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.

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.

Graphic Design Studios

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://constructlondon.com

http://www.lundgrenlindqvist.se/
http://www.aplusbstudio.com/
http://www.passport-db.com/work/tom-hooker/
http://www.minddesign.co.uk

Portfolio - in need of an update

  Portfolio Layout

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.

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

POWER POINT - DESIGN STRATERGY

  Design Stratergy

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

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.  

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

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 

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?

Graphic Notebook Brief

MAKE YOUR MARK BRIEF

Rosie Brief

SteelTech Brief