Really interested in Samoan pattern work. Think it looks really good as body art and fascinated by the intricacy of it. Think I can use it in some of my own work at some point. The guy in the picture is Tim Cahill, Australian Football player, currently playing for Everton.

D-FENCE

One of the best adverts I have seen for a long time!

Election Time

I didnt really know who to vote for in the upcoming election. So i took a questionaire to tell me who to vote for



Take the Who Should You Vote For? UK General Election quiz

Liberal Democrat				21
Labour				12
Green				11
Conservative	-4
UK Independence	-19

You expected: LIB
Your recommendation: Liberal Democrat
Click here for more details about these results

TRACKING

Have been adusting the tracking in my bodytext for about an hour now..In this time my tracking has been 5pt, 10pt, 15pt, 15.5pt, 17pt, 18pt, 20pt, 21pt, 22.5pt, 25pt. I have settled at 25pt.

Teeny Adjustments

Today I had course leader check my work. She pointed me in the right direction on some minor tweaking adjustments that will improve the layouts. Things such as my point size needs to be smaller, which will inevitably affect the tracking, so that has also been reduced. She said that the imagery was strong but the colouring of the imagery bothered her slightly. She told me to try it in black and white. Doing this would mean changing the colour of my type/body text aswell as that is all done in black and white, however I will experiment.

Final Layout. Fully spec'd

So this is the first of my layout pages. I have used the font Walkway semibold for the body text. This is a text from www.dafont.com. And the title font is called Tiza. This is also a free font I have found on the internet with help from my tutors. I spent a long time adjusting the tracking and alignment. This is the part of the project I have enjoyed the most. The part where I am only making slight adjustments. It also relaxes me by knowing that I am at that stage and I do not have to panick about getting things finished. The title is influenced by a comment Crow makes about feeling like a wildcard in the typography world, as he feels he does not deserve to be connected with it.

This is this the second layout and one that I struggled with the most. The image of the stacked booksis also a reference to a comment Crow makes in the interview about his compulsive disorders. I chose a mix of relevant books and non relevant books to try and make it as interesting as possible.  I feel this works alot better than just a plane white background. Comments from my housemate help also, saying that the inclusion of a background makes the article more interesting.