"Gadget"

"A gadget is a device that has a useful specific practical purpose and function. Gadgets tend to be more unusual or cleverly designed than normal technology."

- Wikipedia. you rock.

sex toys here we come.
I found some clip art that i like, i also went out and bought the "Ready-to-use, Illustrations of Appliances and Electronics" book. its mega cool, the illustrations are amazing, they are so dated!

project two. post uno.

so i have decided to choose "gadgets" as my Contemporary clip-art topic. i started to look at playstations and gameboys and xbox's and ipods and such, but i dont think i like that idea, i have done a few sketches of things, i am kinda in the mindset that i would like to do this project by hand, i havent used the art of a pen for ages!! i am now thinking sex toys and sex gadgets, so today, with holly and jacquie as my escorts, we went into Ann Summers and i got a brochure, (which they charged me 50p for. bloody cheek.) but i like the sex toys idea, i think they will make good little icons/images.

oh....and why would anyone want a toothbrush shaped like a cock? grim.

final part 4

here are my final solutions for part 4.






I am pleased with the end product. i think that it shows the newspaper in it's most basic form, but is still recognisable as The Sun.

FUN WITH CRAYONS!!!!

Here is another idea that leads on from the children's book idea.

4th part

Here are some images of what i have done for part 4. The idea is that the newspaper is totally up for interpretation of the reader and can be changed into whatever the reader wants. I have not changed the layout, but i have gotten rid of almost all the content.


This has NO content in it and can be altered completely


I left the headline on in this version, i think it is more effective and can lead the reader to create more relevant stories. I would like to include a set of crayons with the paper, to follow on from my children's book solution. The idea being that this solution is for the slightly more grown up child and can be given to the more politically aware child "Sun" reader...

Part 3 Post crit post.

Well, my work went down well, i got positive comments from both peers and tutors. (i think) a couple of things that i want to change possibly, the barbie image, maybe have a close-up pic, also i would like to add a free gift, but we shall see what time allows me to do. for part 4 i have started with an idea of TOTALLY deconstructing the magazine and produced the image below. not sure where i can go with it, but i have a seperate idea involving crayons, which leads on from the early learning idea.

end of stage 3

havent posted for a few days, but this is a picture heavy post, showing the different stages of my work. i enjoyed doing this, although trying to keep it "childish" was harder than i anticipated. I think my final solution has come out well and the one that is shown here does not show the pop up sun which conceals the naked barbie, which i have added to the final printed version.

1st solution

I felt this was too busy and too empty at the same time if this is possible. It was too boring.

2nd solution

Colours weren't great and there is too little info on the page.

3rd solution

This is very close to the final solution, with some minor tweaks needed.

Final Solution

Reflections - Week 1&2

Well, group work is over and i think overall the two stages went well. (it didnt help that i couldnt open the CS2 files on my computer, so it was hard for me to do a lot of work on it at home, but hey!) I do think that everyone played a part in the project though, as i did the original layout for the cover, anastazia researched the original fonts, justin smacked it on all the photoshop work, (danish) james worked on the layout with the inner pages and (other) james worked on all the type. I think that even though we were working separately in some areas, our work came together and we were able to produce good final images. I am glad to finally be working on my own with my own ideas. it is a bit stressful as we havent really been excercising our creativity yet as this project so far was about creating an accurate layout, but i am excited about getting into this project properly now. Above is the gun magazine layout with The Sun's content in it. I think it has actually turned out well!

part 2 and 3

Cover

Double Page

Free Gift!!!



The cover for the new layout is going well and i have been having thoughts on the new layouts i will be doing. today, i bought "Spider-Man & Friends, (a terrible kids magazine that shamelessly besmirches Spidey's good name. tch!!!) but i liked the way it looked, PLUS it came with this cool free gift. Which gave me ideas for that too, so i have been working on that a little. The pics in this post are of the Spidey magazine...aimed at kids, but costs a whopping £1.75 may i add!!!

early stage 3 ideas

Since my group has swapped with The Sun with our Gun magazine i have to redesign the magazine with The Sun's content... I had a couple of ideas, one was to redesign it to a broadsheet format, but i think thats a bit overdone and expected. But then on Thursday's lecture with Frank, we talked about how The Sun dumbs down their articles to the most basic level and I had the idea of soing as a children's magazine. So i am off to buy a couple kids magazines tomorrow to take a look at the layout....it would be good to have a free toy with it too i was thinking.

post crit post...

so the cover didnt go down too well, but not because of the layout i dont think, but because of the bad scan resolution and the lack of fonts, but the commercial fonts are too expensive, so we have changed the fonts and layout of them a bit as well as using an image for the magazine logo, (Gun Mart) so it looks better. Also on the original copies we did previously, the colours were eyedroppered from the scan, which evidently is the wrong colour! The one above is the fixed copy that only needs the images changed and that will be done tomorrrow. Left is the copy, right is the original.

No. 5

This is the final version of the layout for the magazine cover. the one on the right is again the original and the one on the left is my version. Troubles: because the original fonts are commercial fonts, my group had to make do with others. such as the use of Impact...(blech..) instead of the correct one for the main bulk og the type. (helvetica neue was considered i think.) another trouble which i only noticed half way through is that the original scan of the magazine was done at 150dpi, which wasnt good to work with in the end. apart from that, layout has turned out quite well i think...

numero qwatrro....

i added drop shadows to make up for the lack of correct fonts...

third post! sun 01:11am

This is the most recent copy of the magazine. the one the right is the original and the one on the left is the copied version.

second post!!!

forgot to say that the reason i am doing this is in order to create a digital InDesign (tm) version of the magazine cover with which we will be doing something else after this stage...

First Project of the second year

This is my first ever blog entry! wow! um, this first thing i did with the project was the above image...it is the simplified layout for the template of a gun magazine! yay! the next thing i did was get together with my group again and pull all our resources together and right now at 00:23am on saturday the 7th of october - this is where the front cover is at... the one on the left is the working copy, the one on the right is the original...