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.