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 - 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.

Weekly Reflection

In the last week I have managed to finalize all of the examples of work that I want to present in my portfolio and also included a new brief to fill the missing typography gap. I have been juggling this module with another at the same time my, Work Based Learning. I'n not that used to dong two big modules at the same time and it can get difficult, but I've learned that if I plan my days out with which brief I'll be doing it help keep me organised.

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.

Weekly Reflection

Looking back on this week I have achieved my aims of having tutorials to help me develop my portfolio pages.

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.

Weekly Reflection

This week was all about looking back some examples of my work and deciding how best to present them in my portfolio. When creating a successful portfolio there are two processes that I will be going through, the first had been gathering the images for my portfolio pages and the second is making sure that my layout is perfect for displaying the images.

The only think looking back is that I haven't had any tutorials from tutors about my portfolio pages so far it would be good to get some feedback soon.

Portfolio Production - Re-working

My plan for this week is to re-work my old briefs final outcomes, here are some of my development pages that will go into my work based file for this module.

Weekly Reflection

LO5
My aims for this week were to complete all of the assigned tasks that the tutors set for the beginning of the new module, and then do a blog post showing the work I've done. I met all off of the aims for this week, the only thing I have left to do is print out all of the pages and start putting together my work based file that I need for hand in. It will read like a diary of how I'm putting 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.

UCAS

As this year is drawing to a close everyone is looking to what they will be doing next. This is a two year course and at the end I'm awarded with a Foundation Degree in graphic design. I could continue to do another year of studying to top this up to a full honors degree. I've researched using UCAS to see which institution offers this one year top up course. I've found that the closes places are Newcastle College and Sunderland University. After looking further I found that Northumbria University also had this course but I would have to re-do the second year.

After looking into my options I'm going to have a tutorial soon to talk about my options after this course has finished and what my tutors suggest. 

Weekly Reflection

LO5
Reflection on my progress this week I can say this I have accomplished everything that I set out to do at the beginning of the week in my 'plan of the week'. This week is the last of the digital skills lessons so the next week leading up to the deadline will be the only time I get to prepare for hand-in.

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.

Weekly Reflection

LO5
Looking back I've managed to stay on task and also managed to update the blog with my InDesign documents, final outcomes and 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.