Timetable Week Starting Nov 29th

FDA1 - Mon/Tue/Wed

You are working with me and David on your retail briefs - Kay Avery-Stallion from 'St Leonards' will be coming in for the final presentation the week after to help me mark your work and will be talking to you about designing for retail and setting up as an independent design company - so make sure your work is as good as you can get it, really good opportunity here to get noticed.

FDA2

You are with me on your design for print brief on Wednesday and Friday - I'm going to talk to you on Wednesday about getting your work ready for presentation. John Grindrod, Marketing Director from Faber & Faber will be here on the last day of term to help me assess the module and talk about the design for print industry - so do everything you can to impress him, Leah from Top Up talked about how important her W.E. experience at Faber was for her personal development and how they are still helping her - really important opportunity for you all to be the best you can.

On Thursday  - it's day 1 of your C&C with Gary Neill- you MUST be ready to start at 10am, I've talked to you all about how important it is to stay on top of this module - that's why we have brought it forward this year.

The Future

Some of the biggest names in design predict the future here - a big part of my professional practice has always been in trend forecasting, it takes so long to get some things to happen - that you need to have your head 12 months in the future all the time to stay at the top of your game.

More 3D projections.

Amazing Xmas display on the H&M in Amsterdam. This is actually really simple - the front of the building treated  as a blank page and a bit of imagination used. It just goes to demonstrate that as young designers you really need to be in touch with everything that's happen in your industry - and that technology makes EVERYTHING possible - no matter what your imagination conjours up.

The Weather...

Now that we are in a nice, new, central building with climate control - it's very unlikely that we will have the same weather related grief as last year - I can't imagine college being closed again this year ( and the staff will be in  regardless ). However.... if we do have deep snow and the transport is affected again, I'll be using this blog to make sure you don't miss anything - in particular, C&C - FDA2 really suffered last year because the blizzards interrupted Gary's sessions - they are too important to miss so if anything happens this year, I'll re-schedule them.

For FDA 2 - Online image creation / text manipulation training.

To tie in with what you arew doing for the book project - there are many websites that give free training and tips in software packages, here is a good one with some handy examples that are all useful for the book brief.

Abduzeedo

Water effect text ( in pixelmator - but easy to recreate in photoshop )

Casino style lettering in neon using photoshop

Dramatic photo collage to create drama and atmosphere in photoshop

Showcase: Shane Cranford

Nice website and blog from a US based independent creative.

Tom Phillip's 'A Humument'

Tom Philips says that the pages of his treatment of an obscure Victorian Novel 'look better on the ipad than they do in real life'

In case you missed it...

From The Culture Show - the Johnny Cash Project - superb concept.

for FDA2

As if you needed reminding.... The Book Cover Archive.

Very useful doccumentary for all Students

The Foods that make Billions, on BBC iplayer - the history of bottled water ad it's marketing machine. Both years have had a water brief of some kind, so well worth a look.

R