2011 progression

I've now finally finished college! I have really enjoyed it but I am glad I've finally finished all of my work. I will miss everyone and I am so grateful for the help I have received whilst being on this course, and I am  so lucky to have such good tutors.

Leaving college - I'm still not sure what I want to do, I still don't really want to go to University though. I am going to look for a job in an area I will want to progress in, hopefully in Graphic design or Event Coordinating. I really would like to travel, so if I could do the internship with 'Travellers Worldwide', to do PR, Marketing and Events in China, it would be perfect.

Private show

On the 17th of June, 5 - 8pm, we had the private show for our end of year show. Unfortunately I couldn't go, but I know the show was good and the evening was a success. 

Website

This is my home page for my website, I chose to do a simple layout with the use of my collage as the background. I really like my website, and I feel it turned out a lot better than I thought it was going to. I like the simplicity and neatness of it. But if I was to do it again, I would want a different collage to be a background for each page to make it visually exciting.

Updating project grades

So close to finishing now, and I have updated most of my projects. I now have a full merit in Typography, and am currently working on my Narrative which I hope will help me achieve my target grade. I've finished my website, which I am happy with, and helped me gain more points towards my final grade.

End of year show

Its now the end of my final year at college. We have had our end of year show, which was really good. Everyone helped preparing the room and looking after it, which gained us points for unit 10 personal and professional development. Whilst the show has been on, everyone has been updating their project grades.

Above - Are some pictures of us preparing for the show and the show finished with everyone's work, the last picture is of everyones handmade experimentation, planning and development to show we don't only use Macs when doing our designs.

Final major project update

I handed my project in and from the feedback I had to change my finals as they didn't work in the David Carson style. Below are my new finals:

Final major project finals

I then applied them to a variety of materials, such as magazine, billboard and a bus stop sign

Final major project update

I have a selection of final posters that I designed for Toni and Guy in a David Carson style

Final major project

For my fmp I have chosen to do a poster on Toni and Guy, and as they sponsored London Fashion Week I shall base it on that. At the moment I am looking into the history of Toni and Guy. I have looked at theirs and other hair brands existing posters and magazines. I shall also look in to the history of posters and the history of hair.

I shall look in to David Carson, as I want to work in his gnarly, distressed style, and any other artists that work in a similar way.

Online portfolio

I have now completed my online portfolio

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellomollyjones/

Online portfolio

I have started an online portfolio as I needed one to send to Camberwell College of Arts.

For this I have had to create an Flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellomollyjones/

So far I have selected a few pictures which I need to narrow down to 10 images, and for each image I need to give a description of it.

Universities

I'm still indecisive about what I want to do when I finish college, so I have applied to some Universities.
My choices are:
Coventry University, Graphic Design
University for the Creative Arts; Epsom, Graphic Design
University of the Arts London; London College of Communication, Graphic and Media Design: Advertising
University of the Arts London; Camberwell, Graphic Design
University of the Arts London; St. Martins, Graphic Design

Website layout

I am now designing my website layout, and have decided to go for a simple design, with nude/natural colours. And mainly have bold text and will be easy to navigate round.

Experimenting with patterns

For this I had to scan in the textures I made before hand, and create a path so the texture could be used as this models dress. The focus of this task was experimenting with patterns and I also gained experience on photoshop.

Choices

I am currently looking at what I want to do when finishing this course. 


My first choice is traveling/gap year;


http://www.notgoingtouni.co.uk/jobs/view/1744/EXCITING_AND_PROFESSIONAL_BUSINESS_INTERNSHIPS_WORLDWIDE

http://www.travellersvolunteers.co.uk/bookingform.php








My other two choices are full-time University or Apprenticeship Uni 

The universities I am looking at are Coventry, Southampton...

Saving images for web

I exported the images to the folder name 'year 1 web backup' > opened them in photoshop changed the image size and in some cases changed the canvas size to merge the two sides togeth

Website designs

 

above are my sketches of website designs, from these i have decided i want a 
more illustrative website design, although there are a few graphic styles i like.




i like this style website, as on my home page
it shows a variety of my my work, mainly 
collages, ripped up. it also has some ripped lined
paper for me to write a introduction about myself
on, and to contain the header which will be my 
name the navigation buttons, which will be 
instantly recognisable. this style website will be
 more illustrative than computer style, which is 
what i wanted to achieve. all the pages of this 
website will be in a similar style, with the use of 
collage. 

the image above is of a design with text and 

hand-drawn illustrative images, it'd be a simple 

idea, with plain colours. this design doesn't 

really stand out to me and i don't enjoy doing 

illustrations, and would prefer to do collages.

Mel kadel

website layout




this is another website layout that I liked. I want my website 
to be in a similar style, with a handmade theme throughout. 
Instead of paintings like this, I would prefer to do collages




http://melkadel.com/

Face

handmade collages

i did these collages for my packaging project. I did a variety of hand-made 
collages for the packaging surface and/or interior. the collages shown here 
are the outcomes which I thought had the best results, - especially for the 
target audience I was aiming at. I used the type 'face' (in the collage at the 
top) as it was the brand name for the makeup. the top collage is what I 
wanted to achieve, as the faces I've chosen have bold make-up and colours,
whereas the collage above has a more nude, natural look about it 

IlikeIlove

collage


http://ilikeilove.co.uk/home.html


i really like the style of this website and the designs featured. they are 
inspirational and shall incorporate their style in to my future designs. on 
this website I prefer the handmade collages, in comparison with the 
digital designs