And it’s a bit of a secret so I’m keeping slightly schtum until it would be too late for anyone to copy me (!) basically according to the brief I have until the 19th April to hand this in, but I have 10 days less because I am… up to something. >_>
Because of this possible foolishness I need to have everything done by the 9th April. Ah I bet you are curious now??
So now I guess you can understand why my website has taken a bit of a back burner for now. Priorities people!! I only have 34 days to go!
Ergh.
This Thursday I have a kind of half-way evaluation of how this (damned) square project is going.
So far I have been researching the square, it’s cultural and historical contexts, then I had to pick out an area of interest in the work I had done so far and identify a theme… and then work towards a question which I would attempt to answer with the design of my final outcome.
So I’ve done that.
I am risking getting a slap on the wrists by my tutors (if any of them do infact read my blog – which I doubt) by saying I even know what my end outcome is going to be… and it IS going to be good!
BUT.
I have no idea what question it answers. To be honest, I wasn’t aware it had to answer a question until this previous Thursday when I was sent an email from University telling me it had to. I thought it would be just an *outcome* developed from a long line of research which I have been carrying out since January??
This could be problematic. I’m sure I will update you on Thursday about how my critical evaluation goes Hopefully I wont be crying.
So far, my area of interest is abstraction and perspective. I guess that’s two areas… It’s not when you see what I have been working on. ^_-
I heart this installation in the WK12 studio. I think I have actually blogged this before a few years back but I don’t remember having this many pics so I am reinstating it!
Something I have noticed is that the first few pins were put into that board by hand and by the time they get to the last few pins they are using what looks like the handle of a screwdriver to push the pins in. Their thumbs must have been so sore!!
351 hours it took to make this, and over 100,000 pins!
Also, yes, I have embedded another YouTube video. It is ugly and ruins the look of my site, but until the internet stops conspiring against aesthetics and moves over to the far superior video website… Vimeo… I guess I am just going to have to deal with it. #sigh!
So a couple of things to post about…
Firstly it was my Birthday on Monday so I thought it would be a good idea to give my blog a bday spruce up, fix the ever glitchy nav and add “proper categories”. According to my Google analytics click refs, people thought the “about” category was a link to a separate page about me… I can see how you did that, so I went to fix it. And I did.
But then I broke it.
By it I mean I somehow removed one whole database and therefore deleted everything on my portfolio page. Oh, and I broke my contact form. All in one fail swoop! Aren’t I talented?? >_<
The problem is, I had two entirely different sites. design.likeyougiveadamn.com and blog.likeyougiveadamn.com both with different log-in’s, I thought it would be a good idea to merge these into one domain and bin the subcategories.
Ahh it seems so simple now. I already regret it. I loved my subcategories! It was like an instruction or a demand that must be met immediately! [shouting] “blog like you give a damn!!” now it is just measly likeyougiveadamn.com/blog. Pathetic!
So you can guess the next problem is that now all my old blog addresses don’t link anymore and just point to my front page. I did know that was going to happen, but good ol’ Media Temple assured me they’d fix it. So fingers crossed for now, eh?
So the second thing is, can you believe it, the new unit (1.2) that just started at uni is entirely based around group discussions that I am having around set texts, and requires me to *blog* these discussions. More blogging!? Yes, god dammit, more blogging!
So if you want to keep track of that too, you can find that over at designdiscourse.likeyougiveadamn.com. There are 6 of us in the group, each have registered and we input our thoughts on the texts and related links into the blog …so we can be judged on our interactions in April.
You can almost guarrantee when I am not here I will be there from now on…
For those of you not familliar with Know Your Meme, they are a brilliant lot of people from Rocketboom who set out to explain the most popular internet memes to the masses. This particular video is for the Geddan (or Get Down) movement.
Get Down is a Japanese meme that originated from a glitch in the N64 game Goldeneye, where the characters (and vehicles) would suddenly “spaz out” if the game cartridge was only partially inserted in the console.
Watch the video for the rest of the story 
There is a meme database on their homepage, just incase you’re not on the cusp of nerddome, the vids will fill in your gaps and make you complete!
A music video for The Drums “Let’s Go Surfing” made by this clever chap (who I have blogged before I believe) he posts videos of himself dancing to a pop song from different places around the world… and I have watched about 60 of them!