Week 9

Designing my portfolio

I want the design of my portfolio to blend in with the identity that I have already established with my Buisness card and CV.
My idea at the moment is to produce a bound A4 book using plain black card. I have already established a colour scheme of red, black and white. I will add red and white stripes to the cover as a contrast to the black.

The cover will have a window in the middle which will act as a kind of photo frame. This is where I will display the 'common' image which I created specifically to be used as an identity.

My task this week was to convert my three chosen pieces of work on to the A3 format. I have had a few problems with the images I want to use because of the original resolution which they were produced. I am confident that this issue can be easily resolved once I render the images at a larger size.

I have also continued with the pencil prop. I have had to add more layers of paper machet in order to fully prepare the surface ready for spraying.

Week 8

This week I was asked by the team leader to produce some renders/images of how we would produce the layout of the exhibition. The images are very much like our original concept although a few of the ideas have been altered or left out due to limitations. There is fewer props in these images than what there were in the original concept ideas.
These images were created and rendered using 3Ds Max. Another group member (Dan) has produced more renders using photoshop. All of these images will help to organise the preparation of the exhibition.

Week 7

This week my task has been to come up with a method to create a giant pencil. The giant pencil will be used as a prop to exaggerate the studio theme. If the construction of this pencil works we may want to create other giant props such as pens, erasers and other stationary items.

I originally decided to try and create a smaller scale model. I started off by cutting six panels from a large corrugated card box. These were used for the side panels. I fixed the panels together using brown parcel tape.


The eraser was made from a circle of card and another piece of rolled card stuck together. The fixing for the eraser was made using two rolled up sections of newpaper. These peices were then placed and fixed to the side panels using the brown tape.

I had planned to leave the model at this size but I decided to make it bigger. I cut another six panels from another lage box and stuck them to the original model. The tip of the pencil has been made using six triangles stuck to form a point.

I have started to paper machet the model. Once it is dry I will see if it needs anymore layers. If not I will use spray paint to cover the whole thing.

Week 6

This weeks task

This week it was my job to produce an initial rota of when people were willing to work in the exhibition. As a group we felt it would be best to split each of the days into a morning and afternoon shift. I produced the register on excel and listed everyones name alphabetically. I printed a single copy to hand around so that people can write down what times they were prepared to do against their names. I will make a copy of this register for everyone once the times have been finalised.

Business Card revised

I have made a few alterations to the original card. I have added a watermark of the image to the text side of the card. I'm not sure whether this improves the look of the card or whether it is just distracting.

I will probably look at different layouts to use for the text side of the card. I may also change the text type to give a more professional look.

Buisness Card Design

This was the first design I came up with. I wanted to keep the design simple and the layout minimal. I only have the most relevant information required on the back as I wanted to keep text to a minimum. The red and black stripe and text help to give a relation between my buisness card and CV.

CV Design
I've tried to keep the design of my CV as un-complicated as I could. I have used the image I created to head the page. I am hoping that the striking red colours in the image will catch the readers eye. The uniform red and black stripes help to tie the CV and buisness card together.

Week 5

This week we had our presentation of the exhibition ideas. Our group presented two of our three initial ideas. These ideas were 'The Studio' and 'Destruction'. The ideas from the other groups varied from the environment to 'Behind closed doors'.
I liked the idea of 'Behind closed doors' as it had an interactive element. The public would have to progress though the exhibit by choosing which door to walk through.

Once all presentations were completed the decision of which idea to choose was put to a class vote. It was chosen that our groups 'The Studio' idea was to be the theme of the exhibition. We were very pleased with the outcome of the vote as the whole of our group felt that 'The Studio' was our favourite idea from the beginning.

With the theme chosen we then had to divide the class into three groups. The groups were Graphics, Web site and exhibition organisers. I chose to be in the group for exhibition organisers. As a group we have to arrange all aspects of the exhibition, including location, sponsors, arrangement of the exhibits, invites, hospitality and rota.

It is my personal job this week to find prop companies that can supply the stationary props that were shown in our original skecth. If the props are too costly, or un-available then we may consider producing them ourselves. It may be a case of scraping the idea if it isn't plausible.

It has also been asked that we think of people to invite to the exhibition. I am going to look though the telephone book and on the internet to see if I can find any local companies that specialise in the types of work we have produced.


For the PDP section of this module I have been developing an image that I can use on my personal buisness card and CV. I wanted to create a striking image that would catch the readers eye. With this in mind I tryed to use bold colours and artwork so that the image stands out. The scene was created using 3Ds Max and I created the majority of the textures in Photoshop.

I hope that the image portrays my capabilities as a designer. I have used minimal furnishings so as not to make the scene too crowded.

I would like to use this image on my CV, buisness card and possibly on a website.