Gastrotypographicalassemblage

Found a great piece of inspiration for my ISTD brief, great work!

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WOOOW !

Wooow is the only word I can use to describe this third year! Heres where I am so far with everything this year:

Essay

I have been putting my essay (investigative study) off since the day I received the hand out! I honestly struggle with essay writing and it is something I need to improve on. I organised a tutorial today with Amanda to help create some initial structure to what I have so far (case studies, theories, theorists etc). The tutorial has helped massively in the sense that I know what direction I am heading in, and what needs to be done for when!

Learning agreement

My LG is 90% complete and just needs some theories and methodologies applied to it. This will part of what I will base my visual book on.

ISTD

Yesterday morning I felt I was heading in a solid direction with my typographical restaurant, having created plenty of initial ideas to be used within the restaurant. I then had a group tutorial! The tutorial brought me back down to earth, and I realised I needed to take a step backwards to progress any further. My problem was that I didn't have an 'experience' in the restaurant. I needed to focus on what the problems were, who my target audience was, what food I would be serving and some sort of original service idea.

I pondered on ideas over lunch and put a few concepts together, which I then showed in my afternoon tutorial. The second tutorial went really well, my direction is a lot stronger and plausible. The next step is to get a menu together, sort of service procedure out, create the logo and illustrations/ photos.

Visual book

I haven't started this as yet but intent to over this weekend. This book will represent my journey through the ISTD brief, recording visual research, methods, progression, and a piece of finished work. My aim is to have this professionally printed as an A5 booklet before the 10th December.

Love-ink-me

I received an email from a friend regarding setting up a website and a logo for the sale her products. After weighing up what work I had on at Uni, and what would be the best thing for her, I suggested initially using bigcartel (sales website for creatives) for the sales of the products, and I would be able to create a logo over the Christmas holidays. I waiting a reply to whether she wants to go ahead with the logo design.

Links and images (hopefully) to follow!

Painting

After 3 months, 20 tubes of paint and a lot of hard work, its FINISHED! During Christmas I will take some professional photos for my portfolio and to possibly enter in a competition. I will upload images within the next few weeks.

Painting update

I travelled home last weekend to get some more of the painting done. This is the most recent photo. I think its going to take one or two more trips home on weekends to get this 'beast' out of the way. It needs to happen soon as I have masses of Uni work to be getting on with!

Flourish

I have recently signed up to 'Flourish', which is a Creative business course

from the beginning of november to march

Gives an insight to what it takes to start your own business (my case, going freelance??)

Kukui poster!

Great poster advertising a halloween night at Kukui in Bournemouth. The typography and illustration style are amazing!

ISTD- Mutton Quad

learning agreement

Design Buddies

Design Buddies is a pilot scheme being started at three universities across the south west of England. Each 'Buddy' is paired up with a relevant industry mentor. In my case, George Beverly from Mind Tank. The purpose and aim of the scheme is to obtain some actual industry advice, wether its feedback on a project, or editing a CV. Its all meant to help us (students) prepare for 'the big bad world'.

The plan is to have four, one hour sessions across the next 6 months with George, all one to one. Work or topics should be prepared before the meetings to help make the most of the hour sessions. All the Design Buddies have had training from Martin Baldwin, who specializes in mentoring, and is doing the scheme at Bath spa.

I really think we will all benefit from the scheme, getting plenty of relevant feedback and advice to take with us in industry. Hopefully something more may come of it (work experience??).