we have no idea on what we are going to do or what the plan is but we are going to meet up on the 21st june to discuss ideas and see what we all think. Even this doesn't lead to anything its still good to get some good experience from working for clients.
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Collaboration Oppertunity
I received a call today from my friend back at home and apparently he has been showing my work to some new professionals that he met and they want to collaborate with me, this means that i get to work with a professional photographer and also a professional web designer. This would be amazing and i feel i could get a hell of a lot of experience from it
we have no idea on what we are going to do or what the plan is but we are going to meet up on the 21st june to discuss ideas and see what we all think. Even this doesn't lead to anything its still good to get some good experience from working for clients.
we have no idea on what we are going to do or what the plan is but we are going to meet up on the 21st june to discuss ideas and see what we all think. Even this doesn't lead to anything its still good to get some good experience from working for clients.
My Branding
This is my completed branding for the time being, this is something which will continue to expand and change how ever i feel is necessary but for the time being i really enjoy the outcome of it as i have just completed this brief for FMP
FOR THE REST OF MY BRANDING PLEASE USE THE LINK BELOW AS THE BRIEF 'MAKE YOUR MARK' IS THE SAME PROJECT.
http://martyaaronedwardsfmp.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Brief%204%20-%20Make%20your%20mark
Successful Responses
Heres a list of all my responses that i got form my mass emails that i sent out. This was rather a decent turnout really. I will now try to keep constant pressure on them and keep them chatting to me so i can build up contacts with people, that would be amazing.
Mass Emails
I have sent out so many emails to try and head back from studios, this took me the good part of a morning as i was writing each one to each studio and trying to make it sound that little more special for each one. This was something that was rather time consuming but hopefully will pay off in the long run.
Email - TBM
This is a very successful email, they got straight back to me and they seemed very keen to hear from me aswell. this made me very happy that this happened so quickly. I will defiantly be sending my book to these guys and hopefully could expand to something bigger
Found some new studios
I found a few new studios that i like the look of, ill have to message them and see if i can build any sort of contact with them at all.
The studios are:
http://www.anonymous.com.sg
http://www.aplusbstudio.com/
http://www.passport-db.com/work/tom-hooker/
http://www.minddesign.co.uk
The studios are:
http://www.anonymous.com.sg
http://constructlondon.com
http://www.lundgrenlindqvist.se/http://www.aplusbstudio.com/
http://www.passport-db.com/work/tom-hooker/
http://www.minddesign.co.uk
Meeting with printers
I had a meeting with the printers today where i had to create a full spec booklet to which i can show the final designers of the group that i was collaborating with.
This was rather worrying at first however i feel that i have learnt a lot even though it was short, the understanding between the two of us made it really simple to communicate with him.
This was rather worrying at first however i feel that i have learnt a lot even though it was short, the understanding between the two of us made it really simple to communicate with him.
These are some of the notes that were took whilst in the meeting with him and things that i wrote before i went in there so i didn't get lost for words and start to come across as stupid and unprofessional
Job Opportunity
Whilst working for SteelTech a job opportunity came available, Lee O'Leary said that i would be able to go and work for him in the office, if i am to design the website, keep it running and then design new layouts for gates railings ect.
this sounds like an amazing opportunity as i would become 50% partner of the company, but this also means that i would be sat behind a desk and not designing full time which is a major let down and not something that i trained for all this time to do.
This is something that i need to look over and see what i could get from it
this sounds like an amazing opportunity as i would become 50% partner of the company, but this also means that i would be sat behind a desk and not designing full time which is a major let down and not something that i trained for all this time to do.
This is something that i need to look over and see what i could get from it
Website
At the minute my website is very very unfinished i really don't understand how to do anything with web, this is an area that i want to learn but i will do this over the next period of my life.
Heres a link to my unfinished website at the minute
http://cargocollective.com/martyaaronedwards
I will hopefully have a web domain created by the end of the month and have a website up and running.
Heres a link to my unfinished website at the minute
http://cargocollective.com/martyaaronedwards
I will hopefully have a web domain created by the end of the month and have a website up and running.
Progress tutorials with amber
Progress Tutorial 01
I should blog all my work for the context part of my practice that is included in my dissertation. This is relevant towards the study of what i'm doing, this is important so that my practice can then be linked and related over the complete section of everything.
Look at the work of Si Scott from Hotel Chocolate in Copenhagen
Start to contact event places for the 2nd event that we plan to do for OTTO, there is some good places but they may charge so make sure to check early and try find a place that wont charge.
- White Cloth Gallery
- Mexico
- Warf Chambers
COMPLETE PREPERATION FORM and figure out my audience for each brief and who i am as a creative professional
In the preparation form put in Primary and Secondary sections so i can put my main focus into the primary and then what else i would look at for the second section of my briefs
Make sure that i ask Rosie everything that i need to know about her so that when she's really busy in a few weeks that i don't have to keep pestering her constantly
Email amber to forward me some graphic journals
OTTO
Start press release for the event now so that people can make plans to fit us into there diary now before they have too many other plans.
Leeds designs blogs so that we get creatives who are based around leeds
I should blog all my work for the context part of my practice that is included in my dissertation. This is relevant towards the study of what i'm doing, this is important so that my practice can then be linked and related over the complete section of everything.
Look at the work of Si Scott from Hotel Chocolate in Copenhagen
Start to contact event places for the 2nd event that we plan to do for OTTO, there is some good places but they may charge so make sure to check early and try find a place that wont charge.
- White Cloth Gallery
- Mexico
- Warf Chambers
COMPLETE PREPERATION FORM and figure out my audience for each brief and who i am as a creative professional
In the preparation form put in Primary and Secondary sections so i can put my main focus into the primary and then what else i would look at for the second section of my briefs
Make sure that i ask Rosie everything that i need to know about her so that when she's really busy in a few weeks that i don't have to keep pestering her constantly
Email amber to forward me some graphic journals
OTTO
Start press release for the event now so that people can make plans to fit us into there diary now before they have too many other plans.
Leeds designs blogs so that we get creatives who are based around leeds
First Meeting with rosie
After having this first meeting with Rosie, it showed that it was rather unclear on what she wanted from all of this, so i gave her a range of questions to which she needs to go away and answer so that i have a clear understanding of what she wants from this.
Information i was able to gather from the interview:
- She wants the branding to be high end so that it looks, professional, simple and clean.
- Her company focus so far is on shirts
- She isn't sure if she wants a logo and type or just one or the other
- Her audience are creative professionals and fashion conscious adults.
Materials that she mainly works with
Leather
Colours that Rosie mainly uses is:
Greens
Beige
Black
White
Other Designers that inspire Rosie:
Kooples
Acne
Information i was able to gather from the interview:
- She wants the branding to be high end so that it looks, professional, simple and clean.
- Her company focus so far is on shirts
- She isn't sure if she wants a logo and type or just one or the other
- Her audience are creative professionals and fashion conscious adults.
Materials that she mainly works with
Leather
Colours that Rosie mainly uses is:
Greens
Beige
Black
White
Other Designers that inspire Rosie:
Kooples
Acne
Self Branding from last module
This is the branding which i have completed in the previous module, now i have to build and develop a range of more ways to expand on this and create a branding brief so that i'm able to get myself out there in a professional style to which i'm happy with.
This will range from various things, the logo i'm happy with and something that i want to keep but i will build the process of how i will complete all of these things and what i want to hand out in the end.
Planning for the meeting
I have emailed the manager Lee O'leary and i have managed to get a meeting with the manager of SteelTech where i will be able to ask a few questions on what i want to achieve and what he wants from the re-brand. This will be a great chance to get all ideas and concepts down on the table so we both know where we stand. The only issue next would be what questions would i need to ask to make sure i don't waste time or look unprofessional when i go to meet him. Below is a range of questions that i'm going to ask:
Questions i will ask:
- What do you want your company image to say and what do you want it to communicate?
- What budget do you have for the re-brand?
- What would you like to be included in the branding?
- What quantities would you be wanting printed in the first print run?
- Is there a deadline for when you want everything completed?
- When would you most likely be available again so we can go over the pre-proposed designs?
- Is there anything that you have seen that you feel intrested in when it comes to other companies branding?
- Is there anything you would like to add before we finish this meeting?
PPD Task 2 - Creative Industries.
dentify 5 companies/studios which you consider potentially synergetic to you personally.
Write a short explanatory paragraph and reasons for each, Identify the top choice and WHY you feel that they may have synergy with your practice now, or in the near future.
Is your choice based on:
Location
Direction of practice
The brand philosophy
Client Base
Direction of practice
The brand philosophy
Client Base
What if none of those is your main reason for choosing to follow this organization, what is it specifically:
1: The Surgery
http://thedesignsurgery.co.uk/
http://thedesignsurgery.co.uk/
2: Here Design
http://www.heredesign.co.uk/
http://www.heredesign.co.uk/
3: The Beautiful Meme
http://www.thebeautifulmeme.com/
http://www.thebeautifulmeme.com/
4: Candy Black
http://www.candyblackdesign.com/index.html
5: Raw Creative
http://www.weareraw.co.uk/
When considering these practices, Please consider
WHO they are/who are you?
WHY you are contacting them and why they should listen?
WHAT do you want them to do next and what do you actually want.
WHY they should get back to you?
Now you have identified initially these studios you feel synergy with. Please list 8 methods you could utilize to contact them.
1: Email
2: Direct Mail
3: Phone Call
4: Interesting Object
5: Arrive At Their Door
6: Portfolio
7: Website
8: Get Famous
1: Email
2: Direct Mail
3: Phone Call
4: Interesting Object
5: Arrive At Their Door
6: Portfolio
7: Website
8: Get Famous
PPD Task 1 - Re-evaluating My Aims
List 5 (or more) things you know now, that you didn’t before the christmas break.
- What to say when you contact professionals
- Practice & experience in interviews
- Basics on web design
- How to manage my time more effectively
- What i wanted to get out of my final year on the course
List 5 (or more) things you would address differently than you did this Summer.
- Go to see more studios
- Be more creative through-out summer
- Start my dissertation sooner
- Continue to use my design skills through-out so i'm not rusty when I'm back
- Not go home for the full summer & stay in Leeds for more of it
List 5 (or more) specific things you will address this semester, that should be useful.
- My Critical writing skills
- My Editorial, Grid & Layout skills
- My ability to hand render typography
- Research further into starting up my own business
- My photography skills
List 5 (or more) things you feel we could address as a group?
- Finding new studios
- Work out of charges
- Where to buy the best stocks & print deals
- What to look out for when designing (whats allowed & what isn't)
- Ways that can make you stand out from the 1000's of other designers out there
List 5 (or more) things you feel we have not looked at in PPD you personally would like to know more about with reference to professionalism?
- Whats the most lucrative side to graphic design
- Whats the best way of selling your work to the public
- Meet more designers from more varied locations so we get an insight into different cities
- What are all the positions in a graphic designers studio
- How to make sure you don't get screwed over on payments for your work
MY PPD BLOG POSTS ARE POSTED AND LABELED ON MY FMP BLOG
http://martyaaronedwardsfmp.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/OUGD303%20PPD?updated-max=2013-01-22T10:35:00-08:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false
All the work for my PPD module are posted on the FMP blog, this is has never ben brought up as an issue the whole way through my final major project so i assume that i was blogging all the information correctly.
Above is a link to where you will find the start of the posts for my PPD module s
All the work for my PPD module are posted on the FMP blog, this is has never ben brought up as an issue the whole way through my final major project so i assume that i was blogging all the information correctly.
Above is a link to where you will find the start of the posts for my PPD module s
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