c4 idents

Visual language- getting back to basics

Dictionary Definitions

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.

adverb a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or otheradverb or a word-group, expressing a relation of place, time,circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there).noun a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things ( common noun), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun).pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).adjective a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
subjective pronoun a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence. (I, you, he, she, it, we, what, who and they).

After this, we thought about what was important in a paragraph. We did this by shortening newspaper articles down into 160 characters (for a text message) and 140 characters (for a 'tweet').


OMG is Rooney getting dropped by Fergie? Lol. Fergie refused 2 tlk about the players future after reports claimed Rooney didn’t want 2 sign a new contract. City should sign him. Rofl.

OUGD103 - Communication is a Virus - Group Brief

Initial ideas and brainstorming for our actual brief 'tell a convincing lie'.

These are the Presentation boards which we created to take to our crit along with our fake briefs presentation boards.

Crit Feedback; 

Amber and Joe seemed to get really excited our about our idea, some points which were made during the crit where, try to convince the 1st years aswell to test their awareness, maybe try dressing Niall as a woman, try to give the project a purpose like if we was trying to prove a point as to how visually aware people are to their surroundings.

OUGD103 - Communication is a Virus - Group Brief, posters.

We produced 3 A2 presentation boards to breakdown our groups idea for the brief in our crit on friday to receive feedback and help with direction from our tutors, the boards showed our concept, content and method of delivery.

OUGD103 - Communication is a Virus - Group Brief

For this brief we were all placed into small groups to collaborate with each other to try to achieve on of these goals; 

The goal in which we decided on was to tell a lie convincingly and the idea was to fool graphic designers at our college into thinking that one of our group members was a visiting professional graphic designer coming in to give a talk to our students. In order to do this we aimed to create this fictitious as well as his whole background in order to make him look real, this would mean that we would have to create a website for him, a portfolio filled with his own work with a flowing style within each piece and experiment with a range of accents and appearances to successfully disguise one of our group members as this graphic designer.

However in order to achieve this it also meant that we would also have to work on a fake brief within studio time so the other students wouldn't become suspicious as to what we was doing. So as well as 'tell a convincing lie' we was also pretending to be working on 'Get people to try something new' and Initial ideas that we came up with were to have some sort of a flashmob which would ensure the message got out to a lot of people ensuring that they would gather in a given place at which point we would have to consider how we could encourage them to try something new.

These are our initial brainstorms of ideas for this 'fake brief'.

Indesign.. session 2

Session 2 learning how to use indesign.


Frames over text.
Use the pen and path tool and shapes to create text boxes.

Use the text wrap pallet to wrap the text around an image.

Then increase the margins to offset from the image slightly to make it more legible. 

Reproducing a magazine layout.

Created a new document measuring the margins on the magazine and matching them up on InDesign.

Then I matched the first headline as well as i could, added some text and used text wrap around the image of the man.

Then to wrap the text around the outline of the image set the contour options to alpha channel.

Page one completed.

preview of page with red borders.

PAGE 2

Add the background colour and use the multiply effect on the images to remove the white background colour..

Image layouts.

OUGD102 - self evaluation

Module Code - OUGD102

Module Title - Design Process

End of Module Self Evaluation

Name – Liam Cooper

Blog - www.e-cooper1013.blogspot.com

1.  What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

Throughout this module i think that i have developed my skilled of gathering research, making my research more thoroughly and relevant to my project throughout the brief and continuously referring back to my research to help me.
I have also developed my skills on illustrator, spending so much time on it illustrating 100 beards and posters etc, i  have definitely improved my skills, learnt how to do thing i previously couldn’t and tons more short cuts. Workshops such as bookbinding helped me in this brief, teaching me something that i had never done before and allowing me to use it within my final outcome. Also I found with this brief, more so than others, i really got into it and started enjoying it, making my commitment to the course allot better, getting on with my work and staying late every night to get things finished.

2. What approaches to/methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?  

I have realised how important research is during this module, usually i would just blag the research and just being making an outcome, but i have found that research is very important to making your outcomes successful. Using questionnaires to make sure what you are making would actually be of interest to someone and to help determine your audience, who to target your product to.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?  

My skills on illustrator have definitely improved and i feel that it shows in my outcomes.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully? 

With the collection 100 brief everything that i thought was really nice, however because i have spent so long staring at these designs their starting to look worse and worse and i just keep picking up on the bad points. Allot of spelling errors in my work and because i was trying to keep consistency throughout my outcomes it limited me to my choices of colour so i basically only had white black and brown to work with, which started to drive me insane after a while and meant that some of the outcome, like the poster, just looked dull and not very visually engaging.

5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these? 

Focussed on info graphics a little more and maybe come up with a few more outcomes. The problem with my project was with researching facial hair there is only so much you could research and i think i did pretty much all the types of research i could think of, it would of been better to get a few more primary source photos of beards however people on the street are abit reluctant to letting you take pictures of their facial hair.

Five things;

1.    Blog more frequently

2.    time management

3.    broaden my research

4.    more variation with outcomes

5.    look into infographics more.

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