Since graduating I have been busy busy busy.
A few months before uni ended I was thinking, what am I going to do... each year the whole summer stretches out before me and I think, oh I'll have plenty of time to do that, and visit so and so and catch up on that and then low and behold the weeks start to fill up and suddenly it's september again.
But now September will never be a significant month in the year again. No more first day backs on my birthday (every year since I started school). No, now I just have the rest of my life stretching out in front of me!
Last week I finished my first placement of the summer at Vivid London, a marketing and communications agency in London. I had a really great time here, and learned more than I have at any other placement. I enjoyed working in a small agency and a close knit environment where everyone was working together and responsible for everything. I got the chance to work on a number of jobs including design, writing, market research and PR lists. I even spent an hour as a 'pretend make-up artist' - brief: touch the client a lot and make him feel as uncomfortable as possible. All in a day's work for media training!
My logo designs for one of their clients was chosen to be used as well, so all in all it was a great two weeks and I want to thank Vivid London for having me!
You can read their blog here, which has some great articles on it, well worth the read!
Onto the next placement for now, but I do hope I'll get to go back to Vivid London as I had a great time there.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Thursday, 29 July 2010
Go Ape!
For the last two weeks, I have been working in a London agency called Vivid London....more about that later... and have been staying with my Auntie here. At the weekend, we decided to go on a bit of an adventure and signed up for a Go Ape course in a nearby park. This is essentially a tree top rope assault course.
As it was just my Auntie and myself we couldn't take any pics, but here's an idea of the kind of things we did. I'm not really scared of heights usually, but on more than a few occasions my stomach went through my mouth - especially on the tarzan swing where you had to jump completely off the platform and swing through the air into a cargo net!
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Out of Schools Exhibitions
A few weeks ago through my work as a student ambassoder I helped to curate and hang an exhibition currently showing at the Holden Gallery in MSA. The exhibition, called Out of Schools, included work from children all over Manchester from as young as 3 all the way up to GCSE and A -Level coursework. This was a lot of fun and we found some fantastic work done by the kids. The work is up until tomorrow so come and have a look!
I designed and artworked the banner and invites for the event - my first 'official' paid design job!
Over the weekend I also worked at the Children's literature festival and helped with a workshop run by the artist and typographer Stephen Raw in which children painted and decorated their own letters which we attached together to form a giant banner reading of one of Carol Anne Duffy's poems. We hung the finished banner in the Holden galley and I have to admit the results were quite impressive!
The rest of the degree show...
Traipsing round the degree show at MSA is one of the gallery highlights of the year for me, there is soo much to look at and it really gets the creative juices flowing. Here's some of my favourite...
Sunday, 27 June 2010
D&AD Degree show!
Friday the 18th bought us our degree show opening night! It was a huge success and packed to the brim of lovely people and work. Check out everyone who was involved here : http://www.design-and.com/
Watch this space for more work from the rest of the degree show!
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