Gastrotypographicalassemblage

Found a great piece of inspiration for my ISTD brief, great work!

Gastrotypographicalassemblage from christian carlsson on Vimeo.

WOOOW !

Wooow is the only word I can use to describe this third year! Heres where I am so far with everything this year:

Essay

I have been putting my essay (investigative study) off since the day I received the hand out! I honestly struggle with essay writing and it is something I need to improve on. I organised a tutorial today with Amanda to help create some initial structure to what I have so far (case studies, theories, theorists etc). The tutorial has helped massively in the sense that I know what direction I am heading in, and what needs to be done for when!

Learning agreement

My LG is 90% complete and just needs some theories and methodologies applied to it. This will part of what I will base my visual book on.

ISTD

Yesterday morning I felt I was heading in a solid direction with my typographical restaurant, having created plenty of initial ideas to be used within the restaurant. I then had a group tutorial! The tutorial brought me back down to earth, and I realised I needed to take a step backwards to progress any further. My problem was that I didn't have an 'experience' in the restaurant. I needed to focus on what the problems were, who my target audience was, what food I would be serving and some sort of original service idea.

I pondered on ideas over lunch and put a few concepts together, which I then showed in my afternoon tutorial. The second tutorial went really well, my direction is a lot stronger and plausible. The next step is to get a menu together, sort of service procedure out, create the logo and illustrations/ photos.

Visual book

I haven't started this as yet but intent to over this weekend. This book will represent my journey through the ISTD brief, recording visual research, methods, progression, and a piece of finished work. My aim is to have this professionally printed as an A5 booklet before the 10th December.

Love-ink-me

I received an email from a friend regarding setting up a website and a logo for the sale her products. After weighing up what work I had on at Uni, and what would be the best thing for her, I suggested initially using bigcartel (sales website for creatives) for the sales of the products, and I would be able to create a logo over the Christmas holidays. I waiting a reply to whether she wants to go ahead with the logo design.

Links and images (hopefully) to follow!

Painting

After 3 months, 20 tubes of paint and a lot of hard work, its FINISHED! During Christmas I will take some professional photos for my portfolio and to possibly enter in a competition. I will upload images within the next few weeks.