Fashioning Something

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27 October, 2011
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Another degree..?

Online graphic design degree logo

I’ve often said in class that a lot of the skills I’m trying to teach my fashion students are part of a graphic design degree and there is a lot of overlap with trying to develop skills in illustration, typesetting, page layout, presentation and generally trying to communicate your ideas.

So it’s quite handy to be able to offer this resource to help you on your way – the Online Graphic Design Degree

It’s good collection of subject overviews and links to resources which will really help with the background & skills-development.

16 June, 2011
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We’re back / Storyboards on your iPad

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After far too many weeks in some kind of online / blog updating limbo, Fashioning Something is back, updated with a spiffy new design and will be posting throughout the summer to help all you students keep learning cool new things.

For those you working on storyboards who might just happen to have an iPad, check out this article by Stu Maschwitz about creating storyboards on Apple’s latest tablet using Cocoabox’s app Penultimate. It also has some discussion on getting a special drawing stylus for the device to help in those creative situations where your finger just won’t do.

UPDATE: This Kickstarter project is for a magnetic iPad stylus which looks pretty nifty.

26 March, 2011
by robstevenslcf
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Hello Digital Catwalk!

Welcome to my new Digital Catwalk group…hope you enjoy the ride :)

I’m updating the site and moving onto a new server which will allow me to use some new cool tools so be patient during the switch over and have a look through the resources already posted.

12 February, 2011
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Writing Practice

Just a quick Saturday afternoon welcome to my new Fashion Media journalism students getting on the InDesign train today. More InDesign to come but in the meantime I thought I’d share this site: 750words.com

Basically it’s a writing practice site – designed to get you writing 750 words per day using a scoring system to help you get there. Your writing doesn’t have to be public (like blogging) so you have the freedom to write about anything in any way.

More details here.

10 February, 2011
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Tuition & Learning outside of the classroom – update

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An update to my post last October about learning resources as there’s a new website on the block offering a range of books and videos to view online. creativeedge.com looks like a great resource for studying creative computer applications online and has the advantage over the likes of lynda.com of including books as well as videos.

Publishers include Apple Training, Adobe Press, Peachpit Press, Visual Quickstart and Talented Pixie. I recommended Talented Pixie in the October post and having them included on Creative Edge makes for better value for your subscription.

At the moment they’re running a 20% introductory discount on subscriptions: $20 per month or $220 per year (£12.50 or £137 in UK money at current rates).

Helpfully, they allow you to view samples of both videos & books. Here’s a sample for a page from Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 and here’s Talented Pixie’s InDesign CS4 – Level 1 where you can play the whole of the first tutorial – The Interface – and then the first 30 seconds of the rest.

The book preview section is handy if you want to look at books that you might want to get from the library without having to leave the computer.

8 February, 2011
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Round up of InDesign links & tutorials

As we’ve entered the InDesign season at college, I’ve been posting some resources to the new Fashioning Something Facebook page so here’s a round up of those links.

Intro to InDesign tutorial

And there’s more…

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A great round up of InDesign resources at the Spoon Graphics blog.

OK, so that’s enough use of the phrase round up for one day…