New portfolio and plans for summer

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OK so this is my portfolio of stuff that reflect the direction I'm going in a little better. I feel like it's a little thin on the ground and I need to spend the summer getting it up to scratch with various different briefs in order to start sending it off to the companies that I admire. Also, the 'A Rigid Search' posters, I need to get hold of printed versions and photograph them, this would look much better, in my opinion.

Right, so moving forward over summer, what am I going to do:
-I have a zine planned with my White and Red collaborator Kenneth Moore, which will be exciting, it's going to be called the shape of tomorrow and we're going to ask peers to creatively interpret one shape for every issue starting with a circle. I'll be directly involved in the type and layout of the project as well as Kenneth so it'll hopefully create a nice set of portfolio pieces.
-I've already began a self initiated project where I take the 10 most ludicrous band names I can find and create a typeface and logo/image for them in hopes to make a catalogue of well laid out images that I can turn into prints and maybe sell.
-Take a look at the briefs that Fred and Lorenzo have written that are up on moodle and take on two of the briefs. That's 4 projects and hopefully if the results are good enough, they'll be great additions to my portfolio.

CV type layout

I wanted quite a traditional CV that reflect well laid out type, rather than something really image heavy. with that in mind, here are the layouts that I began working with:

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I decided not to use any more logo form and keep it simple with a descending set of columns. Th eother side is the human resources CV, which I rather leverly (not so much) call Human meat sources.. because it's the most base level and reduced elements of what a human is. Here's the Curriculum Vitae that I'm happy with, at least for now.

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Websites:

Heres some websites I've been looking at and what I might take form them, what I won't etc.:


I like the simplicity of Praline but it has some really gross flashing luminous graphics, I don't care how in trend they might be, they make my eyes hurt. Also, I'm not a fan of the bars, I'd rather have everything presented in a menu than click for a drop down.

Pentagram is pretty simplle, but you have to scroll down on the homepage to see the images and theres a lot of options on the menu, i.e. too many.


Olly Moss' is a very simple website that displays work very well, but for someone who has an eye for design, it is a little misleading and perhaps isn't too great visually. I might take the pure simplicity of it and add a little bit of flare with my branding and a bit of colour scheming.

Music's website is fine, they have a goo menu, simplicity etc. and a humerous intro page. but their issue is that the work is laid out in a very oddd way, involving you having to scroll sideways which feels a bit awkward. The images of their portfolio are actually one big image that zooms from one space to another. It looks wicked but I don't have the flare to do it.



Studio North are branding and so their website reflects their flash business sense to this end. I'm not a big fan, it feels a little corporate and character-less.

Designing a new identity

There's some words on this in the actual pdf it's self, but given the new directin I'm heading in, I scrapped the former header, it din't look particularly good anyway. I've based the development on the white and the red logo that Craig did, I figured seeing as I'm going to continue collaborating with the guy from Manchester School of Art, having an identity that reflects this collaboration, but thats somehow unique would be pretty interesting.

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And here I've applied the logo to a CV cover, I want my CV to be quite unique so I'm going to try making a square format booklet, just because. There's some different colour choices there, I really like the blue on grey, which is pantone DS 239-7. It's uncoated, because I'm hoping to print it on a really textural paper stock. print and finish is something I haven't played with enough this year, so I'm going to look at that. I was torn between futura and gill sans, but eventually decided on futura.

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