Friday 28 November 2008

Dear Journal

First things first, let me get the bad news out of they way I didn’t pass my first assignment. But the good news is I know my mistakes now. I’m thinking of getting some help with my SPG which I’ve probably mentioned in the passed.

I must admit I was a bit gutted that my E card didn’t make it to the short list, but all well ends well I’ve managed to gain a live job with a Leeds based company who are interested in my design. This gave me a confidence boost as this will lead me to some work experience with a design studio in Leeds.

Generally life is treating me well at college; I have been using some software called Indesign which I will be using a lot of in the future. It is really good for putting pages together, I have found it really helpful to get some practice in before we start doing are new assignments. One of them is called Sounds Like a Plan; I’m finding this one interesting we have to design a Webpage. We have to design one page for now, this will follow with the full site next year I’m really looking forward to designing my screen.

I’m pleased to say I feel that I’ve caught up with all my work now, and I’m not a outsider. I get on really well with the rest of the group, I think it helps that we are of the same age bracket.

P.S see you soon.

Mark.

Tuesday 11 November 2008

Craig David

My future flashed in front of me when Dave and Craig filled my head with ideas. Not realising what laid ahead my ears were pined back, my eyes were open and I was taking notes. The morning was intresting I learnt a lot especialy when Dave was talking about freelancing and I didn't actualy realise how much hard work had to be put in to run your own freelancing business.

I actualy found it quite scary that he didn't succeed the first time he tried to set his own business up but I admire the fact that he learnt from his mistakes and tried again this time succeeding. This has made me think a lot more about going freelancing myself once I have learnt he right skills at college. I was quite surprised at the fast pace that they work at the studio producing Logo's in under two hours but personaly I would have thought it would have taken at least day to produce a good piece of work.This has shown me that I need to quicken my pace when doing my own pieces of design but I am sure that this will come over time.


It was quite interesting to know that they actualy used there own image bank which they pay for to produce the images for the design work. The fact that they had a pricing structure in a brochure that they had designed themselves for customers to view I thought was an excellent idea as I feel this is also a sneaky way to pull the customers in. It was clever to draw more clients in that were previously paying high prices while using other design companies who are now looking for cheaper alternatives due to the credit crunch. I thought it was good that they had seen this nieche in the market and were taking full advantage of it. Due to this they are now making a profitable turnover after two years of hard graft and the company now appears to have quite a good future ahead of it.

Tuesday 4 November 2008

The Background Of Gill Sans


ill1 sans is a humanist sans serif typeface, Eric Gill was a Graphic artist, sculptor and a typeface designer. Eric Gill designed the typeface to look well or display well. It was desined in 1927, and it contains fourteen different styles.



A2 typeface is a set of one or more letter's and will include a choice of bold, or italic typeface. Also Gill sans will offer alphabet of letter's, numerals and punctuation marks. One of the great uses of Gill Sans is that it has a distinct character of its own. It is said that the Gill Sans family works will together.

Gill Sans achieved national prominence almost immediately. It became used on many things like the Railway signs it was also used on the Penguin books. Others were to follow because Gill Sans was the best selling typeface of the twentieth century, and it still thrives to this day.

The 3upper case of Gill Sans was taken from Roman capitals like those found on the column of Trajan. But if it wasn't for Stanley Morison Gill Sans wouldn't have seen printing ink. The originally Gill Sans typeface was released in metal type. Type foundries have cast fonts in lead alloys from 1950s to the present day. Digital typefaces are also different because they store each character as a bitmap.Typographers have developed a comprehensive vocabulary for describing the many aspects of typefaces and typography. Typefaces emerged when foundries began to include typefaces that included significant structural differences.

Most Type scrips share a baseline, a line that isn't really there which allows the Type to rest on. The line is called a desender, It spans the distance between the baseline and the top of the glyph. Typeface can be split into to categories serifs and sans and great varity exists among both serif and sans TypeFaces with serif are easier to read. This probley makes it easier to read on web pags aswell.


1 Gill Sans
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2 Hidden Gem
http://www.monotypefonts.com/
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3 Typeface
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface
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