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’

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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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.

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.

So Rave on Air 2008 is over. On the one hand I’m pleased; this project has been pretty tough and there’s been a lot of ups and downs. But then I guess that’s to be expected of any project, especially something that you’ve never done before. On the other hand it was great fun and a brilliant learning experience. It was something we’ve never done before, and it presented a great challenge. It’s opened my eyes to a lot of future possibilities and careers; it never hurts to branch out a little.

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