2 weeks left!

Deadline is eerily close! I am getting extremely nervous, but still positive that everything will come together this week. I am working hard to get this achieved.

The website is still having some problems functioning hopefully they will resolve!

Everything else is coming up great!

count down.

So we are around 3-4 weeks away from the deadline. It's a scary thought, and I am quite nervous. But I am trying to keep a cool head and keep working progressively through the task.

At the moment I am working mostly on the actual designs of the shirts and how else they can be conveyed. I am positive that I will have actual tshirt prints ready for the presentation, as well as stickers and posters that I will give out.

Anyway, wish me luck!

more updates!

The website is coming along slowly, yet I am confident it will be ready in time.

My designs are also going well, albeit slowly. I like what I have so far, so that must be a good sign.

I am unsure at this point if I will actually have printed t-shirts for my presentation. Although it would be great to have them there, the costs might outweigh the need, which is a shame.

news!

So I have started development of the webstore for hark!.

We are just roughly 4 short weeks away from the deadline, but I am confident that the final product will look great.

I have settled on colors, backgrounds, fonts, styles etc.

As for the shirt designs, they are also coming along nicely. My sketchbook is slowly being scanned into digital form and being touched up, added, taken away, colored and the like.

Here is the opener page to Hark!

Another update!

So this week coming up I will be starting development of the web store!

I'm hoping it will get off to a good start, I haven't finalised colors or designs to use yet, but I have figured out fonts, dimensions, templates and the like.

I'm hoping to make it as interactive as I possibly can. Breaking out Flash will be a pain though, as I never was that good at it.

Paypal selling (Which I decided is the best way to trade on the internet) is also ready to be linked to the web store, which will be great.

Update!

Welcome to another blog entry for hark!

This week I have been working on sketches for my upcoming tshirts.

This involves a lot of paper and pencil work, and a lot of use of the eraser!

Collecting other resources is also happening, with stuff like photographs, films and other influences, hopefully my work will be diverse and expansive.

I have not stopped researching other clothing websites and have found quite a few that have layouts that I adore. This is a great step in deciding what to do when the time comes for my website to be developed.

Research.

So a few weeks back, I set myself a research project to complete within the semester.

I am doing my project on a clothing label. The designing, printing, advertising and selling of the label are all included in the project.

I have finally decided on a name - hark! apparel.

So far I have been researching other clothing labels. Looking at their designs, how they operate and how they sell.

I have found some great sites and labels.

Drop Dead Clothing

http://www.iheartdropdead.com/

I have actually been a fan of this brand for a while. The owner and operator is Oliver Sykes, a young metal vocalist from Sheffield, UK. Their designs mix cutesy and cartoonish with gore to good results. Drop Dead is a very popular brand, with millions of tshirts sold online worldwide.

Adobe E-Seminar.

A few days ago, I did an online Adobe seminar. The topic I chose was the "Photoshop CS5 Tips & Techniques." This was an insight into the future of design and imaging, using brand new features and add-ons in Photosop CS5.

The seminar content itself was very good. I was particularly interested in the new Content Aware Fill feature. It works much like the clone stamp, but it is fully automated. You don’t have to select pattern that should fill selected part of the image. It automatically fills the selected part with matching content. This can work really well, and looks like it produces good results.

Masking and edge detection are also improved, being able to detect really thin and complex edges. This is pretty handy.

Another new great feature shown in the seminar was the wet paint tool. This allows for paint mixing, like with real life paint. New brushes and stroke options are also added to create more realistic lines and effects.

All in all I was very impressed with the seminar. The speaker was very clear and helpful and I will probably look at more of them. I am definitely sold on Photoshop CS5!

Updates.

We're coming up to that time again of the end of the course. I'm starting to get nervous that I will not finish everything on time. However, with perseverance, and alot of late nights, I can get the job done. Maintaining a social life while in deep schoolwork sucks.

Moving on, I have finished verything for the design unit, and almost completed the presentation part. 3D is not the same however, as I constantly have issues with my scene. Skytracer troubles, on top of surface problems are not cool.
On the class-wide DVD project, my research for royalty-free music is not as easy as perhaps thought. Finding good quality sound, that is free is quite a challenge. But hopefully I can russle some stuff up. Web Design is always trying, and Games Design is not too bad.

Either way, I have to stay positive and optimistic. Otherwise I'll fail.

Teams.

Just realised I haven't updated my blog in a while, so I think it's time for an entry.
I finished the teams task with Darren and Nadine. Our theme was the waterfront life and culture of Geelong.
Overall I think it went well, we spent an afternoon a few weeks back taking pictures, then we all decided on who was going to cover what aspect of the theme.
Nadine did the bollards and Darren did the youth area/skate park while I covered the carosel and the boating and sailing.
We all had to design 2 posters each, as well as a video sequence. I was happy with my posters, though one of them could probably be better. I felt that the video sequence turned out alright, it was predominately a photo montage using the images we had taken at the waterfront.

In other news, we have started the Gordon Branding project. This is a class-team task that involves all of us doing different jobs and tasks. We are creating a DVD mini-documentary that has video, images, sound and possibly animation. I have captured alot of the footage from the launch day of the branding. I am also interested in doing the Audio of the DVD, possibly creating original music for the menus, background music and sounds for the videos and image montages.

snakes and ladders.

Well this week was very uneventful. I mostly worked on school stuff. My game design idea is coming along nicely, I'm still keen on my idea of a side-scrolling 8-bit shooter game, in the vain of Castlevania, Contra and other classic 90s games.

I have chosen to do eBay for my social networking presentation task. For this, I'll have to make a powerpoint presentation detailing information about eBay and also talk the class through the topics.

In other news, I have secured some design work. My mate's band She Fuzz are in need of a design and a logo, possibly for a future tshirt and CD covers.

The DG magazine (http://www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/dgdn/) are hosting a design contest open to all tertiary and secondary students to feature on the cover of their annual magazine cover. I am hoping to get my entry finished by the closing date to have my work featured.

And in closing, the title of this blog comes from my insatiable craving to play snakes and ladders. It will not be satisfied until I have played a full round of this magnificent game.

Catch.

Yo.

So this blog is new hey.