Hastings Half marathon

So yet again for another year me and my old man completed the Hastings half marathon. It was a great day for it, with amazing support from the people of Hastings, they made the day even better. Unfortunately my 51 year old dad beat me to the finish with a time of 02:25:00, and my time of 02:40:00, after having not warmed up, im surprised I even finished :) but hey ho.

Till next year...

Its been a weird week!

So its been a weird week, with not a lot going on. Just been getting the bearings of how I am going to tackle my last two projects of this year on my BA degree in communication design.

I had a pretty formal meeting with the marketing team at Sussex coast college Hastings on Thursday to discuss the design of the new Andriod application for the college website. Something I have been thinking about doing for a while, and now after the marketing team having agreed my proposal, the project is now underway. Exciting times.

Looking forward to having some feedback next week to discuss what my grades were and any comments on my competition brief for Heinz Salad Cream, really hoping to win something this year, and I feel the work has the legs for it.

Watch this space...

The Weekend

So at the weekend I undertook some DIY with the lovely girlfriend and the father in law and started decorating the babies bedroom. Must admit it was fun, I even plastered a small wall which was very straight and silky smooth :) look at me go!

Sunday we went to a lovely Christening which was a nice service, nice to see the vicor was a bit techno with his Ipad. 'The wonders of technology'.

Back to Uni all this week, going to be rather busy...

Branding 10,000 lakes

Some really nice work here, really want to do some of my own.

Its been a while

So its been a while since I have posted on my blog, slap my wrist!! Probably have been the busiest yet due to the tight deadline with producing two major projects to a high standard. Which I believe I did just that. The two project was the cropped circles project and the selected Heinz salad cream competition brief. Both can be found on my other blogs if anyone is following.

Have really enjoyed the intense working pressure in order to get everything up and ready for assessment this week, a lot of running around and spending money on print, spray mount, foam board and cutting material, and not once cut myself. Hoping to get a first, on my last project I managed to get a 69% which is 1% off a first, even tho I managed to do absolutely loads and gained 3 projects out of one long 14 week long working Unit.

Studio practice is definitely what I am about, producing work of a high finish and working standard.

Friday 17th Feb (Final day)

So here is how it was left, rather nice I think, a nice balance on each page with image and text, with a number of colour highlights refereeing to the brand colours. Product images reflecting the shapes of the product sold in the introduction product pages. Rich image on left, balanced negative space with text on the right hand side. there is also a break between each product listed with a case study.

This brochure / catalogue has to have the balance of each, for example if you was to look at an audi product brochure all you will see is pictures of cars, however with this brand, because there not as established, people who are not aware of this brand will like to know about who they are, what they are about and what they are selling so with this the brochure /  catalogue is balanced with all the vital information.

Not a bad go in a week, the design now has a core structure and readability throughout, however small changes will be made here n there when they come to finish it etc.

Thanks Westgate for the opportunity...

Thursday 16th feb (4th day)

Having considered the more image based route, I now brought the theme into an A4 size which is more readable and brochure like. this was now the route and is starting to get to how it wants to look.

However looking at this style, the rich images are quite striking, and a little over powering, so it need a lot more white space to balance the pages.