Elephantitis

This is for the indesign magazine tutorial. You know I have these odd hot pains just under my ribs, what on earth? I am sleepy today too, inDesign although very useful in principal, functionality wise I am still a bit unsure. Personalize your workspace, top tip if you can be bothered, I - cannot.

Alan Fletcher on the art of looking sideways

Bush endings

This beauty I just found was the ending of my flash presentation for the semester A project. The intention was after presenting a playful game aimed at children, I would hit the audience on their own level. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work features, it is tried and tested...but I am actually listening to Damien Rice right now, must have a thing for depressing music!

Ambient sweaty hand

Ok so this is the ambient device we didn't actually present...perhaps for good reason. The concept was a full body suit that you would wear for jogging, with a built in smart display that showed you statistics of your exercise, distance travel, speed, heart rate etc. It didn't get presented as I was absent with the files...whoopsie! But I think it would have taken quite a lot of BS to get through the presentation without people falling asleep anyway. I mean, we are talking about a glorified pedometer if I'm honest...do you know 3 members of SClub 7 are performing in mood tonight? Makes me think...they probably only needed 3 in the first place, but S Club 3 just doesn't roll off the tongue as well does it. On that note blazing squad, how many people constitute a squad? Ey? EY!?

Tickle my Widget

CSS, certainly sexy stuff

I've got a cold...and it sucks so badly, what is the point in colds anyway? Just a mucus party, that's it. So These are screen shots from the CSS tutorial. Basically creating CSS using a tool instead of typing it in code. I actually think a tutorial in coding would be simpler! Less of the, click here if you are windows, hold fn-ctrl-alt-c,d and t if you are on Mac...plus understanding code would be a lot more beneficial than just understanding Dreamweaver as a program. But anyway, job's a good 'n, I will be looking to apply a style sheet to my portfolio website, as it is pretty ideal to have a style sheet applied to it, quite a bit of text on there! Chicken soup ahoy!

Fontsruct away

'Kilmar' was one of 2 fonts I constructed on www.fontstruct.com. As a free website I'm going to give it a 9/10, as an actual usable program it is a bit of a ball ache. I just went free hand on my ass, basically drew with the mouse as if it were a pen. I think using a tablet would create some more varying and interesting results.

Digital Cube

READY...STEADY...CUBE! Yes it is a digital cube, I'm not going to repeat what I went though in my presentation because it was lots of BS. But this was Kirstyn and my idea...super awesome cool nice one.

We had to make a non-digital font...right. I think photographing the font and displaying them in pdf format kind of detracts from the material nature of the font...yes/no? Basically down to laziness I used the laundry I had just completed washing (£6 a pop you know) and just laid it out on the back of some mount board I had already used. Upper and lower case, question, exclamation marks, comma and full stop. You know I like Damien Rice, I don't care how depressing his music is.

Find some type, flick it

Ok so I've done a couple of briefs like this one before. Head out with your old compact and snap some type! What else can I say about it really? Signage in itself seems very unvaried, especially the ones you see walking around town. Much like today's graphic design, all samey and overly uninspired. Here is something more useful that I learnt today though, I always thought antidisestablishmentarianism was the longest word in the English dictionary...but no, it is in fact Floccinaucinihilipilification but that is in non-technical terms bare in mind.

For some reason text still isn't working right on here...stupid blog, stupid tuesday.