Spiral staircase inside The Lighthouse

We went to the Kelvingrove Museum first, where at first we looked at some paintings but then mostly ended up looking at the animals or sitting in the cafe. After this, we visited The Lighthouse, which I really enjoyed. There was a whole range of things to look at  covering all elements of design – graphic, product, interior, digital etc. There was also a gallery which featured many works by Charles Rennie McIntosh, which we saw more of when visiting the Willow Tearoom.

We also got the chance to visit the studio of Snook where we were shown a presentation about ’service design’ (something I had never heard of until yesterday!) run by Sarah Drummond, Kirsty Sinclair and Lauren Currie. I especially enjoyed this as Kirsty is my cousin! I was able to speak to her about what I plan to do next year and I got lots of great advice.

'Black Swan' poster

After visiting the studio we went to see Black Swan which I thought was good even though it was really graphic and jumpy!

These are renderings of the different stages of creating my still life in Blender. As this is only a first draft, I still need to work more on this to improve it, e.g. the label on the coke bottle and the surface which the objects are sitting on.

As a class, we set up a blog for the trip:  http://fundon.cdtlog.net/

We each had to come up with a design for the header of the site and my idea of a silhouette of London, along with Connor’s image of Mr Black were chosen.

This was my design:

London header design

My first calligraphy sheet

Before creating our visuals for our magazines, we had a lesson where we were able to try using calligraphy pens and ink. It was really difficult to begin with, however it became easy really quickly and I enjoyed trying something else new.