Beinging of Year Presentation

To kick start the year we had to put together a 5-7 minute presentation saying what we done during the summer and what we plan to do during our third year and what we have planned to do from there.

Slide 01_ To start the presentation I had my logo on screen, an explained to my fellow students that I may be changing my logo cause I have had the same one since I was 16, which is now 4 years ago, and within the last four year I have gained strong design knowledge, so I could maybe come up with something better and much stronger, but if that fails can stick to what I have.

Slide 02_ I started to talk about my business card, this has been put together pretty quick if I am being honest, I am not happy with it at all right now, also my address is on it, which is a mistake. But within the next next few weeks, I will be working on my branding and would like to have it all together by November, it will be posted on this PPD blog when done.

Slide 03_ Speaking about the placement I could have had at Smiling Wolf, but unfortually I had to cancel due to resubmission for my FMP at Level 05, I was disappointed with this but lucky for me they have told me I can go and do the placement end of October, or a small time during the Christmas holidays.

Slide 04, 05, 06 & 07_ With these slides I focused on my resubmission work during the summer, I designed a set of seven books based on the 7 Deadly Sins, I designed two logos, 7 symbols and 7 books, but I gave myself 4 different designs for the books, & finally I put put the designs in context for reading the books electronically.

Slide 08_ During the summer aswell as my resubmission work I designed 6 posters based on my favourite music artists and lyrics by them artists. But I moved on from this.

Slide 09_ I took some of the posters I designed and came up with the idea of the "27 Club" which is a well known in rock music, with dozens of artists dying or killing them selves at 27. This is yet to be finished, but I will be continuing it when I have time, maybe put it in with a brief for the year?

Slide 10_ I wrote down the 14 brief I wrote over the summer, and explain my ideas and the ones in bold are the ones I will be doing for OUGD301, and spoke about how I could try and combine some of the briefs.

Slide 11_ Wants, I listed what I want to achieve this year, there is alot, but I ain't been the best designer the last two years, so I feel I have something to prove, to my tutors, class mates, and even myself. I know I can do all these 'Wants'

Slide 12_ Focus on what I don't want to do this year, explaining I don't like working for screen, and that I don't want to leave this year with a portfolio I am not satisfied with.
Slide 13_ What do I want to do after graduating? I want to either start working for a agency and if that fails I have a few friends back home, who I can start our own little design company and see where that could lead us.

Overall, I feel the presentations where worth the nerves, they where very helpful,

Personally, I feel I just need to nail down what designer I am and why?

Also nail all them wants, and prove to myself and people around me that I can do it.