Luke Groves

Monday, 21 June 2010

End of year show

Our evening show took place last friday night, it was overall a good night. This was a time our parents and other visitors could come in to look at our work. I enjoyed the night and looking at all the work that has been done.

Friday, 18 June 2010

Our final show

Gor the past week we have been setting up our final show in a small room in the downstairs part of college. we had to sort moving some of the furniture, cleaning the walls down and painting them, getting all the work in and mounted. Once it was all prepared we got starter poster up so we had our line to put up the A1 posters once these were up stuck up with velcro stickers we put up and arranged the smaller work below the a1 posters. We then got some computers down there with pictures music and our websites on them. Also our packaging is in the room and a wall of handmade work. Tonight is the private showing where our familys and others can come. Should be fun.

Friday, 30 April 2010

My FMP

For my FMP I have chosen to re-brand 'Levi Roots Reggae Reggae Sauce' and also brand it for the American market. This is a good project for me as it is bright vibrant and lively work. I met Levi Roots and got his contact to send my designs to him and hopefully something will come of this. I am looking into Jamaican culture, food, music, design and also the reggae culture. from all my research i'm going to design labels, posters bottles and other promotional material. I will look into typographic designs in Jamaica and design some typefaces to suit the product.

This is going to be a good project and i am looking forward to the research, my designs and feedback from my client Levi Roots.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Kingston University Portfolio Showing

I recently recieved a E-Mail from Kingston University, the University asked me to send them my portfolio online. I am now going to send them my blogger link and some pictures of my portfolio. I did not know that universities looked at students portfolios in this way, but it seems quite a cool thing as you can update it with your work so you build up your portfolio, and with the times we are in, its a very modern and easily accessable way. I look forward to hearing back from Kingston with critism and improvements on my work and portfolio.

Monday, 25 January 2010

V&A Help

I found a good website that will help if you need an imagery from the museum, it has all the collections.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/

Refining a google Search

Monday, 18 January 2010

Good website to go on, has pictures from the workshops that go on at the V&A

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vandaschools/page3/

V&A Trip to London

On Friday 15th of January we took a trip to the V&A art museum in London, where we had a brief on advertising, with Cara, to try and get more young people to come to the museum, we also has the chance to see some originals of advertising posters from the past. I think the visit helped me because it showed me what the client wants and the limits to what i'm aloud to do. From this i will try to work my designs within the boundary's. I now have to produce poster designs and other promotional material to attract young people into the museum, from what i have seen i think this will be hard, as the museum has a large range of old and historic art and have a small area that would attract young people as it is not as modern and up to date as other museums like the Tate and the design museum.

Monday, 4 January 2010

flash based websites

I was asked to look up flash sites and i looked on the www.thetwa.com

Here are 5 sites that i chose which were my favorite:
http://www.nike.com/jumpman23/m6/
http://www.vobnedir.org/
http://luv.virginmobileusa.com/
http://else.bz/
http://www.adhemas.com/

In Photoshop I have used many file types; psd, jpg, tiff, pdf, gif. TIFF - this is a tagged image file format, which is used for bit-mapped images.

JPEG – this is short for joint photographic experts group, it’s a lossy compression format for colour images. JPEG can usually reduce a file size to about 5% of its normal size.
GIF – this stands for graphics interchange format. It a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the Internet. GIF supports colour and various resolutions.
PDF – short for portable document format. This captures formatting information, and makes it possible to send a document as it was intended to be viewed. In the past it was only used by graphic artists and designers but today PDF and be used for virtually any data.
SWF – this stands for shockwave flash. It is a format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web.
HTML – this is a hyper text mark-up language, it is used to crate documents on the web. It is created using tags and codes. Starting with .
CSS – cascading style sheets, this is like html but the user has more control over how the pages are displayed.

Friday, 2 October 2009

HypeforType

Designer Alex Haigh of Nottingham, England recently launched a new type foundry entitled HypeForType. Acclaimed designers Si Scott and Alex Trochut have both released exclusive typefaces through HypeForType: Hunter and Neo Deco respectively. Alex Haigh runs the studio Thinkdust and dreamed-up the idea of HypeForType out of a desire for high quality affordable typefaces. Alex managed to bring HypeForType from concept to launch in just over a year. Though he admits that he has only been able to get 1-2 hours a sleep on average each night.

I like these types because they are quite futuristic and modern.

Monday, 28 September 2009

Progression after College

Here are some screen shots i took of Southampton University and of Norwich University for the arts. I was more interested in these colleges because they focus their graphic design on typography and advertising. I have been interested in advertising since i went to the D&AD awards and talked to a student about a Advertising and Brand Management course at Staffordshire university. To get into these University's i need a minimum of 220 ucas points and to look up funding. i want a course which is more advertising, marketing and branding opposed to illustrating and printing.

Monday, 21 September 2009

Machine 56

I found Machine56 when i looked at the hot links on terratag.com. This is a website that designs and prints T-shirts, i have brought one myself. Machine56 is a vector designer. When i looked at his work i saw the typography and really liked it. Some of his helmets and robot designs are quite cool aswell.

2012 Oylmpic education logo competition

This year myself and the class entered a competition to design an infill for the 2012 Olympic education logo in which I was one of the six finalists. We were invited up to London to Canary Wharf to meet some of the Directors of the Olympics and pitch my design to them. Unfortunatly i did not win but have been offered a weeks work experience at a London Design firm. Still it was a good achievement to be one of the six finalists and to be involved with the event.

Type

Our first project in the second year of our Graphic Design is typography. We have started by designing some type by hand and then scanning and editing on the computers. This above is just one of my type designs.

UCAS

In the past week i have been looking at the UCAS website and at University websites, deciding what i want to do when i have completed my Btec National Graphic Design. I have registered and logged in on the UCAS site, this is how i will apply for University.
This is the link to the apply page : http://www.ucas.com/students/apply/

Monday, 14 September 2009

Unit 10 Blog

Today I have created this blog for my Unit 10 for my second year Graphic Design course. This unit is a personal and professional development, which looks at progression onto university or a career. I'm going to use this as a resource for web links, to document current projects and even to store my research.