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My stationary (board)

(I've erased my address from the letterhead and invoice for the purpose of being on the blog)

My Website

I have chosen to stick with the website that I set up a while ago - I know how to use it and update it fairly easily, its easy to navigate and it has the information that it needs.

There were some tweeks that I wanted to make to it, that I have done and although they may have been small, I'm much happier with it now.

First change - The page links are better aligned and easier to navigate.

Second change - This was the biggest one for me, it really annoyed me that because of the format I chose (a customised blogger basically), when you clicked on an image - it automatically opened a new page. Thankfully after some research (and confusion) I have managed to set it up so the images appear in a lightbox. This definitely works a lot better and will be less annoying to visitors!

Last change - The information on the about and contact pages was green before because of my previous identity - although there is an aqua colour incorporated into my stationary, it looked out of place on the website so I went for black/white/grey to match my identity.

I need to update the site with more current/recent work but I'm glad its live and out there.

Electronic Poet t-shirts

At the beginning of the second year, I took part in the Electronic Poet brief where many of us submit t-shirt designs - a few of us got selected and got to the see initial trial prints.

We couldn't put images of work online to keep the range secret etc.

At the time it was quite exciting but then as time went by, nothing seemed to come of it.

Then to my surprise - on Wednesday, Steve from Electronic Poet (and owner of Paper Scissor Stone) emailed me saying they were finally getting the shirts printed. They'd taken a lot of

t-shirts out of the range but one of mine was still the lead one in the lookbook.

The main thing I have learnt from this experience is that, things may take a Long time - but don't give up hope altogether.

End of year show proposal - 2

The main thing that I took away from the End of year show tutorial group sessions was that my proposed space didn't really have an identity - there was too much there.

So after clarifying what it was that I wanted to say about myself (Fun, colourful and targeting a young audience) it was agreed that I should minimine what I put in the space - choose the work that best shows what I want to say.

I chose the Puffin brief as its one of my favourites that I have done and I think says what I want it to. It was discussed that the colour-in wallpaper idea could be a little dangerous in terms of what people draw on it (especially on the family evening) so if I do use that, I should put it out the day after the family night. There is still the risk of either people not colouring it in or people drawing funny things on it, but on a personal note it would be something funny to keep -and works the target audience.

PPD Presentation

End of year show proposal form

Papergirl Leeds

I really liked the idea behind this event - a 'everyone included' exhibition and then all the work being handed out to to random people in the street.

Of course there is the risk that it will be given to somebody who doesn't care and would just through it away - but on the other hand, it might be given to somebody who really appreciates it and wants to see more of your work.

I didn't want to produce work specifically for it because there wasn't a brief and was focusing my time on other work, so I simply submit 2 A3 pieces, 2 illustrations from the last module. This way I thought I had nothing to lose - I hadn't really spent any time on it because the work already existed.

Below is an image from the exhibition facebook page where you can see the cassette piece. that I submit.

However successful or unsuccessful the event turns out to be (I don't think the 'handing out' of work has happened yet) - it was nice to be a part of.