Currently teaching myself adobe bridge as it seems to be a far better way of dealing with images than the windows or apple defaults.
It has a bunch of great features, such as easy keywords, labeling and batch renaming. My favourite is probably that you can select several images at once and then open them as separate layers in a single photoshop file.
It's designed to be a hub for the creative suite but will deal with all file types.
The last couple of weeks I've been running work experience alongside my own work. It was actually really fun and I think at a very basic level we covered a lot of ground.
I gave them the background information for a relatively small project we are currently working on, and set them the task of coming up with their own design.
I couldn't put her on a train to Hemel Hempstead, so instead we went for a walk around Fitzroy square gardens and I did my best to explain what to look out for during a site survey. As she was from Germany and hadn't been to London before I told her to pick a place she wanted to visit as a tourist and then go and do her own survey. Luckily she picked Regent's park which is just down the road.
When she got back we made a list of her favourite hobbies and considered how each one could become an element of a public outdoor space, and began sketching them out.
We looked at 1 and 2 point perspective, axons, sections and more expensive styles.
I talked her through the basics of Sketchup, and a few minutes later she was drawing quite complicated things with textures and layers.
Then we edited a few images in Photoshop and arranged them in InDesign. After a day of placing text and graphics she had fairly comprehensive design package that she would be able to present at school and develop on her own time.
Images to follow...
Currently working on a big ITT with our lot focused on the redesign of the public realm around e1w. Have 9 or 10 sketches of the proposal to get done by Friday which is going to be tight, but manageable. Doing them in the same style as the bus station drawings but with a brighter palette. All too confidential to post on here for now, maybe after the hand in has passed.
