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Today I completed a project that isn’t due until Friday the 20th of February. This project was to design and create a Film Production Company Logo. On our first day of this semester, our lecturer made us all come up with our own Film Production Company name. Later, the names were shared and swapped throughout the class and, in essence, everyone became someone elses client.

I was chosen to design and conceptualise a logo for someone who’s Production Company was called “TakeTwo”. Firstly, I had to come up with an idea and this was achieved my quickly sketching some basic ideas with pencil and paper. After about 20 some jumped out at me as being pretty good and then I felt that I should draw them out in greater detail just to show them in a better light.

I showed these drawings to my client and she chose here favourite one which, coincidentally, was mine too. I then drew this up on Adobe Illustrator. I did some little tweaks that I thought would improve it even more at this stage.

Logo

It was at this stage that I added the film reel cut-outs to tie it in with the Film Production Company. I also made the “PRODUCTIONS” type a little smaller than “TAKE TWO” as there was no need for it to be as prominant.

Tada! All done. I’m pretty happy with it.
However, I’m not all done there. We then had to make a Compimentary Slip, Business card and Headed Paper. All of which, can be seen below.

Business Card

Compliments Slip

Headed Paper

Any comments are greatly appreciated. Creative Critisism is also welcomed. Thanks.

…. all my notes for college. Finally, after what, a month of being back? God I’m crap at this. But I’m gonna stick to it this time now that I have a folder for each subject. I’m gonna stick to it just like I stick with updating this blog almost daily. I’ve done a pretty good job with that so far so I’m gonna do amazingly well with the college notes.

Oh, I’ve got a flash animation due pretty soon which will be up when it’s ready. Also, that photo gallery that I mentioned somewhere below. It’s due on Monday so expect an upload of that.

Last semester we were assigned to create a 4 page (A5) brochure using Indesign. The photos used had to be your own and marks were awarded for the general loveliness of it all. Mock ups were done in Photoshop but that goes without saying really.

Here it is anyway in all it’s loveliness.

Download the PDF

It’s a slow night. I’m bored and I’m half watching The Late Late Show (oh noes!). I’ve made a few web pages and sites over the past year or so just to practice and I find it somewhat fun to make ‘em and so I’ve decided to share them will you. Now, I’m well aware that they aren’t fantastic but sure feck it, why not?


DKIT Campus

This was the first website I ever made. It was an assignment in my first year in college and we were only taught to use tables for laying out so yeah, it’s kinda crummy. Link.


DKITv

This was my second website ever and this was a final project for a Web Authoring class in first year of college. Again, we still hadn’t moved on to table-less layouts just yet. I’m actually quiet happy with how this turned out surprisingly although the nav bar could be better in that it currently has no alternate text. Anywho…. Link.


Sausage Batter

This one was just something I did after watching a PSD to HTML video on NETTUTS and was inspired to give it a whirl myself. CSS for layout this time but it’s a bit dodge and only displays properly in Firefox or Flock or some variation of Mozilla’s Firefox. Link.


Orange Jooce

I made this one after watching the second video on NETTUTS. Again, it only displays properly in Firefox or a variation thereof. I must sort out my CSS skills so other Browsers don’t get confused…. Link.

Any comments or anything?

Don’t you just hate it when you get home from college or school and know how to do something that you were shown in class but as soon as you get home you forget?

Yeah well, I was trying to do something for college that isn’t due until the 23rd of January and not leave it until the last minute like I normally would. It’s annoying because I actually want to do it as it’s quiet enjoyable. My brief is to make and Interactive Photo Gallery to be produced in Director using hand typed code and not the pre-built library scripts.

I could do it using the library but I’m sure I’ll lose marks so I’d rather not. I did however do the mock up in Photoshop and I tried to make it cool looking. It’s pretty much a waste of time because very few marks are actually being awarded for aesthetics but I don’t see the point in doing anything half arsed.

Here’s a screeny!

Well, he’s something as promised. It’s my first ever illustration using Adobe Illustrator so it’s far from great. I’ve never used Illustrator before though so I’m pretty happy with my first effort.

Right, I’ve decided that I’m actively gonna post photographs, photoshopped stuff, illustrations and everything else that I do over my next semester in college because there is a lot of stuff that I do that just gets burned to a CD and submitted and never seen again.

So, it’s the start of semester and so I’m learning new stuff. I’ve drawn a few things in Adobe Illustrator but conveniently, they are on the computers at college so I’ll post them when I can.

Actually, one of my lecturers said that he’s gonna make everyone sign up to flickr.com and says that everything we make should go up there. I’m assuming he’ll make a group so we can all view each others work. I have a few things up there already on an account that I made ages ago.

Silent Love is a short produced by “Lads and Lassies”, a group of Creative Multimedia students studying at DkIT. The film parodies the silent movie era and coincidentally aims to be funny. I’ve been told that this has been achieved so lemme know what you think.

Oh, I directed and edited it by the way!

Yeah…. sure…. “awesomeness” is a real word. I swear!

Anywho, my friend and coincidentally, my housemate is a member of a band called “OneEar” (listen to “Monster” on their bebo or “She Drives Me Wild”), who are were in need of a poster to stick around the place to promote their gigs.

I happily complied and with the promise of 2 bars of chocolate as payment, I was well happy with my first paid job.

The resulting design is below and I’m pretty happy with it. Any comments?

OneEar - Poster Of Awesomeness.

Edit// 7/12/08

The poster has been updated to the final version. The old one is still available HERE if you want to compare.

“What should I write about, Rachel?”

“Halloween?”

So there we go, we are talking about Halloween. Fancy dress in all the nightclubs tomorrow - I’m not gonna participate because, quite frankly, I couldn’t be arsed but sure it’s fun watching other people do it.