Friday, 8 October 2010

higher education

As i have to start looking towards the future i am starting to look at higher education. i Have been looking into university courses that i feel i would be interested in. i am hoping to either go to university to look at advertising and branding or maybe doing an apprenticeship.

i have been using the ucas website to help me look at university courses that are available to me around the country (www.ucas.co.uk).

Friday, 1 October 2010

Magazine Project

another one of the projects we had to do in the first year was a Magazine project. we had to create a cover and double page spread for are own magazine that we was to create. We had to take all the images are selves and design it from scratch. one of the task we was asked to do was to create a replica of an existing Magazine cover, but changing the cover.

Here is the final outcome:

Retro Poster Project

Last year for are final project we was given a Retro design project. We had to design a poster for an existing company brand. I created a Retro poster for Heinz bake beans. I tryed out different ideas and colour ideas. Here is one of the final designs i came up with.


Aday at the beach

I went to the beach for the day with my family. I found this a perfect opportunity to pick my camera up and have a fun time taking pictures of different things at the beach. Here's what i took. Enjoy!









Hex colour code


Today we have been asked to look at hex colours. A hex number or decimal are a base of 16 numbering system used to define colours on web pages. a hex number is written from 0-9 and then A-F. Web colours are writtenas a three sets of hex pairs. the first set represents the red hue, the second the green hue, and the third blue hue. White is written as ff ff ff or #ffffff while black is 00 00 00 or #000000.


Here is an example of a Hex table: