PPP
presentation
Simon Isles PPP presentation third year
graphic design.
1) Black
Swan Issue
Here is one example of a piece of design
that I tend to return to as it played a massive role in deciding what I wanted
to.
It is a short montage video
of the amazing process Little White Lies magazine went through during the
making of the ‘the black swan issue’.
It showed the creative working atmostphess,
the highs the lows of a working designer but most importantly gave me an
insight to what life as a working desinger would be like.
Working for a magazine is something I want
to do in the future. Working in a team I find a much more exciting and
thrilling process as there are always new ideas being thought up that you would
never have thought of yourself.
So when I feel low on inspiration there are
many things that get me motivated once again but its this sort of editorial
based design that I really benefit from.
Its this sort of thing I look for when
searching for inspiration because its guaranteed to work!
I first watched this during my foundation
when I really didn’t know too well what I wanted to do and this changed that for good!
I love how even now I look at that video
and it still has the same effect.
2) Set
Magazine FMP Foundation
This then inspired me to create ‘set’
magazine for foundation. This was were I found 8 people to talk about what they
did and why they loved it. Pretty straight forward.
This was very difficult as I has never used
Indesign or illustrator before. This
magazine is quite valuable to me as in my eyes it was the first proper design I
had done.
First
Year PPP TEN THINGS
First
year
First year was all about learning the
basics and for me getting to know what graphic design really all about. I
really enjoyed first year because I learn’t so much. One of those things being
illustrator and indesign.
Because I had literally only used photohop
to do work before this was hard but difeeantly worth it. Like this poster on
the left I was able to start drawing illustrtations.
I didn’t really have a chosen area of
interest I was just trying to experiment with mostly everything.
JUICE PURCE!
My favrouite part of first year was juice
purce that Sam lane, sam hoh and myself did. This ws my first collaboration and
also gave me a chance to make a short film of the process.
It was all about recycling you juice
cartons and making a purce out of it.
I posted it on the Tropicana facebook an
nothing happened so that wasn’t very good.
Second
year
From
my list of 10 you can really see the difference from first year.
Before
I knew it second year.
Some of you may remember Fred saying the
course drops you in at the deep end but I really found the deep end was second
year. The work level had really risen and I found it very hard to cope with the
load.
For example the design for print books.
That was a nightmare.
And design for web where we had to design a
website after 2 workshops! It reminded me of when I made set magazine where I
didn’t know how to use indesign but the only problem with design for web for me
was I didn’t have the same determination.
However,
responsive was a nice change and I liked the freedom we were given. It sort of
set us up for third year.
Ted baker had to be my favroutoe brief of
the year. This was a collaboration with nigel and was my first brif that was
for something. In this case D&AD and that was a very different experience.
Nigel and I also used a lot of the college
facilities which was a nice change as I was always worried to do this because I
thought it would just result in failure.
Third
Year.
Briefs summer find 10, and at the moment
that has change quite a bit!
Inncent
Drinkst
Contacting Claire the senior designer and
she said I should design some back of packs- information about the drink, fun facts
and stuff. She gave me feedback which was great and then one day I thought lets
make the cartons
Claire had previously sent me the template
of the cartons so I knew it was possible but it was the hardest thing ive done
this year. It was so painful. To much went wrong and even now the tops are all
funny.
Priority
Earth with Luke
This was for d&AD and the brie fwas the
creat a new campaign to gith against global warming. Luke and I came up with
priority earth and we made a two minute video that explained the concept. It
also showed the promotional poster that was made with thermo ink and the
website.
I really enjoyed this process and I’m very
happy with the final outcome
Secret
7”
I won!
Third
year.
My thoughts on the whole is it has gone way
to quickly and I can’t believe we only have less than two months left I have so
much work to do!
I haven’t liked the freedom that much because there have been times when I have been way to relaxed and thought I don’t have to be in college today but I got out of that rutt.
That’s been my most valuable lesson this year, time management and self dermination to get the work done because we have been left to our own devices and it was a big shock!
I haven’t liked the freedom that much because there have been times when I have been way to relaxed and thought I don’t have to be in college today but I got out of that rutt.
That’s been my most valuable lesson this year, time management and self dermination to get the work done because we have been left to our own devices and it was a big shock!
My
week placement
During the summer I did a placement at
iFour studios for one week. I four is a team of 8 people. They mainly do
branding for print and web.
During my week there I worked on mocking up
a website for an English school for foreign students. This was quite enjoyable
and we were briefed every morning with how we were doing and feedback would
also be given.
This year I haven’t look for a placement as
all I want to focus on is my work for the final hand in. I feel its something
else big to think about and I already have enough on my plate already.
Studios
This is what I want to do after the course,
work for a magazine to do with culture.
Spindle
Magazine.
STUDIO
MAKGILL isn’t a magazine but…its good!
Branding.
A friend said they are really nice there
and I should go there for a week after a finish as they like taking on
graduates.
This is what I want to do after the course,
work for a magazine. I asked to look round but they work in there living rooms
Plan
after the course
I am moving to Brighton in late June and I
have some bar work lined up to keep me going. This will be the plan until I get
properly settled in and comfortable with my part time work and money etc.
During this time in my spare time I will of course be working on the odd thing
here and there to keep my head in the game.
