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!
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!
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!
Soooo everyone knows I have been working on my self-promotional package for a very long time. I am a whizz at designing for someone else, but as soon as I have to design for myself and there are no guidelines I suddenly find myself making idea after idea and unable to decide which i like.
Well as I don’t want to spoil the surprise I am not going to show you the design I *have*(finally) picked, but instead some of the designs that I’ve ditched.
Firstly, take a peek at this one!
The idea is there is a small CD case sized box, 13×13cm, which contains a CD with beaaautiful high res project images inside. There is also a slot for the folded cover letter to sit ontop of the disc.
Also, as an added bonus, some “graphic design is…” stickers, which can be seen below.
Stay tuned for some more “rejected” versions soon.
So, I was responsible for designing this range of products, print and packaging to accompany the release of the latest Wallace & Gromit animated movie “A Matter of Loaf and Death”. This is not all the products as there are actually about 40 different items in this first range (I’m working with Aardman on the 2nd range now)
As you may have read earlier this week, these designs have come highly commended in Gift of the Year Award 2009!
I’ve been waiting to get my mitts on these pictures for a long time, as usually happens with designing products, I send off the print ready artwork and then with the production time involved, before you know it, it’s months before I get to see the final pieces.
I’m super pleased to have worked on this, and with the 2nd range now in progress which will include more ceramic items like teapots, eggcups, jugs, cheese and cake plates I hope it can be even better than the last one!
So my little sister Lily (I have 3 little sisters, this is the 16 year old one) was asked to paint the shop windows of Ik’sentrik in Frome. Here are more pics on Toy Pusher’s Flickr profile.
For those of you who don’t know, Ik’sentrik sells limited edition toys, canvas, artwork, books, dvds and clothes. It is also the coolest shop in Frome. Hands down. So Lil is obviously super stoked to be peddling her stuff there!
The first range of designs for the Wallace & Gromit kitchenware and products I created for Aardman were nominated for Gift of the Year Award 2009, under the category of “Branded Character” and came highly commended!
I am currently working on the second range of products and packaging for Aardman which are set to be in stores next January.
You may remember that I was also nominated for Gift of the Year Award in 2007, it’s always a massive privilege to be nominated for any award, being up against other big names (this year it’s those Penguin classic notebooks *that I love!!* and the vintage Ladybird’s Archive Collection) and it especially feels good to get acknowledgment for a project when such hard work has gone into finishing it.
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!
