February 2012
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He Cuts.. He Scores!
7 hours of cutting, scoring and folding later, I have 72 self promo pieces. For those that may be interested, the process involved;
2,016 Scalpel cuts,
228 Score Lines,
& 648 Folds
Now, just to find some lovely creative people to distribute them to
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Self Promo V_2.0 - The Making Of
With the DNA Carnival approaching, along with many portfolio reviews and mixing with industry, I decided to make a bit more movement in regards to printing my slightly tweaked unconventional self promotional piece. So, after a few hours in the print room, I have a huge stack of templates to cut out, 100 paper planes to fold and some box fresh business cards to pop in. Rather than me blab on about...
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Greg Melander: What We Still Don't Know →
gregmelander:
The big questions still unanswered. What’s at Earth’s Core? Is time an illusion? How does a fertilized egg become a human? What happened to the Neanderthals? Why do we sleep? Where did life come from? How can observation affect the outcome of an experiment? How do entangled particles…
Some thought provoking brain poking. Sounds like a great intro to an NMP brief …
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Eavesdropping Round 2
As you may or may not know, I’m basing my NMP on snippets of conversations I’ve overheard or eavesdropped into, taking these little snippets and then merging them together in such an order that they form a narrative, so .. the public are making a story, they just don’t know it. I spent much of today as I did last week traveling on a bus, to and around public places in search of...
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Dream Job 5 - Google
Here’s another little wildcard I’m just going to throw into the mix, I’m sure Google is a company that pretty much anyone would like to work at, not only because of the job perks, such as unlimited food, provided by a gourmet chef but also purely because of their amazingly creative workplaces.
An employee using an on site decompression chamber (anti stress box) that is...
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Dream Job 4 - Agency
If I was to keep my feet nailed to the Earth, I’m already relatively close to my dream job, a graphic design career .. with the easiest and most common way of attaining a graphic design job being to work for an agency, whether that be large or small, rich or poor, digital or print being left up to me and what I want to specialise and work with in the years following university. There’s...
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Dream Job 3 - Film Designer
This dream job would be one of those, if you could choose to fill anyone’s shoes type of thing, slightly unattainable .. but to dream eh?
Eric Rosenberg is a film designer I came across a few years ago, a film designer is basically someone who creates visuals to sit in the backgrounds (or foregrounds) of films, these visuals can come in many forms, from creating a fictitious airline brand...
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Dream Job 2 - Collective
After doing plenty of research for the self promotion project last year, I learned lots about the many creative agencies and businesses that operate in Manchester .. looking at the sizes of them, the amount of people working there, job roles, types of companies and how they set up, amongst other things. This process was rather inspiring, learning that pretty much the only way to jump straight to...
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Dream Job 1 - Problem Solver
A few weeks ago we were set a mini task to talk about our dream job, with these ‘dreams’ being as open, as serious, as realistic or as wacky as one would like .. preferably including a mixture of all of the above, providing as both a nice tool for us to reflect upon our future, whilst giving Tash a nice insight into ‘what we want to be when we grow up’.
As a kid I was...
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People Listening
For my NMP I’ve decided that I want to create a narrative out of snippets of conversation I overhear in public places, I’m not too sure as to the deliverables just yet but I quite like that, although I have some ideas in my head of where this project can go, I want to keep them in relative free form at the moment, I think it will help me experiment further than I would than if I knew...
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NMP Seminar
Had my first proper seminar earlier today, with my last one being a bigger flop than a Viagra-less 90 year old, with me pitching an outcome before coming up with a concept. I was a tad cock-sure last week that I was going to do a Zine and everything will be all lovely happy and hunky dory, but this isn’t the story (rhyme, yes). But yes, this week I have been thinking up some concepts for a...
misshkchapman asked: Wow - so you're work is amazing. Keep it up. I wish I had a job or any sort of reason to hire you.
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DNA Carnival Progress ..
I got Zoe to pop into Staples on her way to her placement earlier to print the Flag design (with crop marks) on acetate along with the diamonds ready for screen printing onto the bags tomorrow.
Last nights mini brain wave of including party poppers in the goody bag was approved by an ever excited Jo, with them being a rather cheap yet relevant inclusion in the goody bag, this taking the place...
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Visual Arts - Experimental Type
Along with the NMP, there’s also quite a few side briefs to help occupy any time or mental capacity, one of those briefs is to create an experimental typographical piece for the Visual Arts 2012 course annual front cover. This is the kind of brief I thought I could get stuck into, something that’s slightly passive without needing too much thought other than something to stand out and...
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NMP Update
So, we were briefed for our Negotiated Major Project last week (a PC name for Final major project apparently), possibly my last project in education, certainly my last project for my Graphic Design degree anyways. The aim of the game is kind of in the name, or a mixture of the PC name and the actual name, it’s negotiated and it’s my final project .. so, I set the brief, and I have to...
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Self Promo
Launch Me - Unconventional self promotion piece. Lovingly hand cut, scored, folded and put together, designed digitally of course.
This is the self promo piece I made last year for a self branding brief where I was given the task of not only creating a logo that represents me well, but also an unconventional self promotional piece that I could send to various agencies in hope of...
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Javascript
Jason and Jules held a javascript/Jquery lesson today, and seeing as I’d quite like to drop some code into my website to aide the usability (animating the scroll down upon click), I figured it was a no brainer in terms of attendance.
I knew what Javascript and Jquery were and how they slotted into HTML and CSS, there were just a few bits missing, making the whole thing appear a tad...
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January 2012
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