Exploring: Visually

The initial experience of Farnham as a place of learning and a place itself.

Initial Experience -

Charlotte - As Charlotte already came from the UCCA Epsom she couldn't only help but compare everything to Epsom, like most when they go to a new university. One of the first things she noticed was the size of the college, and how much better the resources were. Another thing that seemed to stick in her mind was how the students and the tutors dressed.
She noticed that the tutors seemed to be a bit more professional, but this is only after meeting a few times, most people are more formal.
As for the area, it was nothing new to me as I don't live far. Lots of cobbles though.

Elisa - As studying graphics, noticed straight away how clean and bright the universities website was and how well the logo had been designed and seemed to be quite impressed.

As Elisa is from Thaiwan, the weather was very different from what she is used to. Everything seems to be a lot faster here as well, especially the traffic!

Tara - When first arriving at the uni, Tara could tell straight away from the gallery space and the sculptures that this was a creative uni. She began to piece things together and realised that the town and the university all seemed very business like and professional. Even down to the way the students looked, they seemed to be much more clean cut from what she had known as a student when she did her degree. When she did metal work everyone was known for getting messy and dirty, now its the total opposite.

Lesley - Lesley has many different view from what she has experienced, as she did her foundation, degree and MA in stages. There is a general change in appearance in students, they used to be dressed like Tara said, a bit more scruffy and gradually their appearance has become a lot more neater and tidy, 'clean cut'. As like the university, seemed more geared up for business.

Kelly - Straight away Kelly mentions the pace of the town, the complete opposite to Elisa in fact, she feels that everything is slower, the life, the people and the town. Kelly is from LA, so everything seems very fast pace to her.
In the town she noticed one colour in particular, red, the red bricks and the cobbles. These seem to be quite distinctive within the town itself.

Christos - Farnham was quite different for Christos as his whole life he has lived somewhere by the sea. He had a whole series of idea's of how he thought that Farnham would be, he initally thought that Farnham was closer to him from his uni in Portsmouth. The size of the uni was a real advantage to him. He agreed that the town was not really much to see, although he did notice the building and how old they looked, after further research he found out that a certain designer purposely made them look older than what they really were.

Mago - University seemed smaller to him, but this to him was a merit, the services provided would be much better without so many students. Everything seemed so well organised and business like. The UCCA brand identity was well executed. Noting how well the logo was used in relation to layout, being put in exactly the right places and used where needed. He thought the identity was very cleverly done. He related the place to the logo, how the colour scheme used repetitively gave a sense of uniformity to everything.
The area seemed quite posh, everything seemed to be very upscale especially the cars. Very different nightlife from what he is used to, the town seems to be pretty dead.

Dan - The entrance was very clean, wide glass, he felt it was very welcoming. The building itself was very different, he found it quite difficult to find a few of the rooms, the layout quite difficult to work your way around. It was very business like in presentation although not necessarily the student .