Portfolio Production - Task One

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

Weekly Reflection

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At the beginning of the week I set out three specific bits of research that I had to complete to stay on schedule. I finished all of the aims for the week and also posted about them. The whole point of the research was to help me determine a selection of skills that I want to improve and then pick a live brief to help benefit my practice and professional development.

Alt Tech - Branding Job Spec

Part of my research for this week is to look into the job specifications specifically from a branding point of view.  

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One of the learning outcomes is defining progression requirements in relation to industry work. This research definitively help when it comes to knowing what skills are needed in the area of branding.

Alt Tech - Branding Trend Predictions

In my plan of the week I said that one of my aims for this week is to research branding trends and make some of my own predictions. So here is my research.

Alt Tech - Branding Practitioners

I had three specific areas of research  to do this week so I thought I'd post them here.

Work of specific branding practitioners
Nubby Twiglet

Karen Kavett

There is a reason that I chose to research these specific is people mostly because I've been a fan of there work for a long time.

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

Weekly Reflection

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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 was all about researching the brief in-depth and all the companies on the list. I accomplished this and I also posted images of my research pages. After my research I could make a decision about which company I wanted to design packaging for. I decided to pick Phonic a mostly on-line record store as I think it will prove a challenge as it is very different from the other options that were available.

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I think that as I have followed my plan of the week exactly is a good example of my time management skills which is a core employability skill that I must always try and improve upon.

Packaging Brief - Research

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My work done this week consisted of researching which company I would like to pick for the packaging brief. So here are some of my research pages.

So you can see I researched into companies such as Net-a-Porter and Urban Outfitters. This research was critical to help me decide which direction this brief will take.

Plan of the week

So this is my second 'plan of the week' and its actually Monday this time. So looking back, I did all the research that I planned to do last week.

This week the plan is to really start the new editorial brief that the class has been given. Do some research into the magazine that its for, and the people its about. Once I've looked at all my research I can get down to generating ideas and trying things out myself.

Next Monday I'll review on how my research has gone this week and how far I have got in the brief.

Penguin Illustration - Research

I'm going to be doing a few posts about a brief that I've already completed. It was an Illustration brief for Penguin, but before we get into that I wanted to show some of the images and different designers that I came across when I looked deeper into Illustration and what different types of Illustration styles are out there.

These are some images by a Illustrator called Rohan Eason, I love the drawings he does, the detail he goes into is wonderful and the fact that they all hand drawn makes it even better in my mind.

Here is some work by a very talented lady Sophie Henson. I've seen some of her covers a while ago but I never knew her name, she does some really beautiful drawings with such a light hand when it comes to colour but for her it works.

Another Illustrator that I came across who has a unique style was Damien Tran, I like the way he uses a lot of layers and texture in all of his work but also doesn't forget about real photo's.