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As the title would suggest we didn’t go fishing, or if we did it was fishing for knowledge about a crucial part of design. Yes this does sound really “smarmy” but having got my design for the business card to stay up on the wall until almost the end I was quite pleased with my first attempt although some way off professional standard a “not too bad” from Steve was to say the least pleasing.

C.A.R.P Standing for contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity, these are going to have to be the baseline for print and web design that we are going to do. Something that is pleasing is that so far I have managed to remember them; the test will be when it comes to designing will I be able to and after that be able to use them at a good standard.

The afternoon was a chance to carry on with vital work on getting goals, target audience research and work done, Having tried to write one of my parts of the target audience for the computer savvy user I got some good feedback from John. He suggested that I use more “key” words instead of the fluffy words such as “good” and “wide”. I’m defiantly going to remember this in future and even use a thesaurus for extra help.

John also suggested trying to come up with a list of questions that I could try and answer whilst writing for a target audience this should help with coming up with problems that need to be sorted for them.

Thursday morning started with a quick quiz on the past weeks lecture about bitmaps and vectors, I was felt quite relieved as I had managed to read up on the notes of this lecture the night before, something that I admit I haven’t done very often and something that in future I’m going to address. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in this and I wonder how many others agree that reading up and making it stick is something that needs some serious looking at.

We then had a lecture on colour, which filled up some of the afternoon after our tutorial as it gave me a chance to find a colour gamut which I hope will help in the future. I also had a look for other bitmap images from the Designers Republic that didn’t appear on there website and having looked through all 17 pages of images on Google. This was a real frustration and it was still a challenge to find them, one of my items over the weekend is to try and find more. If anyone has any ideas where to find them it would be much appreciated.

Thursday morning was also a time when a lot of people got into the discussion about art and design and what the difference if any there is. Most of us agree and especially after reading Scotts blog entry that there is a definite difference and this is something which I hope will be a basis for the essay for the first part of the A4 assignment, I just hope I’ve covered it well and got some good points across.