NOTEPAD

We were introduced to HTML today and played with it in Notepad. I haven’t tried it before and I found it very interesting and fun {especially if you are making your own little Twin Peaks website!} Our first project is to make a portfolio in WordPress. In the portfolio we have to link to a page which we have made from scratch. This page will contain descriptions and pictures from our trip to Louisiana. So the plan for today is to pick some photographs I took in the museum, edit them in Photoshop and afterwards begin to make this {scratch} page. Later today my boyfriend will be making some time-lapse in town where I’ll accompany him. Have fun out there!

1ST SEMESTER BOOKS

I can’t really brag about the amount of pages in our study books for this semester. At least I’m not going to have a backache. All the books except ’20 Designprincipper’ are bought used so I have saved 338 kroners. Ka-ching! The books are:

*‘Digital Media Management’ by Louise Harder Fischer & Marie Oosterbaan

*’20 Designprincipper’ by Ian Wisler-Poulsen

*’29 Spørgsmål’ by Jan Krag Jacobsen

*’Usability’ by Ole Gregersen & Ian Wisler-Poulsen

LOUISIANA

It has been another exciting day in school - well actually - away from the classroom. Today’s field trip went to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Most of the art in this museum doesn’t appeal to me but I did find myself gazing at some oil paintings and figures made of bronze. The exhibition you can see there right now is YOKO ONO HALF-A-WIND SHOW. We weren’t there just for the sake of fun. We were given a photo task:

“Your task is to document a trip to an exhibition. You must take photos of you and your friends. “A student’s visit to Louisiana”. Your photo material shall act as raw material for a Photoshop course and workshops next week.”

I have taken exactly 600 pictures at the museum today. Here are some bits of them.    

AUTUMN FEVER

September is finally here! The beautiful autumn has replaced summer and I can’t wait to taste the rain, enjoy looking at the warm and deep colours around me and hoping, for just one single autumn day, for an Indian summer. September also means students going back to/starting school/university/academy. And I’m one of those lucky fellows. I started at Copenhagen Business Academy yesterday. The first day of school was okay. I’m not good at meeting new people because I’m really shy and awkward so I wasn’t really excited for yesterday. But as I said everything went okay. If I heard correctly we are 120 Multimedia Design and Communication students, 40 of them which are international students. My class is called ‘MulB’ {once again I’m a lucky ‘B’} and we are located at room C21, just next to the international students’ room, C22. I’m looking forward to meeting- and working together with them. As well with the Computer Science students.

Today was more exciting. We started the day with an introduction to graphic design. I’m feeling this will be one of my favourite subjects. Our lecturer talked roughly about colours, textures, typography, images, forms, the CRAP design principle, sizes, texts, patterns, the golden section/golden mean etc. I can’t wait to learn more of this. Afterwards we talked about the basic of the Internet. E.g. the different types of websites, screen resolutions, file sizes, bandwidths etc.. If you guys are interested in web design, coding, graphic design and so on, here are three websites our lecturer introduced us to today {click 'em}:

Smashing Magazine

Six Revisions

A List Apart

At last we talked about practical stuff such as Fronter, webmail, exams, internships etc. Fine day. Now I’m off to prepare dinner!

BURNT UMBER, ROSE MADDER, SAP GREEN

I went shopping with my mom today and I was so close to give in several times. But I didn’t! Bye beautiful boots, bye warm and soft {hobo} jacket, bye pretty cushion covers and I could go on like this the whole evening. I did some restocking instead and bought acrylic paints, gloss varnish medium and a masking tape. Even though I did a pretty good job keeping my coins in my purse today, I can’t promise they will remain staying there tomorrow at the flea market.

LATE SUMMER WAVE

BIRTHDAY WISHES: BOOKS

My Birthday is next month and even though I only wish for money so I can buy a new computer I’ve got a good excuse to buy myself a present! A present that always makes me happy is a good book. You can’t imagine how many books are listed on my wish list but here are my top five. 

1. 'Pictures' by Tim Walker {Picture: weheartit}

2. 'Brooklyn Makers: Food, Design, Craft, and Other Scenes from a Tactile Life' by Jennifer Causey {Picture: www.designmom.com}

3. 'Story Teller' by Tim Walker and Ruth Ansel {Picture: http://oneyearofbooks.tumblr.com/}

4. 'Making an Impression: Designing & Creating Artful Stamps' by Geninne D. Zlatkis {Picture: http://parafernaliablog.com}

5. 'Introducing: Visual Identities for Small Businesses' by Klanten. R {Picture - amazon.co.uk}