All your tubing needs.

This is an afternoon well spent, not the finished product as that's a surprise between me and the company I did it for. Basically, Purple Door at the University of Portsmouth have found me a position as a Creative Lead within a Marketing company, pre-interview prep was essentially showing them what I could to on Indesign using a short brief they provided.

The brief was to create a postcard to go at a till in a builders merchant advertising a particular brand of copper tube for plumbing and heating contractors with the main incentive that if they 'like' the brand on Facebook, they can then enter a photo competition and be in the running for winning an iPad.

Here's hoping this is enough to impress them, I'm quite happy with it, obviously I had to do a bit of Google-image trawling but hopefully they'll see past that. Coincidently, earlier today I walked passed a builder's merchants, and they did in fact have post cards at the till, I've tried to make mine as different as possible. From what I saw available, they were mainly straight-forward text so I think that part was pretty successful. Thanks to some help from Moon I've got something a bit less 'obvious' than my initial idea.

Fingers crossed it was worth it. I'm so hungry now.

708.

This morning's work.


I think I'm going to go to the printers now and get about five done to post out, they're going to be A2 size but fold into an A4 booklet. I want to at least see how it will look in print. I thought I might really need to start grabbing some attention to get going places.

This has been suggested many times through many different platforms and I hope that it doesn't some how end up too samey in comparison to others. Essentially all I've really done is fancied up a standard CV.. but I think it has potential to look quite good. I may give it another go if these end up looking crap, this is just a rough draft, a kind of experiment.

I worry that it's a bit restricting in terms of what jobs I can apply for with it, but I think I'm going to try I'm aiming for publishers and digital agencies, it's worth a shot anyway.

0282.

I made this this afternoon and sent it to a portrait studio.
It's not a masterful attempt at graphic design but it's slightly better than any other .doc CV.

It took far to long to say not very much. It makes me realise that I don't have nearly enough experience, but it's only by applying for things that I'll gain any.

Blap, finished.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

So, I had a tutorial this morning, and changed a few things, my idea seemed to go down well enough so I was happy enough to make a few adjustments and it's not like they took long.
I also finally found a good quality copy of the advert that I was going to use, which is a relief because I'm printing now and the scanned version just wasn't coming up well at all, no one mentioned it in the tutorial, but it was something I was unhappy with anyway.
These are my final images, no more adjustments needed, with just a small amount of my RDB and mounting left to do and an easy target of Monday to get it all done by, I feel pretty good.

Morning well spent.

From half 10 until 1, I helped make these with Abbie and Gayatri, not too bad a job really.
It's the conclusive piece for Brief Three, for which we got given both a model, a designer and a rough idea for which the pieces were based on. This is a mock spread for I-D, it's made me look forward to my own spread a bit more now.
Group work isn't so bad when it all comes together, even if some members have proved themselves to be almost entirely useless by this point.