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Charlie Barber
Artist | Student | Design & Interfaces
United Kingdom
I am a student in my 2nd year at Southampton Solent University studying Graphic Design. I have been interested in design from about the age of 12, when I first was shown the wonders of Photoshop. I have however dabbled in other areas of Art and Design, such as comic making, digital painting, animation, and occasionally I do some photography. I also help run The ATK Gaming Community [link] and a design website called Reverb Design [link].
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Yeah suppose I should make another Journal entry, been quite a while since the last one.

Well I finished my foundation course at Farnham with a pass which I can't complain about, worked quite a bit over the summer as a gardener (not my first choice of job of course), and managed to get a week's work experience at some graphic design place in Oxford which I ended up getting paid £250 for since they liked a book cover design I did so much, which was a pleasant surprise. And now I've started my Graphic Design course at Southampton Solent, during which so far I've got seriously depressed and been on medication in the first term, had a trip to Amsterdam which I must say really wasn't that educational, just consisted of getting drunk and going on fairground rides, and managed to actually start properly learning Illustrator and InDesign.

Oh well, I moved to a different halls a couple of weeks ago to see if that would help me feel positive about being at Solent... it sort of has, still feel I'd be better off somewhere else though or if I stayed on at Farnham.

All this feeling down however has inspired me to do something drastic and out of the ordinary, and that together with recently watching Banksy's 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' I came up with the idea of getting into street art. Nothing too risky or dangerous to being with though, might just produce stickers to place around Southampton or Wantage advertising ATK or The Loch Tech Monster.

Ooh that's another thing, ATK has set up a new sister site called 'The Loch Tech Monster [link], which when it's finished (haven't changed the design at all yet), will be a review site for games and technology, such as headphones and fancy keyboards. So I'll be cracking on with designing that soonish, you may have already seen the development of the logo for it which I have uploaded.

Well that's all I can think of really, should be uploading more Illustrator based work now since I finally have a basic grasp of it, over and out.
  • Mood: Hopeless
  • Listening to: Wolfmother
  • Reading: Design mags and some novel about synesthesia.
  • Watching: Top Gear AND Hustle are both currently on TV :)
  • Playing: Started up Guild Wars again (how sad).
  • Eating: Discovered onion rings as an alternative to chips.
  • Drinking: Squash, don't like it but it's cheaper than juice.

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~csmlitratista Mar 17, 2012  Student Photographer
IDOL :D
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~Chazlene Mar 17, 2012  Student Interface Designer
errr thanks I guess :D
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~JesikahhRAWR Feb 25, 2012  Student General Artist
Hey. :D I came across your page whilst searching for inspiration for my Type Play thing and then I looked at your profile and realised you actually go to the same university as me, on the same course but you're not in my year. :P I was like :O Yeah, you have really good stuff and it's too good and much better than mine. :( Hehe. :P Sorry about this silly stalkish comment, I have no idea who you are but I've probably seen you around anyway. :P
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~Chazlene Feb 25, 2012  Student Interface Designer
Haha no worries, not THAT stalkerish :p Small world though, you enjoying the course? Cheers for the watch and that... your work's pretty good too, I'll probs see you in the studio then :)
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~JesikahhRAWR Feb 25, 2012  Student General Artist
Hehe yeah, it's alright. A bit meh at times with the amount of work to do... Too many collages and stuff... And too many people telling us different things to fuzzle up my brain. D: What about you? You're in your second year yeah?

Thank you, see you around. :)
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~Chazlene Feb 25, 2012  Student Interface Designer
Yeah I'm second year, and there's quite a bit more work ha, just no collages and essays thank god, and you don't have to put up with Susie's voice which is a bonus :p Cheers for all the favs as well :)
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!Mischa-Soleil Feb 7, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you for the watch! :)
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!marmaladeheart Oct 30, 2011  Student General Artist
thanks for the fav! :iconyayfinlandplz:
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