useful things about the books of reading list

I find a good way to read the books in the reading list, it might help us to read them, http://books.google.co.uk/, this is google books, for instance, if you want to find the second book"what is graphic design" by newark, you can search the book name and find the whole content of this book, so we can read the book on internet, it is really convenient and I find that most of books can be found in this way.

Journal for London project ideas

Hello, all
I post this for today's journal,
so let' s comment to arrange our ideas for London project.
You all look very hard work now. I wish you all would get good result!

see you in the class~

Link related to the Critical Essay

They are some of given web that I can access.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/09/the-difference-between-art-and-design/

http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/about-design/what-design-is-and-why-it-matters/

http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/dieterrams/gooddesign

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/artartists.html

http://uxdesign.com/design/article/good-design/54

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/design/

http://www.ablestable.com/resources/library/thecolumn/2004/019.htm

http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c101/lclancy.shtml

Moving on with the London project

Hi all,

As we discussed in class this week, it's time for us all to start thinking about the London project in more detail - and to make a start on getting the piece of art together and preparing the crit.

You'll remember that thereflective journal and sketchbook are important tools for collecting thoughts, feelings and ideas, and will really help you when you are thinking about what you would like to say in the crit. Next week, we'll look at some language that will be helpful in the crit.

Let's use this page of the blog to post some of our thoughts from the journal about the process of producing the piece of art. Your thoughts may help other members of the class to get ideas for their own projects - so remember to read other people's posts as well.

You're also very welcome to comment on other people's ideas - particularly if you have something to say that you feel might help them. This is also a useful space to communicate with classmates who are not in your group for the project.

So, please leave a comment here from your journal. You can either post a specific entry, or a collection of thoughts and ideas from different ideas in your journal.

Useful links (course-related)

Here is another space to post interesting links or ideas. I thought we could use this one for links to internet-based resources that might be useful for the course. For example, I’m going to post a link to the Thesaurus website that I showed you in class yesterday.

I think we all agree that this is quite an intensive course, so it will be really useful if we all help each other by sharing any useful resources that we find. So, if you see anything that you think might be useful to other people in the class, please post a link on here.

You might also want to post information about any articles, books, magazines etc. that you read, from the library or somewhere else. Like the “general links” posting, there are no rules. It’s entirely for all of you to use in any way that you think might be useful.

Unfortunately, I can’t find a way to put live links in the comments box, so you’ll have to copy and paste the links into your browser. It might be a good idea to create a folder for course-related links in your bookmarks folder. I can show you how to do this in class if you’re not sure. 

Useful links (general)

Hello everyone,

I thought it might be useful to have a place on the blog to put links to useful or interesting websites that we find that could be useful to other people on the course. To make it simpler, let’s use this posting to put links to sites that are for general use or interest, and another posting for sites that are useful specifically for the course or for academic purposes.

I’m going to make a start by putting a link to the TFL (Transport for London) website. This is really useful if you want to know the best way to get from one part of London to another.

Please feel free to add comments here and include links to any websites that you would like to share with your classmates. It may be useful things like the TFL website, or just interesting or fun things such as web sites, interesting or fun You Tube clips, links to restaurants, clubs, events etc. that you enjoyed or would like to visit. You might even like to post links to your own Flickr, Myspace or Facebook pages. There are no rules and you can post links and comments to anything that you would like to share.

Looking at the London project ideas...

Hello all,

Well, I'm delighted with the initial posts on the blog. I  had the computer open last night and it was really nice to see the postings coming in, and I have read all of them.

The next thing that I would like everyone to do is respond to someone else's London Project idea. Have a look through the postings from yesterday and choose a project idea that you think looks interesting, and post any thoughs that you have on it. Of course, you can say whether you like the idea or not and why. You might also like to make any helpful suggestions that you have, or point out anything that you think might be difficult with the idea. 

I hope that this will be a fun thing to do, but it also has practical value. Hopefully, looking through the postings will be good practice at skim-reading and reading quickly to find something that interests you, which you can then read in more detail. Also, commenting critically (which simply means with your own ideas) is a very important skill at Master's level.

OK then, I'll leave it up to you, and hopefully you'll get to know your classmates a bit better.

Please post as comments to this posting. Also, remember to make it clear whose idea you are responding to!

Hello again everyone

Well, it was really nice to meet you all today in the classroom and I'm really happy that you all seem comfortable talking with me and with each other. This is a really great thing. I also think that there were some really nice ideas bouncing around the classroom for the London Project. When I can, I'll show you some examples of things that were done in the past so that you can see the kind of things that have been done.

So, as I told you today, I'd like us to make a start on using this blog, so the first thing that I would like everyone to do is to make a posting here to introduce yourself and give an idea for the project. It doesn't have to be the thing that you finally do for your assessment, but it would be really good to start collecting ideas together.

So, please write a few lines about yourself, who you are and what your interests are, and a few lines about an idea for the project. You can write as much or as little as you wish, but write at least three or four sentences about the project idea - enough that someone else could look at the idea and comment on it in some way.

Please post these introductions as comments to this posting, not as new posts. It will keep the blog tidy and easy to read if we use new posts for new topics, and comments to write about these topics. You can do this by clicking the POST COMMENT button below this text. Look forward to seeing your postings. Oh, do feel free to upload a pic of yourself if you would like to!

Hello everyone

Hello everyone.

I'm Simon Bailey and I'm going to be your teacher for the 6-week presessional course at UAL. I'm really looking forward to working with you all over the next few weeks and getting to know you.

There is a lot to do in a short space of time and it's going to be hard work, but I really hope that it will be an interesting, fun and rewarding time for everyone. Let's all be open and supportive with each other and make sure that everyone enjoys a successful six weeks, leading into your chosen university courses. I hope that everyone will also make new friends and have nice memories.

I will do what I can to help you, and please feel free to approach me if you have any questions, or if there is anything that you would like me to cover in class. Time is short but I will do my best to help.

In the meantime, I hope you will all use this blog to stay in touch with each other. It is a useful space to post ideas such as interesting things you find in London, places or events that you have visited, and of course, anything that you find that might be useful to other students on the course. 

It can be a useful space because you can communicate with each other when you are not physically in the same space, and you can communicate with all your other class members at the same time. It also provides a permanent record of your communication, which live conversation doesn't. I'm new to blogging to be honest, and I suspect that many of you are much more experienced than me, so if you have any ideas about how we can make this blog better, then I'd love to hear them.

So, that's all for now. I'm going to meet you all tomorrow, so I look forward to seeing you then!