Katie Dadd Advertising and Design

In a previous post I uploaded a poster which I created for a local panto. Recently a local news station covered this panto which has sold out. Here is the article!

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/story/2013-01-04/royal-marines-in-pantomime/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251067/Underground-art-scene-Posters-decade-showcased-celebration-150-years-Tube.html

I found this article that talks about an exhibition to celebrate 150 years of the tube that is displaying posters that were displayed throughout their history is worth a checkout :)

I created two illustrations to narrate two quotes from a midsummers night dream in the style of Quentin Blake. I created these illustrations using nibs and black indian ink.

 This is my first drawing of a sugar skull for a poster to promote day of the dead. I drew this using a fine liner. Below is a coloured up version of my poster that i coloured in using the live paint tool in illustrator.

I created this alphabet using bleach on black ink what i think gave a good look. I also splattered bleach onto the page.

Today i sent off my university applications via UCAS and payed for it. I have applied for Southampton Solent advertising and graphic design, Swansea metropolitan advertising, London College of Communication advertising and the HND Graphic design course at college.

I experimented with my website layout using the grid in photoshop. To create my grid i used the rulers to measure out each column what i found rather simple. Here are a couple of examples of what i have done.

Paul Crawley from HND at Canterbury College came and spoke to us about potentially coming onto their course. The courses that they offer at Canterbury College are Graphic Design, Photography and Illustration. You can do a one year course after the 2 years to make into a full BA Hons degree. The course is £6000 a year what is cheaper than most other places and you can apply to it via ucas. I like the work that is produced and it would be a good backup option if the university plan does not work out as i would rather move away than spend 2-3 more years at the college.

I created this by drizzling melted chocolate onto some paper then photographing it. I edited the type in photoshop and then made the letters into a sentance.

I went to visit Bucks New university in Buckinghamshire to look at their advertising course what i thought was really good but i felt that it was more suited to the digital side of advertising what did not really appeal to me. To get into this course you need 200 ucas points what i think is very achievable. I also was not to into on town as i found it very small with not much to do. I think it would be beneficial to get internships as it is only half an hour away on the train to London.

HTML - hypertext markup language - to change font, colour, hyperlink effects etc.
CSS - Cascading style sheets - The format of the website.
FLA - Adobe flash - like psd it keeps all they layers so that you can go back into it and change it.
SWF - Small web format - for flash
PHP - Hypertext pre-processor - an open source to do scripting
MYSQL DATABASE - Is an open source
FTP - File transfer protocol - to transfer data between one system to another
HTTP - Hypertext transfer protocol

- The http is displayed before the website in the web bar.




- The html enables you to change the design of your website using code to change things such as the font and the colour of your font.










- The software used to create website easily.

PSD - Photoshop document
JPEG - A format for compressing images - Raw
TIFF - Tagged image file format uses bitmap
PNG - Portable networks graphic
GIF - Graphic interchange format
Ai - Adobe illustrator vector based
IND - Indesign to print export to PDF - Portable document format

- This is an example of a low quality JPEG (left) and a high quality JPEG (right). The low quality JPEG is pixalated while the high quality JPEG is sharp and clear.









- When you save a PSD it keeps the layers so that you can go back and work on your design in photoshop.