Starting to update my website with recent projects. www.eyredesign.com
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Art House
Another community based website to get work featured and find competitions, collaborations etc...
Showing my work
Directing people to look at my work and website is very important at this stage and one of the most useful and easiest ways I have found not only to get my work 'out there' for people to see it is simply by making use of society6, posting regularly on there keeps people up to date with where I am at with my design practice.
Here is an image of my work featured on part of the society 6 website...
Here is an image of my work featured on part of the society 6 website...
Portfolio before tutorial...
Here are images of the portfolio spread I am showing in the tutorial with Justin, I am going to as for general feedback at advice on the layout.
Freelance UK
http://www.freelanceuk.com/
Very useful website with forums, information on starting out and money, marketing yourself etc. Very good resource to make use of.
Very useful website with forums, information on starting out and money, marketing yourself etc. Very good resource to make use of.
What are my plans?
Seen as though my initial plans of trying for internships and job offers straight out of uni have been put on hold for a while due to things going off at home I have been re-thinking my plans for the future.
I have still been researching into design studios I want to contact and get feedback for my portfolio, with a few tweaks I am ready to send off examples of my work... bit late in the day but I have to start sometime, and like I said I wasn't really sure what I wanted to gain from contacting studios when I cannot offer myself for work or placements for the near future. I have decided feedback and making the initial contacts is too valuable to pass upon at this time, and any feedback about my work and portfolio and advice for the future is too much of a good thing to ignore. With this focus I am going to get to it and contact studios I have admired and found from working on my design context who deal with a lot of briefs to do with social issues or have a clear focus on type and layout design.
I am also in the process of buying my first house! So I will have space in the 3rd bedroom, - an attic room, to set myself up a studio space so I can keep working from home and ticking over ideas so when I come to applying for internships and looking for jobs in the future I am not stale and out of date as a designer. I want to make good use of my online prescence at this time and use the networking sites like behance etc. to keep my work out in the field.
I am also going to research more into small freelance jobs I can take up, and see if I can build anything from this. I doubt I will be able to set aside enough time to set-up myself fully as a freelancer but I will be looking for projects I feel I can take up on, this way I can always be expanding my portfolio and get more live jobs in there.
So there is a basic layout of my future plans, now I can get to blogging interesting resources to help me fulfill them...
I have still been researching into design studios I want to contact and get feedback for my portfolio, with a few tweaks I am ready to send off examples of my work... bit late in the day but I have to start sometime, and like I said I wasn't really sure what I wanted to gain from contacting studios when I cannot offer myself for work or placements for the near future. I have decided feedback and making the initial contacts is too valuable to pass upon at this time, and any feedback about my work and portfolio and advice for the future is too much of a good thing to ignore. With this focus I am going to get to it and contact studios I have admired and found from working on my design context who deal with a lot of briefs to do with social issues or have a clear focus on type and layout design.
I am also in the process of buying my first house! So I will have space in the 3rd bedroom, - an attic room, to set myself up a studio space so I can keep working from home and ticking over ideas so when I come to applying for internships and looking for jobs in the future I am not stale and out of date as a designer. I want to make good use of my online prescence at this time and use the networking sites like behance etc. to keep my work out in the field.
I am also going to research more into small freelance jobs I can take up, and see if I can build anything from this. I doubt I will be able to set aside enough time to set-up myself fully as a freelancer but I will be looking for projects I feel I can take up on, this way I can always be expanding my portfolio and get more live jobs in there.
So there is a basic layout of my future plans, now I can get to blogging interesting resources to help me fulfill them...
Creative Networks Thurs 27th May 2010...
Went to creative networks fair after the lecture theater presentations, had a browse round the stalls and picked up some contacts for future reference.
Exit - presentations in lecture theatre
Went to the Exit Presentations yest they were really informative, especially from graduates Yorkshire I have quite a bit of information now in my note book that I will be able to browse through.
The other presentations were pretty much based on setting up your own business, really interesting stuff but not what I am interested in at this moment in time.
The other presentations were pretty much based on setting up your own business, really interesting stuff but not what I am interested in at this moment in time.
EOYS proposal alterations from feedback...
Generally pleased with the EOY banners now, just got to try different colour for the type for the 3 min brief then when I have chosen that I can go print :)
EOYS proposal handed in...
This is the final layout I handed in for the proposal, ready for feedback on it. I really like the left board and think it is impacting, but I was still struggling with the right board, I love the project and really want to show it off but I am struggling on how to do this effectively, even after the suggestions from my tutorial on it. I think I am too close to the project and need another look over on this from a different persons perspective...
EOYS proposal development...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
End of Year show initial proposal
For the end of year show I am proposing to showcase two briefs.
Adapting the Neuroscience book to a banner format with the spreads laid out and have the booklet on a plinth. Adapt the 3 Minutes To Think brief to a baner format with spreads laid out and poster and have the book on a plinth.
Have my portfolio on the plinth and a business card holder attached to the front of the plinth.
Adapting the Neuroscience book to a banner format with the spreads laid out and have the booklet on a plinth. Adapt the 3 Minutes To Think brief to a baner format with spreads laid out and poster and have the book on a plinth.
Have my portfolio on the plinth and a business card holder attached to the front of the plinth.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Working on my portfolio
Here is the working progress of altering and updating my portfolio with new briefs after I photographed all my work, I need to condense the ammount of briefs I am showing to really communicate what I am about as a designer and I am not happy with some of the layouts so they need more work on them.
My previous printed portfolio had an insert at the front and back printed on tracing paper and I think this choice of stock was a nice starting and finishing point to my work and added something a bit different, so I am going to print the 1st and last page in the same way now I have re-branded my portfolio.
My previous printed portfolio had an insert at the front and back printed on tracing paper and I think this choice of stock was a nice starting and finishing point to my work and added something a bit different, so I am going to print the 1st and last page in the same way now I have re-branded my portfolio.
government design competitions.
Public sector competitions from the government
http://www.innovateuk.org/deliveringinnovation/smallbusinessresearchinitiative/competitions.ashx
http://www.innovateuk.org/deliveringinnovation/smallbusinessresearchinitiative/competitions.ashx
Supply2gov.uk
Supply2gov.uk to get contracts for jobs for the public sector, this site is for jobs under £100,000.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Photography - my work
So I had the photo studio booked out last Friday, got some pretty good images of my work so I can update my portfolio and website etc. I have spent most of the night tonight cropping and adjusting hundreds of photos so I can now go on to tweaking the layout of my existing portfolio with the new images, then onto updating my website as planned. Lots to do! So watch this space...
Monday, 3 May 2010
99 Designs
http://99designs.com/contests
This website is great for finding live briefs as you can actually get paid if the designs you submit are successful. It is paid in dollars but through paypal this isn't a problem. I have looked through a number of briefs and going to be taking some on in my own time I think its a great way to keep my designers brain ticking over while I consider where I am going to end up after university...
This website is great for finding live briefs as you can actually get paid if the designs you submit are successful. It is paid in dollars but through paypal this isn't a problem. I have looked through a number of briefs and going to be taking some on in my own time I think its a great way to keep my designers brain ticking over while I consider where I am going to end up after university...
Design council - public sector
If I don't read all the info on the design council website that relates to me as a designer I would be stupid. It is a right gem of a site packed with loads of useful information. Here is an example of one of the areas I have been reading up on as I hope to design for clients within the public sector in the near future...
Website update...
I am going to be updating my website soon over the next few nights hopefully. I was in the photography studio shooting my work so I can re-jig my website to show more of what I can do with a portfolio that reflects me better as a designer.
Not quite worked out how much to change the site yet, my identity and colours will remain the same as they fit with the rest of my self promotion material.
Anyway watch this space...
Not quite worked out how much to change the site yet, my identity and colours will remain the same as they fit with the rest of my self promotion material.
Anyway watch this space...
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