Placements - Waste Studios

The second placement I did was with Waste studio. I contacted the company after seeing various work they produced online. As they were another studio within Nottingham it made contact easier. After showing my portfolio to the creative director I was invited to do a placement. Waste studio specialise in specialise in brand identity, design for print, fashion graphics, illustration, packaging, digital & online, interiors and art direction.
I began working on live projects the first being the Savlon brief. It was pretty cool to be involved in the initial process and research stage. It was reassuring to see how professionals within industry approach a brief.

Savlon

I started creating a colour palette from existing Savlon material that already exists as products on the market. I found this allowed me to be selective with colour moving quicker through the design process.

I then began creating different mock ups and began thinking about a concept that could be applied through a range or set. The packaging became quite minimal which I quite liked.

Trudy Gill

A quick task I was given was to create a business card. I was told not to spend too long and not to worry too much. It was more about being critical and not letting the work drag on something I have taking away from working with Waste. It is important to stick to deadlines!

Haberdasherme

I started exploring the idea of creating a dynamic brand for Haberdasherme. I physically experiment ted with spray paint and then began working with it once it was digitalised. I am pretty impressed with myself at how fast I did this work. 

Here you can see the final rangeI worked up with the spray paint overlaid. It was really useful to have someone with a professional opinion cast their eyes over my work and suggest different techniques or options. I felt the feedback help me push the brief further.

Overall I thoroughly enjoyed myself at Waste and would like to go back in the future. It was really useful to do the two placements in the summer as it gave me an insight into how I like to work and how some people work within industry. 

I am going to contact more studios for internship in hope of gaining more experience while at the same time deciding what I want to do.

Placements - Affari Media

Fujisu Digital Publication

The first placement I did was with Affari Media. I contacted the company through a friend. After the initial contact, I was invited to do a placement. Affari media is a Nottingham based company who specialise in digital publications and also print.

I immediately began working on live projects the first being the Fujitsu digital publication.

You can view the original high resolution publication here:
http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?eid=aedd7eeb-d1f5-41a9-842a-29fd9633c193

The new re-uploaded ISSU digital publication is lower resolution quality but you can clearly see what I was involved with and helped work on. I found it extremely useful to work on live work for a big client and it allowed me to get a feel for the working process first hand. I was grateful to be trusted to work on the live work and other similar projects.

Although only a small fraction of the work shown below was physically done by me I was involved in the creative discussions and helped make decisions.

Here are a couple of pages I specifically helped mock up. It was interesting to see how the work eventually developed from an idea to a finished spread. 

I created the three little red icons on the above spread and laid out the page with the copy. I found it hard adapting to the corporate style the publication required but as the process proceeded I began to feel more confident. 

Manifesto - Presentation

I tired to keep my manifesto short and to the point. I outlined my future plans and the steps in order to get there. The presentation was only meant to be 5 minutes which I think is harder than a longer presentation. I don't think time allotted allowed me to get into the flow as much as the longer presentations.

Most people can remember when I nearly passed out the first time I addressed the year group in the first week. So the fact that I am now more confident when presenting is extremely positive. I hope to build upon this with actively getting involved in presenting. Its something that comes with age in my opinion especially in my case.

The presentation felt as if it went ok and everyone had a clear understanding of what I was saying.