WBL - Live Brief

The WBL module is an ongoing brief for most of the year and is a project is designed to give me the opportunity to generate evidence of my profession approach to employability. The work produced in this module will be generated via placement work and live briefs. For one of the live briefs I decided to a live brief for Durham fashion week and I thought I would post the time management plan that I used throughout the brief.

Portfolio - Evaluation

As part of the portfolio module hand-in I needed to write a thousand word evaluation. So I thought I'd post my evaluation here.

WBL - Placement - Skills Analysis

WBL - Work Related Presentation

As part of the WBL hand-in there must be a section called Work Related Presentation, this is using my experience on placement, I had to...

- Analyse the sector you have worked in and how it functions.
- Pointers to discuss; Roles in an agency, Costing Jobs, Dealing with Clients, Pitching, Keeping time sheets, Job bags.
- You will use your detailed notes to inform this presentation.

So here are my notes for the presentation.

WBL - Task

At the beginning of the WBL module there were some tasks to complete, so I thought I'd do a post with my task documents.

Portfolio Production - Re-working

I thought I'd do another update post on how my portfolio development is going. I've finished my last brief re-work and then after that I moved on to doing a new brief that will help fill a gap I had identified in my portfolio as I didn't have a good example of typography work.

Portfolio Production - Re-working

I thought I'd do an update post on how my portfolio's going, and include some of my work based file pages with annotations and evaluations.

Portfolio Production - Tutorial 2

After the first tutorial I went back and made some adjustments that were suggested to my portfolio pages, after this I printed then out again to see if the layout worked better than before and to help me really make sure that they were as perfect as I could make them.

Portfolio Production - Tutorial

I had a tutorial with tutor Nick today, I prints out some portfolio pages in A3 to help get a sense of the layout. During the tutorial we discussed the type size and perhaps that it could be one point smaller. I took some photographs of the notes wrote on the pages during the tutorial and then put these into a design document with written up notes from me and Nick, this will go into my work based file showing evidence of how I out my portfolio together.

Portfolio Production - Task One

Here is a post with what I've been doing this week. Along with my evaluations of the research.

Digital Skills - Week 5/Day 1

This lesson is all about using Illustrator, the skills include...


1. Typography formatting / Tracking / Kerning
2. Create Outlines / direct selection tool / point manipulation
3. Warp options / Envelope distort / Type on a path
4. 3D options
5. Appearance palette options

After going through the skills I was given the task to use them to create a Thomas holiday press add and a Adidas press add. I've included my final outcomes below with my evaluations.

Digital Skills - Week 4/Day 1

This lesson is all about using Illustrator and Photoshop together, the skills include...


1. Shapes tool / pen tool
2. rotate tool option
3. Stroke options
4. Pathfinder options
5. Transform options

After going through the skills I was given the task to use them to create a Thomas holiday press add and a Adidas press add. I've included my final outcomes below with my evaluations.