Welcome to my world. Here you will find a selection of designs, short films and graphics that i enjoy. Along with a small selection of my work and my thoughts.
All of the work is divided into sections, which you will find on the right hand side. Some of the sections are my current projects and research belonging to the brief, along with film and motion graphics, typography and identities from designers that i love.

Print Search

As part of the fine art yearbook project we will need to organise and arrange everything necessary to have the book printed, I have happily accepted the job as researcher and client contact point. so my roles include 1st point of contact for all of our clients (ie the whole 3rd year fine art students) and organise the printing, including quotes, samples, visits and all contact to and from the printers.
I have gathered quotes via phone and email and now have about 20 options.
Gathering the quotes and doing the research is something i have really enjoyed, even speaking to one or two rather rude printers ( there is no need for anyone to be rude or disrespectful it is one of my pet peeves so don't get me started) I have enjoyed talking to the printers as it gives me opportunities to do something i am actually good at! talking! also it has given me a huge insight into a world which still remains rather alien to me as most of my work is produced for digital production.
a company I really like is Team-impression in leeds.
www.team-impression.com

Fine art

While searching for images to help with my layout project for the Fine art year book  I discovered these images, I love the colours!
I found these pics on a blog by Uffe Christoffersen, he used the picture of the cliff to inspire his colour palette for a series of paintings. I'm not a fan of the paintings but the photo of the cliff and the simple colour selection squares caught my attention. Natural earthy tones are my own personal colour palette for the majority of my wardrobe and now i believe i should include them in my design work especially for the fine art project we are working on at the moment that works to a natural earthy theme.






















 

typical 25 year old

Choosing Briefs to complete for my final major project. I have narrowed it down and a few i am interested in are Itv2 ident, current, becks, type factory, 10things.
here are the current idents for ITV2. 


























Green has to be the most prominent colour and it needs to have a young theme. The music ident doesn't seam to follow the same format as the others, not sure why this has been designed this way. The cowboy boots and psychedelic colours in the dance one is fun, but it reminds me of me too much and i didn't think i was the target audience as i am not really your average 25 yr old. for one i am still a student, i live alone, i don't go out, (much), don't drink much and i don't go on club 18-30's holidays. I am wrong? is that a typical 25 yr old? 
 

visiting lecturer

Si Scott is visiting tomorrow for a talk about his work. I've been checking out some of his work, it is very decorative and detailed. I would like to try to produce similar pieces as part of my experimentation. The style of his illustration is not normally to my taste, however si scotts work is sophisticated and Gothic which does appeal to me.
Heres a small selection of his work I have found that appeals. I haven't found any motion pieces yet but this i would love to see as i think the work would work very well as a motion piece as it is so intricate and ornate it would be fascinating to watch all the different patterns unfold.

portfolio images cont




FMP and SOI tutorial

Todays group tutorials on the final major project and writing the statement of intent gave me a lot to think about. The FMP requires a subject and theme to be able to complete a substantial volume of theoretical and practical work. My personal interests lye in film, cinematography and sci-fi novels, my graphical interests are typography, photography, motion graphics, web graphics, and animation. I am hoping I can find a way to combine my interests into a professional project suitable for the FMP.
Today I have sent a number of emails to number of design agencies for help and advice. I'm still unsure of my portfolio content and i am hoping the fmp will provide me with a number of good pieces to include in my updated portfolio. for now this will have to do.

Evaluation, 1st Module 3rd yr

As our Tutor is always telling us we will make mistakes, and this is how we learn. Well I consider this module to be my mistake. I made two very significant mistakes this term that spiralled and enveloped the whole module. My main mistakes were organisation and direction. Both of which I would normally mark as my strengths, this term were my main concerns.
At the beginning of term my motivation for the course was very low, I believe this was due to working a relatively normal office job over the summer which reduced my working week from 55hours to just 36hours. Returning to a 55 hours week became difficult for me.
It took me a number of weeks to gain momentum and drive on my first projects, one of which I discontinued completely as the work I was producing for it was well below Parr and adding to my unmotivated state.
It also took me a few weeks to realise what a valuable tool my blog would be. I use the internet a lot, especially as the majority of my design work is design for screen, however I never added my findings to the blog to evaluate or to explain my influences to others.
After asking for help (an enormous step for me) my work rate dramatically increased and I worked endlessly on my projects, and my blog started to take shape. However the work I aimed to produce was a rather outside of my comfort zone so even spending huge amounts of hours on it my work was still moving at a slow pace.
I really enjoyed the workshops I attended (which included After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash, Quark, and Final Cut) as this was one of my main aims this term, to gain further software knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed applying some of my new found skills to my work and this will be something I continue over the coming weeks. Had my organisation and motivation been better at the beginning of the projects I may have had time to apply much more knowledge to my projects.
This is where my organisation let me down. Despite increasing my work rate I still lacked direction and prioritised tasks in the wrong order, this meant that my finished projects still didn’t have the professional finish or attention to detail that I need to have at this stage in the course.
Towards the end of the module I was working endlessly and that is something I relished in. I really loved being busy, I may not have been producing the right work at the right time but I was producing work and lots of it. For my next project I hope to return to my usual organised self, and prioritise work correctly, and teamed with my new ability to work through the night I hope to produce a much higher standard of work.