SP4

I have been haveing some trouble with the concept for my project i knew the method that i want use. it was the subject that i couldn't think of. I was kind of stuck on the idea of Humanity Vs. Nature, but i wasn't really happy with how it might make me look as it would have meant i was jumping on the band wagon of environmentalists. So now i am thinking of using the title 'You Will Love Me' And exploring the idea designers ability to manipulate peoples beliefs, trends, politics, Religion etc. From this i have begun to explore the idea of producing a piece of stained glass artwork in the style of a church window but displaying my message. I can imagine having it displayed as if it was taken from a church and propped up in scaffolding. I think it would be really interesting and could have a lot of connotations within art, design religion and culture. I am going to go to bristol cathedral to take some photographs for research.

To-do

• Sort out website and personal business suite ready for print tomorrow.
• Make sure my brief re-writes are long enough.
• Write evaluations of the project.
• Organize work and annotate the rest of my research.
• Print and quickly design the label for cotton candy.
• sort the notes out for the ethical and legal/copyright stuff.

I managed to get all my work reprinted this morning including my magazine cover, sleeve, article, contents page and poster. Im much happier with my solvo stuff now but i could do with a bit of tweaking after seeing it printed.

I Have still got to print and sort my website stuff but that shouldn't take too long as the main designs are done. I'm looking forwards to getting this half of the year out of the way so that i can really start to concentrate on SP4 as i still need to come up with a theme for my posters/magazine. I will be much happier when i have a solid theme to work on.

I handed my Cp3 work in today after having to write and do most of it last week. I'm glad its out of the way but i don't think i did as well as i should have. I'm definitely going to work harder on SP4. I also realized how important is it to actually go to lessons as i thought it had to be a 60 second presentation, instead it was more like a 5-10 minute one. bit embarrassing.

I've just designed my Solvo contents page and i actually really like it. The only problem is that it doesn't really fit the rest of the designs i've done. (probably why i like it) I actually want to go back and re do the lot but i don't think i have the time. I'm just going to have to change what i've done to look a bit better some how. I need to make some changes to my poster tonight as well because i've booked to print at 9 tomorrow morning before the crit. I'm looking forwards to getting all this work handed in so that i can start on the next project whilst im feeling productive because im a bit worried about how much work it is and also how creative it is. it means that its all down to opinion and its going to force me to express mine. But i guess thats what we're supposed to be doing, pushing ourselves. back to work...

I have pretty much finished my exit strategy, and have done quite a bit on the ethical issues for cp3. i just need to bulk it out a bit. i still have to do the ethical issues for each of the projects but i am going to take a lot of the information from the one i've done for cp3. it is mostly written and organizational work that i have left to do now. i need to buy some folders and find all of my work!

Also i could do with finding all of the research because some of it seems to of gone missing.

update

I managed to get my business suite and swing tags printed on monday which i was happy about. unfortunatly the college has been shut since so i haven't been able to get any feed back about them. since then i have been going over previous projects trying to tie up some loose ends. ihave changed the magazine article so instead of torn paper the type is inside film slides, i think it works better and fits the theme. i am struggling with the cp3 stuff as i guess i haven't taken it very seriously. i have an idea about what im going to do for sp4 but i need feedback as to whether it is realistic or whether there is anything i should consider. also im not sure what we have to submit for some of the cp3 stuff

the other thing that i am behind on is the ethical issues regarding each project. not too sure what we need to have but im sure ill manage.

Also i really dont know what im going to write about for my essay, i have started reading but i think i need to make it clear what it is im focusing on in order to get the full benefit.