5 reasons why you chose to be on the programme:
-college/ course has a good reputation
-wanted to learn how to be a designer
-wanted to learn new digital skills
-good facilities
5 things you want to learn:
-how to use my time effectively
-how to work at a professional level
-lots of design skills
how to use photoshop properly
5 skills you think are your strengths:
-drawing
-using illustrator
-thorough research
-typography
-use of colour
5 things you want to improve:
-time management
-concentration skills
-photoshop
-documenting work/ blogging
-use time effectively
5 ways to evaluate your progress:
-look through the progress of my designs, development
-blogging
-crit feedback, end of year feedback, tutorials
-evaluating myself and my designs
-constant development of skills
5 questions that you want to find the answer to:
-will i ever get a 2:1 or a 1st?
-will i survive the year?
-will i get a job after uni?
-is there placements available in 2nd year?
-where's the best city to live in when your a graphic designer?
Identify and explain 5 things that inspire you:
Research
I found that doing a lot of research over the summer for our 'a history of brief' helped me to find new points of interest as well as come across more designers and artists to use as inspiration for my work. With out research i think that i would be limited to the designs that i could produce as i would be cut off from all sources of influence.
Pinterest
At the beginning of summer i joined pinterest which is an online sharing website linked up to majority of the social networking sites. It's been my addiction for the past few months, enabling me to gather imagery and categorise it onto boards helping me for certain projects. By collection a selection of subjective imagery i have gained an understanding in different elements of design, type, interior, decor, fashion and many other points of interest.
A link to me pinterest
http://pinterest.com/lisamarinaburns/
Art
I'm a huge fan of many different arts including fine art, photography, installation and illustration. i like to keep my self familiar with the other types of artistic design going on as sometimes just being inspired by graphic designers can get a little repetitive.
Fashion and self style
I think its important to reflect elements of my style or creative interests into my work as it embellishes my designs with an aspect of me as well as serving its purpose. I don't necessarily have a style within my graphic design yet as i don't know enough about it to be set in a style as such. In addition i am a huge follower of fashion and vintage trends so occasionaly i like to add aspects of mode into my work to break away from clean cut design.
Comfortable workspace
I like an area to work in which is clean and tidy - tidy room tidy mind. I find it difficult to concentrate on work when things are a mess. So being in a clutter free place usually leads me to being inspired by someone or something or somewhere.
Identify 10 examples of design that illustrate your fields of creative interest:
1. Perfume packaging
For some reason i've always collected perfume bottle and boxes, due to just liking the feminine packaging. Until i started studying graphic design i never realised it could be an aspect of design which i could actually design. Throughout first year i became more and more keen to design packaging but i never fulfilled it, this year it's my aim to get more practical and design anything i am keen on.
Here are my two favourite perfumes/ beauty packaging designs.
Kate Moss and Givenchy
2. Cosmetics Products/Packaging
I quite keen to experiment printing onto different medias, so an ideal example of this is products used for cosmetic purposes, for example glass, plastic and card. I think packaging if a field of design i am eager to get involved in.
3. Clothing design
I felt like last year i didn't use my time very effectively so this year given that we have Friday's left blamk on the timetable, i am going to use that day to do something productive along side of my set work, i wish to start illustrating more often and apply these design to clothing, i believe this is a worthy idea as it will keep me creative and perhaps earn me some money to get me through second year.
Here are some example of clothing from the designers 'Illustrated People' who have links with Topshop.
4. Type Design
Before starting this course i was never familiar with the art and process of designing a typeface, and i surprised myself when i enjoyed it for the 'what is a line' brief last year, therefore i wish to continue developing an understanding for type and design as i think its a useful skill to how knowledge about as well as to be a potential type designer.
Here is a type designer i like called Aron Jancso
5. Word as images
Something i should experiment with a little more is word and image play, i like to design logos so i think looking into imagery like below can give me an insight into clever design.
6. Unconventional designs
I love unconventional ways of doing things, and i think doing designs like below is something i show be getting more involved in. I enjoy working in mixed media when doing my personal art work so i think adding elements of that into my graphic design work could end up quite creative and different.
Here is some makeup art/type design i came across whilst researching the subject of typography.
Font Face is a project by Spanish design studio Atipo.
7. Layouts
I realised over the summer how much i learned in first year about different aspects of graphic design. When designing zines, posters or leaflets i spend time in applying grids to my work to ensure me that my work will look neat and align. Without layouts magazines, newspapers and websites would look awful and ineligible. Therefore i am going to better my understanding of layout design this year to further my knowledge and ability of using it; perhaps in the future i maybe designing for a magazine.
8. Music advertising
I love collecting cool album covers and old record vinyls, and designing them is something i'm keen on doing.
Below is a few of my favourite designs.
9. Colour theory
I think that understanding colour is a huge part of graphics, choosing particular tones to suite certain designs is essential. Colour theory is something i've always been interested in from the fine art side looking at the likes of Jackson Pollock's art work to learning pantone colours within a swatch book.
10. Inspiration drawing, keep creative.
Melissa Murillo Illustrations
Illustration is my favourite sector within design, illustrations by the likes of Melissa Murillo are something i like to do in my spare time however i feel i should use aspects of my drawing ability more in my work instead of playing it safe and digitalising majority of my designs.
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