Plan of the week

My plan for the next week is to really push on finalizing my portfolio pages as the deadline is coming to and end soon.

Plan of the week

The plan for this week is move on with this module and get some more pages finished for my portfolio. the tutors have mentioned that the best number of examples of work is between eight and twelve.

Plan of the week

My plan for this week is to really refine my portfolio pages and get some feedback from tutors.

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week to look through all my degree work so far and try and get a feeling of what work I should have in my portfolio and what doesn't make the grade. When I have chosen the work I want in my portfolio I will re-work the briefs final outcomes making sure that they are presented as best possible.

Weekly Plan

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The plan for this week is to get to grips with the new portfolio module. The tutors have set some tasks for this week to help ease us into the module and get the ball rolling.

So the plan for this week is to complete all of the parts of task one and then blog about it.

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week is to continue the digital skills lessons. After the lessons on Monday and Tuesday I will compile all my screen grabs in a InDesign documents and write about the process and evaluate the skills that I've learned and developed. When I have finished my InDesign pages I also want to blog about them.

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week is to continue the digital skills lessons. After the lessons on Monday and Tuesday I will compile all my screen grabs in a InDesign documents and write about the process and evaluate the skills that I've learned and developed. When I have finished my InDesign pages I also want to blog about them.

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week is to continue the digital skills lessons. After the lessons on Monday and Tuesday I will compile all my screen grabs in a InDesign documents and write about the process and evaluate the skills that I've learned and developed.

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week is to start the digital skills lessons. After the lessons on Monday and Tuesday I will compile all my screen grabs in a InDesign documents and write about the process and evaluate the skills that I've learned and developed.

Plan of the week

Well this is the start of the third week of the alt tech module. My plan for the week ahead is mostly about starting my initial sketches and ideas. Another aim for this week to keep updating my blog with the posts about what I'm doing during the week

- Start initial ideas/sketches
- Update blog

Plan of the week

The plan for this week is to decide which branding brief I will do during this module and then start on more in-depth research about that brief.

- Consider which project I will complete during this module

- Complete research task about brief chosen

Plan of the week

Right so this module I have to pick an area of expertise and then use a live brief as a chance to enhance my skills in that area.

After some though I decided to pick branding, as there is currently a live branding brief that I thought sounded good. So the plan for this week is to research...

- Work of specialist branding practitioners
- Branding trend prediction/forecasting
- Branding job specifications

Plan of the week

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The plan for this week is the developmental of my initial ideas.

The deadline of this brief is the 30th October so I have a about four weeks left for development and finalization of my packaging outcomes. This seems like quite a lot of time so I'm quite confident that I will not be rushing when it comes to hand-in.

Plan of the week

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Last week I completed all of my research for the brief and chose a company to design the packaging for. The plan for this week is.

- Present research
- Brainstorming and ideas generation

Plan of the week

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Now that I've finished the group part of the packaging brief, my plan for this week is to start the next part 'Task 2'. We have been given a list of companies that we can design packaging for so this means I'll be researching into all of them to help me decide which I would like to pick.

- Research into 3 different companies

Plan of the week

Last weeks plan was to pick a brief that I wanted to do for my WBL. I managed to complete all the goals that I set out to do in last weeks plan. I picked a brief and started researching it.

The brief I picked is being held by a company called 'Poster for tomorrow' the brief basically is to design a poster. Every year they hold this brief they pick a different humanitarian topic to draw attention to. The best 100 posters will be displayed in multiple locations worldwide on December 10th which is the International Human Rights Day.

This year 'Poster for tomorrow have chosen the topic gender equality. On there website they state why they have chosen this topic.

"But why gender equality?
What makes gender equality, well, different from all the other possible topics?
The condition of women has undergone undeniable improvements during the last century. But these improvements haven't happened everywhere and even where they have been the strongest, well, they are far from being strong enough."

The brief doesn't have that many limitations just that the poster needs to be portrait in layout and it must be illustrated so that means no photographs. So as far as briefs go its pretty flexible, I'm looking forward to trying my hand at illustration again as I've only done one brief this year that specialized in it and that was the Penguin book brief which I loved, so lets hope this brief goes just as well.

So this weeks plan, researching deeper into 'Poster for tomorrow' there history, previous years briefs, researching gender equality and what its like around the world for women. Just lots of researching truth be told.

Lets hope it stirs up some ideas.

Plan of the week

So this plan of the week explains what I'll be doing for the next week.

Well its the start of a new brief, the course is almost over and there is just one more brief to go. Its called Work Based Learning or WBL for short. Work based learning is basically all about either doing a brief that the tutors have given you (so this could be Cupple or Badboys) or choosing a brief to do yourself.

I've decided that I want to try something new, I don't want to make up a brief so this week will consist of me going on line and researching what briefs are out there that I think are interesting and that I would like to have a go at.

Plan of the week

So the plan last week was to finish my NHS logo so I could move onto other briefs and I am happy to report that I have indeed finished the logo. Actually I did more than one logo but still its done and I can move on.

Here are some of my logos I did the bottom one first, its a bit obvious and you can clearly tell what my inspiration was the top logo is a bit more subtle and based on the shutter mechanism of a camera, I like the colors the blue and yellow especially, the green could be tweaked a little but when I always look back on work I've done I always see what I could change to make it better which is not a bad thing I suppose, just a fact of life you can always see your mistakes when looking back.

So this weeks plan, well there really isn't one because its the Easter holidays and I'm starting my placement so the next post I do will be all about my time at a real design company. Wish me luck.

Plan of the week

So my plan for last week was all about getting into the new briefs I've been given, updating my blog and trying to do a few posts, which I achieved. I had a contextual graphic design lesson today so that means that this week I'm ready to pick an essay question and start writing a rough draft. 

As I have a lot of different things going on at the same time for the course I have decided that this week will be dedicated to the NHS brief and designing a logo, I hope to have this brief done by the weekend so I can move onto the next brief. Next week I then plan on moving on to another brief this way it is not much of a juggle between a lot of projects. 

A work placement update, I talked to the course leader today as the dates and company that I am going to have changed. My placement will be on the 2nd of April, so next month which gives me more time to devote to the course briefs.

Briefs aplenty! + Plan of the week

Sooo in this post I’ll be telling you all about the new briefs I got assigned today and also what my plan of this week is.

Firstly today was very busy, it started out with a contextual graphic design lecture on the subject of ‘interactive graphic design and multi-media’ it was really interesting actually. The lecture covered a wide range of things from the invention of printing and how it changed graphics to the amazing people who made the very first programmable computer. I took lots of notes during and typed them up straight after so that job isn’t on the ‘to do’ list.

Later on Paul one of the tutors talked to the whole class about what we’ll be doing for the next 8 weeks, there will be 3 briefs that are available.

The first is to design a logo for the Medical Photography Department in the NHS. This is a department I’ve never heard of before but basically it produces photographs and video that is used to diagnose and/or monitor diseases, medical conditions and for teaching purposes. This brief seems quite straight forward they want an edgy and fresh logo, there aren’t any colours that they would prefer so it’s pretty open to interpretation.

The second brief is for a company called Darling Dash. They are the company behind a new an exciting app called Cupple, which is a private sharing mobile app designed specifically for two people in a relationship. Think a confidential Facebook only you and your partner can access, all the sharing without none of the privacy issues.

I haven’t yet got the official brief from this company yet but it will be based around their app, I think they would welcome any ideas that could help further advance the app and they also expressed that they would like ideas for there sticker packs that they sell through the app. I know they are also interested in promotional materials and especially t-shirt and poster designs that would help promote the brand.

The third brief is for a brand that I had never heard of before today Bad Boy. Bad Boy is an alternative sport and lifestyle brand revolving around mixed martial arts.

They are notable for their presence in both fashion and performance equipment for this sport. This brief although not usually my thing does sound quite good, I’m not into sporty clothing and have never owned a pair of joggers myself but never the less I think I could come up with some good designs and ideas for a line of products for the Bad Boy brand.

So now that I have got my third brief, this week will consist of getting into some early research for all of them but I have to juggle this with starting my contextual studies essay which I want to start writing soon. I also want to make sure that this week I update my blog a bit and publish a few more posts on some cool stuff I’ve seen. Next Monday I will be starting a work placement for a few weeks so I have to start to learn how to juggle multiple projects as I will be going to a company during the day and in my own time I have to start making head way on the 3 briefs so learning to manage my time will be crucial. ­