Monday Baking...

After doing everything in my power to avoid working on a monday, and feeling inspired by the lovely Miss Dahl, I baked, naughty, but so so nice...

Stamp final design..

Done and dusted :)

Mooooore stamps...

Ill be happy if I never have to see another stamp template again! And im still not pleased, here are my last developmet designs, just need to pick one now! Help would be appreciated :)

PANIC...

I have finally finished what was supposed to be a small, week project, which turned into a set of postcards and a poster bigger than anticipated. I’m really chuffed with the final outcomes, and I’m glad I got advice at my tutorial the other week, its just a shame I cant show on screen the stock and colour paper that these will are printed on, because it does make them look a lot nicer! 

Panic Exhibition, NOISELAB...

Went to visit NOISELAB last week, to have a good ol nosy at everyones work! It was really good to see what everyone is up to in the year because you dont often get to see alot of completed work in the studio!

I was so impressed with the pieces on show, and thought the exhibition looked fab! unfortunatly not all of my photographs came out too well, but here are a selection that I particularly liked :)

Push-Print

The other day, Marisa from top printing company, Push-Print came in to talk to us about print specs and the ins and outs of sending a job to professional print. 

She brought loads of examples for us too look at and it was really inspiring to see the different ways of printing, embossing and finishing. I’ve definatly picked up some ideas for my journal!

Marisa, gave us some good paper merchants to research and some top tips on writing a print spec. Although I found it quite complicated, id feel more confident in sending a job to print, just need to remember these things...

• Give the job a title
• How big is the job, (give in mils and then an A size)
• How is it to be printed?
• What stock do I want used
• A four page cover is needed and a 32 page text
• Colours?
• Any specials, ie. laminates, perforations, die cuts etc.
• Finnishing, ie. binding style (Perfect binding, exposed, side sewn etc.)
• Delivery address
• Quantity

Confusion never stops, closing walls and ticking clocks...

D and A D, as a year group have had the opportunity to hold an exhibition at NOISE in Manchester. A brief was written and we were to design something based around the word Panic. I brainstormed and felt, panic for me was usually linked with time, so... I started drawing clocks.

I’ve ended up making a book that will be shown at the exhibition, but I am also working on a poster for my portfolio, ill be posting pictures of that soon.