Crunch Time.

Last night I completed my hardest vector so far. This style(above) took about 2 hours to complete and very fiddly. Hopefully when I go into the offices tomorrow to show the client he is happy with it. I have 3 styles left to complete but I have near on an entire module to complete for my university studies. My first attempt at time management around two jobs has not gone as I had liked it to. Reasons may be down to not estimating the amount of time certain jobs would take. Hopefully I can manage to acquire more freelance work soon and hopefully next time I will act a bit more professionally about it.  

In other topics, the books I have chosen to illustrate are written by Graham Greene and are the following short stories:

• The Destructors
• The Basement Room
• Under The Garden
• A discovery In The Woods
• May We Borrow Your Husband
• Cheap In August

Aquascutum freelance update

 I am currently coming to the end of my designs for the new catalogue, with only a few styles left to vector. The guy im working with has limited InDesign knowledge and has asked me if I could give my input in the catalogue layout process also. This process will be starting next week.

Graham Greene Short Stories

Just bought this book to help me in my illustrations for 'Graphic Systems'. The Author I have chosen to study is Graham Greene and he is very well known for his powerful short stories, a lot of which do not have covers or any visual references. After reading this book I will choose 6 short stories and begin my visual and design process.

Website Design

whilst perusing the internet for website design, trying to find inspiration, I stumbled across the world smallest website, decked out with flash games such as pong and pacman, and has browzing topics such as art, news and fame. the only thing you see is the image shown above and it is about the diameter of a pen top.

FMP idea #1

I kind of got this idea the other day when I was making lunch with my housemate. Most days we have baguettes, packed with different fillings, and we can always tell when we've been shopping of if we have just got money because we would have more ingredients to put in the baguettes. We joked the other day that at the end of the week we would just be down to baguette and butter. I thought this idea would be quite an interesting and innovative way to record money flow, personally as well and internationally. I immediately thought about having an illustration/photograph per day of my baguettes and this image would reflect my most current level of finance. Thought I would write it down before I forgot it.

DreamWeaver Tutorial

Today was our first dreamweaver tutorial, which is the adobe software used to build websites. I have been looking forward to learning these skills, employment in the field of web design may be a route I would like to take, if not then it is always useful to have experience in it. 

New Brief notes: Graphic Systems

These were my notes I jotted down during our briefing. Alot of what was said revolved around consistency throughout the series and similar styles across the range of illustrations. We are to rebrand old books by a chosen author of six, create a system for these books to make them look part of a system. The project is contemporary based, so rebranding to make old books modern is the body of the project. Still unsure who I will choose as I have kind of tilted towards the work I have for Aquascutum instead of University work this week.