PPD//Personal Development//Reetsweet Craft Fair, June 2012.

Photo from today’s Reetsweet Craft Fair at Leeds’ Corn Exchange, forgot my camera in an early-morning rush, so here’s a picture of my Ron birthday card that Reetsweet head honcho, Becki took.

I am in the background… in the denim… ish.

A bit of a slow day (weather/bank holiday/the time of year), but I still made my money back that I spent, with a little profit, which is always good. As this was my third Reetsweet, I feel like I'm definitely getting into the swing of things now, and look forward to getting more made, professionally printed, and proper displays to show off my work more effectively, and, in general, just to look more engaging and eye-catching. Always fun though... I'm looking forward to my next Christmas Reetsweet in December!

PPD//Web Design//Cargo Mock ups.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I haven't been able to do half as much as I would have origianlly liked to have done, creating just a handful of screen mock ups from my existing Cargo page. Although there is a great deal more I would like to do with my website, I feel that my Cargo page is a basis of my ideas, templates, typefaces and colour scheme that I will be going on to use in my own web design as I go on to hopefully design a live website for my design portfolio over the summer, for which my domain names have already been purchased.


KEY DESIGN DETAILS/CONSIDERATIONS USED


Type// Helvetica-Arial-Sans Serif
Colour Scheme//White- Black- 30% Black 
Rollover bars- 30% Black
Highlighted project bars- Black with reverse out white type


PAGES// Home (Index)
Individual projects
About
Contact


Again, quite disappointed that I didn't get to do more at this time, but I still have lots of ideas that I am eager to get down, and will start actively pursuing within the next couple of weeks as I look more closlely at my professional design practice and showcasing my design portfolio.

PPD//Personal Development//Getty Images.

Really excited a couple of days ago, after hearing about Getty Images for the past couple of years, to have been contacted by the photo-sharing (licensing) company to request that some of my photography work can be sold (by commission) on their site, after sourcing my work through Flickr online. For me, this always felt like a great achievement and compliment, and something I'd definitely like to get involved in to get a great deal more exposure for my work, and some small financial benefit too!
So far, I've signed up four of the images they selected, and keen to see how it develops in the future. I've definitely learnt a lot more about copyright and licensing (model and photographic) through this process, and really appreciative that I've also managed to learn something new whilst also helping to get my work seen.

PPD//Studio Visits & Industry//Pearlfisher.

Really excited on Thursday evening (so excited that I forgot to blog it until now...) to get an email through from my favourite design studio, whom I contacted a couple of weeks ago, Pearlfisher in Hammersmith, inviting me down for a placement interview. Naturally, I was delighted and did a little dance around my bedroom (it certainly helped me through an all nighter before module hand in the next day!). Booked my tickets down for June 22nd, and researched how to get there from King's Cross. Obviously really excited for my trip down, and even if I'm not lucky enough to receive a placement, I'll have a studio visit. Good times!

Design Practice II//Product/Range/Distribution//OUGD203 Self Evaluation.

My finalised, written self evaluation for the OUGD203 Design Practice II module, reflecting upon my design experience throughout the past months, my strengths, weaknesses and things to improve upon for my future modules and project concepts and design outcomes.

Design Practice II//Product/Range/Distribution//Finalised design boards.

The finalised design boards for my Product/Range/Distribution brief, with completed images, notation and explanation of the brief.

Design Practice II//YCN/Graze//My Responsibilities//Design Boards.

Again, re-publishing the design boards I produced at the end of the Design Practice II/YCN Collaborative brief which demonstrate my own personal responsibilities throughout the live brief project.