Derrick Segsby

Update time me thinks.

Had our crit on the friday (or was it thursday?) for the postcards project. I'd spent the past few days getting everything done with a late night the night preceeding to make sure everything was okay. Got to the crit and it was second years doing a guest crit which was a good idea but it just turned into a sham. They pulled out about five pieces of work and commented on them without much opinion. I think it was because they'd just seen the work fresh and of course, they had to take things for face value and with us all waiting they couldn't really openly discuss anything. I got mine pointed out, Roxanne i think it was, saying she liked the old look of it and even though there's is a lot of different fonts on there that they work. I didn't think the print-out did my postcard any justice because the old paper style didn't translate well onto the cheap paper and laser printing so i think I'll definately get some textured paper for another try. Afterwards we split into pairs to further discuss the work and place post-its on our favourite pieces. Draycott came to me to crit mine but I really didn't want stick to the same people I'm with all the time so i went to the guys from the second year and asked one of them to crit mine, and in particular if one of them didn't like it then that'd be better because I thought I'd get a better criticism from it and have something more constructive to take away than 'yeah i like it'. Steve the guy with flat peak and tatts gave me some quite good crits like the font on the front doesn't really match up too well and it could be a little less to the edges which makes sense. The font on the front is more holiday butlins whereas the back is 30's art deco. He said it might look better minus the rounded edges too, which I took from 70s style photos but I quite like how it changes it into something a little more interesting that a normal postcard. I showed him my landscape piece then and he really liked it and said if it'd of been up on the wall instead of my postcard example that'd of been the best by far. I do think it works much better as a picture in its own so i might re-design the postcards to have a large section of the picture in or a few sections of it. Maybe even a full scale length whole one?

Here's the pics anyway for you to gander at.

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Today we had our brief on the new Royal British Legion ad campaign which I'm trying not to think too much about as I need to get the rest of my work done this week ready for friday. Should be a nice final set though and I like that it's a t-section for a bus rather than the typical poster or unspecified dimensions.

Gotta crack on though so lovelove bruv.
Oh and definately get an a4 sketchbook next time you numpty. This a5 is crap for handouts and stuff.