UCAS - Offers (updated 27/3/13)

This is how my choices on my track currently look:

These are the offers I have had on my UCAS Track to date: 

I received a Conditional offer for the HND Graphic Design course at Canterbury College. The conditions are in order that I achieve a MMP profile by the end of my BTEC Extended Diploma in Graphic Design course.

I have received a Conditional offer for the BA Fashion Graphics course at Southampton Solent University. The conditions are in order that I achieve a minimum of 240 UCAS tariff points from the BTEC Extended Diploma in Graphic Design that I am currently on by the end of the course.

I was unsuccessful with my application to study BA Graphic and Media Design at UAL London College of Communication but was offered an alternative course of an Art Foundation for 1 year before being able to then progress onto the chosen Graphic and Media Design course.

I am yet to hear back from both Brighton and UAL Central St Martins with interview dates or offers/rejections. I have sent online portfolios of to the two.

UCAS - UNI Choices

I sent my UCAS application off before the deadline of January 15th with the 5 university choices:

Canterbury College - HND Graphic Design

Southampton Solent University - BA Fashion Graphics

University of Brighton - BA Graphic Design

UAL London College of Communication - BA Graphic and Media Design

UAL Central St Martins - BA Graphic Design

Using Grids in Layout

This is my gallery layout using grids.

File Formats WEB

.HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the main markup language for displaying web pages and other information that be displayed in a web browser. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags in enclosed brackets within web page content. Most tags come in pairs. A web browsers purpose is to read the HTML documents and transform them into visual web pages. The web browsers doesn't display the HTML tags but they interpret the content of the page.

.FLA

Assosiated with Flash.

.CSS

CCS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a style sheet language which is used to describe the presentation (look and formatting.) It is written up in a markup language. Its more common application is to style webpages in HTML etc.

.SWF

SWF is an abbreviation for Shockwave Flash. SWF is an Adobe Flash file format. It is used for multimedia, vector graphics and Action Script. It is the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web.

.PHP

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocesser. PHP is an open general purpose server side scripting language originally designed to be used for Web development and to produce web pages.

.FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is used to transfer files from one host to another.

.HTTP

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is an application used to distribute, collabrorative and hypermedia information systems. It is the base of data communication for the World Wide Web.

MYSQL DATABASE

It is the worlds most used open sourced relational database management system.

File Formats

These are some examples of file formats:

.GIF

GIF stands for The Graphics Interchange Format, is a bitmap image format.

.TIFF

TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format. It is a file format used for storing images. It is popular within Graphic Artists and the Publishing Industry. It is supported by image manipluation applications.


.PNG

PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It is a bitmapped image format which allows lossless data compression.


.PDF

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF is a file format used to represent documents within application software, hardware and operating systems.


.PSD

PSD is Photoshops default file extentsion when saving a document, it stands for Photoshop Document.


.IND

The publication file of an InDesign document.


.XLS


.RAW


.AI


AI stands for Adobe Illustrator Artwork. It is a file format.

.DOC

Doc is the abbreviation of 'document.' It is the filename extension for word processing documents. This is mainly used within Microsoft Word.

.JPG

.JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group

.PPT 

Looking into Online Graphic Portoflios/Showcases

I have researched into some Typographic and Illustrative online Graphic Design existing portfolio websites as these are the areas which interest me the most. I have screenshot a few websites which stood out to me:

I really like this website design because of its very handmade illustrative look. I love all the range of typography which has been used. I love the colours which have been used as I think that they work well together. 

This is a illustrative showcase website and this is obvious by the large illustration on the homepage which you are confronted with the moment you load the page. I like the use of colour and monotone and the layout.

This is an illustration showcase website, the images and logo stand out against the black background. 

Flash

Today we learnt about using Flash and with it how to make a button which can be used for a webpage.

The first thing I did was open Flash, using the circle shape I created a base for the button. I converted it to a symbol. I worked in layers of colours and experimented with text. Then viewed it as a working button.

                       

                    

This print screen shows the converting of the shape to a working button.

This shows the different layers of the button.