Portfolio Viewings

Recently I've been in-touch with agencies with the possibility of showing them my work. 

I've been lucky enough to get two agencies to view my portfolio:

BrandFour - Roughly a week (re-arranging date) 

Truth - Friday 29th 

So watch this space for feed back.

Portfolio

Recently in University we was set a task of creating our own portfolio and then going out into the industry to get some responses. Although this seems an obvious brief due to the fact that we want to promote ourself not many people had actually done this before. The following spreads is how my portfolio looks.

One day brief.

On Tuesday 5th May, I was handed a one day brief which i had to accomplish in 5 hours.

The brief was to take photos around the local environment, of every day life, that has an odd twist to it. We didn't have to take an image that was WOW in quality, it was just how the image came across, the way we titled it and what we was trying to show also was a major factor of how good the image was.

Floating Cone

Teddy bear outing 

Whats CCTV coming to?

New type of Staff Car Parks

Fake I.D. brief.

On the 30th April, I was lucky enough to do a one day brief with Fake I.D.

Fake I.D. was founded in 1999 by Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees.

Fake I.D. is an independent graphic design practice that develops projects for cultural contexts (exhibitions, games, performances, publications, social media, websites and workshops.) Fake I.D. initiates collaborations between artists, brands and institutions, and works with companies to expand the cultural dimension of their communications through the origination motivation and support of thought-provoking activities and productions.

Currently in its tenth year, Fake I.D. had produced a diverse rang of work recognized in numerous books and magazines, including commissions from Aiwa, Anthropologie, COLORS, Emigre, The Face, Giant Robot, GBLT Historical Society, Harmony Korine, IdN, MTV, Nike, Sony, Urban Outfitters, Venice Biennale, Wieden + Kennedy and Zune Arts, among others.

The brief that Joshua and Yvan set us, was to use a set photograph and then produce a two minute voice over. Although this sounded an easy task, the catch was, that you couldn't directly reference anything appearing in the photograph itself.

For all the finished pieces, please visit;

http://www.wefakeid.com/p_lstn.php

Pot Noodle Ad's

Recently there has been a set of new Pot Noodle adverts on the television.

The two I've seen recently are for the new Kebab Pot Noodle (Kebabalab) and for the Beef and Tomato flavour (Tastified.)

Whilst watching these video's there is a lot of idea's being copied from other items. For example Tastified ad is blatantly copying the High School Musical scene. Some people might see this as a good idea because it's so recognizable, but I don't agree, because when I watch the video it doesn't promote the pot noodle much to me, I just think of High School Musical more.

Another example how they've copied thing's would be, in the Kebab Pot Noodle advert there's a dance scene which has been copied out of a song by Beyonce - Single Ladies.

To view the video's just click on the Kebab Pot Noodle link and you shall find the selection of video's there, enjoy.

Marian Bantjes

Marian Bantjes is a Canadian designer, artist, typographer and writer.

Marian has done projects for companies and people such as, Saks Fifth Avenue, Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Bierut/Pentagram, the AIGA, Winterhouse, Print Magazine, Wired, The New York Times, Wallpaper, The Guardian, FontShop, Houghton-Mifflin, Little, Brown & Co., Knopf Books, Young & Rubicam Chicago, just to name a few of them.

Marian is an inspiring person with the work she has produced, her work is appealing with how she uses and produces typography. She doesn't do it basically, Marian likes to experiment with things, for example using laser printing and oil paintings to Vector Art and cutting up paper.

A few examples of Marian's work;

 

Type burned into wood - " All The Boys Who Loved Me Back"

For an article on Jay Z in a magazine - "The Audacity of Show"

Creative Review Monograph - For the subscriptions editions of Creative Review.

Coca-Cola Posters

Recently I was browsing through the Coca-Cola website trying to find information about there new packaging design on some of the Coca-Cola items. Although I didn't find any information about them I came across some Coca-Cola posters which I found appealing to me. 

The posters area a collection of images that are designed by leading arts and designers from around the world. Each designer has depicted there own interpretation of 'The Coke Side Of Life' philosophy. The work of the artists reflect different styles, personalities and cultures, and all designers have one thing in common: they are all colourful explosions of energy, optimism and happiness. 

A few of the examples are below:

For more examples visit; http://www.coca-cola.co.uk/cokesideofliferemix