A1 PORTFOLIO PRINT

This is my A1 print for the show. I have chosen to use my Mexican Sugar Skull from the Ethnic Art project.

LONDON TRIP - FINAL TRIP OF THE YEAR

We had our final trip of the two years in London, for our final major project to help us with primary research. Whilst there we visited the exhibition Pick Me Up 2013 at Somerset House. It showcased lots of work from different new designers from the fields of art, graphic design, and illustration. It was all modern

Borough Market

The Advertising project, set in the second year was a live project for the client Borough Market. Our brief was to produce poster designs which promoted Borough Market, but with the audience of the locals of that area, not the tourists coming to visit it. The markets aim was to get more of the local people to come to the market to buy their weekly shops, rather than straight to the supermarkets and to appreciate the fresh foods they have locally.

I came up with the slogan "Think Local Think Borough." 

A few pages from the sketchbook from the project, showing research and mindmaps, thumbnails and idea generation building up the final designs.

I produced a series of poster designs using my slogan.

Strawberry, Carrot and Banana backgrounds.

Borough Market is great for its fruit and veg, so I decided these would make appropriate backgrounds, and as these are symbolic fruit and vegetables these really worked. The design which stands out the most to me, is the Strawberry design, and I think that the slogan works well against it and definately aims towards the right audience.

I have sent my favourite Borough Market promotional poster to the client, showing it on different forms of merchandise to give a feel of how it would look.

FMP

For my final major project I have chosen to rebrand Urban Outfitters. 

Los Diasde Los Muertos

This is my Mexican sugar skull from the Ethnic Art project. I begun with looking into Mexican Art as a whole, and exisiting Day of the Dead illustrations. From there I went on to draw up my own version of an A3 piece of layout paper, starting with pencil then going over in fine liner once finished. I then scanned in this drawing, to then colour up on the Mac. I used the programme Illustrator and I live traced the drawing, then live painted it to colour it in. It look a lot of time, as the design was very detailed but I feel it was worth it because this is one of my proudest pieces from the two years.

UCAS - Offers (updated 27/3/13)

This is how my choices on my track currently look:

These are the offers I have had on my UCAS Track to date: 

I received a Conditional offer for the HND Graphic Design course at Canterbury College. The conditions are in order that I achieve a MMP profile by the end of my BTEC Extended Diploma in Graphic Design course.

I have received a Conditional offer for the BA Fashion Graphics course at Southampton Solent University. The conditions are in order that I achieve a minimum of 240 UCAS tariff points from the BTEC Extended Diploma in Graphic Design that I am currently on by the end of the course.

I was unsuccessful with my application to study BA Graphic and Media Design at UAL London College of Communication but was offered an alternative course of an Art Foundation for 1 year before being able to then progress onto the chosen Graphic and Media Design course.

I am yet to hear back from both Brighton and UAL Central St Martins with interview dates or offers/rejections. I have sent online portfolios of to the two.

UCAS - UNI Choices

I sent my UCAS application off before the deadline of January 15th with the 5 university choices:

Canterbury College - HND Graphic Design

Southampton Solent University - BA Fashion Graphics

University of Brighton - BA Graphic Design

UAL London College of Communication - BA Graphic and Media Design

UAL Central St Martins - BA Graphic Design