Specialist Pathway Fri 28/01/11

Today we were having our result back for SP3 from James. He was talking to me individually and he said I need to involve with the class a bit more as some time I was too quiet. He also said he understand that English is not my first language. It means that my level of comprehension within the subject area is significantly affected. I need to have my own ideas design a bit more rather than take an advice from James, Oli or Malcolm and did just what they been asked me to do. But at the end I quite happy with my result which I passed.

Specialist Pathway Wed 26/01/11

Today we were with Oli, and we were continuing with our website project. Today he tough us how to do slide on web page, which I found quite complicated and difficult to do. Also I didn't make my web design folders correctly from last week, so I need to make it right by redo everything again on Dreamweaver, which wasn't that hard for me.

Specialist Pathway Tue 25/01/11

We were with Malcolm today and Malcolm asked me how am I going to do my research for my SP4 project and he suggested me to look at other sport such as American Football, Baseball and Basketball of their history background and bring it to English football. So I'll be able to have more option to design my football team logo though. So firstly I'll go to my football club and asked more information about the logo and club history for my research.

Specialist Pathway Fri 21/01/11

Today we were with James and we were talking about writing our own brief for SP4. I decided to redesign a football team for my SP4 project and the team that I'm going to do is the team that I play for, called Clifton St Vincents FC. After I showed my brief to James, he said that I need to added more history of the club into it. So I did research about the club and added it into my SP4 brief.

Specialist Pathway Wed 19/01/11

Today morning we were with Malcolm and he introduced us to Portfolio Tutorials. My tutorials start from 9 February. Then we had Oli after that which Oli asked us to put our website together and made them on Dreamweaver. Also he asked us to finish it before next Wednesday.

Specialist Pathway Tue 18/01/11

Today is our first day back from assessment week. Malcolm was introduce us to Specialist Pathway 4 ,about writing our own project. He asked us to started writing a draft project and show it to James on Friday. Then on Tuesday morning he will introduce us to Portfolio Tutorial.

specialist Pathway Fri 07/01/11

Today we had presentation with James on Penguin Book Cover. I was the first person to presented the work and James told me that I could do better by experiment more on typeface I used and change colour of background. Also if I add more butterflies in different size would be better. So after my presentation I went back and developed them over the weekend to make it looks better. Now I got my final design in gray background, added more butterflies in different size and colour in and changed typeface to Baskerville Italic which I think it looks much better than the previous design I've done.

Specialist Pathway Wed 05/01/11

Today morning we were with Malcolm again. I've done some development for my book cover design, so I showed it to him and he said to me I should play around with this typeface a bit more. He also said this typeface would work well if I arrange it in the right place. Then after he gave me some advice I've done some more design and I think it could the one I will use for my final book cover. Then after that we were with Oli for identity project. I've done all my design on my website, so what I need to do now is print it out on A1 paper, and ready for hand in for next week.

Specialist Pathway Tue 04/01/11

We just came back from half term break and this morning we were with Malcolm. Malcolm just tell us all the things we need to hand in for next week. Then he was talking to me about "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" book cover. I showed him my design ideas I've done during the holiday and he gave me some advice which one might work. At the end of the day I got my final design but still need to played around with typeface a bit more as the one I used on the book cover doesn't look right. So what I need to do now is try to get the right typeface for my book cover design.