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Monday 13 December 2010

"show schedule"

Schedule is right up to the last day of the show but contain mainly the design schedule, fundraisers and all the others will/might be added later. Here is the Schedule, to download the pdf click on File top-left of the page and select Download Original.

Monday 6 December 2010

"about me"

For the About Me section in the book, everyone need to do one for themselves outlining their interests, who you inspired by and any other stuff that would sell you as a designer. All had to fit in 100 - 130 words and all had to be completed and sent to treatyourself10@gmail.com for proof read before we are back to Uni in January. Make sure you all meet the deadline, it shouldn't take long. This applies to Graphic Media group as well.

A new selection of sweets will be on here shortly to replace the black & white, brown, the boring ones and the ones that are too big for the section.

Tuesday 9 November 2010

"week 4"

Deadline for show funding, first instalment of £25 is to be in on Monday 15th November (this is non refundable deposit), second instalment is in January.

Monday Meeting A month has gone and not much been done so Josh and Sean took the liberty and drafted a list of groups to speed things up.

Ideas Team Sean, Josh, Thanh, Sam, Ed, Helena
  • Breaking pages
  • Contents pages
  • Sections?
  • Group photos
  • Maybe business card in book?
  • Flyers, different mediums
  • Bags?
  • Packages to companies?
  • T-shirts?
  • Remove black and white sweets?
Design Team Sean, Josh, Alison, Helena
  • Document set up
  • Pages?
  • Size - A4
  • Flyers, map direction ect
  • Body text? Gill Sans/ Helvetica?
  • Logo Art working
  • Layouts
  • Pictures per page?
  • Impositioning?
Photography James, Helena, Kai, Mariya
  • Take pictures of sweets as a group
  • Sweets on their own
  • Lighting
  • Organise photo shoot
  • Images editing i.e sizing, colour adjustments, CMYK
Web Design Sean, Josh, Luciano, James, Thanh
  • Wire frames
  • Design...
  • Pages
  • Navigation
  • User experience (UX)
  • Flash/HTML?
  • Content
  • UCA attachment/ Link or stand alone site?
Screen Printing Sam, Ed, Stacey, Alice, Tom Stanley
  • Bags
  • T-shirts?
  • Packages
Art Work James, Gemma, Helena
  • Alignment
  • Widow words
  • Soft returns
  • Font
  • Font size
  • 300 dpi
  • CMYK
  • Image Sizing
Proof reading Ed, Higgy, James
  • Everyone's "About Me"
  • Flyers
  • Booklet
  • Web
Organisers Thanh, Helena
  • Make timetables so people ca hit their targets
  • Stay on top of people to make sure they are getting the jobs done
  • Group pictures
  • Getting all contexts to designers
  • Communion through Blog, Janice ect
Finance Luciano, Ed, Nicky
  • Budget
  • Books come first. See what's left over
  • How many bags/ booklets/ flyers ect can we have?
  • T-shirts/ Bags?
  • Package to companies
- 10 ideas per person (30 people)
- Plus 30 from group = 330
- Post and packaging = roughly £2 each
- £2 x 330 = £660
- Worth it...No
- Alternative, just an invite.

Fundraising Open for volunteers
Creating bags of sweets/ Putting them together/ Every bag has a tag Everyone
Fundraising Ideas On going...
Any complaints send to Organisers (Thanh and Helena) through facebook, text etc.
Thanks Frankie Biggs (Graphic Media) for attending the meeting.

Thursday 4 November 2010

"space viewing and hightlights of monday's meeting"

Space viewing and the meeting with the organizer of Free Range on the 27th October went well and we've all agreed to go for the middle space T5, Hugh has gone ahead and booked it for us. Click here for photos, below is the layout.
Important The definite dates for the exhibition are the 8th to 15th of June, so book off work and devote all your time on these few days.
Exhibition Schedule
Wednesday 8th Setting up the exhibition 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9th Setting up the exhibition 9am - 6pm, Private view 6pm - 10pm
Friday 10th Public view 10am - 7pm
Saturday 11th Public view 10am - 7pm
Sunday 12th Public view 10am - 7pm
Monday 13th Public view 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 14th Packing up 9am - 7pm (needs to be clarify)
Monday's meeting We have talked about and agreed to have everyone paying £50 towards the show because it will ensure that we have the sufficient fund but also we'll do some fund raising for awareness of our exhibition. The £50 is divided into two installments of £25 (15th November and January)
For the show we need to invite 25 industry representatives (i.e magazine/graphic design companies) as a group and also individually invite 10+ representatives you'd want to work for using our pdf guide (coming soon).
We have also divided different tasks for the year show and would like everyone to be involved. Below is the list, by all mean join in the ones you like best but also try to spread yourselves out evenly so all the tasks get done.
Finance Kai, Luciano
Web Josh, Sean
Brochure Josh, Sean, Sam
Magazine Nick, Homaira?
Flyers Josh, Sean, Thanh
Posters Josh, Sean
T-Shirts Sam, Ed, Stacey
Proofing Ed, James

We will be talking to Mike Gibson? who has done exhibition design before so it would be good to get a professional opinion, and if anyone find a good exhibition don't hesitate to post it on here for everyone else.

Exhibition dates available at Free Range

Monday 25 October 2010

"we have a name"

We all have decided that "treat yourself" is our name for end of year degree show, have a go at designing a logo for it. Below are topics of what we've spoken about at today's meeting.
Budget Hugh has told us today that the budget from Uni for our exhibition space at Free Range has gone up from £3000 to roughly £4000. He has also said that we should spend about £1000 on our Brochure and £500 on stuff for the actual event i.e food, drink for guests and other expenses which will need to be addressed nearer the time.
We also have 5 volunteers who would go to the Free Range space at Brick Lane to check out the space for us and their travel expenses will be reimburse from the Uni, anyone else who wants to go will have to pay from their own pocket.
List of Volunteers
Oda Regine
Thanh Nguyen
Sam Whetton
Kai Bohannon
Oli Osbourne
Pictures will be taken of the space and uploaded on here.
Important Exhibition date is the 8th June.
Fund Raising Ideas Think of more ideas for fund raising and post it on here.
SangriĆ” Party at SU bar - Bar owner agreed to let us rent out her bar for fund raising.
Slave Auction - Third year being hired as personal helper for first and second year for few hours or a day.
Bake Sell - Ed and Helena have volunteered for this roll.
Screen Print on canvas bags - Sell at Uni shop or other shops in town.
Adsense - Get paid from Google for traffic and advertisement through our website/blog ect.
Advertising - Rent out spaces on our brochure/website to companies.
Because of the name "treat yourself" we have relate ourselves to sweet. Over 30 names of sweets has been selected and picked out of a hat, each of the sweet will represent one of us and has been chosen at random, unless you can think of a sweet that you like better - it has to be unbranded and doesn't match any of the sweet chosen by other members of the group.
Names & Sweets
James MacIntyre - Egg
Stacey Rivers - Cherry
Sam Whetton - Flying Saucer
Cesare Serventi - Pink and Blue Bottle
Kai Bohannon - Banana
Alice Mutua - Ring
Nikki Harvey - Rhubarb and Custard
Nick Hostler - Crocodile
Gemma Hoskins - Heart
Helena Castle - Candy Floss
Sean McCarthy - Gummy Bear
Josh Gay - Jelly Tots
Oli Osbourne - Coke Bottle
Ed Stone - Jelly Bean
Thanh Nguyen - Candy Cane
Alison Gardiner - White Chocolate Mouse
Erica Newman - Liquerice Wheel
Oda Regine - Cola Cube
Michael Vince - Lollipop
Heens Chen - Prawn
Georgia Hendry - Humbug
Priya Sankhalpara - West Indian Lime
Laura Kirk - White Chocolate Fish
Mariya Petkova - Stick Rock
Lisa Bedelle - Babies Dummy
Daisy Redfern - Chocolate Lime
Jamie Farnish - Strawberry Laces
Homaira Kavde - Teeth
Higgy Gauden - Lips
Zhoufang - strawberry milkshake
Cecilie Amundsen - Ice Cream Cone
Glen Down - Dinosaur
Luciano Frige - Aniseed Twist
Tom Kucharski – Dolly Mix
Anna Nedelcheva - Gummi Butterfly
The next meeting will again be on Monday 1st October. Please attend.

Wednesday 20 October 2010

"treat yourself"

"Treat Yourself" is another group name that Josh and Sean came up with recently. Have a go at analysing this name as well as the other names from the meeting on Monday. Josh has also thought that it would be good to see visuals mock ups for the names you have chosen and the reason why you choose it. What we could do is to put people who has chosen the same names into groups, for example, say there was top 4 names so there would be 4 groups pitching a name and concept each, hopefully by the end of the meeting we will get some results.

Anyone who would like to post ideas/concepts on to the blog need a google account. Here's how, go to blogger.com - click create new blog - sign up using your existing email (i.e yourname@hotmail.com), this will be registered as a google account. Send the email to Thanh or post it on here and I will add you to the admin list.

Group Meeting on 25th October at 5pm, please attend.

Monday 18 October 2010

1st group meeting

Below are the names 16 of us have come up with today, three has the most votes are The Cook Book, Pixel/Pick Us All and Now for Something Completely Different. The other half of the class who couldn't/didn't turn up please have a look and have your inputs (comment below)

My Eye View
What Next?
On
10,000
Trix
New Angle
Umbrella
Elephant in the Room
P45
Forward Stroke/
Owl
Pick & Mix
Spectrum
Spark
Hatch
Delivery
The Interns
Spoilt for Choice
Soul Creation
Generation Now
Fresh Meat
The Cook Book
Enjoy
Beginning to Beginning
Pick Me
What Do You Think?
Now for Something Completely Different
Inspired
Reflect
Enigma
Euphoria
New Corners
D - Team
Ready & Waiting
Hungry
Imagine This
Just Imagine
New Perspective
Unlock
Uncover
Locked Out
Out The Bag
First Contact
Free Me
Shiny New
New Tricks
The Breakout
Fresh Creations
Jumpstart Visuals
The Mo Sho' Fo' Sho'
Light Bulb Transitions
Pixel/Pick Us All
UCmyAok (correct me if im wrong)

P.S just to remind you all that next Monday we are having another meeting with Hugh, similar time in the Graphics base room. please attend.

Monday 11 October 2010

3rd year blog

First of all, we need a list of people who are interested in having the end of year show, comment on here and join the facebook page so we know. If there are over 50% of us then we should have it for the job opportunities as well as learning to presenting work in a public space.

Space will be rented from Free Range (check them out), uni will cover most of the renting expense but there are other expenses we need to cover for example, money to print out brochures, food and drinks for guests, travel and so if this year show happens we will need to contribute money towards it, some suggests giving in a pound each week, raise money by having events at the SU bar, sell of art work..ect. So if you have any good ideas please post it on here.

free range space in brick lane






pictures of other shows hosted by free range