update

I finished the post card project. Here are my final full colour resolutions.






some close ups of individual letters from the vector image



Quite pleased with them. The vector one took literally hours and hours. I think maybe the photograph looks better though.

I have just finished reading week. I had friends over from the isle of man all week and as a result did no work, which is a bit dissapointing. Did a bit of filming though and have started putting together another LS6 BMX video. Hopefully i will make an LS6 website soon, but who knows?

Work that I'm doing at the minute involves reading Marx, as i have to make a presentation in 3 weeks. Reading about him is really interesting, especially so many years after his time. A lot of his predictions make sense in theory, but history has shown that in practice he was mistaken about a lot of things. Reading about Marx is interesting, but reading Marx doesn't make much sense.

My presentation will be based primarily on what Marx has to say about the fetish of commodities in Capital. However, I also want to talk briefly about Kant, as he helped inspire Marx's ideas, and Jean Baudrillard as he takes inspiration from Marx. As well as this I also want to discus Marxist theory in relation to modern capitalism.

I have also just started work on our 'design 4 print' brief, in which we have to, um...design something for print. I am going to design food packaging for a fictional small company (that i've called 'the simple food company')that makes vegan friendly organic food. Because companies like this tend to be small I am going to design the packaging using only 2 colours. I also want to consider using recycled or partly recycled, maybe unbleached stock and look at using water soluble inks.

This is the logo I have come up with so far. It may change though.




Sorry if this didn't make much sense. I'm half asleep. I think I'm getting a cold. I made the mistake of drinking some squash that had been sitting on my bed side table for a week or so. I woke up a couple of hours later with a sore throat and a blocked nose.

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Back in leeds.

Yup. Full time work was crap and I'm a student again.

Over the summer we had to research various things and make 4 A6 pieces either informing people of things that we had learned about, or promoting our opinions/ideas about certain issues.

As I was working full time in a supermarket I decided to look into the food industry. I looked mainly at the treatment of animals for food (as well as animal testing). The things I found from my research were appalling, and as such have decided to become vegan.

If you want to find out more look at:

Go Veg
Vegetarian Society
Vegan Society
Compassion in World Farming
PETA UK

I realise that most people will not be willing to become vegan. I decided to promote the use of organic milk, pork, egg and chicken, as organic farming systems are much more ethical than more intensive systems such as battery farms.

I created a fictional organisation - 'For The Love Of Food', to promote organic food through. The message being that if you love your food, you will want to know it is ethically produced.

Here they are. Each one has a short piece of copy saying why you should buy organic milk/eggs/pork/chicken.










We then had to redesign them so that one would work with continuous tone/monotone, and one would work with just solid black and white. I decided to change the imagery a bit, as I felt the photographs relied on colour too much. This is the first time that I've done anything other than layouts/very simple vector images using illustrator. This was as much an excuse for me to use illustrator (now i've got it on my mac) as anything.





The next week we had to redesign them so that they would work in 2 colour. One in duotone, and one using spot colours. Again, I used the spot colour design as an excuse to use illustrator again. its quite surprising the depth that can be created using just 2 solid colours.





I also got this photo of Ricky at the law courts in town. I'm quite pleased with it. I like the way its abstracted by the position of the flat bank. I feel that the scally in the corner really makes this picture work well.




I went to the art gallery on saturday to see the Cult Fiction exhibition. I thought it was really good. I even bought the book.

It was an exhibition of comic art, illustration and graphic novels.


Travis Millard - 'Sally'


Layla Ali.

I really liked some of the illustrations. The detail in alot of them was amazing. My favorite piece was 'Who I am and what I want' by David Shrigley and Chris Shepherd. I have been wanting to see this for a little while.


Sorry I could only find a low quality version. The 'animate' intro thing isn't part of the video.