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For the diary I didn't just want some pages for them to write on i also thought about life outside the uni as well i have provided them with cash sheet so they can manage there money, a map of leeds, addresses of uni halls around leeds so they can locate there fellow freshers. Taxi cards which have the three cheapest taxis in leeds! For inside uni I have put important access rooms will the floor which they are on and room numbers. Stickers which outline electives lectures libary books due book digital print which they can interact with the diary and stick in relevant places.

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This is my final piece the diary: I am really pleased with the outcome! it has an illustrative feel as well as a professional manner to it

Design is about doing- VOGUE

For the vogue brief it was our first live brief and i found very exciting!! yet i always was feared of getting my work out there and once i did my first piece was going to something which i was pleased with. as we only had a week i began visually experimenting in a sketchbook with tone of voice layout and colour as the brief didn't clearly sate what vogue meant it was pretty open to anything i brainstormed all my ideas what vogue meant to me and what i thought of when someone would say the words a range of things came out of this the magazine, beauty, madonna. I have always been interested in exploring fashion illustration so immediately was going to do something girly and desirable. Here were some of the experiments which i tried before settling on my final three for the crit. I wanted to create something which was hand rendered as i LOVE illustration techniques this year ive really just been trying to find my style how i like working and potentially where i want to be as a designer in the second year of my degree. I have found it quite difficult because i have been pushing myself out of my comfort zone not trying to do what i know i already can and this has proved hard because ive not been 100 % pleased with all my work as final resolutions. Yet first year is for making mistakes and next year i plan on developing the skills i brought from foundation art use of the sewing machine and paints and using that with the digital processes.

final Design:





IN DESIGN BRIEF

For this brief we got names pulled out of a hat and that person would then follow to be your partner my partner was Sam Wallbank I have been paired up with him before for the last partner brief ! regardless we tried to get to know more about each other i find it quite difficult to get information from sam as he is quiet in the class room environment and seems to close up when discussing things about himself some would say modest! We set off answering each others questions, firstly i asked him what tone of voice he would like the feature of him in he replied it didnt matter things were getting difficult so i proceeded to ask him about things he has enjoyed doing he told me he went on a lads holiday in the summer and i could do his article on that. when asking questions about what he got up to i wasnt getting ay inspiration or excitement out of him immeadiatly i wasnt best pleased about starting this brief! I went for weeks thinking of ideas of layouts i could achieve with this infomation:

Subject matter: SPAIN

• lads holiday
• highlight of his holiday was jumping in the pool fully clothed.
• went for 10 days
• recomend for people to stay there
• 15 lads went
• chill out drink all day
• loves going abroad
• relaxed
• expensive
• favourite holiday

The lads that went with him:

1. Sam
2. george
3. tom w (westy)
4. ben
5. bene
6. tom r (reidy)
7. tom c (clarky)
8. calum
9. charlie
10. james (woody)
11. jack t
12. jack f
13. edd
14. josh

with no more infomation i asked for him to send me some photos of the occasion which never happened i couldnt go any further with the brief! We needed another interview and QUICK!!

After speaking with sam today i told him i couldnt get anywhere further with the brief without some photos so would i be able to change the subject matter and have another interview he was more than helpful and sat down with me straight away :-)

I have been told by his best friend Ben he was into running and should ask more about that as he is passionate about what he does so thats the route i was willing to take with him.

Heres the results from second interview:

• He runs for his home club Bedford
• He also runs for the county Bedfordshire
• sister runs for england
• Started main interest at 12-13 at school long distance cross country
• Runs with leeds university whilst hes at uni
• first race for inter-county was when he was 13
• runs the 800 meters to 10'000 meters!!
• favourite year to watch olympics Beijing
• Wanted to go into the olympics as a runner when he realised the dream of a professional footballer was not going to happen!
• Has a sporty family
• dad competes in triathlons james works as a park ranger in the day
• Mum is a P.E teacher plays netball and jogs karen

There seem to more enthusiam about this subject so i deffinatly knew i was on the right track with what i was about to design for him.

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These were three initial illustrations there mainly just of things which graphic design students can relate to I ended up using the bird on more than one page as it was effective sitting on the lines between the days gave a real visual aesthetic feel.

Today i have been placing all the final illustrations on the spreadsheets for the diary. Been struggling a little with making the pdf read the pages correctly! so been adjusting them as i went on mind boggling sometimes! yet they are all printed :-) finally got to this point! need to cut them all out and then hole punch which also could prove difficult as I have six holes in my ring bind!!

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Feedback from crit:

Have to design the diary from scratch so got to deal with pagination issues!

Aimed more at girls need more practical solutions!

After speaking with John about my feedback he didnt agree with either of these comments and said it was fine!

I have worked out a resolution for the pagination issues I have decided to my diary ring binded so that i can PDF the pages and then hole punch them into place!

Other possibilities from the crit was to design a fold out poster for the wall something like a calender.

I was thinking I might do this anyway as an various product in the same style as my diary.

Things to go into the diary:

• I am going to produce a page for months sept-jun/jul with illustrated pages.
• Map of Leeds a sattelite view so can figure out where abouts you are
• Illustrations of tutors know who to find rather than just having a name!
• Otley run
• Taxi cards cheapest numbers
• mock ups of id card
• photocopy card
• to do lists
• shopping list and money management pages
• Lined note pages
• Important access rooms in uni
• List of common uni halls with post codes in leeds
• Useful website page (for graphic designers)
• Stickers
• Sticky notes (post its)