MEDI 322: Phasing Picture

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Created from the images that Loren sent me. I am fairly happy with how it turned it.

MEDI 322: FINAL LOGO!

The Final Logo for all kinds of cake! :)

It has also been added to the blog now!

MEDI 322: How Life Nearly Derailed It:

I thought it important to make a note here of how hard the past year has been. I have personally been going through a really rough time in terms of evens surrounding uni and have not been in the best health the past year because of it. I know my collaborator Loren also has been having a very tough time of things. I think the most important thing though is despite this, despite how horrendous this last year has been for us both, we never gave up on the project and carried on not only working but working well!

We both worked around each others difficulties and tried to keep to on track.

I feel I have learned to be:
-Flexible
-Adaptable
-Understanding
-Dependable

And above all I have learned to work around situations so that I am able to still deliver on my word. 

MEDI 322: Overdue Update! = Logo Ideas:

Very overdue update about the collaborative practice, because it is nearly over I have been uber busy getting everything ready to hand in a work book so I have not been able to update the blog. However, I feel its important to update so here we go. Also since is there where my collaborator Loren is able to see my work the most often and easily its important I keep updating this so she can refresh what I have shown her in meetings!

Here are some of the sample buttons and logos I designed after Lorens input on the initial designs of the logos. Many of these were paper based and will be in the final work book but I thought it best to upload the digital ones now.  

I have opted still for an artsy style and I really liked the idea of the cherry so it is present in each of the images. I like them and Loren gave me very good feedback on them all.

These however were not picked as the final logo!

MEDI 317 + MEDI 323: Dissertation: Front Cover!

Since these projects are running in tandem it made sense that they influenced each other. Lots of the research has run into each other and inspired different aspects or avenues of the projects. I thought it would be a nice idea to produce the front cover of my Dissertation in the same style as the ‘Dreamscape’ images of my MEDI 323 project. This image is effectively a Dreamscape of the Internet and also all of the topics covered in my dissertation. So whilst it isn’t part of the final series of images I feel it is still an important progression and interesting given the overlap of research.

MEDI 322: Colaborative Blog

Last night I met up with my collaborator to help her set up her blog.  The meeting went really well and I feel confident she now knows how to make a blog post. I have however explained to her that I am always contactable if she needs help. These meetings will be ongoing for as long as she needs me.

Cakey Blog Here

At the moment I have just set her up with the a template for the graphic aspect of the site to get her used to being able to edit it herself. She did however like the favicon I designed for her so it is being used.

I am very pleased with how this meeting went.

Here is us making the Blog:

Here is a screen-grab of the Blog:

MEDI 323: DADA

Something that has also been an inspiration to me has been the Dada art movement. Its rebelliousness and certain amount of chaos appeal to me and it also founded the basis of surrealism.

Apparently a common thing in the Dada movement was to make a poem with bits that you cut out of a newspaper and picked at random! I thought I would also try this for brevity!

"She friend at bespoke south heard.
For training university businesses,
Innovative motorcycle networking is presentations.


West meeting dictator; explicit, unique, promoted.
The where and fused something freindly website.
Royal host Rockers question man died.

Find a yesterday with persuasive American.
Sex can being crashed, answer in social that flies.
A can mix, photographs of space,


Used giant posted room, his drunken sixties
Early of a during court, to on morning
Of the plans, a big circular the."  

• I find it very interesting how adding some punctuations makes it make more sense even though it is totally random and chaotic in its assembly. Yet given the fact I picked each word out (of a bag no less) at random it still feels like MY poem. My punctuation and the form I have set it out in further reinforce this but it is a wonderfully creative way of working. 

• I found a site that sells things to use in collage and also has a lot of information about Dada artists.