Today is a monumental day. It is the day I handed in my last ever essay, at least as far as this course goes. It means I have five or so weeks to finish off my Irvine Welsh project uninterrupted by writing or award submissions. I was clever enough this time around to actually complete the writing part about a week in advance, leaving me with plenty of time to come up with a nice looking thesis and get it properly printed and bound.
Because Design Report Two is obviously a continuation of Design Report One, I wanted the aesthetic to reflect that. I created a cover based on the revised Penguin vertical grid, a 1950s update of the classic tripartite design my last essay cover stole.
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It’s been a long time coming but my blog and website are finished. There are still a few bits and pieces to change but I think I can get away with it like this for a while. I still have got a good few projects to upload, and I’ll probably have more done by the time they’re online but I’ll get there.
I’m pretty chuffed really, this is the first time I’ve actually managed to finish a site and get it online. Before I started this project I had no idea how to upload a web page, FTP was a completely baffling and I didn’t have a clue how it worked. Now, thanks to bit of help from my flatmate and a stressful evening of trial and error I could do it in my sleep (and probably did at some point in the last 3 weeks).
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