Spent some time this afternoon playing around in Photoshop. Rather fun.

Photo by: Swisschee Splatter Brushes by: Wickedjess

It’s been an eventful and interesting week, not entirely for the best of reasons. But work has to be done and work has been done. We’ve had the presentation to find out who’s work should be submitted for the RSA Design Directions competition. Unfortunately my work was not deemed good enough for the competition, but since I would like the opportunity to take part, I have entered myself. These are the presentation boards I had for my stamp designs during that presentation.

 

We still have a couple of more weeks to work on the boards before the work is finally submitted and there are a few changes to those boards I wish to make. However in light of feedback from friends and tutors, I’ve decided to go in a different direction entirely. So here’s an example of the new stamp designs. This one features ‘Solar Energy’

So after a rather long afternoon/ evening of working on the presentation boards for the RSA project. I took a break and decided to have some fun with Photoshop. Craig introduced me to an incredible website that goes by the name of Abduzeedo (go there, it’s amazing), so I headed there for some tutorials. In a continued attempt to improve my work with typography I came out with this:

I’m really pleased with the outcome of it. The textures came from Jocosity, Lailomeiel and Cloaks. The sexy swirly awesome vectors are from jlwDesign. So with these newfound techniques, I’ve got some great ideas for this site!

Meet Cyber Figure Alice, for all your otaku needs.

Actually I think this is a pretty impressive example of virtual interaction and augmented reality. It reminds me of a flash project that ran along the same lines I saw a third year student present for their final presentation; in which they used black and white shapes to trigger an animation on the screen. Different combinations of shapes made different animations. This seems to work on a similar idea, but it works through a webcam rather than a projector, meaning you can run the programme from your desk at home.

I realized I haven’t really spoken all that much about my dissertation, so, considering the fact that I am around the halfway point and have just handed in my formative draft of it, and then considering the evolved purpose of this blog was to, well, blog about projects and progress at university, I imagine it’s high time to do so. So, here we go.

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