Interesting Design

FRIDAY 3RD OCTOBER 2008 - I came across this website/blog today www.whitleymusic.com. I really like the design of the sidebars and header bar - it's interesting and has a lot of depth to it!

PAL Leader

THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2008 (PM) - I forgot to mention earlier, just before the discussion I found out that I was one of the people chosen to be a PAL leader! This is going to be a great learning experience for me. The training to be a PAL leader is Monday all day and Tuesday in the morning. We will be taught everything we need to know to be a PAL leader and trained on how to plan for the sessions.

My ideas so far...

THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2008 (PM) - We had a group discussion this afternoon allowing us to crit our initial ideas. I think I have settled on the idea of My Memory Box. It is very important to me and that, along with my photographs, would be what I would take with me if I was allowed to take only one object from my house. I am going to do some more brainstorming - try to broaden my idea to perhaps be a campaign along the lines of 'what’s is the one thing you would take from your house'. Another idea I am leaning towards is being quite scientific about it - and breaking my memory box down into categories - bag things up into meaningful events in my life ... the first time I fell in love, the first time I experienced the death of a loved one, the first time I had my heart broken etc. All these events are extremely important and shape a person, and have made me who I am today. My campaign could be along the lines of making people aware that all things that happen, good or bad, make you the person you are today, learn from them and grow from them. Tomorrow I am going to focus on these ideas. I think I will use photography and scanning to form the components of my poster.

The Brief

THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2008

We got our first brief this morning. We are going to be doing some short briefs. The first one: LOOK AGAIN / THINK AGAIN. We are spending this morning thinking of ideas. We have to create an A3 poster - either that addresses a social issue that we think has been overlooked, or that has something to do with an object that evokes certain memories, or has sentimental value to us. For example, a key to most people looks like a key, but to someone it might mean a lot more, i.e. a key to someone specials house. I am leaning towards the 'object'. I will write again later with how the ideas generation has gone!