Business card proof

Today I received my business cards, the quality of them isn't great. Even though i done them to the correct size at 300 dpi. But they'll have to do.

Short summary of contribution to the show

• Being in every group discussion
• 100% attendance to every lesson
• Designing a poster for the show
• Voicing opinions
• Meeting with the press release
• Getting a personal reference in magazines and promos
• Part of organising times to go before the show to help setup
• Helping others with opinions on designs, such as posters and logos made by Jess
• Frequently using the social media pages
• Tweeting
• Facebook page
• Created the designs for the Facebook page
• Created the designs for the Twitter page
• Paid money into the show
• Submitting work for the show on time without problems
• Always in active meetings in class discussions with the BA's too.
• Helping with the alcohol

Promoting the show + A mention in the BN1 magazine!!!!

A while ago I had a meeting with the press release woman about getting the show in the press. I have had a check and in the BN1 magazine, dots per inch show has an article in there.

In the description I get a personal mention about my work experience with latest TV which is so great!

'Students include Glen, who completed work experience at Latest TV, helping to design the opening titles to Andrew Kay’s cookery show, The International Chef Exchange. Dots Per Inch features a combination of modern, sleek graphics and more classic art styles. Students hope to enter the digital media workplace, with interests ranging from filmmaking and trailers to graphic design and music videos.'

Its really good to get a shoutout for self promotion.

The show is also on the sussex downs website, in which my shout out is on there too, wahoo.

Work submitted for the show

The work I wanted most for print was my YCN animal fur textured posters. So I put all 4 of them in an A1 spread.

My second choice for print was book cover from the first year.

The two movs i submitted are my speeches trailer and the promo for my alcohol app.

Curriculum vitae

For my CV I wanted to design something considerably nice, so I looked up some existing designers CV's for some inspiration and came across these:

I looked through many more on pinterest http://gb.pinterest.com/jsgore/design-designers-resumes/
and came across lots and lots of nice looking layouts. A lot of the CV's had an 'Objective' section in which contains a personal objective in life. So I wanted to use this in mine. I also saw a lot of sections where people would rate their skills in certain software, normally out of 5. I thought this looked cool and would be useful for employees as they can clearly see how good with the software you are by putting how good you think you are with it out of 5.

Creating my CV I wanted to keep a similar style to my business card so I would have a consistent theme and art style... so I used the black background with the light floral pattern on it again, with a smart looking font.

I spent a good amount of time making it look professional, and having appropriate content. Overall I'm quite please with how its come out as. I used the basic title font for my name and the rest of the text is a font called 'Lane'. I think it matches my business card quite nicely too.

Business card

Before I  created my business card I wanted to look at what other designers have for their business card as inspiration. I found a lot of very nice ones off google images. A lot of them had nice colourful and playful designs and a lot were slick, clean, proffesional designs. I want to go for a professional looking design with an art style similar to what I design when I created graphics.

I have created my business card:

I wanted to have a professional and classy theme. Thus why I used black and white, a simplistic layout with simplistic elements to it. I used the font 'Basic title font' for the text on the front. I used this because it obviously looks slick and professional, I like how fine it is, It stands out a lot and is easy to read. I created the lines and the stars to add some dynamics to the look, Ive come across the lines and stars before when I have created graphics for team logos for competitive gamers. I got a picture of a floral background and embedded it into the background, lowering the opacity so it wasn't too interruptive with the text in front of it.

For the back design, I only wanted simply my contact details nothing else. Simplicity the key to it. I grabbed all the social media logos off google images and colour corrected them to white to keep my consistent theme. I looked at lots of professional fonts and decided to use the font 'TFPiron'

Portfolio | Website

I have created my portfolio website on Tumblr, I found it was a good idea to have it on here because it is a popular site used by many people. Its got a very wide range of tools to customise which you can even do with code. I wanted to have a slick and clean tiled website, keeping simple and professional. This is how my website looks so far.

URL: http://glendzn.tumblr.com

Im updating content every time I come across some of my work on my mac.

Contribution to the show - Tweeting

I have been doing tweets for the twitter page including promoting students work and general tweets promoting the show. Here are some evidence of some of the tweets I have done.

Contribution evidence - Social media

As I am a part of the social media team, I have created designs for the Facebook and Twitter page; this consists of banners and a background. Here is what I created firstly for the Facebook page:

This was the first one I made which was on the Facebook page for a few weeks, the black background had multi-coloured spots on it. The font on this I real led like, it looked playful. (DK Sleepy time).

I made the name of the event and dates the only content on it so people can clearly see immediately the most important details of the event, instead of looking for it.

I then made one that had all our names on it, this promotes our name obviously. Dates and location are small this time at the bottom.

This one I just created a low opacity black dotted background with all our names in multi coloured names in a playful font again. The branding at this point was still not sure so I didn't have any guidelines in terms of branding style, so i just kept it simple and playful as I know Jess' branding looked playful already.

I created a twitter version of this Facebook banner and it took me ages to get the size measurements right as there isn't anywhere that has an accurate size dimensions cause there is a brand new twitter layout design where the banner is much bigger than normal.

I made a twitter background as well, I played around in photoshop using new brushes I was downloading off www.brusheezy.com

I managed to come up with this:

It again has the low opacity dots in the background with multi coloured particles brushed over, 

our names along the side which is visible on the twitter page.

Branding - Creating a poster for the show.

First of all over easter break we had to come with with individual branding for the show and create a poster so this is what I came up with.

The show is called dots per inch, so I thought obviously dots should be the theme, so I made them the complete focal point of the poster, I created a background of low opacity grey dots and created a mask and made the word DPI out of the dots but in the bright red colour. I used a fun simplistic, playful font for the text on the poster. I wanted to have a simple dots theme. I see a lot of simple clean themes for posters nowadays and I think its really effective thing to do. Making the dates big and having the social feed in a lot of space creates readability.

Meeting with the Press Release

At lunch time today, Me, Gina and Liam met up with Zara Baker who works for the press release to talk about getting our show out in the news. It was a very helpful experience, Zara basically asked "When, where, who" so she could get some details face to face to get a more in depth conversation for details.

We told her the dates of the show, where the show was and who we are aiming to come to the show. And she told us she will try and get us in every possible local newspaper she can. And also said she will try get flyers out in Brighton which would be extremely helpful. She said she will try and get a photographer down to the show for post news stuff. So hopefully this means nice photos of all of us and our work with a nice amount of people there with a good review of the show if everything goes well, this would be very good for getting a good name so potential employers in the future can see and gives a good prep for when we have show again next year when all of us are BA students.

Zara got our social media details for the twitter and Facebook page and her social media team will follow it and promote it through their sussex downs twitter and facebook page which is very helpful too.

Crazily, Zara had worked for Latest TV, she asked if we had worked for any companies, so we said yeah Latest TV was one of our live clients and she said she had worked there for 8 years. She asked me what I had done and I said I worked with a guy called Andrew Kay and created a tv sequence for the food show and she said she had seen one of my first mock ups as she worked with him. Which is just such a weird coincidence...

End of year show preparation

So for our last brief of the year, we as a class have to work together to organise the final year show which presents some of work in a museum manner. I will be working mainly as part of the social media team, which means concentrating on the Facebook and Twitter page. Then creating personal business cards/postcards to promote my contact. I also have to create a website/show reel/brochure which showcases my work on this course, I will probably use Tumblr to do this as it is a nice and easy way to showcase in a visually organised design.