10x10

Okay, so in the past i have been guilty of not paying quite enough attention to the news. Time to remedy that, homepage set to bbc news and let's keep an eye on this

'Ten by ten' is described as an 'interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time'.

How it works: "Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input."

The system gives you a snapshot of what is going on in the world and can be viewed by the hour, day, month or year.

Posterise

Over the time of my masters course (which i've just completed thank you very much) i've managed to hobble together a few posters using my limited knowledge of the old photoshop. So here they are.

Moving clockwise:

The first poster was for a piece of coursework where we had to pick an organisation to perform a design audit on. I chose the much loved (and hated) Glasgow Subway. Although it often seems to be in the dark ages it was interesting to see the effort that had gone into re-branding and pushing the service forward on a limited budget. As part of my recommendations I had chosen to push the work they had already done with the 'S' subway logo and orange colouring. I made a series of posters and an animation (if i work out how to upload an animated powerpoint i'll put it up here) centred around using that logo in the core messages. Unfortunately the move was perhaps so obvious that SPT produced a pamphlet using pretty much exactly the design below before i handed it in... still think mine looks better... humph.

The second poster was for the Caledonian Creates exhibition put on at our University. We were given an open brief and i wanted to portray the most important elements that I felt I had gained from the Masters programme and what i felt was the essence of the course, the coming together of strategy and creativity.

Poster number three was not uni related but a request from a flatmate who was producing a play for an independent theatre company named 'Flatrate'. The show was a success which i put entirely down to the poster and not its raunchy content. Unfortunately i was not present when these 'explicit polaroids' were being taken in my house. Damn.

The final poster was part of a project myself and a classmate did in conjunction with the university and Springburn Academy. Essentially it was an after school crafts project for first years where the pupils made these paper mache masks (we started off with a theme but the kids had other ideas). We produced a series of posters featuring each of the pupil's masks with a hijacked version of our Caledonian creates logo. We wanted to encourage the pupils by demonstrating that their efforts could contribute to a creative project and that art and design was a career path they should consider if they enjoy it.