About

This blog is for the students of Design for Graphic Communication year 1.

Hello fellow students on the fda Design for Graphic communication year 1! This blog is for you! yes you. This blog will be constantly updated  with news and info, website links, blogs, photos , videos,  your views and many other things that are important to our course.

You can spend your Monday, the designated day for your own personal study time, getting inspired and researching further some of the links, books or ideas discussed here.

enjoy!

Your contributions

Updated: In future there will be a page for everyone to add their own work, however for now due to course commitments, time and maintaining the quality of the blog, all post are added by myself, levi freeman. Therefore you can email me anthything you wish to share with everybody by sending your content to levifree@hotmail.com.

How I blog

I would like to share with you the various ways in which i update the blog so if you have a blog you can take advantage of the different ways. Maintaining a blog doesnt mean you have to stay within the confines of a computer desk, you can blog while on the go!

The 1st screenshot is from my Windows phone, i usually use this when I’m on the train to uni or back home or on the bus, then the 3rd and 4th are screenshots from my iPod touch where i use this only when there is a wifi connection i.e. in and around LCC.  The 5th is Microsoft word 2007 (windows only) where you can set up all types of blogs easily plus the image border and shadow options look beautiful. The next is Adobe Contribute, rarely use it, not that helpful apart from the fact that you see your post on the page as it would look like, basically an almost perfect WYSIWYG way of working. The best tool ever to blog with however is Windows Live Writer (windows only); it is simple, easy to use and free! It has a plethora of plugins to insert photos direct from flickr or maps and many other plugins to make life easier.