Hand-In of VCIC2

I handed in my work today. I had an extention due to illness. I am glad I have handed it in and its over with as I could not really get into this project due to the short time to it in.

New from Old

The brand that I decided to makeover is Fray Bentos tinned pies. I was unsure of which between Spam and Fray Bentos, but decided to choose pies was because after doing research into both products I found that Spam had done a lot of limited edition and different flavored products, so I thought I would have more to play with with the pies.
After more research I came up with the idea of having organic children's tinned pies as the main topic with food at the moment is eating more healthy and why children are becoming obese.
Here are some Ideas I have been working on already.

Start of Screen Based Communication 2

We have been given our new brief of creating our portfolio website to promote ourselves as designers. I am really excited about this brief as this is the area I am interested in. I have been researching exsiting websites and other designers websites. I am also researching html coding so I can make sure I will create the best website I can.

VCIC2 - Thank You tutorial

Today we had tutorials on our project Thank You. I showed my ideas and basic layout for my idea of saying thank you to CLIC. I am going to make a flash animation with our story and why I am so thankful to them. I have been creating a hand-drawn/ child like style to the animation as the charity is a childrens charity. I feel that the animation could also be used as screen savers to promote the charity, it would also be easy and cheaper to send the animation as emails rather than printing adverts.

Start of Visual Communication in Context 2

For this brief we have to do four seprate projects;


-Thank You

-Business Identity

-New From Old

-Communicating Ideas


Today I started with coming up with ideas for Thank You. I have come with a few ideas but decided I am going to say thank you to CLIC haven, a charity that helps children with luekiema and cancer. I am going to say thank you for all the help and support that we have recieved from them over the past few months. I feel I am stronger at screen based design so I need to some up with some ideas that I can do on the computer.

Start of the 2nd Year

Back to uni, start of the second year. I have done a few pieces of design work over the summer. Its been a long time since I have had to focus on doing just work and feel it will be had to get into the swing of it.
I feel with all thats going on outside of Uni, I think its going to be a hard year to focus on doing work and keep up to date with everything - but I will try my hardest.