Thoughts in Communication Design
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Archive for February, 2008

It’s all about me…

February 26, 2008

…and all about everyone else in the class too and Milan and Dazed and Confused magazine. In todays DC class we started with our group presentation (myself, Erin Mck,  Sunshine and Zina (not the warrior princess). The presentation was about Milan and Dazedand Confused magazine and what they represented. I feel it went really well [...]

Astronaut for a day!!

February 25, 2008

HAHA!! Not really! Today’s class was interaction design with Sam Mann (he’s probably heard all the jokes before!) and today we looked at what makes something interactive, how people interact with them, narrative of such things and a bunch of other stuff I’ve written up in my work book. We also had to do a [...]

Tonight Matthew I’m going to be…

February 25, 2008

…a business manager! Todays class was the second in specialised communication. The idea as mentioned before is a Dragon’s Den style one where we as students have to create a full-on business plan. Today we had to make a two minute presentation describing what we would like to do.
My idea is that of a small [...]

Call to the (DIESEL) wall!

February 20, 2008

It’s a pretty cool project for this new class of Design Communication held my Rachel Gillies and Helen Riley. Basically over the next 12 weeks I need to design four huge images that are suitable for the brand that is Diesel. I’ve been thrown into a temporary partnership with Zina and Erin McK and we [...]

Day two! Still alive.

February 18, 2008

The first half of todays classes has just concluded and was Interaction Design. The class was an interesting one and was hosted by Caro and a guy called Layton who seemed very nice and apparently has tons of experience scoring different projects including movies and stuff.Anyway, it was all about interactivity without a screen such as museum attractions. I [...]

Standing on the shoulders of giants.

February 18, 2008

Dunedin’s a pretty funky place to be right now. There’s a great vibe going through the city now the students are back and it’s become a thriving Mega-studentopolis once again.
The other cool thing is the fact that X-Men Origins: Wolverine is shooting here at the moment. Working in the kind of job I have [...]

It’s good to be back.

February 18, 2008

This is it, the last year of my degree. I’ve literally got less than nine months to this is all over and I’ll have to work for a living once more
Today was the first day back and it was an OK one. Our room has been much improved although no computers yet (we’re [...]