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Andrew — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:14:46 -0000

GRAYScale and 50K are the best so far in my opinion.

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Jonny Lewery — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:44:41 -0000

Unsung? We are the new blood so we haven't got the recognition we hope to achieve.

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Claire — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:55:32 -0000

GRAYScale is my winner so far like...

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bianca — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:01:09 -0000

My winner is GRAYScale!
I see '50K' always as the '50.000' rather than making
the connection to CMYK xD

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Jonny Lewery — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:07:45 -0000

I always forget that :( .

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Laura H — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:57:56 -0000

Yeah that's what I was thinking, a lot of people could mistake it for that

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Jo — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:07:44 -0000

GSA is also Glasgow School of Art though...

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Jonny Lewery — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:57:14 -0000

Holy shit Gregor you are on fire! :P I can't keep up lol. design.gsa looks pretty sweet and has a nice sound to it. It doesn't connotate a filename too much either which is pretty cool. It creates a definitive gap between the two words but brings them together at the same time. Nice!

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Jonny Lewery — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:54:35 -0000

Oh 50K is bangin! I really like that. It's already got a distribution list setup in Outlook as well. I never thought about CMYK. So obvious. There is already a studioAKA so I don't think we can use that lol. I dunno if we should make a statement in the name. It would then give us a definitive purpose.

Has anyone checked out Wolfram|Alpha? http://www37.wolframalpha.c... Could provide some inspiration.

1548? First recorded use of the word design. Maybe too similar to 5710.

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:46:55 -0000

OR!! could have our own filetype.

instead of .pdf, or .eps, could have design.gsa Design, gsa is grays school of art

food for thought

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:44:23 -0000

could we manipulate dpi? dots per inch relates to almost all of us

could stand for design p..... i...... any ideas?

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:42:18 -0000

design groupAKA - as in 'also known as' as we are coming up with so many names, why not cover all our bases?

or just groupAKA, designAKA, AKAcollective.

Or could maybe go for something more pwerful sounding like

"KeepDesignAlive"

"MakeDesignHistory" - as in put yourself in the history books of design, not kill design.

"Make Design the Future"

"KeepGraysAlive"

Print related - 200GSM, paper stock is measured in gsm, could have no. of students then gsm, for example if there were 20 of us, could have 20gsm, gsm could stand for grays student member, grays student movement, grays school movement, etc etc. I understand there are quite a lot of digital work though.

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callum hopkins — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:31:01 -0000

yeah i like 50k. grays kin of has bad connitatiosn to it. these are a few from wiki: boredom, reality, seriousness, neutrality, dullness, mediocrity, undefinedness, and .

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:32:47 -0000

that was meant to be D3! not D31

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:32:31 -0000

Now that you mentioned the Mighty Ducks, its all i can think about when you mention D31

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Gregor — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:30:50 -0000

Ian Cargill and Grays started a popular semi-commercial design group called 50k, or 50K, or Fifty K, that was intended to get students out their in the commercial world and get them live briefs, the 50K was linked to K = Black obviously through CMYK, and 50% of K is Gray. We could resurrect the name and group? (although the project idea is slightly different would still be cool) And give our respects to Ian Cargill who has retired this year unfortunately, sure that would make the legend have a chuckle at the resurrection of his design group, keepin the dream alive!!!

Also 50k sounds expensive! haha!

What you think?

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Ross — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:13:30 -0000

Good shout on the logo / branding as the first project. A nice straight forward one to get into.

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Robert Patience — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:29:44 -0000

Workin late on the grayveyard shift ha ha Massive LOL BOOOOOM!!!

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Laura H — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:10:54 -0000

I like the grayscale name too (could be written grayScale perhaps?) It suggests a wide range of talent, personalities etc. Plus it's simple and catchy. I like the D3 idea too, but grayscale has a more personal touch (D2 mighty ducks was good though)

Maybe the first project could be coming up with a logo once the name has been voted on??

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Robert Patience — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:00:58 -0000

was looking into grayscale it goes like this 8-bit is grayscale then more is colour. 24 bit is "true colour" so how bout somethin like 24bit grayscale? just an idea ... bit shit dunno?

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Robert Patience — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:53:07 -0000

Right I'm certainly in for this summer thing I'll be holding the fort I guess for product and Think gray'scale is an awsome name for the project. Keep me in the loop.

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Jonny Lewery — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:29:51 -0000

I was just looking into the colour grey on wikipedia. Did anyone notice the Hex value for lightgrey is #D3D3D3 ? Coincidence? 3 courses in the communication design programme. dthree. d3. D3 etc. Just another thought… could be mistaken for that awful attempt at a third Mighty Ducks movie which I swear I have never seen. :P

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Jonny Lewery — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:23:02 -0000

I like your pun on Grey Matter but it's already been taken by an american punk band apparently. Damn them :P ! Also it was the school slogan one year as well :( .

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Callum Hopkins — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:33:55 -0000

what about Grays Anatomy? ha ha no im joking it's terrible!!!

here's a few ones for you to think about (for abouit two seconds! ha ha):

gray area
The Gray Modren
(tak on tate mordern)
Wonderdog
(apparently, grays is the "underdog" of the art schools in scotland!)
Gray's Matter/ Grays Matters
(dunno which is best. check out link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...")
Summer Grays
(oxymoron...ithink :s)

pretty rubbish ones here me thinks!

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laura — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:46:26 -0000

grays create.
create at grays.
dsgn (a play on the word design)
design press
or how about the size the research sheets we do i.e 30x42 thats A3

i'm thinking more of how the name would look, we are design students so why not have a logo? I do like the name GRAYScale though.