Cometh the hour, cometh the Photoshop

2 Assignments in 1 week!?! Oh well it was bound to happen at some point and the work was going to start racking up. The comforting thing about it is that having done a very similar assignment last half semester I feel comfortable that I will be able to get this done within the time and hopefully with very few problems.

The second assignment is something that I believe many have been looking forward to and when Steve even said that it was "a lot nicer" than the other that also perked people up, finally getting the chance to have a go on Photoshop is something that quite a few people including myself have been looking forward to.

Something that has got to start to be done is more work going into my sketchbook in terms of adverts and websites that I find good or bad or that just happen to catch my eye for some reason. I’m quite disappointed that I haven’t got around to doing this before as I already have three or four adverts that I could stick in and annotate.

Something that certainly perked up Thursday afternoon was when Julian received a comment on his blog from the creator of a website that he strongly criticised, this shocked us all in the tutorial group and showed how good blogger is and how powerful a tool it can be to highlight how you feel about other designers work.

I was disappointed that I didn't pass the first two units in the first assignment, I passed the first but fell short on the second and this really was because of small errors that could possibly have been avoided though in future I will certainly be going over things more than the three times I did.

Discussions on Thursday were nearly all about the Designers Republic and how good/ peculiar that some of there work is, I can really see how they are world renowned for the work, Julian even wanted to attempt his own "Designers Republic" style after looking at many pieces of there work on the wall and there website. I hope that this would be something that I could aspire to but unfortunately I don’t feel that this would be possible, I’m certainly a long way off that standard!