Twofold

I am hoping to submit my posters for Brief 05 and the pop up shop to this independent magazine and hopefully get featured!

October

Manchester Book Fair

I helped out on our stall at Manchester Book Fair and was glad I did. I hoped to talk to more people, but it is hard to start making conversation! We sold a few items, but not as much as I thought we would. The book fair was more craft based than design based and there was quite a bit of illustration rather than type. After saying that I am surprised that I sold one of my books, it was also the first item to sell (so I was pretty happy!).

On reflection I think it may have been better if I had produced something more illustrative, than a type specimen booklet for this event but it is part of my submission for OUGD301. It would have also been great if I could have collected some more business cards and spoke to more professionals.

Pop-up shop application

Submitted my pop-up shop application and it has been accepted! This will form part of my submission for OUGD301 but it will also aid in my commercial practice.

Tutorial with Fred

• Define deliverables
• Be confident
• Overlap briefs
• Make own decisions
• Experiment and conclude
• Type a focus for OUGD301

Group tutorial with Fred

Really helpful to see what others are tackling in their third year. Some have chosen similar briefs to myself but are approaching them with a different focus.

A revision of my briefs has happened through this group discussion. I need to stop worrying and thinking about what is going to be produced at the end of the process and see where it goes through development. Some of my small briefs for the book fair and pop up shop could relate to my larger briefs.

Brief 01 - Typefaces. Explore the collaboration of different typefaces. By next week I need to aim for a whole load of different examples of possible typefaces, then at the tutorial I can show what I have and discuss what is working and where it can go from there.

Brief 02 - Publication. Headline fonts for a series of publications based on window designs in the Midlands. By taking the elements from one window from each city (Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Sheffield) and create a typeface for a publication on each city. Also create a working interactive web version of the publication.

Brief 03 - Identity. Exhibition of possibly my own work or maybe black and white film photography. Identity across different deliverables.

Brief 04 - ISTD.

Common Room - Graphic Design

Collaboration would be good possibly for my final major project. I would like to be able to work in a collaboration with a photographer, and create a publication to show off their work in an editorial format.

I put out 15 business cards, and 13 were taken which made me feel pretty positive and I saw alot of people looking at my 'Hate Week' brochure which was encouraging. I think people like to physically hold and look through stuff. However I was disappointed to hear that beer had been spilt on the typeface I had been working on all day. This means photoshopping out the imperfections, which was an avenue I wanted to avoid to have the purest hand-drawn type.

September

LCA pop up shop

I am going to enter myself into the pop up shop and hopefully be a successful applicant. I want to do this in order to get some of my work circulating, to see if my work is commercially viable, and also make a few pennies!

I get discounted print on large orders form digital print, so my profit will be a pretty high percentage on anything that I sell. There is a £10 application fee, and the college add a 20% commission.

After having a word with Amber, I have decided to print posters and possibly tote bags also as she said these sold well last year. Initially I would like to typographically illustrate song lyrics.