Final Hand in Tomorrow 10-1pm

To Confirm, tomorrows hand you will need:
1. Your Book.
2. A copy of the pdf's which got uploaded to blurb when you made your book (Cover and pages) on USB stick.
3. Your barcode from UEL site

If your book has not arrived then you will need:
1. A hard copy of you book (print out) with crop marks
2. A copy of the pdf's which got uploaded to blurb when you made your book (Cover and pages) on USB stick.
3. Your barcode from UEL site
4. When your book arrives you will need to drop it in to us at 10am on either Thursday the 16th or Monday the 20th.

Friday Trip 10th May - Brighton

The long talked about group trip for Friday students will be to Brighton on the South Coast. The Trip will be this Friday the 10th of May. We will be travelling together from London Victoria train Station direct to Brighton. To make the most of the day we will require an earlier than normal start meeting at 9.30am at London Victoria. 

The cost of the trip will be £16.00 each which will pay for the Group train ticket. Your’ll need to bring cash to pay for the trip as we need to pay collectively for tickets at the station. Try to bring the 1x £10 note and 6x £1 coins. Students arriving late will not get group travel discount.

We will be meeting in Victoria ticket hall (see inside map) at 9.30am sharp- please allow for rush hour commute times and disruptions. 

You will need to bring he following:
money for food/pack lunch pens
pencils
sketch book
swimming costume !? waterproof / warm coat umbrella
sensible shoes
design skills 

Thursday Trip 9th May - Margate

The long talked about group trip for Thursday students will be to Margate on the South East Coast. The Trip will be this Thursday the 9th of May. We will be travelling together from London Victoria train Station direct to Margate. To make the most of the day we will require an earlier than normal start, meeting at 9.30am at London Victoria. 

The cost of the trip will be £17.00 each which will pay for the Group train ticket. Your’ll need to bring cash to pay for the trip as we need to pay collectively for tickets at the station. Try to bring the 1x £10 note and 7x £1 coins. Students arriving late will not get group travel discount. 

We will be meeting in Victoria ticket hall (see inside map) at 9.30am sharp- please allow for rush hour commute times and disruptions. 

You will need to bring he following:
money for food/pack lunch pens
pencils
sketch book
swimming costume !? waterproof / warm coat umbrella
sensible shoes
design skills 

Dates for your diaries:

Monday 13th of May Lv1 Final Submission @ 10.00 -13.00

AVA Lv3 Showcase 30th May (A must see for Lv1 students!)

Free Range Lv3 Showcase 26th June - 3rd July
I recommend every student goes every year to see 'Free range' (Truman Brewery, Shoreditch) gives you an idea of what all the other Art Colleges are doing and what work is being produced by your peers. Plus its normally cheap beer and lots of students hanging out going to various parties. http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/timetable.pl?yearID=18

Book Off! - Test book submission instructions

Hi Students,

1* You should submit your Test spreads and Test book cover as files by email (see special address below. Also 32Mb MAX per email you could send multiple files as separate emails which would give you 32Mb for each file)

2* Your spreads should be saved as a PDF file with bleed but NO crop marks.

3* To be submitted on or before this saturday 20th April.

IMPORTANT
4* Subject of the email should be your Group (G1 or G2)  _ YOUR NAME    e.g. G1 Dan Duran

5* Name your Test Spreads files G?_YOUR_NAME_Test_spread_1.pdf   (i.e. I would put G1_Dan_Duran_Test_Spread_1.pdf)

6* Name your Test Book Covers  G?_YOUR_NAME_Test_book_cover.pdf   (i.e. I would put  G1_Dan_Duran_Test_book_cover.pdf)



Please send to this address:

lv1_book_off_672d@sendtodropbox.com


IMPORTANT - This is an automated service so please put follow the instructions other wise we won't know who's is who's.

Project - Book Off! pt1 Test Book

Project - Get Fruity

Project - Blazing Biographies

GIll Sans MT Pro Med

For those students who have the font Gill Sans Med - here is a downloadable digital version:

.ai      Adobe illustrator CS3 file set to outline

.pdf   Adobe Acrobat file outlined

Zine Thing Lecture - Andy Holmes

Andy Holmes Lecture for 'zine thing.

Project - 'Zine Thing Update

To make sure we have enough ink/toner for everyone we will impose the following restrictions on the 'Zine production. Each team (of three) will be producing 32 pages of work printed on six sheets of A4 or A3 ie 8 pages each. The limits will be: * Of those six sheets of A4 or A3 only one can be full colour (four pages). * Two sheets can be a single spot colour (eight pages). * The rest will have to be B+W or some other type of printing. Hand made stamps? Potato stamps? lino cut prints etc Think about using different coloured paper stock and maybe a card for the cover? Experiment Best

Setting up a Blurb book template in InDesign

Setting up a book document in InDesign

Introduction to Adobe InDesign

Assesment

The hand in for the assessment is on the 21st of Jan. You will be putting all your work onto the blog for us to see. As we said sketch books should be shown somehow (figure out a way of showing us a flavour of what you have done in the sketch book).

To submit your work please follow the web links (below) for your group and enter your Name, Blog address and Student number. We get a time stamp the moment you submit so make sure you submit it on or before the 21st of Jan.


Thursday Group:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhkOVVpUV9fV0JMMzE4SU1PejA0U0E6MQ


Friday Group:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGNmSVVJdkxpdV9zRUxVMHA3SlljSEE6MA

A0 Kimono update

A couple of things I needed to stress, that has come out of the work that I have seen so far:

1. Not anywhere enough prints have been printed? I realise some of you could not print on Monday evening (which I apologise for - ink order problems) but why have so many of you missed the print slots I setup for you?

No printing can be done on Friday, TOMORROW is the only opportunity to print now.


2. We have seen a few prints that are landscape!  To be able to hang the work they have to be Portrait (we did say several times)! It maybe that you have to re-print if this is the case.


3. To enable us to keep your prints as good as possible we have been storing them in the screen printing studio with the technician Glen. That way they avoid travelling back and forward from home and risk being damaged.


4. Your follow peer Amy has found the correct bulldog clips in 'Gallions reach WHSmith, they are in a packet of 5 and are 38mm' Please get your clips from there. It maybe be that some of you can go during the morning tomorrow during class. Look on Facebook for more details!


Tomorrow will be hanging up artwork in the studio, this means hammers, nails, sprit levels and general DIY type activity. Don't wear your best Armarni suit!

Best

Ed & Dan

Bitmap Vs Vector Vs PDF files

Dropbox

Dropbox = is a SHARED folder which is located on your local machine

everyone who has downloaded the software (ie most of you) and have accepted the invite, have complete control of the files in that shared folder. This is the power of / problem with dropbox.

Want to know more about dropbox?

Please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(service)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage

Day Trip Information

Hello first year graphics...

I hope you're all ready for tomorrow (and Friday's) day trip?
Basically we don't have too much to add - so please re-read the information below carefully and make sure you come fully prepared. We will be finishing at around 4.30ish. See you at 10.00am.

...

We are NOT striking tomorrow as we both feel the only people who are disadvantaged are you the students.

Best, Ed and Dan.

We will be meeting at 10.00am in Trafalgar Square on the central steps. Please locate it and plan plan your route there with this journey planner:

http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/art-culture/trafalgar-square/visiting-the-square

Here are some things that you will need to bring:

1. Sketchbook and pens / pencils ( of course!)

2. Camera ( iphone's will do)

3. Umbrella ( still gotta do the project if it rains)

4. A warm coat, hat and scarf, possibly even some gloves (you will be outside pretty much all day.)

5. An A-Z map, in case you get lost!

6. Some money ( you will need to buy lunch and a coffee or two so have at least £10.00 on you if possible, if not possible prepare a packed lunch and a drink.)

7. Your phone.

8. Your common sense! Please travel in with a friend if you're not familiar with central London. You will be working in groups during the day, so hopefully no one will get lost.

Security marking of personal equipment

The school of Arts and Digital Industries will be holding two sessions next week where staff and students can security mark their personal equipment with UV pens.  This is almost invisible to the eye but clearly visible under UV lights, used by police and security to identify recovered stolen equipment.

I would encourage you to mark all valuables that you may bring to school to improve the chances of recovery if they are stolen.  These sessions are available to all and will be held in the foyer of the AVA building on:

Monday 22nd October 12-1pm

Tuesday 23rd October 12-1pm