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- Yay!
The grad project is coming to a close. I handed in Versa onscreen magazine and all the documentation last Friday afternoon. It was a bit of a headache and a half.
I took the weekend off to decompress from the project and it felt great to wake up without the sudden panic of ‘what should I […]
- Progress progress!
After another great meeting with Mark, Mike & Paul -I am on my way to having this project be real!
Here’s another iteration of my logo after this most recent meeting. I am very happy with it, and it feels more like mine now, more than ever.Not so sure about the reversed version, but it’s good […]
- Grad Project Post!
Okay -so I lied. I said I would put the link back up to my grad blog on the side navigation, and I am still yet to do so. But have no fear fellow bloggers.. in the meantime here is some current progress I have made.
During my last meeting with Mark Busse, I was feeling […]
- A Typographic Trip
Robin Mitchell, our Advanced Print & Typography instructor, set up a class field trip to Hemlock printers.
We had a great tour of the main plant, and the neighboring Hemlock express plant. Robin’s Print Rep, Eric Kouwenhoven, brought us around the plant and explained the sections, and processes that happen behind the scenes. Before you are […]
- A VERY Interesting Class
We had a class this morning with Dougal Muir, who will be our external examiner of our final projects.
He came in for an Art Direction class, and we got a really good chance to sit and chat about what he will be looking for in our projects when we present to him in one month. […]
- Blog Blog Blog!
Feeling a bit antsy on the progress of my Grad project? Me too…
I have been updating my grad project blog secretly due to some progress that needed to be done under the radar BUT I am momentarily bringing back the link to that blog.
Grad Project BlogAfter speaking to some of the new DD10s - I […]
- Helvetica Post on VFS blog
Really interesting post on the VFS blog..
Read it!
Let me know what you think.
My name is Leah Bancroft. Google Me. (hahaha)
- Helvetica: A documentary film by Gary Hustwit
I went to see the Helvetica documentary last night with some people from school. VFS was one of the sponsors for the viewing in Vancouver. It was really well done, and very interesting.
It wasn’t a skewed look at how great Helvetica is, though there was some of that of course. But we got a chance […]
- Get those creative juices flowing
In one of our User Experience classes we were set up to do a brainstorming session. Before it began our teacher pulled out the Jenga blocks and told us to play for a bit.
He said that they do this at his work to get their minds thinking and working before they attempt at stretching it […]
- Grad Project Research
So, this Wednesday is our grad pitches..
I’ve been doing some research into some of the directions I’d love to take my project to.. Of course, the scope of my project is already quite big, and my time frame isn’t long enough for all the features I’d like to do..but I’ve come across some really great […]

