Earlier this week Darren Raven aka DRN posted up a link on blackboard to a university of arts website called sketchbook: Check this site out – looks pretty interesting and possibly useful! http://www.arts.ac.uk/sketchbook/home To those of you that didn’t click on the link and explore this interesting site, here’s another attempt at encouraging you to look at the site (only clicked on it today myself). so what is sketchbook? Sketchbook is a new online tool for the creatively minded. Constantly evolving, its remit is to provide a conduit for creativity by encouraging experimentation with line. An image-hosting site with a difference, Sketchbook allows you to not only upload work, but to annotate, comment, sketch and scribble on images – yours and other …
Timeline VCT
A few pointers for your timeline should be more than a simple timeline. should explorer the depth of your given subject should in some way relate to graphic designs don’t worry if its a loose connection. (i.e. Rock music’s connection could be album art which is then related to graphic design) use the content of your subject to decide or influence the layout of your timeline it doesn’t need to be till present day, can be between certain years, you decide the importance of choosing the period you have chosen. have fun with it. here are some photos from my class when we did our group timelines 2 weeks ago. Remember the submission date has changed to 30th of april! …
Workshop stock photos
Andrew Brown had asked for some photos of various workshops and I am please to share with you some that I have taken. These photos are at 10 mega pixels, taken with a digital camera (sorry guys it’s not SLR quality). SO to all those that need photos either for journal use or other things then here you go. The photos are stored in a zip file. Click the link below to download. Here are some example shots that are included. UPDATE: Some one could not see where the Download button was when they arrived at the page so here it is…just above the folder itself! If you still cannot download them, i will be posting up alternative links shortly.
Free fonts! get your free fonts!
Since we are on this course together, i can only assume that we are all bound by the same love of fonts! Some more than others, some fanatic some with a slight interest. As designers however, we all love to use and look out for nice looking fonts. In addition, as students we all like to look out for things that are free! Hence the reason why free is typed not once but TWICE in this posts’ title. Here are a selection of free to use fonts that you can download now. You might even use it in your journal project due in pretty soon! by the way how is that coming along everyone? leave a comment and tell us about …
ABCD 3D
ABC 3D is an innovative book that exhibits the alphabet in a pop up style 3Dimensional fashion and with some letters actually moving. A great looking book by Marion Bataille. MARION BATAILLE is a graphic and book designer who has never before been published in this country. She lives in Paris, France The washington Post describes it as “Easily the most innovative alphabet book of the year, if not the decade.” check out this video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZr0wiG1Hg] If like me, you want to own it now, like right this second then you can! well not exactly right this second, royal mail arent that good. You can buy it from Amazon here for only £12! or search for it on the library catalogue here