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After finishing my secret 7 final outcome i feel very happy with the final design overall the work of my design had taken a while and made some challenges to finish due to the lockdown preventing me from actually being able to have the regular resources i usually use at the campus to design my projects. overall my design consisted of a comical basis of the idea toast being that pieces of bread being fallen from the sky are laying in the sun of Caribbean style islands to "toast" up was the idea i felt that this concept very much represents that silly but relevant style i really wanted to show as the song resembles happiness and fun.

I feel that if i was given the opportunity to improve on my design i would definitely experiment further with photography for this project and how i could've made and interesting album cover using physical design and photography looking at developing a series of photographs or a collage based design that would look entirely different from a digital design and more unique looking at how i can make something look like an exotic island and look like the toast is toasting through an island in image would be very interesting to experiment i also feel that if i had more time i would try working further with the otehr given songs and create a second outcome.

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in this session we learned the ability and technique of photography understanding the basic values of a camera and how to manipulate imagery and design we had practiced essentials such as shutter speed and frames as well as understanding manual and automatic focus and the differences and benefits to using both we also looked and exposure and how to actually find the perfect lighting for an image to make a great outcome.

i felt this this session helped to become more useful overtime as it further developed my general knowledge to both help for this project but also to help with portfolio design and further photography projects and even taking photos on my physical phone and how to actually take solid images without needing a professional camera this helped me to feel much more competent on the camera but also understand the level of detail through image making that is never shown and isnt at all easy as there is a set amount of procedures to taking photos to get the right one.

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Through this second side project i've found myself much more understanding of how i can develop outcomes in a better and more free way i will be focusing on the song "Toast" by the artist Koffee i will be designing a vinyl cover for both the back and front for this design. I plan on creating the design to relate to the idea of the name without needing the name as i know this will be a challenge i don't feel that this will bring me down for my design however and will be much more exciting to develop a series of rough outcomes and developments.

I plan to document my work through my sketchbook and blog discussing the development and series of work through sessions i have practiced in as well as the development of work i have done for the project such as sketches and designs i will be using adobe softwares i will be continuing my development trying to create something comical and relatable to the idea of the Caribbean and sunny essence of the song with a comical twist using graphical and image based design. I will also be showing my developed final outcome presented on a vinyl cover from back to front and the series of work i have over that time.

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In this session we looked at publications and had the task of creating a design through media phrases through the words being spoken out we had a certain amount of time to sketch a rough idea of a design that relates to the relevant word we had designed a series of outcomes that would consist of topics through music media movies etc. this helped to give us initial ideas for design development through secret 7 to make various ideas in a quick amount of time.

Overall the task was enjoyable and very fast paced looking into a series of outcomes that created exciting ideas we also looked into various ideas we all did and gave crits and evaluations on what we did and how we had done our designs. this helped to move our ideas forward but understand how designers intend to design and use time management what is their main focus and purpose and how the design can develop.

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My final typography outcome was a design using a scanned drawn note which i had used to build a series of letters through overall i feel that my type face had shown everything that i had planned on showing using a comical twist with a practical object as well being a visual outcome that works entirely well. it really shows a practical design that can be used but has small details that make the design much more intriguing this outcome i feel was fairly a challenge to make during this time having limited resources through adobe softwares and also not being able to further experiment various ideas for my outcome however i do feel very much happy with the final design.

I feel if i had the time to improve on this idea i would run this design through illustrator to create a much more detailed design as well as try and experiment with actually creating typography designs looking into wording and further designs it would be possible if i was on campus however i'm unable to at this moment due to the lockdown overall i,m really happy with my outcome and would like to try a second type design that is much more three dimensional.

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Through this session i had worked on intersection alphabets which work with vector lines and a create a repeat of organised letter in one line i had developed an alphabet that works with using shapes and letters to create unique typefaces and using positive and negative space. we also learnt about the grid system design which has a series of code that consists of designs for lettering through a coded alphabet looking it various coordinates and lines that use a system of vector lines to copy and paste.

this task overall was challenging but new looking into perfect lines and perfect scaled designed outcomes this design very much is time consuming it does create the most visually pleasing and most symmetrical outcomes and was enjoyable to do it was very much interesting to learn how coding can be used indesign as well as mathematics and how they can be vital for design to form perfect scaled designs.

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through this session we had worked on creating a letter that represents a form of three dimensional type without making it look like the actual word i had decided on using the word and but designing it as the sterling pound design using cardboard and hot glue i had made a rough template first to understand how i would create the final outcome as i built it i started to build the frame. i had started with two side and began filling the centre with equal sized cardboard over the gaps to fill in the shape and make it become more three dimensional.

overall i think my outcome came out fairly well designed and resembles fairly well the sterling pound while also looking like an E i chose to use the pound as it was a sign everyone uses and sees we spend money everyday which gave me the idea to actually make it as its a practical type design that can be used and made in various ways if i wanted to improve it i would change some things to make the final design more cleaner and possible add some colour to the final outcome.

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Being my first additional project in which i have the ability to be free and work under my own designs and train of thought i'm very much excited to create my own typography style for my work, i feel that with the digital skills i have gained over this year understanding the benefits of illustrator and photoshop to help the progress of my typography i plan to create a typeface that takes on the practical designs of many artists that use physical materials to create type but implement a twist of comical and graphic designs to the mix and try something fairly new and exciting.

I plan to show my work through sketchbooks and documentation through my blog of my overall outcome and the work ill be doing as well as documenting and photographing my process through my project and what i have done throughout i will be documenting new processes and how my ideas develop i will be using digital softwares such as illustrator and photoshop and will be further gathering as much research and information to create a perfect type face that take on the factors i want.

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The final outcomes for my public action piece I feel have come out exciting and successful to what i planned on doing overall the designs have been created under the influence of clean lines simple design and effective statements to both the piece and my front and back cover. I think both my front and back cover gave the ideas and style of what design is about as well as a geometric and unique angular design i feel that my idea using design design as an integrated design to the style and making it more three dimensional in the style of comic books really made my design front and back cover powerful. i also feel that my gender design page really made a strong example of what i wanted to show and how simple but effective it can be working with information and text through the actual piece as well as looking at diverse insignia and gender neutral design gave me a powerful outcome.

I feel that if i wanted to improve my work further i would like to run my outcomes through photoshop and illustrator to enhance my edits as well as have vector based lines and outcomes as it would make the image look much sharper to see and visually work better on a larger outcome if it was to be done due to the lockdown it made things a little more challenging however, it was made possible i feel that i would make additional changes to the composition and possibly worked further with my photography after lockdown if i had the time to create a more interactive photography piece also but overall im very much happy with my final outcomes.

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this task we looked into the deep ideas and process of layout looking into how i can create various processes to make different compositions and understand how i can create these outcomes and understand the correct way of design and layout. we focused on image and text as well as positive and negative space and how both need to be balanced between each other. This exercise we took type articles black paper and a plain sheet of white paper and layered and amended the type and image around the page to create various compositions in design and had taken a series of images showing the changes and multiple designs while being efficient and reusing the paper to create new outcomes.

this exercise was highly useful in understanding composition but also knowing your style looking into how we prefer image over type how we want it set or not angles styles how much writing is or isn't needed or if the words are overlapped were things that were thought over through the process of this task which was very much lively and exciting especially being a way to get feedback and give yourself feedback to easily change and amend how you want the page to look like for our final design.

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in this exercise we looked into using the library or internet for a resource designer photographer or artist that could be related with this project we had a set amount of time to look and find something related and print out the images you liked or enjoyed to reflect on i chose images from the marzee gallery book which had many appealing outcomes of work this designer created which i found very much relevant to article design but also photography and design i am very fond of.

this task helped to develop my initial ideas and design for this starting of the project as we in groups reflecting on our designers in small groups guiding and explaining each others choices and how we could move forward with the ideas we have this helped to develop my thoughts and process which became very useful to take on for my work and also was nice to reflect on others choices and see how different we are in the selections we make in our work choices.

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i had worked on an exercise in which we worked with a article title given and created an image to represent that image shown for an article the idea is that we create an appropriate sketch regarding the article shown to us and create a rough sketch in a few minutes to show what were trying to explain through an image and how much it relates. we had worked on 10 articles looking at world issues that are occurring currently around the world. the exercise was fast paced active and created a fast pace to work of the drawings and outcomes we made this created a challenge similar to the industry.

overall the exercise looked into what others had created as well as your own and seeing how people responded what sizes shapes looks and things they pointed out that you didn't i think this is what helped make the exercise very well responded as we got to see what others created and have a reflection on each others work throughout which i personally thought was a great thing to reflect on and understand how this project can be developed.

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working on these previous projects i feel that this project focuses where i feel i can shine most in my development in typography and photography i feel that i have gained the ability of learning new skills and changes in design and a broader open response to how i can create work that creates an impact on a stronger level of process. being a new challenge through the current encounters were experiencing through this projects it has created harder capabilities and more challenges to push my work to its possible limits enhancing my drawing and perspective drawing ability level of photography and improvisation as well as looking at layout collage and templating very much industry based skills that are key to graphic design work spaces.

i intend on developing a sketchbook process of my work through the course of this project showing my development through beginning ideas and continuous development looking at how to relate articles to image and design as well as overall capturing the features of our graphic novel book that covers everyones genre this creates a challenge between both. i plan on taking my research into lay out and design in the works of designers such as designer marzee in photography and type, as well as designers such as david carson which may take some development in my work i plan on looking into also insignia and signs in my project and how to create these designs through environment image and illustration to create a universal language through this project.

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After creating my biological short film i personally felt that the outcome was strong, it was very much most of what i wanted to include and planned to expect the process itself was a task however was exciting and driven the more i continued to develop i realised the idea of shot character and build up the more i continued i enjoyed the fact that there was continuous personal character and raw and honest materials and captured moments that all took a place into the video that added using spoken word also helped that becomes stronger than i expected and made the piece feel more engaging between the viewer and the artist i also feel that my video was very much individual and showed the level of technique process and edits i had engaged with my video compared to my other peers that had really exciting and unique pieces also for themselves and how mine felt like a fresh and new idea.

things I feel I could improve on was the audio as it was clear on headphones it is very obvious the audio was chopped and needed to be stretched and smoothed out to flow with the video better unlike on speakers it can get away with it and can be something to improve on when i have the possible time also looking at fixing my editing filters as there were small nicks where my video was in reverse and the edit also reversed which made it not really flow that well and would be nicer to stay at one stance. I also think potentially finding a few more nicer shots in better lighting would be nice to look at and some unique ground and sky shots would be nice to experiment with in the future.

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This exercise was including myself and my other peers in two groups we had collected the current work we had developed and continued developing at the moment to show a five minute presentation of our work and what we plan to do further to develop our short film speaking about the key word we had chosen and the idea we had built from the key word chosen this task was to help us develop our confidence in understanding our idea as well as have some constructive feedback on what we could do to improve and how we can make the concept and storyline run butter in relation to the word chosen and what we can do collectively helping to give any information or support that can be of value.
overall i felt this exercise was very beneficial for the progress in my work and development this exercise gave us a break in actually thinking for ourselves and other people giving them helpful feed back on what actually works and what you may be mindful of to continue their progress as well as yours which helped to carry my idea through thinking and further thought process to my work this also helped me into finding creators i never thought of using and actually giving them that opportunity in my work.

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in this exercise we looked at the attention to frames and how individual frames can make the biggest difference in the change to your animation and video. using flip notes I was given the task of creating my own animation on anything i would like i used the word fly and created and animation using the actual word fly and created a moving flip note that turns the word into an actual fly flying and crashing into frame. we looked into moving motion and how these motions can make the biggest difference also when the most important frames are needed such as the key areas rather than unneeded content and making sure the main frames you want to show are focused on more compared to the minor build ups to the main plots and twists to your animation.

i found that this exercise helped me to understand the attention to detail with frames and image and how it can much such a difference the more frames you add and the attention of detail and motion an image can have adding many more changes into that image. this task i found was a challenge adding in frames making sure its the right shot and moves correctly through the flow of the story this is something that helped me to consider what i need to take into consideration when making my film and how the video is to be shown and directed.

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Learning the process of video editing and filming, this task was to understand the bases of how film planning and creating a story board continues to be the base of a video before it's actually created. I was taught various techniques of storyboards and how they are planned before you actually continue to develop you video just from still shots and basic animations which create the beginning middle problem and solution and end. the idea is to use these sketches and drawings to plot your story add your audio and vocals if needed to build your template to continue adding and altering the work you have before actually beginning straight away this helps to give you the thought if certain things may work or may not as you go along and change your idea. I designed a basic rough designed story board and continued to develop it into a much more detailed designed short film to be used until i plan on using my actual video footage for my short-film.

i found this exercise very useful in understanding planning and preparation that goes into making a film as well helping me create the idea i have came up with its helped me to create a template which i plan to use for actually continue editing my video and show the process of my design and how it can continue to progress and be used as a reference.

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Being my first short film project I find this opportunity to be a new challenge in this term of developing my video editing abilities throughout this project I intend on documenting my experimental processes through new techniques in videography and stop motion as well as build a story board planning my short film ahead of its concept I will be using the term biological as my topic to continue from and plan to create a film based on the biological traits of myself and how those traits continue to be a part of my character and who I am. I would like to use stop motion and photography and videography in my short film as well as use the ability of syncing audio and spoken word.

My plans throughout the project is to use the term biological but not have the word be as cliché as it is and to actually look inside the environmental factors that biologically make us who we are I plan to look into video directors such as Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman as well as Khalil Joseph taking on there current and unique video ideas and creating my own. I would like this video to cause reaction and to leave the viewer with a sense of happiness and excitement that the idea of who you are makes you different and being someone different is the most valuable thing to be considered. Environment and people create that feeling which is why I plan to use the word biological and create its meaning to mean more through this short film.

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This sketchbook is the development and process of my project the Poetry Slam, this project began with the selection of optional poems which were written and authored by various writers I had taken on beginning workshops looking at screen printing, illustration, book binding and perspective drawing and life drawing. Using these various workshops, it broadens my ideas for thoughts on how I could continue to develop a series of work that uses typography and can be executed with trying one of these new techniques I have gathered. I had finally chosen my decided poem written by the writer Michael Rosen, in his poem I had taken on the focus of the word enough in the poem due to its open meaning and how it can be interpreted to how you feel. So I continued a series of developments and designs using the idea of enough but I felt that the words itself were very vague as I continued developing, I began altering and playing with the poem in various ways re writing altering and shortening down the meaning taking away the idea of the story of the poem being about a man that thinks on needing a woman to make him find himself and more about himself actually finding himself. This series of development is shown in my overall final outcome.

My thoughts and feelings through the process of my project were very fast paced I felt that this was actually a very short amount of time to create something meaningful and expressive towards my abilities, I was fairly stuck at times being the first physical project and being the fact that I was lost at the beginning that began finding my feet it was a good process to lead off from and throughout the project made me a bit more confident. Good things I could say about the experience was the level of ideas work ethic and space I had to try and use and make the most of also having facilities and workshops to help me were very useful I would say the negative would be time as it felt very fast for me and being the first mini project I’ve done it was a very different experience for me in many ways. I displayed my project in a form of light and dark the mix of question and conclusion was what I planned on doing in which the person interacts with the piece in which they feel and how they interpret the story the colours the type the prints and collage all have individual character and can have a different feeling to why the same question can be on all of them but be a different meaning is what makes it interesting. I think if I could have done more I would say what could have been done is potentially gone larger scale by having maybe 15 – 20 prints to stagger across the wall to maybe take up more of the negative space around and make the piece seem much more filling and maybe have a more stance and noticeable approach to it which I think would very much improve it. If this was to come back again I would plan to like I said go larger scale of layering with various prints but also make them interactive in a sense of actually letting people write on them instead of using their thoughts to build the story and idea which I think would be much more appealing visually if I was to plan on coming back to this project again.

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Starting this brief on the poetry slam I found myself to be very excited to really show my potential and strengths in typography, I intend to take on previous skills I have gained working and developing on digital repeat patterns, collage development as well as work with using screen printing and imagery. I would like to further explore these various types of processes but also further some samples in projection and riso printing which may take an interesting approach to my project ideas. Skills I would like to develop would be my digital skills using Photoshop and illustrator but also my confidence in screen printing in large scale as well as perspective design understanding layout and format and what types of design work best.

My ambitions throughout the project is to create something personal exciting and meaningful that represents something of myself but also works with the environment around it also, I will be looking at various designers that take on the same characteristics of my ideas examples being such as Kristine Kawakubo, Peter Devito and David Carson being some of the ideas and style I would like to include into my work and create and very personal and interesting story through my work. I would like my audience for my work to take the attention of the male audience as I feel that my concept will seem much more personal to the masculine side of feelings and emotions of myself, however I would intend to design the work to take on both audiences to acknowledge the work and take their minds into a personal thought of someone they are in memory of.

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This task used the exercise of musical sound and having a series of tasks that correlated to the sound, these tasks were to create a form of expression of the musical sound and how it affected us reading the mind and our thought process through drawing these task examples are things such as making the sound waves through repeated shapes repeated lines as well as tears and many other forms of expressions that relate to the sound and mental state of the song to myself. I felt that this task was a great form of exciting and new ways of creating outcomes but also tapped into the scientific and physical mind of how art can be portrayed other than drawing what actually is your thought while drawing and how you as an individual would like to portray it.

Overall i felt that this workshop could be an interactive expression piece which i feel to try with further development this has led me to thinking of a science to art and understanding the mental mind of art creating something interactive and more experimental understanding the creative mind of various designers and artists and their depiction of sound or imagery and how they want to present it in their own visual outcomes.

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This workshop was a form of communication and skill using listening, writing and visual understanding techniques to your ability the session consisted of a series of tasks to do with being opposite of a partner not being able to stare at their pages and not being able to have the same paper these two opposite papers had various tasks for one another to complete. we would sit opposite each other back to back and one by one answer the questions chosen, there would be descriptive tasks such as one drawing and another describing and one picturing and telling what an image looking like and writing down what it is. I felt that this was a test of basic sense however heightened and made much more faster paced speeding things up and creating an  environment with fast energy and coordination and team work which was successful.

I personally felt that there was nothing to be negative on  this workshop i feel that it developed a series of good communication and teamwork the overall experience being very interactive and letting us understand the work environment and the pupils we have in it was something this actually made great about the workshop itself. From this workshop i think i plan to actually further interact with my peers in creating work and making and building a series of relationships in my course to build further help and success for each other in our course which i feel this workshop has done for me.

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I had practiced a technique  through my workshops called Riso printing it is a process of printing using a fixed style of coloured inks. It uses scanned imagery that are black and white and can be manipulated in a series of ways such as over laying image collage and type with image. I built a template design first of how i wanted to have my print displayed laying out the numbered layers and how I wanted them to look, the experience itself was very exciting Ive never had the opportunity of using a form of digital print that can have many ways of manipulation which i think was a success. Theres a various amount of positive and negative opinions on how this form of work can be interpreted as the prints can stay between the lines and sometimes away but i personally feel that the work builds a positive series of outcomes the more you continue to develop.

I feel also that it is a great way of producing various visual outcomes working with collage and abstract design I felt that this practice was something i do want to lead further into experimentation and maybe develop a series of final project ideas. I feel that my next action plan for this further development to building a series of experimentation with black and white photography and also type to maybe curate a new series of development similar to Rayographs imagery for my further development into the work.