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In preparation for my upcoming degree show and ultimate graduation soon approaching I have taken professional steps to help promote myself as a working graphic designer. I felt a minimal approach to suit my work and personality was appropriate to represent myself accurately. The monochrome choice of colour, I find both professional and sophisticated, a touch of gold for my business card was to leave an impression on the individual. I wanted an alternative reminder for my degree show, therefor I have created a mini portfolio to hand out on the night or mail to possible employers. The mini portfolio will consist of postcards of my work, a CV and business card wrapped with a translucent paper and sticker to hold it all together. I feel my work displayed on the postcards are my best projects from this year and hopefully be placed on desks, around studios and offices further promoting myself longer.

Alongside my printed portfolio, CV and business card I have created my own website to showcase an online portfolio. I wanted to keep with a similar aesthetic to give a sense of self-branding therefor kept it minimal and professional looking. A link will sit within our degree show website under my own profile and work.

The opening night of my degree show and private showing to industry, will be on the 27th May held within out own studio and where I have spent the past 4 years learning. All that is left to do now is gather my work for final hand assessments and construct my portfolio for the show.

My business cards and postcards have now been sent to print and I am awaiting their delivery.

A new CV fitting with my self-brand identity.

 

Visit my new website here.

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London New Designers Show

 A great opportunity has arisen for myself to be part of the new designers exhibit in London this summer, representing Coventry university along side some of my fellow classmates. The exciting news came with responsibility, a priority team organized by our tutor to help collect work and gather information from others in class to be circulated and sent to exhibit also. I chose my typography project to be used to represent my work and promote myself as a graphic designer, I felt it best represented my style and acted as an intelligent project to spark conversations with employers for myself. This project will sit along side my personal information from the new CV I have created in preparation for graduating university. 

With the degree show so close, I have begun the next steps of designing my business cards, online portfolio and personal website, CV and personal statement to help promote myself. I have also begun forming my outward facing portfolio to sit in the exhibition and eventually be taken down to London to be exhibited there. I will later release more information on the exhibit in time and reveal my website when published.

Fundraising Update ! The doughnut sale within hub was great! Some good use came from my Inflatable pool doughnut once again drumming up interest and humor throughout the day.

 

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UCC Coffee Packaging

I have been working hard lately with competition briefs, organizing our upcoming degree show and research and writing my dissertation. I have been working towards completing the UCC coffee brief and creating new packaging and extra pieces to fit with my concepts.

I wanted to create a minimal, contemporary feel to the coffee packaging and re brand look to create a well presented and connection to other projects in my portfolio. Set within the brands guidelines in the brief, a friendly, educated and traveled tone of voice was required. I wanted to focus on the destinations and flavors of each blend within its packaging make up and concept to for the brand image also. Each blend's packaging has illustrations of coffee plants and leaves representing the tastes notes present and where the coffee was grown. With each packet a informative booklet is attached for the consumer and coffee connoisseurs detailing the particular blends taste notes, destination of coffee beans, storage and preparation methods. The brief given was to bring this coffee out on the shelves and inside the homes of the public instead of hidden away behind counters of coffee shops and cafes. To resolve this problem I created a poster campaign promoting directly to the public with a friendly tone of voice injecting humor into the sales technique. The idea for the posters are to sit within or outside coffee houses with already serves UCC coffee and other products along with coffee cup wraps. All items can run for a short or long period of time to help promote the product without taking too much attention from business and can be easily disposed of.
  

Final Outcomes

Packaging

 

Poster Designs 

  

Cup Sleeves, Extra designs

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PCKT16

Our digital presence for the degree show has been gradually building and growing over the past few weeks. We now hold a Facebook Event, Facebook Page along with other social media accounts including Instagram and Twitter. The PR team and digital team have worked together to create an amazing website linking to the brand identity we have created.

An update with the fundraising efforts! We are currently in the progress of planning some upcoming events such as a gaming console tournament, a Karaoke night both held within our own studio to save on costs. The most recent event coming up is a Krispy Kreme doughnut sale taking place within the hub, which I have been set the task of creating a poster and content for social media accounts advertising the event. I wanted the poster to feel fun and playful and somehow connected to our degree show, I feel I have achieved this with my use of colour, language and my new found skills in creating illustrations within illustrator.

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Portfolio

 Whilst still working on projects from this year and building up the majority of my portfolio, I have been focusing on how I want my work to feel as a collective in my portfolio. I wanted almost a house style guide to create a personal style for myself, yet give each brief and projects its personal identity. My big design module has been running along side all others this year and given a wide range of different projects to choose from including branding, campaigns, typography, packaging and interior installations. A big factor in my reasoning for choosing projects that I have, is that I felt my portfolio lacked a broad range of projects incorporating in particular packaging and interior.

In the past few years of studying I have found a huge passion for Interior design, I have begun projects of my own and would like to explore this area of design practice more. I have been given a possible opportunity working with an interior design company which employs graphic designers and artists creating artwork. For this potential role I have adapted my portfolio and projects and included the interior spaces and exhibit installations I have complied from this year.

With our graduate show fast approaching and with plans to be part of the new designers exhibit in London, I have begun adjusting my personal branding and outward facing materials. These being my creative CV, business card, printed portfolio and online portfolio / personal website with an applied style to all. I have been thinking of unique ways to present my portfolio and CV together for potential clients and employers, and have these sit alongside my professional portfolio. I want to print my favorite projects onto postcards and have these as a mini portfolio to hand out and give to opportunities.

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Pentacontakaitetragon

First little update with our fundraising efforts! 

This week we held a bake sale within our building in the reception area selling all lovingly homemade treats made by the team. It was an easy way for us all to be involved and it had a great success in raising money for our degree show, we hope more events like it will continue after our Easter Break as planned. After such a large number of donations on our gofund me page, we have decided to raise our target pushing ourselves even further.

On the same morning of our bake sale, we were finally introduced to our degree show by the Liaison team who worked hard to create the perfect concept and brand this year for our class. The name of our degree show is - Pentacontakaitetragon. A clever concept focusing on the creatives in our class, I'm excited to see how we now form this brand identity together in the coming weeks ready for our show.

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Degree show

With our university projects coming to their end and our studies winding down, the next task in hand is our final year degree show and preparing our ourselves and portfolio for work. Our degree show creation will be formed by the whole class, launching this task as a project and breaking down responsibilities to groups focusing on different aspects of the event. Liason, Curation, Corridoor, PR, Fundraising and Catalogue are a few of the groups assigned with their own roles and aims all working towards the same outcome of producing a conceptual degree show. 

As the Halloween fundraising event, I was involved with was such a success and so much fun to be involved with, I signed up to be part of the fundraising team. I had started to compile a list last year of fundraising events and ideas in preparation to hopefully make the task of raising as much money as possible a little less stressful. With our first meeting to discuss ideas and events, its clear the group have a lot of ideas too and so I feel hopeful that together we are committed to raising the money and making our degree show the best we can. As our first fundraiser gave us just over £200, we are a long way of the £4000 total needed, an agreement from the class to all donate £30 each should help gain more funds. We have also set up a gofund me page as our first step to hit our £1000 goal. With the page up and running online, we hope to receive donations from friends and family from everyone in the class. Our first target goal is set at £600 but we feel we may raise this after reevaluating after the page has been live for a week, depending on the exposure and progress.

You may donate here. Every penny really does count and we are grateful for any and all donations made.

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Amsterdam

This week we took a trip to Amsterdam as a class, to experience their aware design culture and visit the many galleries and museums. We stayed at the Hans Brinker budget hotel, so we were very close to the museum quarter and not too far to walk and see all of Amsterdam. Before the trip I was excited to experience a new culture and try new food, from my previous trips and travels with uni I have become more confident and adventurous, looking forward to traveling to experience new things. We were asked to document our thoughts and time spent from day to day on our shared tumblr site, check it out here.

Flower Market 

I spent around an hour in a great postcards and art prints shop, searching through every section of postcards they stocked to find the perfect inspiration to bring back home with me. After searching for so long the shopkeeper mistakenly took me for Dutch, perhaps from the postcards I bought.

Stedlijk Museum 

In the gallery, a few pieces by Dan Flankin was on display, he has an upcoming exhibition at the IKON gallery in Birmingham I previously saw advertised on my visit to see Fiona Banner's typographic exhibition. It was a great surprise and made me all that more excited to experience more of his art next month. The Stedelijk museum was my favorite gallery by far, I loved seeing well known and classical artists pieces of work like Picasso, Monet and Van Gogh side by side with modern art and photography by the likes of Andy Warhol and Litchenstien.

 Celebrating International Women's day with free roses from a hotel nearby the museums.

 Amsterdam // Jordaan

As a separate brief to the trip, we were asked to create a poster advertising the trip to students next year, inspired and influenced by our experience there. I was mostly fascinated by their creative use of typography and duel language which I saw in streets, galleries, museums, shops, cafes etc. I wanted to take inspiration from the Dada movement on display within the Stedelijk Museum, and create a typographic poster. I choose to translate the well known saying 'It's all Dutch to me' and with an interesting use of colour and layout to hide the quote, allowing the Dutch language to be the main focal point.

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Penguin Competition 2016

You know its nearly spring when this module is launched. This year the choices were A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, How to be a woman by Caitlin Moran and Emil and the detectives by Erich Kastner. Being a huge fan of the film, A Clockwork Orange I decided there and then which I wanted to design as its always been a compelling and favorite story of mine.

I wanted to create a contemporary and minimal design focusing on a certain object or obsession from the story, from developing my idea I felt milk was the right path to take. As depicted before in the re printed covers of 2000, 2005 and 2008 by Veronique Rolland's of a single glass of milk, I wanted to steer away from showcasing a glass of milk as much as possible, when the idea of using milk bottles came to me. I like the idea of representing each member of the gangs identity through the small differences in their clothing and styling.

I crossed over these concepts so that each milk bottle represents a member of the gang, with Alex being close and intimidating to the reader. I then added a glass of milk on the back cover to mirror the front design and layout. I added a straw to the glass representing Alex's cane and added a blue eye to the top, so as all famous scenes and icons of the film were illustrated. I believe the design incorporates the iconic and recognisable items associated with the story so far and can sit within the brand the film and book has created, yet gives a new conceptual element.

A week before the deadline a sudden burst of inspiration hit me and an idea formed for the 'How to be A woman' cover. I have always been a lover of stationary and follow both Ban.do and the company founder Jen Gotch on social media, a signature style of both is witty badges, pins and embrodiered patches. I was inspired by the emerging trend and felt it could portray the humor of the book with a stylish flair. I thought I would develop both ideas and try to submit both to the competition, this I have done with success.

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