I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.
I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I shall have to go find myself a chair and I’ll also have to see if I can squeeze some kind of half nice material out of Spotlight (craft-store) – the last time I looked, all they had was boring as cack.
Today I bought myself a sleeve for my macbook, this is so I don’t have to buy an extra bag, my current laptop bag is broken and huge. I’d seen these ones in a Bookstore in Glenferrie a while back. Yes, it was a little expensive… I like it a lot.
It’s made by Mozi, who also make very nice wrapping paper. I can’t vouch for the other things they make as I haven’t really bought them before, but hey it all looks rather lovely.
(For some reason I cannot upload images into my blog at the moment, this is driving me slightly insane, I hate link stealing but this post really wouldn’t work without it)
This is lovely blog design:
Any others to share?
…hope this WordPress Update fixes image uploading – I’ve had terrible trouble.
From a bleary-eyed perspective, does someone want to tell me how to get motivated for a uni subject I really don’t like, because no one likes it and there isn’t really any of that class-mate bolster you up business happening? We’re simply groaning from week to week and feeling elated that our tutor is off to a Design Conference (Which they tell us to go to – but most of us can’t afford) next week and we don’t have to show.
I will go to AGIdeas next year. They plug it so much, it’s like the Prahran campus comes to this grinding halt. Tutors waste portions of class plugging the thing and they extend the early-bird price way out to get as many along as possible. Third year and possibly my final year probably deserves it.
I have this brilliant tutor who yesterday took it into her head to set a timed task for us. It was a fantastic way to use class time and get the little bludgy students working, also clever in a simulating a deadline, she makes me feel as if I’m earning my degree. We had an hour and fifteen minutes to set up this 20 page document (You didn’t have to fill all the pages) with this set text. So, establish your grids, create your stylesheets, proof read and what not. It was oddly exhilarating, except that I concentrated too hard on the computer screen and so got sore eyes (Does that sound pathetic?). Attack of the INTJ. Focus, focus. Forget reality, right now it’s the task and the rest fades into oblivion.
Why doesn’t that translate into this other class… I’d then be this gungho homework machine and have it completed!
…I finished with 10 mins to spare and was happy.
I have been feeling increasingly flat about this whole ‘study to be a designer’ thing today. I have a small inkling that it’s simply the homework blues but the homework blues can seep ever so slightly into, the crap-what-have-I-gotten-myself-into despair.
The other part of this inkling is that at the moment my idea of graphic design is too tightly tied with the fact that I can’t draw very well and it’s hard to find examples of designers that are the same and have this weird affinity with writing instead.
If you could find me an avenue where design and writing were intrinsictly linked, I would be a happy happy girl. Gosh I’m becoming reliant.
To brighten the room, let me share the web-based folio I made for my interactive web class. Although I ran out of time and never managed to work out how to get my fixed positioned site to sit centrally via CSS (How do you do that btw?), I’m relatively happy with it (except the slight off positioning of one of my links – damn, the things you realise later!). Curiously the site looks a billion times better on my lovely shiny new mac than it does on the PC I built it on – ahh screens.
I’ve been really impressed with the web tutors at Swinburne, although I’m mystified why they bothered teaching table based layout before they launched into CSS. The assignment could be created in either form. Why?!
My next self initiated task is to turn the static thing into a blog template to give myself the experience in creating templates from scratch.
This is the stuff I enjoy.
My question is, can I possibly get myself a job in the web-design/print-design/writing field with what I’m studying?
Yes you silly girl, you can, you just need to get over your loathing of package design and your mistrust of anal retentive development methods.