Winner! V4 of the site is now up and running smoothly, all the links now point to the old posts… like they were originally supposed to!! I haven’t updated some of the attachment pages of the blog but to be honest with all the work I have on at the moment it is a surprise I even found time to do this.
There are some rather lovely samples on their way to me from a couple of different clients, so hopefully will have some portfolio updates again soon, now that normal service has been resumed.
So yes, I haven’t posted in a while, but unit one or “Square Project” as it has become known is due in next Monday (19th). I will have it completely finished in loads of time to take lots of lovely pictures to update you with, which will hopefully give you a good idea as to why I have been AWOL for the last… [checks previous post date]… woah, month! >_<
Let me just say, I am so so SO excited about what I have planned for my body of work. It’s going to look brilliant… with any luck.
I would like to say a special thank you to Ripe, who printed all of my books, they have been brilliant putting up with me. I promise not to bother you again now for another 4 months?
Onward and upward. Only 8 days to go…
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. ^_-
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…
