Photos of a graphic designer placing things

It's the final day before my ISTD submission is packed up and sent off, meaning yesterday I took my final photographs of the packaging, and development work etc which is needed for their archives if my work is awarded membership. 

I've put a serious amount of work into this project from start to finish, and I'll admit I am proud of myself and the designs I've produced. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your work and the things you achieve, you just need to stay humble. 

Here are 2 what look like stock photos of me prepping my work to be photographed – I can assure you I was in motion at the time, I'm just verrrrrry careful and steady. 

As the timeline is over 2 metres long and needs to be unfolded to be viewed, I've made an A2 presentation board showcasing images of the finals to put in with the physical final designs. 

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Return to the homeland

I went home for the weekend, which is always nice. I miss Leeds every time I'm away from it but I suppose it's true what they say about absence making the heart grow fonder because I appreciate it more and more every time I'm back. I had a very quiet weekend which is why there's not many photos, but I think these 3 sum it up pretty well:

1. Train journeys are great, they don't make me travel sick and it's a perfect opportunity to read.
2. Train journeys (or any "occasion" really) are a great excuse for coffee. Especially Costa coffee.
3. It's a known crime to be in Leeds and not go to the Lego shop and Primark. 

What did you do this weekend?

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Let's talk business (cards)

(Apologies for the poor quality photos, they're from my Instagram account)

This week myself and Edwin attended a "networking event" at the uni, where we were able to talk to a range of people in the industry within Cumbria who could potentially open up a lot of opportunities for us. This would have been great if I wasn't so terrible at talking to people. I did speak to a few people though, and got possibly myself some work experience, so I can't have done too badly ey?

I'm getting off track here, but basically we needed business cards. I'd already made mine a few weeks ago, but never actually got round to having them printed. It wasn't ideal having to double-sided print at uni and cut out manually but I'd say they came out pretty good. For next time though, I'll be having them done professionally.

My design is an extension of my website and all of my personal branding, and feature 5 different faces to choose from – happy, happier, fangs, stressed and shocked. My favourite is the fangs, it seemed to prove popular on the night too! 

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Timeline 2.0

Timeline 2.0 – now with pull quotes

This week marked the final printing of timeline 2.0 as I've started calling it. In 3 days everything will be sent off to ISTD for judging and it will just be a waiting game to see how I did.

Again with the apologies for the poor quality Instagram photos. I've taken some ~proper~ photos which I'm currently editing as they're part of my submission, I'll be uploading them when I can. 

I'm so pleased with how this piece has turned out – the alterations I chose to make, and the ones suggested to me, have made a HUGE difference. 

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Instagram perfectionist

I would say my most used and abused social media platform would definitely be Instagram. I love it  because it allows me to be a complete perfectionist whilst sharing things I enjoy/have bought/what I'm eating/my face. Although it's not as obvious in these photos as it is in some of my feed, I seem to employ the knolling technique of photographing my stuff. Basically, Instagram has allowed me to be very organised and picky with the way I lay out and photograph things, and I'm not complaining.

I just thought I'd share with you some of my feed, as it's definitely a more personal insight into my life and the things I love. It's mostly food and books. And stuff.