Wednesday 31 October 2012

Halloween!

This is the first time I've carved a pumpkin! My boyfriend brought me a lil one over when he came to visit so here it is!



Sunday 28 October 2012

Cory the Typewriter.






This is my 'new' Typewriter. It's a 60s Smith-Corona, called Cory! I bought it to help inspire me with my Typography project. 

Thursday 18 October 2012

Walkies in Cardiff

Me and my friend went for a walk around Cardiff. I only took a few photos 'cause it was dark and only had my phone but here are 2 random ones.




Monday 15 October 2012

3D Type Project



After I'd cut out my letters. I used cardboard to make my letters more 3D.


Then I paper mached them.



Painted them (So.. many... times)



And here are the final walls, with more student's letters on.



Start of Type Project


Looking at different fonts, and why I chose the one I did.

A few bits of research into type posters.

Here are two pages out of my A3 Typography Project Sketchbook. Our project is to pick a font, then make an A3 poster encouraging designers to want to use it.  

Monday 8 October 2012

Urban Alphabet

My urban alphabet. Our task was to walk around Cardiff and take pictures of shapes and forms that spell the alphabet. Yes, I know I'm missing K and P. Couldn't find those!

Saturday 6 October 2012

Firsts of University

So, Uni has started! Been here 2 weeks today. It's been a couple of weeks of firsts!

First time living on my own.



Attended my first few lectures at uni. (And made bridges out of spaggetti..


Went to my first of hopefully many ukulele jams! And as I went on my own I met a lot of really cool people.


Walked to Cardiff Bay.




Went to The Dr Who Experience.



And here are some pages from my visual diary, my first project started: