New Job!

Well I have finished my first week of full time work. Quite enjoyable, the people there are very welcoming and easy to talk to. The business is called All Australian Greetings, a greeting card place. There are two designers including me.
The cards are different to designing a brochure, they use foil on all there cards, so I'm working with different layers, different programs aka CS, not CS4. I use a wacom tablet.
It's weird leaving the building with nothing in my hands, not laptop, no folio and no signing out but the difference is good. It's takes me an hour to get there in the morning but it's worth it.
Shannon, signing out.

Ceramic Exhibition

The ceramic sculptures were quite skillful. There were a couple that really liked such as the candle holders, but there was only one that I had really liked of the paintings. That was the self-portrait the guy with the spaces in his ears. Otherwise, the embosed face with the projecter was very creative.

Ethics

Ethics is a system of moral principles that influence personal and corporate procedure.
(looked at the code of ethics)
Tibor Kalman is a graphic designer that believes have can change people's opinions with his art work, He is quite suggestive and controversial.
COLORS is a quarter year magazine read throughout the world by young adults.
It is published in four languages, and sold in over 40 countries, worldwide.
Some ethically sound corporations are Shoalhaven Paper Mill, they are environmentally friendly. They use pine plantations to make the paper and recycle paper.
Unthical businesses are Syntel, American Mega Trend Inc. Shell servo, destroying lives overseas.

Melbourne Museum of Printing

On the 14th October, 2010, me and 6 other students went on a road trip to Footscray to participate in a museum tour that David Trout organised.
When we first arrived, when they first opened the roller door it was quite obvious that some people were disappointed, it was as if we had driven half an hour to, what some described as a "garage sale". It was quite amusing to everyone, especially when Laury initially spoke. Didn't seem like he had much planned. Luckily, he wasn't the tour guide, Micheal, tour guide, had thorough knowledge about each item. He introduced himself as a Type Enthusiast, so had never worked with type himself unlike Laury. I thought it was good being able to look around at the stuff for 15 mins before the tour started. It allowed me to make my own conclutions of what each item did before I was told the proper meaning, it helped me remember what each thing was, maybe because I was able to relate more.

Shaun Tan

I didn't like the book expedition much, I thought it was pretty basic and amateur. Not to say there wasn't some good artwork there, just stuff that I found hard to appreciate. There were some things that David mentioned that were well worth noting but I noticed that even he found it hard to talk about the art pieces. I was annoyed about that, I was expecting him to fill me in on the parts of the art that I failed to see. Whether he didn't know much about them or there wasn't much to say about them, I was on the same page.

On a lighter note, I went to the Shaun Tan expedition on the 10th of Oct down at South Melbourne. He's a fantastic artist, unfortunately I couldn't go last week when he was personally at the expo signing and selling books.
Shaun Tan wrote and illustrated beautiful books such as 'The Rabbits', 'The Arrival' and 'The Lost Thing' which was also a film and the exhibition title. He illustrates by using real textures in his works, e.g. thickened paint and cracking paint, his imagination is astounding. My favorite book it 'The Rabbits', if you haven't read it, visit the library. It's a story about the invasion of the Europeans onto the Aboriginals using rabbits and banquettes, told in a way that children could understand it. The book 'The Arrival' is also fascinating, I find that he forces you understand how the character is feeling and witness things from his point of view. It was interesting the amount of hard work, the amount of drawings put in to produce a short, animated film. All the different media used to show different thing; as in soft pastels to show the animators how he wanted the light to look and gray led pencil to depict the characters, they had such personality. Defiantly worth going.

Photography Quiz

 Wow this was very interesting. I now know the mysterious origin of the philosophy of people seeing the world upside down, before our eyes correct this.

1. Sir John Hershel first used the term photography in 1839

2. The term ‘camera obscura’ means: dark room

3. The earliest writings about the camera obscura were

       written by Leonardo da Vinci.

4. Who produced the first photograph in 1827? Nicephore Niepce

5. Daguerre’s invention in 1937 was called the Daguerreotype

6. In 1884 George Eastman introduced flexible film

7. Eadweard Maybridge is famous for recording what?    Motion photography

8. What did Thomas Eakins invent? A camera that could record several sequential exposures in a single photograph.

9. ‘Migrant Mother’ is the title of a famous photograph by Dorothea Lange

10.  What was the first major world disaster to be recorded

       on a photograph? The Hindenburg disaster

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