Working in Digital Media Outing !

Hey guys,

This week we got to go on a trip instead of sitting in a boring lecture room. Thank God it didnt rain on us, very unusual with our weather but hey im not complaining.

So this week we went on a trip for a day to two places, the dail and the science gallery at trinity college.

The Dail

Well we all met at the Dail bright and Early outside the Dail and waited like 30mins for last minute (Or last 30 mins) people lol. Once everyone was there , we went inside and got some tea and waited around for our tour guide of the dail.  Once our tour started i felt better about being in the dail because the tour guide really was brilliant.  We went all over the Dail , we even went in the dail chamber below

The Dail Chamber

The dail chamber is where all of the big debates go on. Its pretty much where all of the politicians shout over each other and the loudest gets heard. We then walked all over and up and down so many stairs, We saw a painting of every taoiseach  up on the walls to, We also saw the old money which i havent seen since i was a kid , it was great to see it again . Definately prefer our old money to the euro.We saw alot of interesting stuff in the dail and i was told so many facts that i got it all mixed up. And thats was pretty much the trip, it was just really long because we went all over the place.

After our tour we all went our separate ways for lunch.

After lunch it was off to the Science Gallery in Trinity College. below

Science Gallery Trinity College

Once at the Trinity Science Gallery we got a tour of the Exhibition that was on. It was the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. It is basically a coral reef nitted up out of various materials such as different types of plastic. In fact its hard to imagine so here are some photos of it:

Coral Reef

Coral Reef Mix

The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project was based on hyperbolic space which to be honest is extremely hard to understand and i just got confused when the tour guide was explaining it so i just walked around on my own and admired some of the work that had been done. And that was pretty  much it for the day . The Exhibition was smaller than i would have thought.

Well to be honest i thought the day was a waste of time, I mean i am a creative Digital Media Student so why do i want to go to the dail. And the Hyperbolic Crochet Reef project just wasnt my cup of tea, I didnt like it at all. I thought that day was a waste, I would have preferred some free Mac time to do Project work. But awell hopefully our next trip is more fun.

Until next week,

Bye

Working in Digital Media – Week 8

Hey guys,

This week we had no speaker , We had to watch a video .

So this week i shall be blogging about Simone who worked atSimone is a designer from Rome, Italy .Simone is so well known for his Unique style charcters

Tokidoki creates clothes styled from there unique characters.

Simone started creating his characters by using Adobe Illustrator but later learned how to draw them in flash so that he could animate them.After Simone learned flash he then started his own website which can be found at http://www.tokidoki.it/ . The website was originally a porfolio to showcase his work but it later transformed into a Brand.  Because his work was so unique Simone got alot of freelance work . Because he got so much freelance work it helped his brand grow bigger and bigger. Simones work is highly inspired from japan.

One thing that Simone said that stuck to me was ” Do not be afraid to be insecure and want yourself to get better and to always be humble because there is always someone better out there.”

I dont really get as much info from watching a video because being honest i lose concentration from watching a video.

Until Next week,

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Working in Digital Media – Week 7

Hey guys,

This weeks guest speaker was Fiona Kelly . Fiona is a Digital Media Artist who graduated with an honours degree in Interactive media in DIT.  Fiona works as a Designer. She has her own website to showcase her work which can be found at www.glimmer.ie

Fiona began our lecture with a quote which i thought was really clever .

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it.”

Basically it means take bits and pieces from other peoples work and make it your own and its ok to get inspired from others work aslong as you use it in your own way.

Fiona has worked on alot of different logo’s and websites

Here are some Examples of her work :

Click the images to visit the websites

Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

Dublin Gay Theatre

Fat Kitty Films

Fat Kitty Films

Scooter Island

Scooter Island .com

Puca

Puca

I really like alot of the work that Fiona has done , it has inspired me. During the lecture Fiona gave us a couple of tips, She told us about

Smashing magazine is mainly about tutorials, it has hundreds of photoshop and flash tutorials

She also told us about

iStockphoto is a website where you can buy privilages to Stock photography

I really enjoyed Fiona Kellys Lecture this week, Im really interested in Design, Especially design based in photoshop. Fiona told us to look everywhere for inspiration even in one of the most random places.

“Talent is the Desire to practice”

Until next week,

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Working in Digital Media – Week 6

Hey guys,

This week sadly our guest speaker couldnt make it, But dont worry im still going to Blog of course.

We were given some companys and asked to pick one and blog about it and i chose Troika Design Group.

Troika Design Group

Toika are a design and branding agency based in Hollywood, CA. Troika likes to bring brands to life through the best of what design provides: a distinct impression a of brand’s and value.

Troika have based alot of their work on adverts for Tv shows , with information on when its on mainly and a picture of some of the actors. Troika Focus on making the picture real dramatic which is good because its mainly an ad for a drama. They do this by selecting certain point of view photographs and creating alot of contrast on peoples faces and using certain Lighting techniques. Here are some examples:

Glee

Lie to me

Tonight

As you can see Troika have worked with alot of big companies , to name a few : ABC, Fox and Starz

Troika mainly focus on Network Branding

Fox

Network Branding is branding made between the Tv Station and its audience. Troika have Re-branded Fox many of times now and each time they do it the design gets better than the last. I really wish RTE and TV3 with get some work by Troika done.

Thats pretty much all for this week as we didnt have a guest speaker and i would have love if a guest speaker from this area was in as i am thinking towards this direction for a career when i finish college.

Until Next week,

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Working in Digital Media – Week 5

Hey guys,

This weeks guest speaker was Emma Wade. Emma is an artist mainly in dublin but tours around the country sometimes.To be exact Emma is a visual artist. Emma mainly works on new ideas for art which are brilliant. Emma graduated fromthe institute of art and design in Dun Laoghire, when she graduated she worked in a design company for 2 years. After this emma moved to dublin. Then in 2005 she went to the irish museum of modern art and it was then that she decided she wanted to be an artist.

One year later Emma had created a Mat which when stepped on let out a loud cheer to lifen a persons day up. Emmas inspiration for this idea actually came randomly , because she lived near a stadium and one morning when she woke up she heard the noise of a crowd cheering and thought to herself wouldnt it be nice to wake up to that every morning. And the outcome was this :

A little lift

The device worked by a pressure pad on the ground under a mat with speakers on either side. When pressure was put on the map a loud cheer would come from the speakers. I personally think this is a great idea and would love to see it around sometime. Be great if it was at the door to a shop .

After this Emma came up with a new idea called Rexotrek, which was a project that let people see the world form a dogs point of view.

If you would like to check this project out for yourself then here is a link to the website: http://www.rexotrek.com/

RexoTrek

To actually see the project people had to get on there hands and knees to get inside which brought people to Dog’s height. Once inside the saw a video being projected onto the wall.  The video was a point of view for a dog out at the beach. Emma made this video by getting her parents Dog and attaching the video camera to its collar and bringing the dog to a beach , the Dog was called rex and thats where the project got its name from.

Emma then done a 3 month unpaid internship in New york where she learned Photoshop and Sound Engineering Skills. When she finished the 3 months she returned to dublin where she started work in Space Studios.

Then Emma produced a number of Exhibitions to date , But my personal favourite is H.U.G.S which stands for        Human Utopian Generation System.

H.U.G.S

If you would like to see more work by Emma you can head over to her website at : www.emmawade.com

Until Next Week,

Bye