Business cards!

My business cards arrived today and I was really excited to open them and see what they looked like!

Firstly I was really happy with my imagery on the cards, but I was a little upset with the way the over all card turned out

Firstly the quietly isn't amazing! This was quite annoying as I've ordered things from vista print before and they have been great, secondly the text is quite small so next time I think adding the next using there text adding services would be a better idea. Although when is showed the preview the cards did look perfect on screen, apart from that I am happy with them and I got a free holder for them too! 

tumblr

http://chloehoneysettdesign.tumblr.com


here is the link to my tumblr website. originally i did want to code my own website but because i had a lot of trouble with it last year and with the other work i needed to complete i didn't think i would finish it to a good enough standard so i felt using a tumblr website would be the best way for me to achieve a good website and relatively quickly. 

I'm pleased with the way it has turned out although sometimes i does take a while to load to page properly! but i think that is just rom the amount of space I'm using. 

copyright

what is copyright:

protection of stolen work,

companies can buy out the copyright of books to make films so they own the copyright 

music industry stealing musical notes to put it songs and you breach copyright by using the notes without permission. 

copyright protects: 

books,

dramatic works like dance

music

art work

motion pictures 

sounds 

architectural

copyright doesn't protect:

if something has not been written down in an tangible form. it has to be in tangible existence to be copyrighted.

titles, names, short phrases, slogans, familiar symbols and designs,

ideas procedures, methods, systems, processes, concepts, principles, discoveries,

works consisting entirely of information that is common property no authorship e.g calendars, tap measures

what is fair use? 

reproduction for some work may be considered fair use when used for:

parody, teaching, criticism or comments, news reporting  

something that doesn't change the value of the work in the marketplace

fair use is only a guideline and not a law. 

if you affect the value of the work you reproduces, you are breaching the copyright law,

you must consider factors when deterring fair use:

the purpose of the work ( non-profit or commercial)

the nature of the copyright work ( transformative or a copy)

the amount of the work that will be used

the effect on the market value of the copyrighted work ( competition for the original) 

looking at a 30 page essay and you use 100 words you could argue fair use, but if they had a 500 word essay and you take 300 then you are breaching copyright, or using an image that has copyright and only changing an effect on it. its copyright because you used the complete original image.

public domain:

copyright only last 70 years

content no longer controlled of owned by anyone. items in the public domain may be freely:

adapted  

used

distributed

used for any given purpose you like without having to seek the permission of any copyright owners. 

creative commons:

free licenses you add to your copyrighted work making it easier to share and allow other people to build upon your work

multiple different licences exist: 

attribution

share alike

non commercial

no derivative work

and there are many others. 

business cards

This is just showing that i have sent my business cards off to be printed and they should be here a few days before the show. i'm really excited to see how they turn out as i worked quite hard on making sure i was happy with how they turned out on screen. i printed them with vistaprint.com and paid just over £10 for 100 cards which is really good compared to other websites. i chose to leave the back of my card blank and i want to personally the back myself to give them that slightly handmade feel too. i will put another post up with how the finished cards look. 

update

this is just an update on my personal website showing how i have added my work onto my sit so now you can see all of the pieces i have done. there are final pieces and a mix of personal work too. so far i am really pleased with the way it had turned out!

my contribution to the show so far

My contribution to the show so far has included: 

• being part of group discussions and voicing my opinion
• being in class early and being vocal in jobs i was interested in pursuing
• helping to put together the big sheet of paper of peoples jobs
• helping choose the show name
• helping choose the show poster
• putting a poster up for the show
• sorting out the guest list and putting that together
• finding out the price of postage stamps
• helping to find cheap alcohol
• helping with the social media now and again 
• working with jess to find colour schemes on the posters
• working out budget costs and how much the invitations would cost
• looking info different places to print invitations,
• will be sending out the reminder email 1 week before the show
• looking in to food and glasses for the show before we decided we were going to do any food and we were going to use plastic cups instead
• supplying a piece of my work for the social media 
• being actively involved in decisions with other people and helping them with decisions. 
• paid in money towards the show

Things i have done for my personal work:

• designed and printed my personal business cards
• designed a poster for the show
• created my own tumblr online portfolio which has a responsive layout
• set up a professional email account
• i'm also going to create my own behance account
• created a linked in account 

There are a few things i will be doing towards contribution of the show such as

• helping to put all the pieces in the show
• helping to transfer work from the college to the media centre
• we all have separate jobs we are doing during the show, me and dan and another person are going to be on the door the night of the show. 
• helping to take the show down

brochure

for the brochure we had to create our own A5 pages with our work and it was our choice whether we wanted to have 1 piece of work or a small collection of pieces. i chose to use 4 different pieces of work from different projects so the reader could get a good view on the type of work i am capable of. there is a mix of 2nd and 3rd year work but one recurring theme i have noticed is i like white backgrounds and for my work to look clean and fresh. 

we also had to write a small introduction about ourselves and i fund this quite challenging so i started going through artists websites to see what they had said about themselves. most of them are just promoting their own and what websites sponsor them but some people did have brief introductions about themselves which i found helpful to be able to write something about me without sounding like a tw*t. 

work

this picture is just showing that i sent my mov files to dan mole as he requested to use a website to share our files as it holds more capacity, he needed them for the show reel he is creating. i sent him he pimms mov that we chose as a class to use and also sent my recyle animation incase he wanted to use any of that too. 

BA meeting

We had a meeting with Sue and the BA's which andrew said he was going to turn up to but couldn't due to meetings but luckily we had shirley with us who backed us up with some comments. They pitched their branding posters and show reels that went with their posters, instead of working individually they had worked together in groups to create their pieces. I personally didn't like their work, the only work that was ok was hayleys, but it was a concept that has been done too many times (splitting images in half to create something new) the other ideas where medicine bottles ( please explain the digital media element their???) and super heroes (also nothing to do with our work). none of the work was finished enough or tidy enough to even think about using 2ish weeks before our show was due to start. The problem our class had was that if they wanted all these changes we weren't prepared to do another load of work to re-plan an entire show! which andrew agreed with. as far as we were concerned we had done way our brief had asked us to do and we were all happy with the way our show plans had come about.  Sue said we should vote on what idea we wanted to go with and this caused a lot of uproar with the BA's who all moaned our class would pick the work which we had produced and of course we would back up our own idea which was finished and was ready to go with compared to not even nearly half finished pieces. We took our invitations down to show the BA's what our work looked like and also andrew put our work up on the board for them to see. Sue had mentioned about our show reel but Dan mole wasn't it to say anything about it. 
When we started expelling our ideas the BA's were annoyed we had gone with printed invitations instead of sending an email around ( they cost under £30 to print) which was something stupid like £1.50 each so i did get a bit annoyed they were being so fickle. Then one of the BA's shouted at Gina (obviously annoyed she couldn't get what she wanted and took it out on gina for no reason) Another comment was one of the names had been written in a full name instead of a nick name which really is not a big deal and it is printed small so its not like it matters, we each have our own business cards expelling who we are so does it matter what is written on 1 poster! (aloud of fuss for nothing again being fickle) 
Sue had asked why we were so far advanced in all our of plans and we had said that andrew had given us the go ahead due to the show being so soon. which she didn't look to happy about but how are you meant to plan a show in 2 weeks? 

In the end the BA's decided ours would be the best idea to use due to it being finished and it wouldn't be any more work due to them still having to finish their own websites. There were a few moans and groans that they did all that work for nothing but as sue pointed out it was part of their brief so it had to be done regardless of what idea got picked. 

personal professional development

As part of our brief we have to advertise ourselves professional and when i first knew we had to have our own online portfolio in website form i thought it was going to be really difficult to code a website as i had a lot of trouble in the first year with mine. after talking to Andrew he said this could be done via another platform and eventually we could buy the domain and have the URL to ourselves instead of having the domain name so i decided to use tumblr as my website. firstly i started by creating an account and then choosing "Chloe Honeysett Design" as my title. i chose to go with blues and greens as these are my favourite colours and also they are flaming happy colours to look at. ins tea dog being to bright and making you want to look away from the page. i created the graduate fade in illustrator and saved that as a pdf to use of the side bar of my website ( picture shown below) the other half of the website is a light green colour which matches the gradient nicely. I'm really pleased with the way it has turned out and the only thing i need to do is finish adding my work onto the website. 

looking at the brief submission

looking at the brief we have to submit 2 pieces of printed work and also 2 pieces of motion graphics,i knew straight away what motion graphics i wanted to use and these where the ones i was most proud of, finding 2 pieces of print work to submit was a lot harder as i am proud of a few of my print pieces.

i ended up looking closely at all of my uni work i have produced over the last 2 years and decided my YCN pieces where my favourite and now i had the task to try and choose 2 i was most proud of. 

this was my favourite out of al my posters but because i had such an issue with the type and the 'G' looking more like a 'T' this just wasn't an option i was happy to print. 

these are the 2 printed submissions i put forward as i felt they were also strong pieces and they link together nicely with the art style. 

the two move i submitted where my alcohol app and my grow your won food animation both of which have different art styles but are effective with the style they have. i am happy with all of these submissions. 

business card

this is my finished design on my business card. i drew my illustration on illustrator, and used a scarf instead of drawing clothes. i started using pink as my main colour as this is my favourite colour and then i felt having a pink scarf would be to much and a lilac would contrast really nicely. i used a curly font for my name as i wanted this to be the stand out piece and then a easy readable but still quirky font for the rest of my text. i used pink for the name headline and then black for the rest. choosing a background colour was the hardest and i settled with a peachy skin tones colour so it wouldn't look so stark in white. I'm really happy with the way it has turned out and i will be sending it off for printing soon. 

inspiration

i found most of my inspiration from this business card, i liked the idea of having a face on one side and then all of the information of the next side. this is similar to how i want my business card to look. this one has been printed on plastic and has a frosted background obviously mine are going to be printed on card so there will be a lot of differences between mine and this one. 

business cards

these are some business cards that i have been looking at for inspiration for my business card. i love the iPhone style one i think that it really original and quirky and most people now carry an iPhone than any other so it is distinctive and you know what you are looking it. i like the personal photo on the front which gives the card that personal touch. it is obviously a baby photo of the designer who has created them. this idea is really cool but i don't think this best describes me and who i portray myself. 

i love the burger illustration on this business card and the way the mage has its own side with no writing on it. they have used there company logo and matching type on the back and kept it colour printing which looks more expensive! it gives you all the information you need and it cute and pocket size! 

this photographic business card caught my eye straight away with it looking like they have been broken in half. with minimal information on the front it gives this card a bit of mystery and you want to turn it over to find out what is on the back of it. 

I'm still in the process of designing my business card, and so far i have an idea to design something that involves an illustration of myself with all of my information next to it.

Postcard colour schemes

i've been working with Jess on postcard invitations, the whole class decided this was a nice touch as an invitation idea, and it was more exciting to get this through the post instead of a letter in a envelope or instead of an email that they get 100+ a day off. We went through so many colour options it was crazy! (jess would agree) until we finally settled on these 4 colour collaborations,  The green and purple is my favourite colour combo and i also like the pink and black, we wanted to use colours that really stood out against each other and yellow was our biggest challenge, we tried orange which we thought was to close in the colour spectrum and then we tried plenty of different greens and finally settled on a grassy green but with orange as the text colour. i don't see why the BA's wouldn't like these but you never know. 

logo ideas

our class had to sit down and have talk about what logo we were going to use, because jess had designed the branding poster and Dan was in charge of branding, Jess designed a collection of logos form everyone to choose from, most people had mixed opinions on what logos to use but in the end the final decisions was left down to jess connor and dan because they were doing the branding and the rest of the class were quite happy with whatever logo was used. 

The BA's don't seem to want to be involved much, we keep asking questions and opinions on things but they don't want to answer and also sue is saying we shouldn't be deciding on anything final yet and we should wait until the BA's have finished there project but if we did this then we would only have 2 weeks to plan a whole show. personally i think this is ridiculous because to make it successful you need to have plenty of planning behind it. They seem to disagree with most of what we do and i don't think they like that we are in control of the show. we will see what happens when they finish their project, we have already mentioned we need to have a big group meeting to explore everyones ideas and opinions. 

branding poster

After a long discussion in class we narrowed down our posters to Jess and Connor. The views were very mixed on what poster we should use and in the end jess poster ended being the one we were using. she including images that stood for people so i was a charm bracelet and we thought this was a nice way of personalising the show, i'm happy with going with jess's poster as this was my choice out of the 2 posters anyway. for the invitation I've thought about using jess's poster with 4 different colour schemes and using them as a postcard to send out as invitations. 

My branding poster

This is a screenshot of my branding poster that i am working on, i have chosen green as this is a general colour that is used within computers and as we have no set colours i thought this might be a good colour to use. i used a bunting font as i felt this was quirky and different and would make you want to stop and look at the poster. instead of placing dots all over the poster which would of been the most obvious, i decided it would look nice to have 3 set lines to set off the font. i chose a cartoony style font for the other smaller details of the poster such as the venue and the time. i haven't gone into loads of detail on my poster as the class is going to put al of their work up on the board and we are going to discuss what poster we are going to use for the show. if my poster does get picked then i will add more details and add more information about the show but for now i am happy with the way this looks. 

graduate show poster inspiration

These are a collection of graduate show posters that i have found. 

 i liked the 2 colour choice on this poster keeping the colours simple. the text gives you all the image you need. there are small details within the text that give it that something special and it makes you want to look further into the poster to find out what it is about. 

i love the painted feel of this poster. its for an art and design class. i think this poster is showcasing everything it needs too, the students have chosen to show to tools they used to create their work for the show. i love the green and black contrast colouring but my favourite part of the poster is the painted edge feel. 

when i look at this poster it makes me feel like the students stand out from the rest of the crowd and they are the black sunglasses where as the rest of the designers are the white sunglasses. this poster also follows the 2-3 colour rule and i think i will be using this on my poster design. 

this poster is the most drastic  have seen which uses more colours and shades of colours to create a printed poster, they have used typography to create an image of a game machine which obviously links into the names of the course the graduates have attended. this poster works well with creating something interesting to look at but i think this has too many colours. 

this poster i find really odd and undecided on. i like the brown paper background but i am not totally sold on the cartoon style doodle which they have used as their poster image. if i saw this poster i wouldn't be inspired to go to the show they were holding. 

branding 2

Dan mole has been put in charge of branding and sorting out a poster design to get the show promoted. Gina,Glen and Liam are doing the social media and have set up a twitter, Facebook and an emial account for the show under the name Dots Per Inch. i just have a few concerns that the 3rd years aren't going to like what we are doing but we have been giving them opportunities to get involved and they have chosen not too. 

we have all got to come up with our own ideas for posters and this is stated in our brief so i am going to be working on a poster design of the show.