Article

We got set a brief to mimic an article layout but to write it about a designer in our class. James was my partner and he wanted Core77 as his magazine.

I found it quite difficult to do James as BSC students haven't done as much as us and generally don't know much about  typical design topics like sustainability. However James shares a lot of interesting views within graphic design and typography. This was quite interesting and it has spurred me on to look further into graphic design and in particular illustration. I'm quite fond of the illustration within the magazine monocle as it's simplistic and elegant and i'm looking into this and maybe i'll use it as an influence for one of my projects.

A lot of my friends found this project really annoying because it's unfair as you have to design an article for another student and then they do the same for you. But the annoying thing is that if you spend a lot of time doing a really good one for that person then they get a really good CV/Article to show future clients whilst if they did half heartedly then you get a bad CV/Article. So it seems a little naive to think this would work well as there are a lot of people on my course who don't turn up often and don't really care. But i can't really see how you could improve this apart from letting people choose there own partners but it then doesn't let us experience what other people do within other courses. However maybe making the Article Brief for second years would be better as that would filter some of the people away.

I feel this project went ok i'm not happy about it as we hardly got any lessons on it and what lessons we got on it were so far in advance that i had forgotten about most of the rules. Also i'm not very happy with how this section of the course is running it seems very unorganised. 

James Nightingale Core 77

Lem Bar General Arrangement

I finally finished my General Arrangement for the Lapalma Lem Bar Stool it's pretty accurate but i did have to guess some of the other measurements.