The Festival of Britain.

The Festival of Britain was an Exibition in London, & opened 3rd May, 1951.

The Graphic Designer for FOB was called Abram Games (a artist I’ve spoke about on eariler posts) & created official war posters & design the Fatival of Britains symbol/ logo.

The Festiva itself has over 19 main places which you can look upon, like the Skylon, The Dome of Discovery, The Royal festival Hall, The Telekinema, etc..

More can be looked at through:

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_of_Britain
• Sponsered website: http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/
• 21st Century pack: http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/server.php?show=conInformationRecord.238
• And google.

A finished photoshop montage from an assignment I had to complete at college.

Using scanned images of album covers, both fron and back, using a recent photo shoot, I managed to create what you can see above, using layers, rasters, overlay, filters & basic side tools, & creating something that has a little bit of everything this band, Green Day, has done within the last 23 years.

University course review: Leeds.

Course placement:           Leeds Met.

Course name:                  BA (Hons) Graphic & Communication Design.

Course content:               Take on historic, culture, technology aspect of Graphic Design, branding, advertising, animation.

Reason of interest:          Another Uni that’s a little bit further away than the courses i’ve been looking at. Which is the main reason of why i looked & researched about this course in particular.

Course Requirments:       N/a.

Own Opinion:

i personally think that they should put the course requirments onto the online information about the course, mainly for the fact that some people would know for deffinate that if they’re interested in going there, they would know literally know what they have to do, instead of sending off for a more ‘advanced’ info pack about this particular course.

University course review: Manchester.

Course placement:         Manchesterfield.

Course Name:                BA (Hons) Graphic Design.

Course Content:            Graphic Design, print based or digital media, technical & concepual skills.

Reason of Interest:       Further away from home, been rated a good clean uni.

Course requirments:     240 UCAS points.

Own Opinion:

Like i said, Manchester is slightly further away than most uni’s i’ve looked at before, but im still unsure whether or not i want to be going further away. The Uni is said to be good in Art & Design areas of there, and would be good to carry on with.

Google Reader vs. Tumblr Dashboard.

Recently I decided to use the Google Reader, which (i must admit) is pretty useful. As useful as it may be, I think I would continue to use Reader in the future, IF i was using Google Blogger. But seen as though I’m currently using Tumblr, (a different blog site) I much more prefer the standard Dashboard, ready made for Tumblr.

The Reader is very useful, I admit, but seen as though I’m using Tumblr, & the blogs i’m following are on Tumblr, i would say it’s just much more appropriate for myself to use the Dashboard.

University course review: Sheffield Hallem.

Course Placement:       Sheffield.

Course name:              BA (Hons) Graphic Design.

Course content:          Advertising, illustration, structure, graphics, typography, moving imagery, traditional graphic design.

Reason of Interest:      Really, generally interested in the whole typography & Graphic Design kind of work,

Course Requirments:   260 UCAS points.

Own Opinion: 

Sheffield is alot closer to my home town, which may or may not be a benefit for me, and I guess the only way I would find out is to actually go there, but besised the point, the course seems pretty similar to Derby, which is excellent, but the only difference is the reqirments, such as more are required for Sheffield. Now that doesn’t technically mean the course may be better, so I may have to look more into the comparisons of these two..

University course review: Derby.

Uni Placement:      Derby University.

Course name:        BA (Hons) Visual Communication (Illustration & Animation)

Course content:     Industry standard knowledge & skills in creative application of digital softwar for annimation using Adobe after effects, Adobe flash & Autodesk Maya.

Reason of interest: Want to contribute to future digital animation for internet, broadcast & film.

Course requirments: 180- 240 UCAS points.

Own Opinion:

Again, this course looks really in my ‘league’ and generally in the path i intend of pursuing in a future career. And again, the points seem achievable for me I think, and hopefully doing a course like this as such would defiantly set my thoughts of a definite, enjoyable job.