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.
I just found this novel little programme on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that let’s you convert your digital photos into Polaroid shots. Poladroid is only in it’s beta phase, but it works really well and the results are pretty amusing. You just drag your photo onto the camera on your screen, and then wait for it to develop. Or if you want to speed things up then - like the real thing - you can shake the photo!
It’s pretty simple, and is more of a novelty thing. But I think there could be some interesting uses for it.
As I said earlier, I’ve been working on some new designs for the RSA project we’re working on. The previous designs were rather rushed and looked clunky. Here are the beginnings of the new designs. They still need some work, but I think (and hopefully others will agree) they’re a major improvement over the previous ones.
Today I’ve spent a lot of time playing in Illustrator; mainly so I’m able to improve the stamps I’m making for our most recent project. This morning I was working on creating vectors for the stamps. It’s fiddly, but I’m getting there. I’ve learnt a few new things along the way that will certainly make life easier, and will also involve going back and making some adjustments to the ones I have already made.
However after a couple of hours of doing this, I decided to explore a bit more into the programme. I realised I’ve never played too much with type, and making graphics out of type. So I figured I’d have a quick go at it. Here’s the final result.
And I just had to fit the Conglomerfont in there somehow 
The first project of the new (academic) year: Postage Stamps.
The project itself is actually a negotiated brief, where we can choose from several different briefs provided by the RSA, and so I chose ‘Postage Stamps’. The idea of the brief is to create six new stamps that create awareness about the environment, and things that are and/or can be done to help the planet and conserve our energy resources. The initial presentation for it was yesterday, and so I’d say we’re a little under half way to the finishing point.
I like the idea I’m going with, but I’m not happy with the stamps design. I think I rushed them. But since the presentation I’ve come up with a new concept to work with, and I’m now currently working on these new designs. I’ve spent the majority of today playing in illustrator working on creating my own vectors for the designs. I’m getting there, but as always, it’s never as easy as it looks.
