Tuesday 29 October 2013

Layouts, layabouts...or even layer bouts

 
This is a simple but effective design above, evokes the emotion of  making you cry by 'getting the wrong colour...' the graphic is representative and cleverly positioned between the sentence. The text is neatly shaped at the bottom, not too much of it to bore. The logo is obvious and clear but subtle, not over powering. The deep blue back ground with the darker edges draw you eye easily to the text and the graphic which is very well lit showing it's depth.
I think this is an excellent example of design in advertising.
 
 
Zoffany
Below is an interesting picture with a centralised design layout, colours were vivid on the page and eye catching in the magazine. Company name is clear with no unnecessary text on the page.
Kimono Blossom
The colours and the text down the side have created a sense of the style that the company want to portray, I sense an antique, flowery style with a modern injection. 



 

 
 Simple page layout with a clear title and text aligned in a way to read easily and the colours of the pictures are picked out with the page numbers. A good contrast with the pictures and the blue surround although this does not look like a back ground to me, more like windows into the gardens show. I hope this was the effect they were trying to achieve else my critical eye hasn't started developing at all yet!
 
 

 

Monday 28 October 2013

Task today, re-done...more dynamic?


New improved task for today.
I think the pictures look more together now,
the lettering is a better colour and blends with the developed dynamic composition.  
 
 
 
 
Task 3 done for today...weird white space...no title...lettering too pale..
Not very dynamic I see now.

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Sunday 20 October 2013

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Humpf

It is 2pm and I haven't done a thing...except read briefs (not the knickers kind). I think today I have gone in to what you might call 'brain frazzle'. I am not even sure where to start.....Garden History, Metis Competition entry CV or drawings?

Dog wants a walk...maybe that's a good idea as I have been sitting here since 11am and only started a headache...on the positive side: Yesterday was  a lovely sunny day, as is today, we walked around London to see some interesting open spaces, functional and not so functional, well designed and not so well designed. All in all, twas a good day for me as my presentation on Small Domestic Ancient Roman Gardens went well, including my outfit as (apparently) The Vestal Virgin!

These are my photo shopped pictures that I have started for the Metis Comp, lots to work on but I had fun experimenting with PS an will continue to improve techniques so that I can create an A3 design for my entry.
Plan view with planting positions
 


The white stick things in the middle represent a person and child in scale. I need to work on the colour combinations but as a first attempt I am very pleased with the shape of Alliums.

Tuesday 1 October 2013

60

Uni
Into the second week of Uni and the homework is mounting up. :(

This blog will now become part of my mark so I will be posting my work for comments. I will try and reflect on the work myself, though ever critical so won't have to try too hard!

I have only turned  60 degrees so far from the summer of fun, festivals, friends and frivolities. I am still cleaning the house, cooking dinner, walking the dog, checking the children's homework and even went out Friday and Saturday night. It will all change, once again I will be trying to fit 400 degrees into a circle. I can tell it's already happening because I just turned down an invite for a shopping trip to Bluewater with 3 girlfriends next Sunday...told them "I had too much homework!"

Researching gardens of Pompeii at the moment for a PPP. It is fascinating how well the city was preserved if you've never seen it in detail before, I shall try and post my presentation for you to view.
 
Working on a competition entry, I have made a sketch model which needs development but following yesterdays' crit I have some ideas for improvements. I will be developing the ideas on sketch up and trying out photoshop as I know how I want the garden too look. This need translation onto paper....and better time management this week....
 
 
Sketch model for competition entry, 1st initial ideas


























































Work
Teaching tomorrow and Thursday, need to complete a scheme of work up to Christmas so won't be doing and Uni work for those two days.

Uni work from last year with reflection:

I have work from last year to post as part of this process:

 

 
Client and Process
 





 

 
 

Reflection:
  • Too much purple
  • Planting too Basic-ran out of time to add any more plants to Sketch-up model, did not fully show what I had in mind.
  • Structure too big, chunky and not elegant enough
  • Struggled with drawing up from initial designs which awfully rendered. Need/needed help with rendering.

  • The scheme of plants were a good combination of colour, form and texture
  • Materials strategy was exactly what I had in mind for the site and client requirements 
  • Perspective views worked well, demonstrating the ambience of the garden I had envisaged


Will try and upload a couple of videos from Digital Landscapes hand-ins from last year later, Blog is telling me there are errors when up loading...will need investigate...
 
Must get on with the Ppp on 'Small Domestic Gardens of Ancient Rome' now.....

(notched up to 80 degrees in the last few hours, not even had 1 cup of tea!)