Merry Christmas!

For christmas I was fortunate to get a new camera - Nikon Coolpix L120, its ace! So much better than my old compact camera. I took it with me to christmas dinner as I have an Uncle who is very good with cameras and has more knowledge about them than me. He showed me how good photographs you can achieve by using the Macro button and look at the result of one of the photographs I took. I think its the best photograph I've ever taken! - Very happy and amazed at the outcome!

Merry Christmas!

HSBC like Horizons

Whilst doing a bit of christmas shopping and passing by HSBC I noticed on a stand a magazine titled Horizons so picked it up to have a look at what they have done with their front cover.

Presenting the final 2 DPS and front cover!

In preparation for the hand in for Type Fundamentals I had to present the x2 DPS and the front cover of Horizon on sheets of A2 card. To start I had to measure out accurately where the paper would be placed on the card. This was a case of trial and error to ensure each side was accurate, with the top and bottom measuring 6.2 cm and the sides for DPS being around 8.4 cm and for the front cover it being 19.1 cm. A 1mm gap in between the 2 A4 sheets that make the DPS was also required.  The A2 card was of a neutral light grey tone and once the sheets had been placed on by using Spray Mount, which I found was relatively quick and easy to use although I thought it would be tricky, I then placed them inside a A2 plastic sleeve. 

Final Horizon Front Cover

From my first attempt at the front cover of the zine I decided to change the positioning of the text and what was written and chose to add names of articles that are to be included inside. I have also changed the zine issue to Winter 2011 as I feel that is has a more professional approach.

The Good and the Bad in newspapers

I decided to have a look at a few newspapers to see whats good and bad about them. I firstly had a look at the free newspaper, Metro. I instantly noticed that on their front page they had used hyphenation in their main article. This is something that we have been told not to use in either one of our DPS. This also occured in my local newspaper, Shropshire Star which costs a small 42p. I guess that if you want to read something that has had quite a considerably time taken on it and care put into the design it is best to buy either The Guardian, The Times or The Daily Mail.

Featured page within my flip file on Looking at the Good and the Bad.
Highlighted is where you'll find hyphenation occurs, you'll notice it happens
more in the Metro article then the small price 42p article.