Last month as part of #CrazyRebelliousArt challenge is posted about my biggest successes so far but today is the other side of the coin: speaking about failure. As someone who is still young it doesn't really seem like I should have many failures in life and truthfully I don't. But what I do have, and what I think most people have at this age, is things that happen in your life that really change the direction in which you moved forward.

To me these events in my life are both things that originated back at Secondary School, the two pivotal moments that really altered my future could in some way be considered as failure would be 1. Doing horribly in my 5th year exams and 2. Becoming fed up with art during that part of my education. In saying this though, the consequences of what have happened since then have been good and I wouldn't change them at all!

For today's #CrazyRebelliousArt topic, it is meant to be about whether you feel people should go to art school to pursue their dreams of say being an artist or designer. But since I'm still in my own education I feel like I'm in a mid point where I can see the good and bad sides of the education although I'm not at a speciality art school. Instead, I'm doing a post that I've been wanting to do for months since reading Charlotte's own about misconceptions about Fashion Management. 

This week I've already touched on my experience at college but I though I would also share what I have learned and taken away from my two years there. Obviously, I learned loads in terms of software, design knowledge and endless other things but I felt I would share things that hopefully, won't just be limited to this course or similar ones. 

This past week I haven't really been just doing any general pinning as I have been a tiny bit obsessed about my current project at college! So I thought I'd share a few of my initial favourite bits and pieces that have formed my research so far. 

*edit: I almost forgot to mention, for my research into this brief as well, I have created a survey. I have already posted about it on Facebook and Twitter but if you haven't filled out yet it would help if you could. You can fill it out here. 

Happinez Magazine Horoscope by Helen Musselwhite Helen has been my favourite designer to find through this unit so far! All her designs are incredibly brilliant and look amazing. It's a very similar idea to the piece above but it's a lot simpler and I feel it's something I could achieve.

I have also been looking into pop-up books and I really like this idea. However, I'm not sure how easily these type of designs would be as engaging to adults as they are to children.

Beauties Woodland Cottage by Helen Musselwhite Another Helen Musselwhite entry wooo! I love this idea of tunnel art. The colours are shapes work so well. And the use of different colours from foreground to background give a more definitive idea of depth to it.

Origami Bunny Aw how adorable are these little origami bunnies?! I have to admit even though I love origami a lot, I don't feel that it's a route I will be taken to my final solution as I personally feel it's 'overdone'.

Even though it was the last week at college before the Christmas holidays, I still had quite a busy week with my college work. 

Another instalment of my New Media and Web Design briefs! This week has been no so busy as the last but I've still been doing quite a few things this week too!

I haven't done too much this week for my New Media brief as I had a lot of that caught up with at the moment. So I've been developing a lot more stuff for my Web Design brief. 

So I'm into week 2 of my New Media & Web Design briefs. And yet again it's been a busy week!

My god today has been a bit of whirlwind! After finishing college today and getting some christmas shopping done I headed down to hobbycraft to pick up more paper I've been using for my calendar. Unfortunately they didn't have- ugh!!

I realise I've still go to write up my final post on Digital Imaging- Calendar but I've still got some stuff that I'm trying to prefect so that I can hopefully start selling it. I will try and write up a blog post about my development and such this week and I can maybe show you the final designs and such that would be up for sale shortly after. But in the mean time you can look at my progress for it on Instagram and for now, I shall be writing up about my next two briefs. 

So as the title suggests my next two briefs are to do on New Media and Web Design. These briefs are both separate but I'm doing them both in college at the same time. 

So last weekend I showed some of the photos I took while I was away on my Castle Fraser trip/briefing. Today, I am showing the final designs I produced for this brief. Obviously I did have to do sketches and research but because it was a one week brief I kept the majority of my research on Pinterest and only pulled designs I found most inspirational onto the files I was working on. With my sketches I did do a few but I never really went very in-depth with these and more experimented with designs on illustrator.

The next brief I'm doing at college is to create an app for or based on Castle Fraser. We were given our brief for this mini unit on the day we visited Castle Fraser.