Website development

Artwork complete for new cards for end of year show

Printed on black 500gsm stock with a white matt foil. 

End of Year proposal

On the wall, First panel long banner with work on it working as impact

Leading the employer onto the left board that almost has a conversation with the viewer. Which leads the eye down to my portfolio and a take away sample of work as well as business cards.

BANNER

SHELF

LIGHTS TO HIGHLIGHT WORK

NICE TO MEET YOU

PORTFOLIO

BUSINESS CARDS

HANDOUT

Portfolio Surgery with Joe Gilmore - Qubik

I presented my portfolio to Joe today and looked at finer details and how an employer would read the portfolio. Currently my portfolio is heavy with lots of images and need cutting down and speaking with Joe and Chris from Elmwood this is apparent. Speaking to Joe I need to sho wthe whole product rather than just detailed close ups using a pdf or a scan in and ensure that people appreciate the whole design. I also need to ensure that the layout and all finer details are consitent. I have arranged to speak to Joe next Wednesday to see the development of my portfolio and ensure that the portfolio is working to a much higher standard and showing me of as a designer. I need to consider the order best first and last. 

I am looking to create a book of my work in a similar size to the hurl book. This will showcase my porfolio and will be something for the interviewer to keep.

Chris Jackson Portfolio Surgery

The portfolio surgery with Chris was very helpful getting an insight into how emploees view your work. The portfolio I presented was a portfolio of 9 projects which wsa fairly large some shots needed stripingout a condensing into a miuch more manageable portfolio. The copy at the bottom needed tightening up and to be perfect to present to perpective employers. The feedback from Chris was strong he stated that my work had developed much stronger since he last saw my work. THe portfolio surgery was very helpful for future reference I will emnsure these comments are quickly resolved and completed ready to present for jobs.

Website update

I have currently been editing my website and have took my work off line for a moment while I update my portfolio. I have made the design fresh and clean or spring and then I as I retake my photographs of my work I can update my portfolio.

www.rhiannewithers.com

Bivouac Last day

The last day at Bivouac enabled me to show me appreciation to kate of her work for the company and thank her for the experinece she had given me and the skill I had learnt throughout the months. 

I completed some work for the Afghanistan exhibition that was taking place in may. I then worked on some amends for a brochure for York St, Johns. Overall the experience was useful to me and I am very grateful to the team and the their commitment to work and design. Kate gave me some funds to help me with my studies in which will come in very useful as I come towards the end of my studies. Thankyou Bivouac hop eto see you soon and see you at the end of year show.

The Consult Evaluation a dream job

Overall I really enjoyed my experience at the consult working with the  team with a depth of experience. They are very passionate about what they do and take time to consider every details. They work very closely with their clients and work to show the clients focus to their best ability. In places where i have previously worked I have seen clients take over design and make designers produce work that is of a poor standard yet the consult ensure that ever piece of design is working to the best ability and gives clear message. I would love to work at the consult but I am sure the competition is very high yet I will stay in touch with the team and keep following there progress and work.

The next week at the consult w/c 5th April

Returning on the Wednesday after Bank holiday Monday and working at Bivouac in York on The Tuesday due to Kate arranging work for me to complete I was happy to be back at the consult working with team. I was given the task to create some brand guidelines for teh new brand the consult had just designed called hanimaps which later changed thier name to handi hikes due to intelletual property. The design was a simple but effective design with an avant guarde typeface in a shape as a pointer arrow found on maps. This was  acontemporary feel logo but relevant to the handiness that it wanted to come across to the audience. 

I developed the guidelines have a fun tone that the brand currently had. I had a range of ideas as shown in the scans but I developed the idea of the where to go what to do and what to see within the brand guidelines. The booklet was a Constantia square fold and as it folded out into each page is stated follow the trail. Within the copy of the brand guide lines it had fun references such as for the leading on the logo it said leading the way. The idea was fun testing my language skills and layout skills. It is a task that i enjoyed and is something i am going to do with in my pas architects brief. 

I was then given sthe task by the marketing manager for the company Ray Mason the task to let people know how good the consult where. The consult specialism in prospectus design for higher education and have recently won a range of gold awards or their outstanding work. 

I The company are inline to win the gold heist award this year and i was assigned to create an idea for a mailshot to send to clients in order to put the consult on their tender list. The message had to say around the lines that we are winner. With a small print run and a tight budget the idea has to be a simple but effective idea.  

The ideas I came up with are a range as shown in the scans but i eventually went with the idea of invest in gold which goes with the language used as in invest in gold. Printed on black stock with a gold foil block.

The Consult Placement Wednesday Thursday

Leading from the earlier post I then worked on a NHS brief the brief was for the NIRC which is an NHS research center. I created designs to go around the office portraying thier brand. The brief was good for me as I had to still to brandguidelines. The brand used Frutiger typeface within copy and within the logo andthier were certain measurments wthin the log that I  had to be aware of. The logos colour was red yet I did question why it was red ads it is to do with health aand this colour gives of the wrong meaning. However the red is used within the office not within hospitals. 

I created a reception sign, a perpex board describing what the company do and a set of 8 boards to run across a wall that worked together as a set. I also created a vinyl print that when a across which was typography based. These designs then had to work across the office based in London.

This was then finalised and set up as a presentation and sent of to the client. With a shortened week ending on Thursady due to bank holiday weekend I arranged to come into the consult the following week. This involved me chaging around dates with Bivouac in York.