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1972 Olympic Games Pictograms

Vik Diesel — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:52:41 +0000

We’ve studied the language of Pictograms. 1972 Olympic games in Munich, Germany were mentioned for the use of international language of images. They introduced the sports pictograms, so anybody can understand them.

The language of pictograms is really easy to understand:

{scan is coming soon}

Sensitive and scary

Vik Diesel — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:45:33 +0000

My sensitive and scary photos:

Business Cards

Vik Diesel — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:42:38 +0000

The task was to make 3 business cards in monochrome colour scheme and without any images. I made them black and white.

Dramatic and seductive

Vik Diesel — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:10:36 +0000

The task is to make 2 photos of one domestic subject:

Dramatic, agressive
Seductive, soft and romatnic

Only one object and absolutely no photoshop.

Typography

Vik Diesel — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 12:49:22 +0000

Typography is all about readability and legibility. While working as a webdesigner, I’ve studied much about this: When your customer asks you to put red Comic Sans MS letters on black background, you need to prove your words with some theoretical studies.

I always fight for using simple readable fonts, black letters on white background.

Many people don’t feel the borders of readability and non-readability, so that is the reason why we see so many examples of awful and ureadable ads.

Venue Presentations

Vik Diesel — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:38:54 +0000

Today we presented our work in CTS Class. All presentations were looking exactly the same, except Simone’s, who made very cool and enjoyeable video.

Here is our’s:

Visiting City hall

Vik Diesel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:13:24 +0000

Today, we have visited CIty Hall. Speaking about me, it was the first time I came inside. What was nice, that when we came in, one lady invited us to take part in public listening of General London Assembly meeting.

Making photos inside was prohibited, here are ones from outside…

Task to visit City Hall

Vik Diesel — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:45:20 +0000

Peter divided our class to groups, we formed the group of five: two Natashas, Leanne, Raimond and I. We’ve got the task to visit and to describe London’s City Hall – the meeting place of General London Authority, consisting of … Continue reading →

W108, Peter Canings

Vik Diesel — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:33:22 +0000

I am from Russia and never seen a university’s computer room full of Macs. Moreover, here, in LCC, I didn’t even seen a student with a laptop different from macbook. Just one-hour induction and all of us got the task … Continue reading →