Evaluation

Blogs are a good way of uploading your work onto the Internet for people to view. The main reason i created this blog was to upload my work onto the Internet and also to review other peoples work. I have made posts on exhibitions we have been to and about other trips. I have reviewed other blogs and some work in magazines.

There are many advantages and  disadvantages about blogs, some of them are that it is good for getting your work out for company's and professionals to see. A bad point is that anyone can upload there work even if it is not very good, so this means its hard for people to find good work because of all the rubbish.

I have found this on a recent post on the modern toss blog. I like this because it is humorous and to the point. This is a news print and is available for purchase from The Outsiders. These prints cost £45 each and the dimesnsions are 39.5 cm x 29.6 cm.

www.nyclondon.com/blog

This is a blog that i have been looking at for a few weeks. I like the work on this blog because the creator Rob Gardiner trys to capture images from places where people don't usually see or cant easily get to. his images are all in black and white. He uses old cameras to get the types of images he has. Gardiner also has used a pinhole camera as shown below.
  

"These photos were taken this afternoon with a pinhole camera. A box
with a tiny pinprick-sized hole and a piece of film, it has no lens, no
shutter, no cable release, no meter, and no viewfinder."

Here are some of the images taken with this style of camera:

 http://www.nyclondon.com/blog/

Nottingham Trent University

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

This is another university which is quite close to where i live. It is a 3 year course. 

For entry i will need a minimum of 280 UCAS tariff points. in October 2010 the course fees will be £3,290 per year.

"All three years feature two core modules covering practical and theoretical work. We encourage you to develop your own interests and express your viewpoints, imagination and visual skills within specialist areas such as:

• print
• illustration
• advertising
• branding
• new media
• motion graphics."

Sheffield Hallam University

BA (Honours) Graphic Design

I have chosen to do a review on this university's course because it is one of the closest and easiest to get to from where i live. Which will mean i will be able to travel each day, so that i will be saving money on accommodation fees.

On the course you can chose to specialise in: Advertising, Illustration, Structural Graphics, Typography, moving imagery and also just graphic design. 

"The course emphasises the generation of new and memorable ideas, led by informed and independent design thinking. This becomes the basis of your creative process. Other study topics can include printmaking, life drawing and photography."