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They recently wanted a designer to design a new logo, and I mentioned I am a Graphic Design and could do it for them.

So I put together a design that they liked and they decided on using the design as their new logo,

this is a way of me getting my work out there, with the page having over 200 views that is 200 people at least seeing the design.

As well as the logo I have also been designing framed images of footballers for them.

'Clubman Hall of Fame' which is now a weekly occurrence, I do it every monday for them.

Mentioning the design on a status;

Logo;

Podcast;

Clubman Hall of Fame;

Personal Identity Resolutions

Blog

After getting my new logo done and dusted, I wanted everything to be new,

wanted to make me blog look more professional, not be embarrassed about it like I have been the last year, but finally done something about it.

From this;

To this;

I feel the design on a whole is alot better, a massive improvement, looks more professional and now I am happy to let people brows my blog, instead of hiding it.

Logo

I finally got me new logo designed, it took me long enough,

But I decided to have it as a brief of my own, to re-create my identity.

Makin' Designs Logo;

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.

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Buk Evaluation

As this brief was a resubmission brief, I once again got to write my own brief, but I needed to add a lot more to it, more work and more ideas.

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, with this being a resubmission and getting done during the summer, I wasn’t able to have crits, but I did ask some of my fellow students to look at my blog and give me feedback and opinions what I can do to improve my resolutions, along with asking them, I was asking my friends from home, who attend university doing Graphic Design, so that was pretty handy to have as a back up.

I was producing a lot of layout work, putting down every idea of thought of down on paper, for the two logo’s I designed, the set of books and symbols, then I was finding it easier cause the ideas where flowing. Then I was doing a lot of trying and testing with pieces, messing with composition of words and images and colours.

Once I had my idea down that I wanted to produce, I planned for the resolutions to be simple, nothing to confusing, with my options being limited, not having the apparatus I would usually have available whilst in the studio’s, but I feel I have done well with what I have got, and happy with how the resolutions have turned out, and the idea of keeping them simple have worked out really well. A lot better with the simplicity.

I feel I managed my time well, I got all the work done early, so that gave me a good amount of time to do anything that needed to be edited, and worked on anything that commented about by students and friends. I kept my work organised, the layouts and the computer programme work.

It was a lot harder not being able to have crits, because they are very helpful in addition to your designs and ideas, I had friends giving me opinions and my fellow student helping over the internet and phone, but of course that is nothing compared to group discussions, was a lot harder, but they where still helpful,

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, I am really happy with how my resolutions turned out, I design four sets of books, giving me the options to choose from, I feel they where all strong ideas, but feel I have made the right choice in the ones I have chose, really happy with how they turned out.