Design Competition: Final Digital

I’d been a little behind on this part of the project, mainly due to my hesitation to take photographs of my work. Once I did that the whole setting up a digital portfolio thing really flowed. I wanted to give my work a black canvas from which to pop-out from, and in black I think …

Final Major Project – Final Outcomes

The final outcome I hold in my hands and the one I have been taking photos of is not the finished product: that one will supposedly arrive in a few days. Still, this one is as close to the finished product as I’ve been able to get it. I’ve printed it on 110gsm Conqueror paper, …

Final Major Project – Printing

After creating my content, slaving over the layout, making sure everything was perfect and it was the zine I wanted to make, I sent it off to Mixam. Mind you, I'd had glowing reviews about Mixam and with their prices and priority delivery option I honestly though my zine was a done deal. It was …

Design Competition: Photographing the work

I’ve purposely bought 4 of the same sketchbooks along the year, with the only difference being in the colour of the covers. It’s sparked a thought in my head: What if I assign a portfolio box per project, and the colour of the sketchbook could tie it in somehow? I have bought 3 A4 size …

Design Competition: Final Physical

I’ve purposely bought 4 of the same sketchbooks along the year, with the only difference being in the colour of the covers. It’s sparked a thought in my head: What if I assign a portfolio box per project, and the colour of the sketchbook could tie it in somehow? I have bought 3 A4 size …

Design Competition: Wix or Adobe Portfolio?

I’ve been tinkering around with both Laythemes and Cargo Collective’s website builder and they’re simple to use and everything but come with the nasty surprise of having to pay a big sum (for a student anyway) of money for domain rights and publishing the website, you have to fork out to make it visible. Screw …

Design Competition: Portfolio – Physical

So I've gotten to the point where, even after looking at so many different styles of presenting a physical portfolio, I ...kind of... prefer it rather plain? I don't know, I don't think I'm supposed to. If anything this entire brief is about not just doing something plain, but I want to share my thinking …

Final Major Project – Layout and Typeface

I had an almost complete idea of what the cover was looking like, so I started to tackle the inside of the magazine. I had a certain typeface in mind, called Lulo, that looks really good for display and has an outline font that reminded me a little of football typography. I used Lulo almost …

Design Competition: Portfolio – Social Media

We had a session with Natasha Triay about the importance of social media for brands. Some of the benefits of social media are that they create awareness, they drive inspiration, can be used as market research and let you connect with influencers. In our case, we can treat our body of work as a brand …

Design Competition: Cass Handouts – New everything

If you remember correctly, about 3 weeks ago I was nowhere near finished and had put the handouts project to the side for a little while. It turns out that that works, as I came back into it recently with a new mentality and a two things happened that made me move it along to …