Month: November 2011

The wonders of moving into a new (but old) house! Boxes and more boxes…

Evaluating ‘Introduction To Visual Communication’

Our first unit flew by; I enjoyed the combination of small projects all based around completely different subject matters. I’ve learnt a lot in the sense of software through the tutorials, created some letterpress, learnt how to make various types of books, created a heat map and finally created my own book. Although I completed everything […]

Illustrator Tutorial

I enjoy using Illustrator working with text and shapes, I find it easy to navigate around and know most the tools it offers, however i’m still learning more everyday. In our Illustrator tutorial we experimented with some shapes using the pathfinder. We selected two shapes and then blended them together to produce an interesting effect. […]

My Concertina final book. After all the rush, I’m happy with the end result of my book. It’s turned out to look effective and I’m happy with my choice of front cover and back cover, they decorate the book well. The only thing that went wrong was a slight movement in alignment otherwise is folds […]

Photoshop Tutorial Experimenting with the selection tool. We were given a photograph of a man holding a car and were told to select just the colour of the guitar. I learnt how to use the tolerance to help select exactly what you want as it will only select as much as your tolerance is set […]