October 2011
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Oct 27th
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Illustrator Tutorial: Letterform
The Blend Tool, Type Tool and the Scissors. The session started off with a brief recap on the Pen tool, followed by an introduction into the Blend Tool and the settings within; we were asked to blend two shapes, play around with the different blending options, and alter the paths that connected the two shapes. Above, is my final outcome of blending a hexagon with a rectangle - creating this...
Oct 26th
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Illustrator Tutorial: Colour Wheel
The Pen Tool, the Colour Mixer and the Pathfinder. After the hour or so that we spent getting to grips with Adobe Illustrator (i.e. playing around with the concepts of drawing shapes, combining shapes, altering colours and altering paths), we were given an exercise in which we were asked to produce a colour wheel using the ready-made Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple. This...
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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Photoshop Tutorial: Reviving an Image
Healing Brush, Clone Stamp and Refined Edges This tutorial was started off with a photo of a desert scene, ruined by a Jeep parked right in the centre. Much like the practise documents that we had played about on (e.g. Healing Brush on the Rhino skin, Scratch Removal etc.) this image needed some serious attention on Photoshop if it was ever going to be saved. First of all, instead of Clone...
Oct 21st
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“The nicest thing that anyone has said about my work, is that it is always so...”
– John Kristensen of the letterpress studio ‘Firefly Press’, Summerville, South Carolina
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 19th
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Type and Tape: Our Little Secret
Oct 19th
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Oct 17th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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“No one likes a Square - that’s why I’m a Pentagon.”
– Myself
Oct 15th
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Sarah King →
What can I say, Sarah King has inspired me for years now. Her work is simply magnificent - please check out her work - I’m sure you’ll agree.
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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The Start of Something Brilliant
Could this be the start of something brilliant? Will Arsenal ever win another trophy? Will my bread go mouldy before I get time to toast it? Well, these are all questions that I have thought about carefully and tried my best to answer; but the simple answer seems to be - only time will tell. Becoming a designer was always an aspiration for me, but taking Art at A Level never really gave me the...
Oct 11th
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