This year has been a real adventure, an eye opener into the world of graphic design which has brought joy and tears, excitement and bordom, new friends, and has given me more understanding the world of design as a whole. It has been a very intensive year learning right from the basic about design such as typography, image making, layout design, working with quantity over quality, briefs that span over months to briefs completed within an hour, the importance of primary and secondary research. I've looked at briefs that were random to the absolute serious, I've learned how to use a mac computer and have invested in a professional macbook pro myself, I've been to paris and explored my home town in an all new way, I learned how to do an essay and how not to do one, I learned about the discipline of manual printmaking, I've made 5+typeface design, and I collected over 200 samples of dust. I have had so many new experiences its hard to describe them, this is a 100 list about me, my experiences this year both personal and in my practice as a designer, originally an idea for the final project 'Speaking from Experience' a 100 list about 08/09.
001. Name: Carl Dale, Holderness 002. Age: 20
003. Age I would like to be: 19
004. Hometown: Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
005. Current residential status: living at home 006. Employment: Part-time Sales Assistant Monsoon/Accessorize
007. Time at current employment: 2 years 7 months
0 08. Previous education: Foundation Diploma, LCAD 009. Graphic Design work experience: none
010. Driving licence: yes
011. Approximate miles to college: 7.2
012. Hours spent on the bus each week: 9
013. Times late to college: once a week (approx) 014. Relationship status: in a relationship
015. Friends Made: 70+
016. Colleagues left: 11 017. Holidays this year so far: Paris
018. Up-coming holidays: Turkey, Centerparks 019. Beers spilt over oneself: 2
020. Favourite Xbox game: Resident Evil 5 021. Xbox games purchased: 8
022. Bags purchased: 6
023. Halloween Costume: Darth Vader’s Apprentice 024. Haircuts: 7
0 25. Friends counted: 517+
026. Critical studies lectures attended: 14
027. Times cried: 2
028. Design magazines purchased: 0
029. Typefaces made: 2
03 0. Canaries Drawn: 17 031. Dust swabs collected : 200 +
032. New favourite Programme: Fringe
033. Hours spent playing Gears of war: 34.5 034. Don’t panic packs collected:5
035. Blog posts made: 78
0 36. Scalpels purchased:2
037. Books bound: 9 038. Favourite bar: Mook
039. Most recent band seen: Basement Jaxx
040. Design Competitions entered: 3 041. Design Competitions won: 0
042. Plants purchased: 3 043. Books rented from the library: 22
044. Highest grade: 1st
045. Lowest grade: unmarked
046. Print processes learned: 6
047. Most expensive purchase: USB turntable
048. Least expensive purchase: Graph paper
049. “How to...” subject: determine if your cat need medical attention.
050. Summer brief vowel: I
051. Alphabet Soup Word: Edit 052. Films viewed at cinema: 3
053. Kashmir curries eaten: 27
054. Total monies spent : £5000+ (including fees)
055. Friends flats stayed over: 2 056. Favourite new designer: Mike Perry
057. Most wanted book: Visionaires 56* magazine
058. Favourite design book: Neubauwelt
071. Intention to move out next year: no
072. Monies made from graphic design: £0.00
073. Favourite animal : octopus 074. Favourite illustrator: Nicholas Di Genova
075. Favourite food: mushrooms 076. Most hated brief: what is a line?
077. Favourite module: printmaking elective 078. Bonfires attended: 2
07 9. Times completely wasted: 5
080. Most common partner: Hannah Jackson
081. Most inspiring peer: Chloe Galea 059. Episodes of friends watched: 100+
060. Unusual food eaten: octopus 061. Newspapers bought: 1
062. Most Unusual design brief: a book about 100
063. Favourite typeface: Mrs Eaves
064. T-shirts printed: 0
065. Monies for a Macbook pro: yes
066. Monies spent on a Macbook pro: not yet, too scared
067. Birthday cards recieved: 14 068. Favourite clothes shop: Topshop
0 69. Favourite film: Monsters Inc
070. Adobe software purchased: illegally
082. Saturdays attended: 5 083. Chosen elective: Print-making
084. Trips to IKEA: 10+
085. Print credits spent: £27.45
086. Trees for printing used: about .428% 087. All nighters: 1
088. Favourite design website: www.quickhoney.com
089. Favourite daytime TV show: Americas next top model 090. Stolen design technique: collage
091. Sketchbooks bought: 8
0 92. Favourite game: Tomb Raider 2
093. Favourite piece of clothing: my tan leather holdall
094. Macs broken: 1 095. Favourite colour: Navy
0 96. Most hated design subject: Climate Change
097. Crits: far too many 098. Names for dust: 100
099. Subways purchased: at least one per week
100. Most fancied peer: I can’t say
i started this course looking back as a very enthusiastic student with cliched ambition of making something of myself in something i think i really didn't know all that much about. i feel more confident now that this is a subject i would like to take forward, though my enthusiasm for the subject has lately been lost i feel i was looking for a 'style', by looking at other peoples work i think i was trying to define myself from the rest of the group but what i need to do was keep doing what i was doing. i enjoyed the briefs earlier in the course, image making and working with craft as part of my design.
i intend to continue my practices in design over the summer, starting a new blog in preparation of the the second year of my graphic design practice and finish or merge the print based blog that i created. until later.
Carl.
2 comments:
me?! what? really?! - wow thank you. and who do you fancy?! lol xx xx xx
what? i loved your work ethic and the things you produced in the last few briefs were lovely! and i cant say who i fancy it would just totally go to their head! not that its going to yours of course... ;)
xxx
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