As I will be finishing my foundation degree soon it is time to look into what my plan is for next year. It’s a scary thought but I am sure I am going to continue on with my studying and progress onto a third year top up course. I feel that this is a better option for me and I would like to spend another year within education to complete a full degree and gain more experience by completing a series of work placements. I have began looking into universities which do this course, and found a few, I could continue at Newcastle college to study Creative Practice, or move onto Sunderland University to study  a top up year in Graphic design. I am going to apply for both and see what happens.

 

I have began researching into some editorial design which I like and think works well. Here is a selection of some of the designs I found, I like simplistic spreads and clever use of colour, as shown in these designs. This is something I will continue to research and possibly take forward into my design.

In my SWOT analysis i identified time management as one of my weaknesses, so i decided to try and develop on this by creating a time plan. This is a weekly plan which will guide me on what needs to be completed each week we have to complete this module.I have used time plans before but as time keeping is such an important part of working in industry, meeting deadlines etc, i feel this is something i need to get in the habit of doing and using on a regular basis.

I will include a copy of this in my PPD folder..

For this project i have created a SWOT analysis before i begin the project properly so i know what my strengths and weaknesses are as well as what oppurtunities i have within this project to develop and on my weaknesses.

This will help me to approach the project in a way which i know is going to help me progress and develop and make the most of this module.

I will include a paper copy of this analysis within my PPD folder..

We were briefed on a new project today, alternative techniques. This brief is going to be very self directed, aimed at broadening and extending skill sets. This brief gives us the oppurtunity to reflect back over the areas we have worked in so far and picking a preferred area of expertise to work in again for this brief.

I have thought about this brief and feel confident that editorial design is the preferred area I am going to chose for this module. I really enjoy this area of Graphic Design in previous projects and have produced strong work, like my design for the typographic circle supplement.

As i decided to create my design from an a3 size page all of the page layouts are on one side oof the page which leaves the other side blank. i decided to create a poster for the other side which recievers of this leaflet could stick up as a kind of souveneir of there time at V festival. i chose a selection of photographs of artists and created a collage on photoshop using blending modes to create this effect. i chose to have the images all in black and white with only the V logo in colour, i think this work well and fits in with the design of the inside paages of the leaflet. i included empty poloroid shapes to encourage people going to the festival to use this poster to document their own experience of the festival. overall i am very pleased with this.

This is the almost finalised design for my project. i decided to created a folded leaflet rather than a booklet which made creating the document more complicated than first anticipated. I needed to think of a way of putting this together so it would work the way i had planned. i created an a3 document in indesign and after making a paper mock up of the way this would fold the design became a lot easier to make. Making a paper mock up meant that i had something to refer to whilst putting my design together, in future if i create a similar document i will definitely use this technique again as it saved a lot of time and ensured i was putting pages in the correct place on the computer design.