Website Mock Ups

I have yet to start my own personal website,

but I have thrown together a few mock ups, just simply so I know what I want it like when I do start,

I imagine I will be starting it beginning of third year, so I have more work to put on it, from the work I am going to do during the summer time.

Also it gives me the summer to do any tweeking I feel could be done on the website,

cause these are mock up's, not actually finalised ideas.

For the home page, I will be replacing the large logo with something else,

Don't want two logos on one page,

So will be working on that during the summer to decide what is suitable for there.

Collaboration Evaluation

Kick starting this brief with trying to find a partner, so we had to design some advertising posters, to advertise what it is we want from our partner, one poster representing yourself and your qualities, and the next poster advertising what you want in a partner.

After a workshop of doing that activity, I found my partner in the form of Marc Redhead.

We spent a good few hours dissecting and speaking about the briefs, narrowed it down to three, o2, HMV, Bacardi then after a discussion, and deciding what would be our best approach we finally came to a conclusion that we wanted to work on the Bacardi brief together.

We came up with a lot of designs and ideas, ranging from packaging, idents/advertisments, re-branding and a poster campaign,

We spent a lot of the time of the briefing working with the different options, we mainly focused on working on a ident/advertisment & packaging for the item.

Crits, to us where a massive help, cause we had periods where we where struggling to nail an idea, and out fellow students brought up some ideas that helped up develop.

We had a numerous crits, getting good feedback and comments about our ideas, and it wasn't till the last crit we realised we had been taking the wrong direction for a long time,

with a week left we came up with a solid idea, we where both convinced its strong and would make a good portfolio piece if we pulled it off, so we put the ident/advertising & packaging ideas aside, and focusing on a poster campaign to promote the product, as we both decided we feel our strongest point of design is advertising and promoting items in the form of posters.

Cause we spent so much time working with ident/advertising & packaging ideas we didn’t have much time left, one week. Within this week we had to get some layouts and the ideas down on paper and also get the resolutions done

so as a pair we came in the last weekend before deadline, with all the equipment we needed, camera and items for the images. We where to late and unorganised to book the one of the photo studio, as it was a busy time of year for major project for photography students, it was fully booked.

So we had to make do with a make shift studio, the images came out fine, alot better than we expected as a pair, and that day we editted and done what needed to be done to the images, including adding the logo and text, we ended up with 18 different resolutions, from going from nothing with a week to go, to having 18 well designed posters with a week in hand, we where very happy with our outcomes.

Working with Marc was a pleasure, I feel as a pair we worked well, both putting ideas into the generator, both being honest if anything wasn't working,

worked well together in and outside the studio, keeping each other up to date with everything & as a pair I feel we developed and created some really nice final pieces of work. Something we can be both be proud of and use for our portfolio.

Overall, with this brief I feel it went well, got a lot of work done, and some pieces of work that we can be proud of and be proud to put into our portfolio, as well as the work, I feel the partnership worked well as mention above. Although we spent a lot of time doing worked that we didn’t end up doing, I personally think we could have done something a lot stronger with the idea we had, made it a lot better and stronger if we could have used that time, but that aside we still feel we done well and produced some good, appealing work.

OUGD203, End of Module Evaluation

This brief kick started alot different to other briefs,

seeing to we got to write the brief our selves,

started by collecting a few existing briefs from the past, YCN and studio briefs etc,

Helped us get an idea of what we could do for our own brief.

Within the first few days I struggled to nail down any convincing ideas that I could use for a resolution,

this went on for numerous day,

An going into the first crit I didn't have the greatest amount of work to show,

but that crit helped me alot and shaped my ideas alot more than when I first went into the brief.

From here I knew I wanted to do a poster campaign and a rebrand of the companies logo.

I was producing alot of layout work,

putting down every idea of thought of down on paper, then I was finding it easier cause the ideas where flowing.

Then I was doing alot of trying and testing with pieces, messing with composition of words and images.

Was staying in the studio till late hours trying to get everything done.

Once I had my idea down that I wanted to produce it was just simply the case of taking the photographs I needed.

I took over 100 photographs,

50+ for each idea, then selected a few that I feel I could work well with.

Unfortually cause it took me so long to nail down the design I felt comfortable with these photographs where taken in the last week.

So I didn't get aslong with the resolutions as I could have liked,

that is down to poor organisation on my own behalf.

Apart from the poor organisation of getting the photographs taken,

I feel my time management was alot better than it has been for most of the briefs I have done over the past two years.

Was well organised also, was making sure I had work for crits, so I could get as much help as possible for my fellow students.

The organisation and the time management of my resolutions was the biggest down fall,

but I am still pleased with what I have came out of this brief with.

But, if I was to change anything at all over the past 4 weeks of this brief it would simply be organising the photo shoot alot quicker,

and getting them done with two weeks in advance, to give me two weeks to edit the picture,

or may be even re-do them, if that would have been the case.

Crits, we had 4 over all,

and without them I don't think my resolutions would have been as good as they are.

Throughout this brief I have realised how important crits are,

and how much they help,

getting alot of good feed back, going in different directions, different designs,

all due to help from people around you in the same situation.

Throughout the past four weeks I feel I have produced a good amount of layout work,

and been keeping up to date with my blog well,

Could my resolutions have been better?

Yes, but that is down to my lack of organisation, something I can learn from,

"Make Mistakes To Learn From Them"

Although they could've been better, I am still really pleased with how they have came out,

and are a good addition to my portfolio.

PPD End of Year Presentation