My Final Major Project book is BACK...

I got it back from the printers today, so I'm very happy, but I've still got to make my box, which is very frustrating, and I've got to cut my jacket to fit, but apart from that, i should be all good right now :D

Some website lovin;;;'

So I just pretty much finished the website for our college show. We've yet to decide on a name for it, but I think that it'll be decided by the end of tomorrow, mainly because we're going to put them on the postcards. I have used all of the images of the deskspaces as the gallery, and used each individual desk space on each persons page. I have also created thumbnails of their portfolio work, and created a image preview application where a preview appears above the page with the larger versions of the images (this took me bloody ages to figure out), but they're looking good with everyones work (except for jasons whos image sizes I need to sort out)). So there we have it.

Block Foil Front Cover

Wow, second post in the same day.

I must say, that doesn't normally happen. So my book is nearly finished, it's been printed and is currently being bound. I've made a poster of the spreads from the book, which I like, for my exhibition. Here it is.

UPDATE: I changed it a little to look like a receipt, as I'm going to have it attached to the top coming off a roll of paper.

So we're not allowed to eat in the studio.

So what do you do when you get told this information?

You make a poster. Like this. Just in case a scalpel falls into your sandwich.

Some Typographic Transcipture.

A double page spread of a transcript I made from a set of conversations I recorded at a supermarket between a supermarket checkout operator and customer.

My 15th Post - iTunes Top Played Song

So I got an email along with the rest of the class from the lovely Lauren Baker of Graphic Media Year 3 at Colchester Institute: School of Art & Design (and Tiny Sketchbook blog) with the following brief:
"Most people have an ipod/mp3 player of some sort. If you don't, you get to make yours up ;) in your itunes/media player of choice there should be a 'top 25 most played'. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to illustrate your most played song (which is technically your favourite song, i suppose) ... a few people asked if they could make theirs up and of course there's no way of telling whether you do or not, but it makes it more fun if you don't lie and we all know if martyn's isn't a girls aloud song then he's definitely bending the truth a little (I'M KIDDING)."

I'm not going to say I was overly happy with the last bit, but I guess it's slightly true :P (but unfortunately, I didn't have Girls Aloud in my Top 5 :( (the highest was number 27 as a matter of fact).

So I had the idea for mine whilst in bed with manflu, I had a rough idea, but then adapted to be in a similar style to a designers work that I found online that I liked. I thought this would be a great opportunity to experiment with something a little different to what I've done before too. I wanted to make the songs look a bit like movie posters, with a line of the song as if it were a tagline, and a really simple three-colour colour scheme with only text and blocks or lines of colour as the image.

I have uploaded them in the order of my Top 5 on iTunes :)