My Animation

Thsi is my animation the way i came across this idea was after doing the experimentation with the textures and patterns i thought i would take my logo and flip it and repeat it a few times untill i came up with the over laying pattern above i then put a glow on it , i then took my original logo and made it big i then made it move using the animation feature on photoshop, i had it bouncing around like on dvd players i feel this is a clever animation which involved things that i would use for other things the pattern over the tip for example can be used on clothing and desktop and designs, over all i am very happy with my animation and i may use it in thefuture for advertising reasons.

Neville Brody

Neville Brody is an alumnus of the Londone college of printing and Hornsey College of Art and Design, and is known for his work on the face magazine (1981–1986) and areana magazine (1987–1990), as well as for designing record covers for artists such as cabarat voilitare an depeachy mode. He created the company Research Studios in 1994 and is a founding member of Fontworks. He has been announced to be the new Head of the Communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of Art commencing in January 2011.

 This is an image of one of neville brodys art work, i really like this style of art using a human face and mergin it into text and having it all away the txt also works really well with it and it makes a great poster or magazine cover i think i maybe using something like this for my magazine cover iv started by having an image of me ina waste coat wnd filling the waste coat with text saying shakerz designs over and over i feel this is a good use of typography and it simular to the techniques brody has used in his work, as i like the look of brodys work i feel his work greatly influences my work and the way it looks makes me want to make my images to look simular to his.



This is an image of his magazine called The face neville is most known for this magazine it is a fashion magasin which basicly goes threw the fastion things goin on and how grafics relates to it, his graphical work really works well with the look he is trying to get like u can see on this front cover that, its and image showing shock and hurt by the look on her face and the smashed glass i have done work simular to this befor for an album cover and i feel it is a great effect which i will probs use again in the future for other work also the black and which works really well with the red of some of the text it helps it to stand out and it really adds a sence of mood to the peice.

Website demo on Flash

Today we did a little demo on how to creat a website with buttons on flash it was a very simple demo but i found it very usefull and handy to know i feel il use this method alot especialy when i am creating my buttons for some other work that i am doing. here are a few doc shots of my work in progress.

That little box up the top corner of the screen is where we selected the buttons that we wanted to use , to do that you go to window then cliko n comman libuary then selec buttons then you can search threw the libuary for a button that you would like to use.

This is a doc shot of the proses of making an action for ur buttons when you select a button and then click on the option that you want that button to do for example set it to go to a page or set it to play a short clip ect.

This doc shot is of my final outcome of it all put together into a interactive webpage, this is a very simple design but it is very effective and it shows the basics of how to create a webpage and will be very helpfull for when creating my own website.

The way we created a webpage was to first create 4 layers named, actions, buttons , content and background the reason they have those names are self explanatory, we then cut it into segemtns of 10 , then 20 then 30 then 40 filling it all with frames

Logos

here are all my logos that i have made for my identity project i started doing logos that were round and ciculer with SD and shakerz designs written on it but hten i realised that i would not be able to shrink down this logos and for it to be recognisable , i tryed many variations of the logo but i still felt that none of them would work, i then tryed a very simplistic logo with the 2 letters S and D and tryed to merge them together to make a shape i came up with a very simple and effective logo i tryed two different veriations of this and this is what i came up with .

Slice tool and dreamweaver

Today we did a tiny demo on how to slice up sections of a picture to create a website, you do this buy selecting all your different small sections so then you can let that section find its way to watever page you want so it sort of works like a button, you click on the slice tool then you begin to box all the little sections you want to box up, by going on the slice select tool you can change the size of your boxes, also with that tool, if you double click it you can set the page that you want that section to click to, this is an example of what my website may look like with the slice sections set.

All those little sections above will all lead to a different page with my art work on it.

When you save it you have to go down to save for web and devices then it will also create a web like where you can open it up , you can then open that up in dreamweaver

Rubbing textures

Today Dan the man let us out the class to sketch some texture around the college onto paper with a grafite crayon, this image is the textures that we managed to find.

The texture we found were :

disabled logo
plantpot
brick wall
plaster wall
stair grill
floor grill
telephone buttons
pcad award slate
dinner tray
long key lock
round key lock
push bin lid
slatted door
plug socket
door bracket
fire extinquisher
bottum of dinner tray

I enjoyed doing this task it was interesting wat looks you can get from a simple surface i feel i can use this knowledge in work for back ground and to blend into album covers to get a better effect over the top.

Photography induction

Today we had an induction of how to use a dslr camera, we went through how to manualy use it, setting the apature the exposure what they are and what they meant to do and how to use them efectivly, aparture is the size of the hole to let in the light the bigger the whole the lower the number is and the more light that gets let in, we also learnt about exposure which is the speed that the stutter opens and closes, , he also went into details about tripods when we wud need to use them on a longer exposure photo so the camera does not get moved inorder to get a good image , the size of the apature u need is pendant on what you want to focus the main centre of the photo to be you will have low papature for things up close and you would get a blurry background for photos like that are portrate and for landscape photos you would use a high apature so the whole image is sharp and clear. for photos where u want to show movement you will lower the shuter speed so you will get a blured effect in order to capture movement in the photo but for still shots like a splash in water you will want to use a very fast exposure time. i found this induction very intresting and will be very usefull in doing my own personal work for people, now i will have the cojnfidence to take photos for people for my edits which will in turn provide better images for me to work with. below is an image of the camera we had an induction on the nikon DSLR ( DIGITAL SINGLE LENS REFLEX)