Josh Norris OCA logbook

Assignment 4: I was very much looking forward to this assignment, after reading up on it I was excited about the creative freedom it would offer me. The assignment wanted to me really show off my developing style and use of tools and materials. That is why I wanted to make sure that I was getting the most out of this assignment, I found it helpful that it gave me these parameters. I wanted to make sure that my work had a lot of experimentation present and that it was clearly thought out and developed. The topic I picked was 'Discovery' when I initially read the word the first thing that came to my mind was the idea of Self Discovery. I thought that would be a good basis to begin my assignment. I thought it would be a different direction to take the assignment in. It is also something that is relative to me currently, I am wanting to become more mindful and discover more about my self. I often find this helps to calm stress and focus my mind. Because this has such a connection...

This exercise wants me to produce an illustration for a new educational book called Animals around the world. To begin the exercise off I started reading some blog posts about book cover design.  https://www.designhill.com/design-blog/evolution-of-book-cover-design/ The first blog post centred around the evolution of book cover design and how it has changed over time to fit the tastes of the era, one thing I got from the post was that you should embrace the trends of the era. If you are trying to get your book to be seen on the shelves you have to make it visually interesting and pop.  I was then intrigued to find out what these trends were, I found a blog post centred around the current book cover trends of 2019 and it was so interesting to see. What was interesting was I look at a lot of book covers but actually seeing these trends listed and makes you step back and think, "Oh Yeah" that is a trend. This was the list of 2019 trends, what I did was gather s...

To start this exercise off I highlighted and analysed the exercise sheet. I started to note down my thought processes around the sides of the exercise and the first things that came to my mind. I often mind that I can forget certain things and need to have that written reminder just to keep me focused. Now the first thing I noted down was that I do not live anywhere near a museum so I don't have access to one, now I did think about travelling to one however I thought for the outcome It would give me I could use the internet to source photos. The museum I chose was the Louvre. Now it just so happens that earlier this year I was in Paris and did visit the Louvre so I could use my own photos as reference, which I was quite excited about. To start my research off I selected a wide range of artefacts. I wanted to focus on Kids first, I thought this would be an interesting challenge to try and get kids to the Louvre. I wanted to get some of the exciting elements of the Louvre, I th...