tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64175967016653877412024-03-13T20:37:28.416-07:00Nicky LountNicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-3311009077555909522011-10-18T02:58:00.000-07:002011-10-18T02:58:22.691-07:00What happened next<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Have you been wondering what happened next? Well I had better tell you then, hadn't I!?</span></span> <div style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I haven’t updated for a while because we have been on holiday for just over 2 weeks; both my husband and I were exhausted and were extremely glad of the break. Sitting by a pool in the Florida sunshine was exactly what the doctor ordered. I can’t say that I’m glad to be home either – it’s so cold here!</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The opening of the AD11 show went very well. The university had invited a special guest to open the show. The Special guest was Eric Leong who is the Malaysian Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen (although Eric likens his approach and attitude to Jamie Oliver). Eric gave us a Master class about the international language of design and suggested that we, the graduates, shouldn’t limit ourselves to working in the UK – there is a massive amount of design work in developing markets such as China and India.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">After the Master class but before opening the show, Eric came around and looked at our work. This was an opportunity to get advice from a practising designer of celebrity status so we were all asked to give him an ‘elevator pitch’ about our work. Eric was continually being filmed, so we were too, this filming will be edited and shown on Malaysian television and uploaded onto YouTube! - there is nothing like a little extra pressure. In fact, Eric is a delightful gentleman; he is always friendly, polite and encouraging – and I had an advantage over everybody else because my work related most closely to Eric’s because he is an interior designer. Eric seemed to like my work, particularly my wallpapers and cushion covers; he spoke about them in a very positive manner and told me that they were already marketable :D</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The day after the show opening I received a phone call asking if I would be willing to take part in a radio interview with Eric! Initially I panicked and said no – but after calming down a little bit I rethought and accepted this opportunity. The interview was on BBC Tees and my stomach was churning by the time we got there for the interview. Fortunately another student, Magdalena, and also Paul Denison, from the university, were there too, which made me feel a little better. Anyway, the interview went ok, everybody was really kind and it only lasted for 5 minutes, with Eric doing most of the talking. I didn’t sound totally stupid but I didn’t manage to communicate as well as I would have wished either – but it was my first time, next time will be so much better!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Another exciting opportunity has been offered to me by Norma Kyle, who wears several different career hats, but whilst wearing her ‘19 Marketing’ hat has offered me the chance to put my exhibition stock in an empty shop window in Darlington town centre – this will allow a whole different section of the community to look at my design work and will, hopefully, lead to further positive feedback. Norma wants my work in the window as quickly as possible (preferably this week!), but now I have to get hold of Michael, at uni, because the exhibition was taken down whilst I was away and I don’t know where everything is…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Oh - and more news... we got the results for our Masters whilst I was away on holiday. I was surprised and thrilled by getting a Master of Art with Distinction! How cool is that? My particular thanks go to Michael Hall and Mike McLean and my lovely husband Tim for their support, advice and encouragement throughout.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In the meantime I am working on my Christmas card designs, I really need to get a move on because at this rate it will be January and too late!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Will update again soon, but must be getting on (and making contact with Michael) in the meantime.</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-49814993703629608582011-09-20T08:16:00.000-07:002011-09-20T08:16:48.754-07:00Submission and beyond...<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Hello, have you been wondering how I am getting on? I’m really sorry that I didn’t manage to give you an update before submission, but at least everything has been submitted now, so I finally have time to give you an update…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">It was my birthday on 11<sup>th</sup> September, but I spent the day working on finishing touches. Although we did pop into town for some more fabric paint (3-d cushion cover) and whilst we were there we bought a cake from M&S – it was a yummy lemon cake, I’m not keen on chocolate cake.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">We were given a timetable for presentations and mine was due to take place at 3pm on Tuesday 13<sup>th</sup> September, and I couldn’t help but feel that it would be better to submit at the same time rather than making two trips into Middlesbrough so – that is exactly what I did. It was such a relief to submit a day early! The presentations were given individually with just the two tutors present, which is always slightly easier than giving a presentation to a large audience. Because I was nervous I left out some important pieces of information that I had wanted to communicate to Michael and Neil, so I carried on explaining whilst answering questions! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">After the presentations and submission we were all required to go into Uni and paint the exhibition room (AG12 in the Athena Building) white and then set up our show area. Tom and Adam went in and painted 2-3 layers of white and then Nick and I went in on Friday to finish the rest of the painting. Whilst the paint was drying we went upstairs and joined Michael, Adam, Andrew and Vicky to discuss the arrangement of banners so that we could start hanging them. Seeing the wide variety of imagery on the banners was very exciting – it made all the projects that were discussed in tutorials and presentations seem so much more real than they had before. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Nick and I set up our small areas of the exhibition room, along with all our embellishments and finishing touches – it was so very satisfying to see everything working so beautifully well together… it made me proud and a little emotional!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, the AD-11 exhibition opens tomorrow evening and I am a little nervous. I’m not sure why though, because there is nothing else I could have done in the time and I am extremely proud of what I have achieved. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In the meantime my step-son Jez has designed a new website for me (unusual birthday present) and it will be up and running after it has received a few additional tweaks – probably in a month. His company, Jigsawpixel, can be found at - </span><a href="http://www.jigsawpixel.com/"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.jigsawpixel.com</span></a><span style="color: purple;"> – do take a look at their website.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I suspect that you may be wondering what I’m going to do next, now that things are beginning to quieten down. Well, I’m going to start by designing a range of Christmas cards – in fact I have already started working on it by asking friends and family what they associate with Christmas – answers include ‘Die Hard’ and half eaten mince pies and carrots that Santa and Rudolph can’t eat! How’s that for inspiration!? I also need to research greetings cards printers that specialise in environmentally friendly products. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">And on that note I will go and get on with my research. Speak to you again soon, take it easy ;)</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-67675464584610088732011-09-07T01:27:00.000-07:002011-09-07T07:20:22.204-07:00Ultimate/penultimate update!?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I’m exhausted and have been up since 4am, which was after I had sat in bed writing a ‘to do’ list! In a way I will be very glad to hand everything in and get some sleep, although, with 7days, 7hours and 50 minutes (at the time of writing this) until submission, I’m not totally sure I will make it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">12/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Buy fabric for printing</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">13/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Put sweetie lamp together</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Finish stencilling wall</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Photograph stencilled wall for portfolio</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Make lampshade for sweetie lamp</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span> </span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Photograph sweetie lamp for portfolio</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">16-17/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Go to print workshop and print fabric for cushion covers and seat cushion </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">– this will not get done</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">23-24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Go into uni and design banner – submit for printing if approved by Michael</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Order memory stick – probably 16gb</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">31/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Submit banner for printing</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">1/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Make cushion covers</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: red;">and cover seat cushion</span> <span style="color: red;">on Lloyd Loom chair</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Finish putting sweetie table together</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Have finished hand printed wallpapers </span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take report for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take business plan for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">11/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Put final submission together</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Final submission</span></span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">As you will see from this updated panic list, things haven’t moved along much from last time I wrote anything here – I have put together a photobook portfolio which has now been dispatched by the printers and should be here any day and, after 6 attempts, I managed to put together a banner which was to Michael’s satisfaction and is to be collected from printing at the Arts and Media Helpdesk today. In addition I have finished the gorgeous hand-painted cushion covers ready for the exhibition. The cushions covers look fantastic and have filled me with lots of ideas and inspiration for others… so much so that I would rather sit down and think about that than write a report!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I’m thinking about overlapping flaps sealed with vintage buttons, appliqué, patchwork (using my own prints) and all on up-cycled textiles from charity shops.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Anyway, back to the matter in hand – I have written my business plan and am just tweaking it. The report is 75% done, it just needs another 200 words and then editing, proof reading and appendices adding and it is ready to be printed and bound. I may even be able to take it to the printers tomorrow, a day earlier than my schedule.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The final submission is almost ready to go. I have put everything tidily into a folder and I have written explanatory notes which I will get printed at the same time as the business plan and report.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, now you are either wondering what my problem is or, you have checked my list in your mind and have already worked it out – hand printed wallpaper!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I started working on it yesterday and it didn’t go well, so I had to start again. Because of the limited space that I am currently working in I have decided to stencil the pattern onto the wallpaper but, I have discovered that the stencils that I have designed aren’t as user friendly as I had thought and planned (must try harder) and I was very fed-up by the end of the day. The ‘Squares’ stencil is the issue, for 2 reasons -</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I put the guide holes in the wrong place so it is difficult to line the stencils up</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The pattern is very flimsy and corners keep lifting as I’m painting</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Now, in the real world this would easily be sorted out, and will be but to have the stencils adjusted, cut on the laser printer, collected from Middlesbrough and painted onto 3½ metres of wallpaper by next Wednesday may not be do-able. I will speak to Michael today, when I go in to pick up my banner, and ask whether it will be possible to hand in that wallpaper in time for the exhibition instead of submission… fingers crossed!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Right, I need to be getting on with my report and painting wallpaper so; I will try to update you on how things are, before submission, but please forgive me if I don’t.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Take care </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-76118639490389366062011-08-31T04:12:00.000-07:002011-08-31T04:12:07.118-07:00I seem to be on a roll!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, I am now in total panic mode, the day I wrote my panic list was just the early stages! I have had a full and totally manic 10 days and, although I’m beginning to see glimmers of light at the end of the tunnel, it may all be an illusion.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The panic list currently looks like this -</span></span></div><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Deadline</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Task</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">12/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: red;">Buy fabric for printing</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">13/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Put sweetie lamp together</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Finish stencilling wall</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Photograph stencilled wall for portfolio</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Make lampshade for sweetie lamp</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span> </span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Photograph sweetie lamp for portfolio</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">16-17/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Go to print workshop and print fabric for cushion covers and seat cushion </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">– this will not get done</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">23-24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Go into uni and design banner – submit for printing if approved by Michael</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Order memory stick – probably 16gb</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">31/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Submit banner for printing</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">1/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Make cushion covers</span> <span style="color: red;">and cover seat cushion</span> <span style="color: red;">on Lloyd Loom chair</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Finish putting sweetie table together</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Have finished hand printed wallpapers </span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take report for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take business plan for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Final submission</span></span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The items that are in red text have been done. Although I’m further than it looks on the list because I have made 2 drafts of the banner which I have sent to Michael, and I’m meeting up with him tomorrow to discuss it. I’m really pleased with it – it is a teaser which will hopefully persuade visitors to the exhibition to go downstairs to see my work, but I fear that Michael may be of the ‘less is more’ school of thinking… I have put all my images onto a USB memory stick just in case I have to start all over again. Also, my portfolio will be going to the printers today – and should be back in 7 working days – fingers and toes crossed!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I guess you are wondering what else I have been up to so…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Sweetie Lamp</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The Sweetie lamp is totally finished and looks brilliant, even if I do say so myself. I hand stencilled the pattern onto the lampshade, put the lampshade together and it really looks like a quirky table lamp.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Sweetie Table</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">And again, the Sweetie table is completely finished and I love it. It reminds me of a Memphis Group design, you can see it is a table but it is nothing like anybody would imagine… it is almost surreal and totally fun, but also functional.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The cushion on the chair isn’t actually finished yet, I am hand stencilling the pattern onto the fabric, and there is another layer to add yet, but I pinned it to the cushion for photographic/artistic purposes – looks lovely, doesn’t it?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Stencils</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">After finishing the Clematis stencil, and photographing it, I very quickly went on to cover it in paint and start again with the next stencil…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I was really excited by this pattern and the ‘Op Art’ aspect of it became very obvious as I walked past it – it almost appeared like the recessed panels on old doors. The way the pattern sits on the wall inspired me to create an overlaying pattern, in stencil, which I then added to the wall…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Squares + squares 8.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_68" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 267.75pt; margin-left: 138.75pt; margin-top: 1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 196.5pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-165 0 -165 21539 21600 21539 21600 0 -165 0"><imagedata o:title="Squares + squares 8" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This overlay made the pattern more exciting and exaggerated the ‘Op Art’ element to the design but, this would definitely only be suitable for a feature wall!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">There are only 14 days until final submission; I am almost totally wiped out – but I will get it all done and submitted. I may sleep all day on the 15<sup>th</sup> though. In the meantime, I have lots more to do so, speak to you soon. </span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-34320347563489523662011-08-22T08:23:00.000-07:002011-08-22T08:23:13.057-07:00Busy Weekend<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I managed to pick the Squares stencil up last Wednesday, I think that it will work really well, the breaks across each square lessen it’s flow but I think it will stencil successfully. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Additionally, I have been looking at all the ‘sweeties’ that I have painted and some of them already have scuff marks on them, just from sitting on a table! So I have made an executive decision to varnish all of them. I hadn’t intended to do so because I was very happy with the very flat matt surface that I was achieving but, to create a professional impression at the exhibition I will have to overcome this issue so, I am using a matt varnish to keep the shine down and it has added a rather nice subtle sheen which seems to have deepened the colours that I have used. The use of varnish may prove to be a successful move.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In the meantime I have had a busy, but very productive, weekend. I am on a roll, but I have definitely run out of time to go into uni to do some screen printing, which is very disappointing. It would appear that everything takes twice as long to do as I had expected… this may <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> be a good sign or, it may just mean that things would speed up once routines were formed. Only time will tell.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, I hear you asking, what did you get done during the weekend? Well, I took some more photos of the stencilled wall, using various cameras and taking advantage of different lighting and shadow and got some interesting photos which I will be adding to my portfolio…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="Potential.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_56" o:spid="_x0000_s1033" style="height: 204pt; margin-left: 55.5pt; margin-top: 5.85pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 2in; z-index: -8;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-225 0 -225 21441 21600 21441 21600 0 -225 0"><imagedata o:title="Potential" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><shape alt="Potential 2.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_57" o:spid="_x0000_s1032" style="height: 203.05pt; margin-left: 210.75pt; margin-top: 5.85pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 103.5pt; z-index: -7;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-313 0 -313 21382 21600 21382 21600 0 -313 0"><imagedata o:title="Potential 2" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Clematis stencil 1.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_58" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" style="height: 150.75pt; margin-left: 97.5pt; margin-top: -34.5pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 201pt; z-index: -6;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-161 0 -161 21493 21600 21493 21600 0 -161 0"><imagedata o:title="Clematis stencil 1" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Having obtained some photos that can be put into my portfolio I have now painted over this first stencilling and have started applying the second stencil. So, more images to follow.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Base of sweetie lamp 2.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_62" o:spid="_x0000_s1030" style="height: 456pt; margin-left: 284.25pt; margin-top: 25pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 136.5pt; z-index: -5;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-237 0 -237 21529 21600 21529 21600 0 -237 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Base of sweetie lamp 2" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The base of the Sweetie lamp has now been put together and it is looking fantastic, even if I do say so myself! I will take it into uni on Wednesday and ask to have it PAT tested.</span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCKEIAmbozyvKJ7-60heid02dzguImS_DSCtba1knqx5XVv1SQGsmdDsrUff0_IKJby3yh7O30N5UN4vUcQzIRMFOYGfmoogoecaPnNhTMOPLhCgVpLew-ZWgsuy4TUueSMSSMcyChX4/s1600/Base+of+sweetie+lamp+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJCKEIAmbozyvKJ7-60heid02dzguImS_DSCtba1knqx5XVv1SQGsmdDsrUff0_IKJby3yh7O30N5UN4vUcQzIRMFOYGfmoogoecaPnNhTMOPLhCgVpLew-ZWgsuy4TUueSMSSMcyChX4/s320/Base+of+sweetie+lamp+2.jpg" width="96" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Now that I have varnished the sweeties they have stopped developing scuff marks, which is a bonus, because I was getting worried about the impact of transporting the lamp and table into uni for the exhibition.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">To move the lamp onto the final stage I have started painting the fabric for the lampshade today. I bought several off-cuts in a local shop last week, all of which were suitably coloured for this project. The fabric I have decided to use for this lampshade is a grey/blue moiré style fabric…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Painting the lampshade.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_63" o:spid="_x0000_s1029" style="height: 135.75pt; margin-left: 27pt; margin-top: 17.1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 208.3pt; z-index: -4;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-156 0 -156 21481 21621 21481 21621 0 -156 0"><imagedata o:title="Painting the lampshade" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The table has started coming together too. I have finished painting and varnishing all the sweeties and I have also decorated and varnished the table top. I am totally thrilled with how the table top looks; it is exactly how I wanted it. The Op-Art effect works very well too. I think I can honestly say that it is one of my triumphs. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Painted and varnished sweeties.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_64" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 177.75pt; margin-left: 54pt; margin-top: 4.1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 308.85pt; z-index: -3;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-105 0 -105 21509 21610 21509 21610 0 -105 0"><imagedata o:title="Painted and varnished sweeties" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Table top.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_65" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 192.45pt; margin-left: 53.95pt; margin-top: 1.05pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 308.85pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-105 0 -105 21381 21610 21381 21610 0 -105 0"><imagedata o:title="Table top" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image007.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-29568806330099375472011-08-15T09:27:00.000-07:002011-08-15T09:29:02.627-07:00News!<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Well I have been busy working on painting stencils and sweeties all weekend, and it looks as though I may be doing the same for the rest of the week! Progress is very slow due to a combination of a) quantity of things that need doing b) waiting for layers of paint to dry. I had hoped to go to the Print Workshop on campus and get some screen printing done, but at this moment my hopes are fading fast.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I have now made a final decision on the base for the sweetie lamp, after a great deal of thinking about it – I hadn’t been happy with how I had been planning to lay the sweeties out, everything had seemed too heavy. The new layout has only three colours and is much simpler in shape…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The sweeties will form a spiral when they have been properly joined, which will be at the same time that it is wired up. Once it has been wired up I will take it into the Athena Building at uni to have it PAT tested. It makes sense to have done this before adding a lampshade.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The sweetie table, which I am making for the AD11 exhibition, is coming along slowly. I now have a table top, which has been reduced in size to 600mm across. The original had been 750mm across and it was far too wide and liable to get knocked over. I have been trying to work out how to create a base to the pedestal of the table, which is wide enough to avoid imbalance…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, this is how I will put the pedestal together… obviously I need to get on with filling, sanding and painting in the meantime or it will never be finished! So I think that is enough writing and time to get busy with the paint brush…</span></span></div><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">p.s. only managed to change one item to red on the panic list so far!!!!</span>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-71367684324173833352011-08-07T02:19:00.000-07:002011-08-07T02:19:11.714-07:00Don't panic!<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">I couldn’t sleep last night because I was worrying about everything that I need to get done before final submission. So, today, I decided to write a list of jobs that I need to get done and then </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">prioritise</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> the jobs so that I have a schedule to work to: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Panic List 6/8/11</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">List of to-dos </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Buy a memory stick to submit all digital files</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Decide on size of memory stick – 8gb or 16gb?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Buy fabric for printing</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Print fabric for cushion covers and seat cushion</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Finish stencilling the walls</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Photograph walls for portfolio</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Put together sweetie lamp</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Put together sweetie table</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Make lampshade for sweetie lamp</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Photograph sweetie lamp for portfolio</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Finish banner ready for printing</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Finish writing report</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Take report for printing and binding</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Write business plan</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Take business plan for printing and binding</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Make cushion covers</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Cover seat cushion for Lloyd Loom chair</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Hand print 2 wallpapers </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Put together final submission</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Decide upon photo book or individual pages for portfolio</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Submission 14/9/11</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">24/8/11 - Order memory stick – Realisation file is already 5gb so it may need to be the 16gb</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">12/8/11 – Buy fabric for printing</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">16-17/8/11 – Print fabric</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/8/11 – Finish stencilling wall</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11 - Photograph wall</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">13/8/11 - Put sweetie lamp together</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11 – Make lampshade for sweetie lamp</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11 – Photograph sweetie lamp</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">23-24/8/11 – Go into uni and design banner</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">31/8/11 – submit banner for printing</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11 – Put sweetie table together</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11 – take Report for printing and binding</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11 – take Business plan for printing and binding</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11 – have finished printing hand printed wallpapers</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">11/9/11 – have put submission together</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">1/9/11 - Make cushion covers and cover for seat cushion</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span style="color: purple;">Deadline</span></strong></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span style="color: purple;">Task</span></strong></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">12/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Buy fabric for printing</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">13/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Put sweetie lamp together</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Finish stencilling wall</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Photograph stencilled wall for portfolio</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Make lampshade for sweetie lamp</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">15/8/11 </span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Photograph sweetie lamp for portfolio</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">16-17/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Go to print workshop and print fabric for cushion covers and seat cushion</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">23-24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Go into uni and design banner – submit for printing if approved by Michael</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">24/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Order memory stick – probably 16gb</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">31/8/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Submit banner for printing</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">1/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Make cushion covers and cover seat cushion on Lloyd Loom chair</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Finish putting sweetie table together</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Have finished hand printed wallpapers </span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take report for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">9/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Take business plan for printing and binding</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">11/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Put final submission together</span></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">14/9/11</span></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: purple;">Final submission</span></span></div></td></tr>
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</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I have called this my ‘Panic List’ and now that I have made it I can check it every time I start panicking. I have kept the ‘Word’ version of the list and whenever I complete a task I will change the text to red - this will work as a reassurance when I start to see more red than black text. I hope this will help to keep me calm.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I have also spend several hours looking at the beginnings of my report and working out what I wish to communicate within its contents and how I will put it all together.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">It has, all in all, been a productive day but I haven’t managed to change any of items on my list red yet...hopefully that will start tomorrow! </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I think that this is a do-able schedule, but it certainly will not be easy to achieve. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">Stencilling update</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I added a second colour to the stencilled wall on Friday afternoon and I thought that it would be a good idea to share my thoughts with you...</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I used the repositionable spray mount this time, which gave a much better attachment between the stencil and the wall, unfortunately I cannot find my stencil brushes anywhere - so now I’m going to have to buy some more - because the paint brush I’m using is applying too much paint and it is still seeping under the stencil. It is so frustrating!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="2nd colour 2.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_37" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 183.75pt; margin-left: 255.75pt; margin-top: 8pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 117pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-277 0 -277 21512 21600 21512 21600 0 -277 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="2nd colour 2" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="2nd colour 1.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_32" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 110.25pt; margin-left: 0.75pt; margin-top: 1pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 206.25pt; z-index: -3;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-157 0 -157 21453 21679 21453 21679 0 -157 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="2nd colour 1" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Anyway, I must keep going, time is running out. </span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-85465453138844633242011-08-04T09:58:00.000-07:002011-08-04T09:58:31.996-07:00Stencilling<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So here I am again with another quick catch up of progress. I went in to Uni yesterday for a meeting about the AD11 exhibition… of the 23 people taking part only 5 turned up! The lack of participants made it a short but sweet meeting where we decided that we need Mike Brown to finish the logo, so that we can have printed materials made up, and also so it can be passed on to Neti Shev, so that Neti, in turn, can put this onto the exhibition website. In the meantime we need Neti to name and shame anybody that hasn’t yet given him their info for uploading on to the website. We could not make any further decisions without everybody else (or at least a wider representation of the group) taking part. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This short meeting was almost a waste of my valuable time, and would have been if it hadn’t been for the fact that I also picked up my digitally printed ‘wallpapers’ and also gave Julian, in the workshop, the mylar that I have recently bought along with pdf versions of my stencils. Both of these jobs were becoming pressing and I am relieved that they have now been done. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Whilst I was in Middlesbrough Julian managed to laser cut the 2 layers of my Clematis stencil and this afternoon I have started stencilling a corner of my bedroom! It will be both useful and extremely satisfying to see my design on a wall and I am looking forward to getting it finished but – I’m not sure how my husband will feel about the bedroom when he gets back from his business trip to Hong Kong!!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have done two panels of the first layer so far and have had two issues… a) some of the paint hasn’t stayed within the shape because I had too much paint on the brush and b) I should have used spray mount instead of masking tape to fasten the stencil to the wall. Obviously that needs to be repositionable spray mount! This will make moving the stencil and getting a smooth join against the wall far easier – I have now found a can of spray mount and will go and continue painting shortly.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">An update to my business cards seemed fairly important too. I have redesigned them with the logo on the patterned side of the card which has allowed me to increase the size of the text on the reverse side and they should be delivered on Monday.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">As an addition to the cards I also ordered some little postage stamp sized stickers that I can apply to my products and I am considering either printing myself, or having printed, some Whimsy & Quirk t-shirts! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Right I’m off to do some more stencilling, bye :D</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">ps need more followers!</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-8358346599124470192011-07-21T07:00:00.000-07:002011-07-21T07:00:46.326-07:00Arrival of the business cards<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Well, Moo.com are a very efficient organisation, and a real pleasure to deal with. My business cards and postcards arrived today. They are beautiful. Lovely printing job, quality card, fantastic POS/marketing materials enclosed – I am very impressed.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><shape alt="Photo of business cards.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_27" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 173.25pt; margin-left: 173.25pt; margin-top: 36.5pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 245.5pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-132 0 -132 21506 21644 21506 21644 0 -132 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Photo of business cards" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">There is just one large fly in my ointment! – the text that I wrote for the back of my cards is too small – obviously working in pixels infringes on my perception of size – all my own fault. So I will have to amend this and get some more cards printed. It would appear that life isn’t always a bowl of cherries </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"> but I’m very glad I discovered this problem now rather than a week before the exhibition…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The postcards are perfect because it only needs very small text on them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, that update came a lot sooner that the last one, didn't it!?</span></span>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-23461230730029178802011-07-21T05:51:00.000-07:002011-07-21T05:54:24.690-07:00Even more massive update!!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, where on earth did the last 2 months disappear to? I have lots to tell you about but the difficulty is putting it all into some sort of order… I seem to be busily chasing my tail in circles whilst putting out various fires (please forgive my mix of metaphors). An example of what I mean is… on Sunday 17th I planned to spend the afternoon stencilling patterns onto the sweeties for my ‘Sweetie’ lamp. These are the small but time consuming jobs that I never seem to have the time to get on with. Before I started painting I checked on line, to see if there were any emails or messages, and noticed that Moo.com (the company I planned to use for printing my business cards and postcards) were offering a 30% discount on printing until Wednesday – and that is why I spent the afternoon designing and ordering my business cards and postcards instead of stencilling! Another fire put out, because I did need to get on with ordering the business cards, but I still haven’t started the other job.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">My Wallpaper* magazine arrived on Friday 15<sup>th</sup>. It is the handmade issue which has my cover design on the front. I am so proud of it, and it looks so good, that I haven’t removed the plastic wrapper. It may get spoilt if I do! Since I worked on that design they have offered the opportunity to do something similar. This time it is their 15<sup>th</sup> anniversary which coincides with the 150<sup>th</sup> issue. The design options were to select any of the 150 past front covers for your copy of the September 2011 issue or a front cover cut up into sections and each section can then be filled with the same section from any of the 150 covers. I chose the second option and am now eagerly anticipating my next magazine cover arriving soon.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">And now for updates on where I am with all my projects…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The Chair</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I am planning to start with a table lamp rather than a standard lamp. And have been painting the sweeties. I am using a combination of Farrow & Ball paints, half used tins of paint and discontinued lines of paint that would otherwise be skipped.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Sweeties after painting 2.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_26" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 120pt; margin-left: 60.75pt; margin-top: 6.8pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 298.3pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-109 0 -109 21330 21614 21330 21614 0 -109 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Sweeties after painting 2" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLjGdW0jhdntMdX_YIskKTiJRBojdN-NzrLElKsMmfvlOJ2krSZ3XEd0ugF1UNUGb1i0Hk-wvwrJm67jBnQb11tKsc3DfhnN1O8QgLrirtl8lz7L7EH45979Zs452aAuu7b8WEFAlxVE/s1600/Sweeties+after+painting+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyLjGdW0jhdntMdX_YIskKTiJRBojdN-NzrLElKsMmfvlOJ2krSZ3XEd0ugF1UNUGb1i0Hk-wvwrJm67jBnQb11tKsc3DfhnN1O8QgLrirtl8lz7L7EH45979Zs452aAuu7b8WEFAlxVE/s320/Sweeties+after+painting+2.jpg" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have decided upon this layout for the first lamp – it is quite a traditional shape for a lamp base but I think that it will be a quirky and interesting lamp once I have finished. After I have completed this module I will develop this range and add other pieces of furniture to it. I will also look at the possibilities of incorporating my acoustics research into this project and making the sweeties more of a feature with a hidden purpose!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I do plan to make an occasional table to sit the lamp on – this will added to the combined look at the design exhibition AD11 in September.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Whimsy & Quirk’s Website</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The website is still under construction, but is up and running, do have a look and tell me what you think. The address is still </span></span><a href="http://www.whimsyandquirk.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">www.whimsyandquirk.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> and my email address is </span></span><a href="mailto:nicky@whimsyandquirk.co.uk"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">nicky@whimsyandquirk.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Having used a package website I had thought that the uploading of images would be simple and had planned to include some animation on the website. But I could not get my images to behave as I had wanted and they kept moving over the page, so for the time being I have opted for a more simple approach. This will, in turn, allow me the time to develop additional pages on the website rather than focusing on one page. At this time there are 4 pages – home, gallery, blog and contact. I plan to add this update to the new blog on my website.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Graphics Tablet</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The theory behind this as a good one but, in practice, wasn’t great. It will take time to develop the co-ordination between hand and screen, time that isn’t currently available – so my new toy will have to wait until I have finished university and therefore have fewer pressing deadlines. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The Design Show</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">We have started having meetings about the show. It is a group consisting of Fine Artists, Digital Art and Designers and Future Designers. The meetings are not comfortable and I wish that I didn’t need to attend – I hate confrontation. I do understand that everybody else has worked equally hard and want to show their work in the best possible way – but not everybody seems to appreciate this.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">As things stand at the moment 2 Fine Artists will have a floor of the building each, 7 Digital Art and Designers will have a large room between them and the 13 Future Designers will have a landing and a smaller room between them! So much for my planning how I wanted to lay my work out for the show. Ah well, c’est la vie! Hopefully we will find a way of juggling the space so everybody gets the space they want or need. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Business Cards</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">As I mentioned earlier I have now ordered my business cards and postcards, I didn’t place a large order but I wanted to have a few handy and ready for the exhibition. I have ordered 100 cards with 10 designs, so I will have 10 of each design. I have only ordered 20 postcards and in the end only managed 9 designs, so there will be an odd number of 2 of the designs! I am looking forward to seeing them in real life. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Wallpapers</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In an effort to complete as much work as possible, before I get to the point of panicking, I have completed 3 designs that I will have printed on the large format printer at uni, they will each be printed in a 4 metre run to show how my wallpapers would look when digitally printed. I am really looking forward to seeing them all at the Show. Interestingly, I went in to uni on Monday 18th to do an update to my interim presentation, the thinking behind this was to show the other Future Designers what I am doing and also permit me to see what they are doing. Not many people turned up because the uni email system was off at the weekend! Whilst there Michael mentioned the possibility of encrypting my images and selling the password, so that anybody, anywhere in the world, could buy my wallpaper designs and get them printed locally. This would save incurring prohibitive delivery charges. I think that this is a brilliant concept and I will research this, and the need for a ‘Users Licence Agreement’ – this would need to be a legally binding document so there may be a lot of expense involved, but it would only need to be written once. This is very definitely serious food for thought.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Stencils</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I am still working on converting my designs into stencils. 2 of the designs are complete and ready to take to the workshop to be cut out by the laser. The third design has a lot of small detail and may not be finished in time for the show in September. Obviously once it has been drawn it can be cut out as many times as is required.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">My thinking is that stencils, though initially seeming expensive, are generally cheaper than 2-3 rolls of wallpaper, they can be painted in colours of the customer’s choice rather than mine, they can be re-used in another room or colour and they also offer a creative person an opportunity to individualise the design to suit themselves. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I think that that is enough catching up for today and I will definitely make the effort to write again, and sooner! Although in reality submission is on 14<sup>th</sup> September which is only 8 weeks away, so I shan’t make any promises. ;) </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Talk to you soon.</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-87561392727352637132011-05-22T09:14:00.000-07:002011-05-22T09:14:46.678-07:00Massive update<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">…and the world didn’t end yesterday as some people were predicting – I’m quite relieved! But, I cannot believe that it is over a month since I wrote anything here – time for some serious catching up!</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Yesterday I did something different and fun, I designed my own cover for the August edition of Wallpaper* magazine. There is a limited palette of shapes/photos/patterns/text that you put together, in layers, to create your own personalized cover and then in August you receive your copy of Wallpaper* with your own front cover and slightly personalized back cover too. I had hoped to have the option of uploading one of my own designs which would have been really exciting, but that wasn’t possible, so this is what I came up with…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">…can’t wait for it to pop through the letter box!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Anyway, since the last time I wrote anything here I have been busy thinking about the chair and what exactly I plan to do with it, I have been doing some screen printing in the Print Workshop at uni, I have been thinking about reviving and improving a project that I worked on as an undergraduate, contemplating the development of Whimsy & Quirk’s website, I have bought a graphics tablet and have generally been planning how and what I want to show at the end of year Design Show</span><span style="color: purple;">.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The Chair</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I am definitely planning to hand print some fabric for the seat cushion, so I now know that I need to redraw my circles pattern so that it can be cut into a stencil (I want to convert it into stencils anyway because part of my business plan is to design and sell stencils). But before I do any of that I need to decide upon a definitive colour scheme so that I can create a whole range of items with a cohesive colour theme.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Rustoleum colour chart.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_13" o:spid="_x0000_s1031" style="height: 300.75pt; margin-left: 69pt; margin-top: 91.05pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 293.25pt; z-index: -6;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-110 0 -110 21546 21655 21546 21655 0 -110 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Rustoleum colour chart" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I started by drawing the chair and then colouring the image using, as inspiration, the Trend Bible colour predictions, and then trying to ‘match’ those colours to the range of spray paints Painter’s Touch by Rust-Oleum (</span></span><a href="http://www.imaginespraycreate.com/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">www.imaginespraycreate.com</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan to use spray paint in the hope that it won’t clog up the weave of the chair.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%;">My main issue with all this is that I’m still not happy about any of the predicted trends, so it then became necessary to think about my own trend, not a prediction but my range of spring/summer 2012 colours, these are colours that I am happy with, they work well together and will also work happily with a range of products. These colours are chosen as my spring/summer 2012 colour palette because the colours are based upon a Mediterranean summer</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">, redolent of the scent of lavender and filled with the buzzing of bees…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The sources of the images are -</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">1. http://images.mooseyscountrygarden.com/moosey-garden-forums/l/lavender_bumblebee2_164.jpg</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">2. http://www.johnnyjet.com/image/PicForNewsletterClubMedOpioJune2007LavenderPostcard.JPG</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">3. http://www.discoverlavender.com/Lavender-Farm-5.jpg </span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">4. http://www.wayfaring.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/provence-countryside-lavender.jpg</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">5. and 6. My own photos</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">7. http://www.smppa.org.uk/Natural_History/Birds/Images/Large/kingfisher-a-07.10.04_bf.jpg</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">8. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/01/article-0-01CE754100000578-956_468x628.jpg</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">9. http://www.francemonthly.com/n/0902/images/olive-tree.jpg</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">10. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.chiropractic-help.com/images/olive_tree.jpg"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">http://www.chiropractic-help.com/images/olive_tree.jpg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">These websites were consulted on 9/5/11</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Based upon the colours that I have selected (above) from my ‘Mood Board’ I have put together this little image to show how the colours will work together throughout the rest of this module.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">So, at this point I have decided that I will spray paint the body of the chair in almond, which will work well with my colour palette…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">…which now means that I need to get on and paint the chair. But there are plenty of other jobs that I need to get on with too.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Print Workshop</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I had a great afternoon in the Print Workshop, I took along two differently scaled versions of the circle pattern to print, but I didn’t get to</span><span style="color: purple;"> print both – I started with the larger scaled image and found that some of the circles with the lighter weighted lines weren’t printing properly, so obviously the smaller scaled image would have been even less likely to print as desired. So, next time I go in I will have the images drawn in heavier lines.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Sweetie Lamp</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This is a module that I worked on during my first year as an undergraduate. The module was about re-using and recycling instead of throwing away, so we had to make something using recycled materials or rubbish. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">My lamp was made of mdf circles which my husband collected as waste from his place of work and were painted using left over household emulsion, an old lampshade (the frame of which was expanded in the university workshop), old string and buttons, a damaged roll of greaseproof paper, Quality Street wrappers. I named it the Sweetie Lamp because the base reminded me of sweetie necklaces that I had as a child, probably due to the colours.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In theory the base can be created in the same way as last time, but using my current colours. But, this time I will use a real lampshade frame and cover it in fabric, hand-printed with the circle pattern. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><shape alt="Draft sweetie lamp.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_18" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 544.5pt; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-top: 0.8pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 250.3pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-129 0 -129 21540 21617 21540 21617 0 -129 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Draft sweetie lamp" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image006.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I feel that the revamped Sweetie Lamp will look fantastic at the show, where it will be sat with the chair and wallpapers all working together with their colour theme – I’m really looking forward to seeing it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Whimsy & Quirk’s website</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have already started on the website, but I am looking at/researching each stage as I go along. I have bought my website from Mr Site (</span></span><a href="http://www.mrsite.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.mrsite.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">), I am using the Takeaway edition which has e-commerce facilities, and have already set up the basics. The website address is </span></span><a href="http://www.whimsyandquirk.co.uk/"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">www.whimsyandquirk.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> and my email address is </span></span><a href="mailto:nicky@whimsyandquirk.co.uk"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">nicky@whimsyandquirk.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">, although the website is currently under construction.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Obviously there are some basic design decisions to be made right from </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">the start, so I have been looking at other websites and have come to the conclusion that design websites seem to appear at their best with a white background and simple black or grey text – I think that this is because it allows the imagery to work for itself rather than competing with a busy or colourful background or even a flowing or over decorative font. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This is as far as I have got with the website, it will take some time because I have no previous experience of setting up a website and it is all a massive learning curve. My next decisions will be how many pages the website should have and do I need any widgets!?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Graphics Tablet</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I need to re-draw my circle pattern so that it can be cut into stencils, so I thought that a Graphics Tablet may speed the re-drawing up by making it more straightforward – it must be easier to draw with a pen than a mouse – the graphics tablet plugs into a USB socket in the pc and works as an input device, but you use a special pen and draw onto the tablet… simple! I will have to be trying this out during the next week. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The Design Show</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">For the design show I am picturing (in my mind’s eye at the moment) two upright panels, possible 2.5 metres high, stood at a right angle and joined at the angle, with wallpapers coming over the top of the panels and pooling into rolls on the floor. There will be both hand-printed and digitally printed wallpapers, in the clematis and circles design, all using the same colour palette but with variations. The sweetie lamp will be in the corner where the two panels meet and the chair will be stood next to the lamp. I am hoping to find another chair so I can have one seat cushion with the circles pattern and one with the clematis pattern, but I am having difficulty getting one at the moment. I will try to find the time to draw this during the week, because we will soon come to the point where Michael will be trying to work out how much space everybody will need for the show.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This means that there is lots of work for me to be getting on with, and really I didn’t have any spare time for designing my front cover for Wallpaper* magazine, but I did enjoy it!</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-38132154892691230072011-04-19T10:41:00.000-07:002011-04-19T10:46:58.620-07:00Whimsy & Quirk's new logo<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Well it’s definitely a long time since I last wrote anything here… but here I am again. I am now fully recovered and have gone back to work; yesterday I went back in to Uni for the first time, since my operation, for a tutorial with Michael.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">We are now nearly half way through the Realisation module, which is rather alarming, and will soon need to be putting together an interim presentation of what I have covered and achieved so far, so this seems to be an ideal point at which to sort my thoughts out and organise everything.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have continued working with the circles, but at the same time I have been working on my company logo. There is a requirement for me to have a portfolio before the end of this module and ideally all the images in my portfolio should have the Whimsy & Quirk logo in a corner. This being the case, perhaps I should start by telling you about my logo design.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Originally I had been thinking of designing circles as part of the logo design but they developed into something bigger, but the designs filling the circles would work just as well filling a letter as a circle, so that was my starting point. I wanted to use text the represented the two individual words ‘Whimsy’ and ‘Quirk’ and originally I planned to use writing samples of two good friends – I felt that it would add to the quirkiness if it almost looked hand written – so I asked my friend Nina to write ‘Whimsy’ because her writing has a very pleasant dreamy and whimsical quality to it…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" filled="f" id="_x0000_t75" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f"><stroke joinstyle="miter"></stroke><formulas><f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></f><f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></f><f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></f><f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></f><f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></f><f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></f><f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></f><f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></f></formulas><path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect" o:extrusionok="f"></path><lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></lock></shapetype><shape alt="Whimsy 4.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" style="height: 134.25pt; margin-left: 78.75pt; margin-top: 7.3pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 265pt; z-index: -3;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-122 0 -122 21479 21641 21479 21641 0 -122 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Whimsy 4" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Tim wrote ‘Quirky’ because I feel that his writing is a quirky mix of Arty, curly and also strong and confident…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9i9YTb72DVCjesn3dx9GVoeMO2DKbfpioQd2845DLLVn4mguqaTsg6P9AKU9bK6nrCdTQMpib-iASseuhl38iSH_A07HSVGlN4aidLhQ7sZuSQWu-U4sHzraI7tApssuVOVzaQRcelo/s1600/Quirk+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9i9YTb72DVCjesn3dx9GVoeMO2DKbfpioQd2845DLLVn4mguqaTsg6P9AKU9bK6nrCdTQMpib-iASseuhl38iSH_A07HSVGlN4aidLhQ7sZuSQWu-U4sHzraI7tApssuVOVzaQRcelo/s320/Quirk+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><shape alt="Quirk 4.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_17" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" style="height: 106.5pt; margin-left: 84.75pt; margin-top: 3.5pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 283pt; z-index: -2;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-114 0 -114 21296 21638 21296 21638 0 -114 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Quirk 4" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I thought that these very different writing styles would represent Whimsy & Quirk perfectly. I scanned the words into my laptop and opened them in Illustrator and then drew around them, but when it came to form a ‘clipping mask’ which should cut the shape out of a pattern it would not work. I spent 4 days trying to make it work, getting more and more frustrated on each day until… I gave up! My next best option was to download suitable fonts, to which end I went on </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">http://www.ultimatefontdownload.com (consulted on 26/3/11), paid $19.99, which was approximately £13 and downloaded 10,000 that are licensed for commercial use – perfect. The combination of letters, that I chose to form the logo, look like this…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Delta Hey Max Nine"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Delta Hey Max Nine";">W</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Penshurst Bold", "sans-serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Penshurst Bold";">h</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Casua; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Casua;">i</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Penshurst Bold", "sans-serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Penshurst Bold";">m</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Birmingham; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Birmingham;">s</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Penshurst Bold", "sans-serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Penshurst Bold";">y </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">& </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: QuigleyWiggly; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: QuigleyWiggly;">Q</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "You are what you eat"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "You are what you eat";">u</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cream and sugar"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cream and sugar";">i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "You are what you eat"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "You are what you eat";">r</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cream and sugar"; font-size: 48pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cream and sugar";">k</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Whimsy is made up of W in Delta Hey Max Nine font, HM and Y are written in Penshurst font - bold, I used the Casua font and S has been written in Birmingham font.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Quirk has been created by using the Q of Quigley Wiggly font, because it reminds me of Tim’s Q, the U and R are made up of You are what you eat font and the I and K have been written in Cream and sugar font.</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">After having decided upon how the logo should be written I then had to decide upon the pattern designs that would be behind the letters. I managed to incorporate an ‘Op Art’ design, my clematis design from the Experimentation and Feasibility module, some cherry blossom that I took at photo of, a touch of Art Deco inspiration and also some traditional basket weave – the final result looks like this…</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5Ww42rf68zKv5w3v1i_G0XYIyDMbL2cZ5Mfz9pM60TTDOcpj7h-fzL4rs5Hx86kPY1TghTkuKQHzhk0O4KBnR_G1MROrJCI8uXOC66hlANVnZPqBChZVBMmpHu77U7FPU5q1nx0q9tk/s1600/Whimsy+%2526+Quirk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" i8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5Ww42rf68zKv5w3v1i_G0XYIyDMbL2cZ5Mfz9pM60TTDOcpj7h-fzL4rs5Hx86kPY1TghTkuKQHzhk0O4KBnR_G1MROrJCI8uXOC66hlANVnZPqBChZVBMmpHu77U7FPU5q1nx0q9tk/s640/Whimsy+%2526+Quirk.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><shape alt="Whimsy & Quirk.jpg" id="Picture_x0020_19" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 155.25pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-top: 5.15pt; mso-position-horizontal-relative: text; mso-position-horizontal: absolute; mso-position-vertical-relative: text; mso-position-vertical: absolute; mso-wrap-distance-bottom: 0; mso-wrap-distance-left: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-right: 9pt; mso-wrap-distance-top: 0; mso-wrap-style: square; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 415.3pt; z-index: -1;" type="#_x0000_t75" wrapcoords="-78 0 -78 21496 21610 21496 21610 0 -78 0"><span style="color: purple;"><imagedata o:title="Whimsy & Quirk" src="file:///C:\Users\Nicky\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg"></imagedata><wrap type="tight"></wrap></span></shape><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">I am pleased with my final logo design. It has gone through several stages, including one that had very wild colours and may have alienated half my potential clients before they had looked at my work!</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">Whilst I sort out my mind and what I need to do and in what order I am also preparing to go on a print workshop, so I need to work out a design that can translate into a screen print to be printed onto fabric – potentially for the Lloyd Loom seat cover – so I need to do some serious thinking about what I wish to achieve. This is my most urgent job on the ‘to do’ list. So I will get on with that and then tell you some more of my plans. In the meantime I would be interested to hear any comments you have to make about my new logo design.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-48066948163540099952011-03-08T04:41:00.000-08:002011-03-08T04:42:19.242-08:00What's new with Circles!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I’m feeling much than the last time I wrote! Although I’m still not permitted to lift or stretch, or drive, and I’m still off work.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have been busily working on my circles, converting some of them into Illustrator images, testing how they would look in wallpaper designs, exploring scale and colour. I am not totally happy with the colourways that I have tried so far, but I will keep working with that issue. The colourways that I have been using up until now were all obtained from Trend Bible (</span><a href="http://www.trendbible.co.uk/blog/home-trends/home-trends-autumnwinter-201112-preview%20consulted%206/3/11"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.trendbible.co.uk/blog/home-trends/home-trends-autumnwinter-201112-preview</span></a><span style="color: purple;"> consulted 6/3/11). I have been working with their colour predictions for Autumn/Winter 2011-12. Trend Bible are an extremely clever company who attend trade shows etc and then put together trend predictions for their customers and the most amazing bi-annual trend books which are aesthetically inspired and inspirational. The University has some of these trend books in the library, but they do not have the most recent editions, which is very disappointing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">This is just one of the trend predictions from Trend Bible. It is beautifully put together and the imagery is imaginative and inspires me to create.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Anyway, here is a small selection of the work that I have achieved recently…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The single repeat is in the ‘Alpine Shelter’ colours from Trend Bible and the colours used in the room above are from their ‘Geographique’ trend. The ‘Geographique’ colours are possibly the best colours, from my perspective, because they are warm, vibrant and feel alive – so I need to try amending the way I have put them together. I am very pleased with the slightly oriental look that my pattern has though, this is mainly due to the 'Spirograph' style flowers which look similar to Japanese chrysanthemums.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I will continue designing circles, but within theme ranges, converting them into Illustrator images, exploring different ways of laying them out into patterns… and also how to convert them into stencils, because that is a direction that Whimsy & Quirk may potentially move toward. </span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-54915923204025576652011-02-24T08:37:00.000-08:002011-02-24T08:37:22.154-08:00First decision made for Realisation<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, here I am, a week after my operation. I have not managed much in the way of work for the Realisation module during this last week, for obvious reasons, and still at this point I am very uncomfortable and can’t stay focussed on anything for very long (or sat in one position either!). Hernia repairs are not fun.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Anyway, whinge over, I have been thinking about what I would like to achieve, and have in place, by the end of this module. One of the things that I would like to incorporate into the remit of Whimsy & Quirk is to take pieces of vintage furniture and ‘tart’ them up, starting with the old Lloyd Loom chair that I have upstairs. The thought process is to paint the basic structure, recover the seat cushion in a textile designed and printed by me, and then add a cushion that works with the overall style of the colours and patterns used on the chair. I hope to obtain further supplies of chairs of this nature from Darwin’s Sales Rooms in Bedale, they specialise in auctions of house clearance furniture and knick knacks. It would be fantastic if I could have a range of different chairs – maybe designed specifically for bedrooms? – all brought back to life, in different colour schemes and pattern styles, ready for the show in September. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">According to Lloyd Loom’s website (</span><a href="http://www.lloydloom.com/home"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.lloydloom.com/home</span></a><span style="color: purple;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>consulted on 24/2/11) ‘Genuine British Lloyd Loom furniture is manufactured from woven twisted paper on a solid beech-wood frame.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Each piece – whether for conservatory, kitchen or restaurant – is individually handmade by craftsmen to your specification and can be in any colour you like.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Our furniture is tremendously strong and, unlike the cane and rattan furniture which inspired the original elegant designs, it will last a generation.’</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The chair that I have, upstairs, is at least 40 years old, and may be older because it has brass caps on its feet. It truly deserves a facelift.</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-16259042389576789002011-02-14T08:52:00.000-08:002011-02-14T08:52:32.529-08:00Lack of Focus!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Well, I think maybe I’m a little pre-occupied by my impending stay in hospital, because I am having great difficulty staying focused on anything at the moment. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Tomorrow I am meeting Michael so that he can brief me on the Realisation module, so I really wish I was in a more positive place and therefore able to tell Michael what I plan to achieve during the module – but I’m not. Whilst I’m in university tomorrow I plan to take a piece of acoustic foam with me and visit Julian in the workshops – I’m hoping that Julian will have the time to use the laser cutting machine on the acoustic foam to find out how well it cuts. The ease with which the foam cuts may help me to decide upon a direction for this module, although I still haven’t tried dyeing the foam! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Having done so much research into acoustics it would be very satisfying to do something with the information I’ve gathered during the Realisation module, but not if the final product has no aesthetic value because, after all, I wish to design surface patterns rather than purely functional objects.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNIY2wYs0uqyhIiEjn63Jm77hc3ZLTtpltqPXO6eA3XKuRKPFe6tP0mXa7R5b_k-sM-mNp4nM4hhiyF8p8O5G_W3-Qc1WARBLtbVcmSRvJeYM9TvZ3FoQjmqAcyNrbjvUonpqPXcKidU/s1600/Kestrel+Acoustics+-+Jupiter+Flat+tile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNIY2wYs0uqyhIiEjn63Jm77hc3ZLTtpltqPXO6eA3XKuRKPFe6tP0mXa7R5b_k-sM-mNp4nM4hhiyF8p8O5G_W3-Qc1WARBLtbVcmSRvJeYM9TvZ3FoQjmqAcyNrbjvUonpqPXcKidU/s1600/Kestrel+Acoustics+-+Jupiter+Flat+tile.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;">http://kestrel-acoustics.com/acousticfoam.htm consulted on 7/2/11</span></span></div><div class="NormalParagraphStyle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-hyphenate: none;"><br />
</div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">In the meantime I have been working on images that could be used in the logo design for Whimsy & Quirk. I thought it might be interesting to have a few alternative designs rather than only one… but I haven’t made a final decision yet. As a starting place I have been using a circle as a template and just filling the space with different finishes and images. I have found this very therapeutic and have filled several circles, I have even been playing with overlaying one with another…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Some of the images work better than others but it may be possible to develop some of them into wallpaper/stencil/cushion cover designs too. I will be continuing with this whilst I’m ‘temporarily out of action’!</span></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-47352183945131982512011-02-01T08:56:00.000-08:002011-02-01T08:56:09.721-08:00Hmmmmm!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">We haven’t been briefed for the Realisation module, but I have decided to start thinking about what I hope and plan to achieve during the module. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">To begin this process I have been having a brain dump! I am a little confused because I have been researching and thinking about acoustics during my Creative Interaction module and I am unsure as to whether I wish to continue with that or return to my hand-printed wallpapers.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, brain dump…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Logo Design. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I wish to design a logo for Whimsy & Quirk (http://whimsyandquirk.blogspot.com/). The logo I have been using was just a temporary design and now it is time to give serious consideration to a definitive logo. This must be achieved in preparation for business cards etc are dealt with.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Acoustic absorbers. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I need to establish answers to some questions in order to make decisions upon whether to move forward with this. a) is it possible to obtain acoustic foam in a variety of colours or only grey? b) is it possible to dye acoustic foam? I will have to attempt this if there are no other colours apart from grey. Further to these questions, and if I am continuing with this topic, I need to 1) find images of acoustically designed restaurants 2) reflect upon styles of interior and how to approach a combination of acoustics and spatial design for different restaurant styles 3) think about sharper and more contemporary patterns/images for use in the design of restaurant interiors – flowers aren’t always appropriate!</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Research up-cycling and recycling. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Another consideration for the Realisation modules is stencilling my own upholstery fabrics, making some 3d appliqué cushion covers and ‘tarting up’ old furniture. I have an old Lloyd Loom chair that I could start with.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">Manufacture of frames. </span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">As part of my exercise in considering my options I am also considering making canvases based upon hand stencilled fabrics and 3-d appliqué, but for this I have to be able to obtain frames…or do I want to make them sound absorbers?</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Further to these questions and considerations that I also need to give attention to such as 1) if I make canvases would it be worth putting a layer of acoustic wadding behind the fabric to absorb surplus sound? In what depth sizes is it available? 2) which textiles will work well with making canvas art? And which will paint well? hessian? wool felt? canvas? calico? I may need to do more experimentation. 3) what are the best fabric paints to use? in what size containers are they available? What are the different fixing methods available?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, what am I doing for Realisation? Am I still doing hand-printed wallpapers? appliqué? furniture? canvases? or acoustics? I need to decide and then get on with it, as a matter of some urgency!!!!!! </span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-79005013176335774972011-01-25T13:05:00.000-08:002011-01-25T13:05:46.267-08:00Phew!<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that is the Creative Interaction module finished...just have to wait for my grade now! Fingers crossed. I'm feeling totally exhausted, I think the adrenaline rush, caused by finishing everything off and presenting my work today, has faded and I think that it will be an early night tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I almost had a total disaster though, I hadn't noticed that we also had to submit a 500 word reflective report about what we felt that we had learnt from teamworking - so I had to write one in an hour - no pressure at all!!! Anyway, it's all done, and hopefully I was sufficiently reflective. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now I have a little break before starting the Realisation module, although I will start making notes and preparing. I'm going to be having an operation next month and may get behind whilst I'm recuperating, so it will help to be a little bit ahead to start with. I think I will begin by looking at a logo design for Whimsy & Quirk.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana;">Anyway, my bed is calling to me so I will say 'Goodnight, sleep tight'</span>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-11417926697131201802011-01-22T09:21:00.000-08:002011-01-22T09:21:11.149-08:00Almost finished!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Well, that has been a '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">full on busy'</b> 2 weeks! I present my project and submit my work on Tuesday afternoon. Fortunately I am more or less finished. My report is written, its bibliography and appendices have been added, it has a front cover and has been ‘pdfed’ ready to be printed and bound first thing on Monday morning. I have put my portfolio of evidence together. My sketchbook contains 165 pages and is ready to be copied on to a cd on Monday, along with a copy of my report and presentation. The only thing left for me to do now is prepare my PowerPoint presentation. I have decided to create a template background in Photoshop so everything looks unified.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I am feeling exhausted at the moment and am relieved this module is almost over – I need to spend a weekend with my husband instead of my laptop! </span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-51446305619917707472011-01-12T08:33:00.000-08:002011-01-12T08:33:28.090-08:00Drat!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Ho hum! I’m feeling a little bemused at the moment and so have decided to start writing my report in the hope that by preparing and sorting everything in my mind and on the screen I may understand what is needed to complete this module to my satisfaction.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I had decided that I was not going to continue with research of acoustics because of the size and depth of the subject – but Michael feels that I need to continue with it and carry it on through the Realisation module. My confusion arises, partially, because I already had a commission to design a ‘vintage’ style wallpaper for a friend’s tea shop, in Australia, as the main part of my realisation.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Now I am panicking a little, because the subject of acoustics is so immense, but hopefully my plan of sorting and compartmentalising everything as I prepare my report will help me to re-focus and regain calm. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: purple;">In fact, writing this down has already made me feel more calm and in control. I think my next research issue is acoustic fabrics and foams and also acoustic wadding – what are their functions? Do they all do the same thing? Can they be bought by the metre like textiles? Right, time to get on with something constructive! </span></span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-979351765375820762011-01-09T09:42:00.000-08:002011-01-09T09:42:14.729-08:00The next step<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Having cast the knitting off, yesterday, I decided to take some photos of it today – oh dear! The knitting was curling up so badly that I couldn’t get any pictures of the design, so I ironed it. Now it looks like a deformed rag. I’m very relieved that I didn’t waste any more time on this.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I am excited about designing my mobile phone wallpaper. I think that I will design this initial wallpaper for my phone model, then when I have made it and uploaded it I can also get photos of it on the phone. My phone is a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini, so I went on to the Sony Ericsson website </span></span><a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones?cc=gb&lc=en"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones?cc=gb&lc=en</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>consulted on 9/1/11 to check the pixel size of the screen – it’s 240 x 320 pixels. Once I have developed a first design I can then re-make it for different screen sizes, so that it will be suitable for other phone models.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">The next stage is experimenting with textiles to see which ones photograph best – I need to be able to capture their texture. My camera isn’t spectacular though – which is a worry because the photos will have to be good. Anyway, onwards!</span></span></div>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-36077981481628467822011-01-08T10:46:00.000-08:002011-01-08T10:48:08.375-08:00Another change of direction!?<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Since last writing here I have expanded my acoustics research to include Restaurant and bar design and the acoustics requirements for those environments, the books that I am using to research this aspect of the subject are Successful Restaurant Design by Regina S Baraban and Joseph F Durocher, Restaurants, Clubs and Bars: Planning, Design and Investment for Food Service Facilities by Fred Lawson and Hospitality Design for the Graying Generation: Meeting the needs of a growing market by Alfred H Baucom. I included this last book into my research because I feel that any hearing issue that we may suffer in a restaurant would be increased for a diner with a hearing problem too.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">At the same time I have been continuing with my research into the history of applying decorative surfaces to interior walls and alternative methods of applying my designs to surfaces. I have also been working on converting my design into a knitting pattern (and knitting it at the same time), cross-stitching the same design onto ‘aida’ and I have also experimented with 3d appliqué! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I went in to university on Tuesday 4<sup>th</sup> January and had a tutorial with Michael. During the tutorial Michael gave me several ideas to consider. At the end of this consideration I have made some decisions.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">The knitting pattern and knitting can be stopped – my design is not translating into knitting successfully, so I am wasting precious time.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">My plan to design a sound absorber is good. I wish to continue with it – but as I research the subject I realise that there is a lot more research to be done, far more research, testing and development than I could possibly achieve during this module. So, this is a subject that I will study and develop into a side line within my business. It has potential and merit.</span></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;">I have failed to consider the most obvious ‘Applications’ of all – computer and mobile phone applications. Why do I need to stick to wallpaper design for walls? Couldn’t I also design wallpapers for mobile phones and computer screens? This is something that I am very excited about – but I am running out of time with only 16 days left before final presentation of work! So I need to get on with some thinking and designing.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">So, thinking about mobile phone wallpapers, mainly because mobile phones are so popular and personal, I have been trawling through Google images looking at wallpaper designs that catch my eye…</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I find all these images exciting due to their tactile quality – I want to touch each one to know what it feels like and maybe how it was made. Are the Christmas trees and owl make with pieces of fabric (yes, I would think so) or are they cleverly made Photoshop images? Certainly the two lower images are, to some extent, the sort of images that I would like to produce – an interesting or attractive image with a tactile and/or 3d quality, but preferably with a hand-made element added to the mix. Almost as an antithesis to the fact that it would be associated with such cutting edge technology as the latest mobile phone!</span></span></div></span></span></span></span>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-52790811811176955442010-12-30T10:39:00.000-08:002010-12-30T10:40:41.657-08:00Panic Stations!<span lang="EN"></span><br />
<div align="left"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well it is a long time since I wrote anything here! The presentation did not go well - mitigating circumstances affected the content and my performance (this included delays in transport) - and I was very disappointed with myself. </span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div align="left"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have continued researching but have expanded my research to include acoustics - this will be vital if I wish to seriously consider designing something that will look good and also reduce the amount of noise bouncing around hard walls and floors in restaurants. The books that I am using for research are mainly about the science involved in ‘room acoustics’ so I do not understand the equations, but I am following the basics of the text. The two most promising books that I found in the University library were Room Acoustics, by Heinrich Kuttruff, and Acoustics and Noise Control, by B J Smith, R J Peters and Stephanie Owen.</span><br />
</div><div align="left"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the same time I am continuing with my research into the history of applying decorative surfaces to interior walls and alternative methods of applying my designs to surfaces. I am also still working on converting my design into a knitting pattern (and knitting it at the same time), cross-stitching the same design onto ‘aida’ and I have also experimented with 3d applique! I really need to get as much research done as possible, soon, so I can think about how I would design my unobtrusive wall application that is able to absorb sound and write a report of how it all works together. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Submission for this module is 25th January so I am running out of time!</span>Nicky Lounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10553406951156185480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6417596701665387741.post-72110437377976241842010-12-05T08:44:00.000-08:002010-12-05T08:44:50.355-08:00Snowy Week!<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Sunday 5<sup>th</sup> December 2010 </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Well there hasn’t been a lot of change since I last wrote here, the tutorial session for last Monday was cancelled due to snow, and in fact most of the week was written off due to snow!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">I have continued with my research, alternating between the ‘history of applying ornamentation to surfaces’ and ‘alternative methods of applying patterns to surfaces’. At the same time I continue to put spots on to the design and I have also started writing a draft knitting pattern, and knitting it at the same time! This cold spell that we have recently had inspires me to focus on knitting my designs into wall hangings – once I have perfected the pattern I can move on to using chunky wool and massive needles. I feel that it would be possible to design a wallpaper as a background and then knit large hangings that work with the wallpaper design. Obviously, this would be a feature wall design.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">During the snowy weather I went out to take some photos of how Bedale looked with the application of some snow and ice… some of my photos are really great and would be lovely on Christmas cards… but my main 'inspirations' were to continue with the knitting and also that, snow on the branches and blown against one side of a tree trunk look like a negative photo or reverse shading – I wonder if I could do something with that?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="color: purple;">I have been thinking and researching, this afternoon, I wish to experiment with the various methods of applying a pattern to a surface; trying out as many as possible.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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