Design Team - Market Week

Design Strategies Presentation

Contextual references are a bit weak, need to build on that & find companies that represent where I want to be/produce work that I aspire towards.
In general the presentation went well, got a bit worked up about it when I needn't had - Feeback included pointers on how to improve my presentation style as this will be important in the future, i.e. pitiching work to clients.

Sign-up Workshops

Been thinking about this all day - because it's going to dictate a good chunk of what I do for the next few months, but also because yet again the idea of working with motion graphics has yet again been thrown into debate..

I was so sure up until now that I'd pick it up in the future, and for now I was done with it - but being faced with a decision between print, web and motion workshops I just couldn't stop myself signing up for motion graphics. Shortly after I finally grabbed the chance to speak to the new tutor Lorraine, who only reinforced the message that I was making the right choice. I'm so, so happy that we've now got a digital specialist, I was crying out for a tutor with both the creative knowledge and technical skills to encourage me through the digital module - and I just think it's a huge waste of a resource to throw this away now.

So this now changes some of the briefs I'll be responding to - definitely going to include a digital branding exercise and with Lorraine's input I think I'll finally be able to fit motion graphics into my practice. Awesome, happy Lauren.

AllGood

A design studio based in Roundhay, a prime candidate for a visit. They're just the right size, not too big not too small, and just browsing through their website they seem to have a good grasp on what it means to be a business in this industry. I'm not specifically interested in anything other than how they run their business - but I'm sure I can learn more than that from these guys.

Keighley Christmas Guide

Over summer, a contact of Will's got in touch and essentially employed us to work on their brochure for Keighley Council. A great opportunity to earn some money - but more importantly it's a chance to build a relationship with another design agency. Augemente are a small group of designers focussing on branding across the whole range, offering a relatively cheap price for what they do - they know how to make a living out of this industry. We have been dealing with Helen (accounts/client manager) and recently met her in Bradford, she's keen to keep the work coming and though they're only small jobs, the experience of working with someone like Helen is absolutely invaluable. 

Posts with the work we have produced will be up here as soon as possible.

Business Cards - Text Layout

Really like the little arrows, both as an interesting accent to the text, but mainly because it reflects the arrow shape in my logo.
The outline is just so you can see the document borders, this isn't a part of the design.

The favourite so far.

Business Cards

What a revelation, I do already have a business card, just not one I'd be happy showing to any industry professional. Remarkably similar to Will's you might say, well yes, it was the process I was most interested in and he happily lent me his text layout just to test this.

I did about 10 variations of the design on the front, but they were all pretty poor - quite like this one though.
As far as the process goes.. quite easy to hand produce, but as you can see from the product shot they are going a bit curled at the edges. Going to try something similar for Wednesday with thicker stock - and my own text for the back.