Working Portfolio

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My Notebooks

I thought, as it is so cheap to get something printed with lulu, I should make some notebooks. I put a 4x4 grid in them with margins and gutters too, so it can be a nice little fun notebook for mail out promotion.

CV and Letterhead

Full Identity

Business Cards

Yay indeed! I am really happy with how these have come out.  The black version is a little shiny and does not quite have the same quality of print that the red and teal do.  

The three colour variations reflect the three sides of myself as a designer.  The professional - black / the designer - red / the responsible designer - teal.

I will hand them out accordingly, depending on who it is I am seeing, For example if I went to a studio that was interested in sustainability I would hand them the teal, wheras if I went to Purpose design I would give them the black version.

PPDD 301 Presentation

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Group Help

As a year group we negotiated ourselves into groups of 5, depending on what particular skills and disciplines we each had. The aim of this was to create a support group in which we would work together to support each other, organise visits and offer regular advice on design, context and direction.

To me the most useful part of this is going to the be the organisation of visits to studios and printers. We have already arranged to visit two printers in the following 2 weeks where we will enquire about printing out our design context books.

My group consists of:

Vickie Simpson

Charlotte Hitchen

Heather Bradley

Rebecca Liggins

Action Plan

The action plan is broken down into two sections;

- Networking and contacting

- Design related personal identification and promotion

Networking

- Design a questionnaire in response to the design context module - 19th Jan

- e-mail Scott Mark Berry in relation to his inspirations and thematic choice - 15th Jan

- e-mail Ok-rm with questions on how to target a specific audience (high end) - 14th Jan

- Organise visit to Cleckenwell printers in London over Easter - Before Easter

- e-mail Studio 8 with questions for design context - 22nd Jan

- Send promotional CV to studio 8 + PDF portfolio - 29th Jan

- Organise visit to Studio 8 - Before Easter

- e-mail Jim Jarmesch in relation to typography influences and themes - 15th Jan

- Research networking events in London for Easter - Every Weekend

- e-mail Laura Snell about how she finds her clients and targets them - 15th Jan

Self Promotion

- Finalise layout of portfolio in preparation for visiting professionals - 15th - 17th

- Purchase Goudy WTC for logo - Today

- Design stationery range in preparation for print on monday - 15th-16th Jan

- Resize all photos of work in preparation for setting up website - 24th Jan

- Develop creative CV and mail shot - 23rd Jan

- Create at least 20 mail shots - 3 weeks

- Learn about Indexibit - 22nd Jan

- Join and follow online design discussion groups - Ongoing

- Find out workshop timetables - Friday