Wallpaper Design

I am in a early process of wanting to set up my own wallpaper company. I would be hand printing my own designs by screen printing them. I would also like to produce other interior products with in the business, such as 'letter' pillows, tile prints, cushions, pictures, and

eventually screen printing and designing my own fabric.

Perfume

I began reading the book 'Perfume', as I have never heard of the story myself, and I would have not know where to start off for ideas for the book cover. The story is about a boy who can identify every scent, but he has a fascination with the scent of virgin women, in which he murders, an wraps up so he can soak up the scent.

There was a certain part of the story which really captured me, in which I wanted to base the book cover on. It is when Jean-Baptiste Grenouille enters the room of the old perfumer Giuseppe Baldini. Jean-Baptistes enters the room and he names every scent he can smell in the perfumery room. I thought about using an old chemistry set and going around charity shops to find old vintage glass bottles. I was going to use all sorts of food colouring for the jars, but I done a trial run with it and it all looked a bit to modern and funky. I went ahead just using red food colouring so it would look a lot like blood dripping from the glass so it symbolises the murder.

Ulysses

This was a poster I designed in my second year of university when I was briefed to make a book based on a long paragraph from the story of 'Ulysses'. I got to choose any theme I wanted, so I chose to go with a musical theme so it would express all the feelings going on in the book. The Illustrations were all drawn by myself in which I used in the book.

Home

This project was briefed through email from the print exchange, where they asked us to produce a poster in which symbolises 'Home'. I chose to do illustrated typography because it makes the poster look catch and homely. I came up with the quote myself, because when your a student you stick to eating beans, noodles, and jacket potatoes. But when you go home its like entering another planet with mums home cooking tasting so so good.

RSA Postage Stamps: Country Definitives

This was the first project which started my third and final year of university. It's a competition brief set by RSA Design in which we had to come up with a good design for next years stamps. There were two themes which were 'Biodiversity' and 'Country Definitives'. I chose to go with country definitive's, in which I had to base my design on something to do with England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. My big idea was to go with how Great Britain used to be a very rural country when it came to farming. I had to produce 16 stamps overall. I chose to base my animals on, Horses, Pigs, Cows and Sheep.

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

For the 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' I chose to play with typography for this book cover because it was mentioned in the brief to be clever. I made the letters myself which took me a total for 4 days to create. I specifically chose the fabrics myself so it would appeal to the children audience as well as the adult audience. With the photography I originally wanted to hand the letters off a tree so it helps start the story off, but I could not find a suitable tree so I went with a very high hedge in which had a few holes through to go behind it, I thought this would be a good idea because it reminded of the White Rabbit, with Alice following him down the whole. With the rest of the typography on the front cover I did not want to stick to using a typeface on my mac, so I thought it would look even more playful illustrating the typography myself.

Metro Posters: D&AD Live Brief

For the Metro brief I was to create a transport advertising poster campaign and strap line that cuts through the visual noise of the everyday commute to promote Metro newspapers.

My idea was based around shoes. I chose the idea of shoes because shoes are

something that are used everyday for an 'Urbanite'. I thought about choosing the smart work shoe but to also keep it cool and trendy.It also came across my mind that it would be a good idea to turn the shoes in to characters so that the posters would look funky to the 'Urbanites'. The shoe with the 'Gherkin' heel is

meant to symbolise the cities in which the Metro papers that are read across the cities of England. With the shoe car it symbolises the transport in which Urbanites use to to work everyday. The message is something that the Urbanite would most probably stare whist on there public transport. It creates different messages, and along the bottom next to the read "The Urbanites Paper", which makes the paper exclusive to the Urbanite.

About Me

­­I studied Graphic Design at school; Art was always my favorite subject. I left school to study a BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design for two years, which I really enjoyed and became more interest in the subject. After my two years at college and came out with a triple grade distinction and chose to continue my studies at Coventry University.

Throughout my years of studying Graphic Design & Illustration I have gained a good knowledge in Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXPress and also little knowledge of Dreamweaver and Flash. I have also been involved in using traditional printing methods to create authentic prints for my designs.

After University I plan to take on a Junior Graphic Design/Illustrator role in order to gain more studio experience, working with clients but also to work within a studio. I also want to set up a side business in designing and hand printing bespoke wallpaper, which I would do in my spare time.

During my studies I have done a little freelancing, such as creating a set of illustrations for a local Coventry DJ, who used them for flyers, and also animated visualisations for his DJ nights. I have also been involved in producing illustrations for a wedding stationary company, including designing wedding stationary for an acquaintance.

The projects I have been involved in my third year have all been competition briefs such as; D&AD, RSA Design Directions, YCN, Penguin & Puffin design awards. Being involved with these projects has helped me realise what sort of career I would like to pursue. With The D&AD brief I was heavily using Photoshop and Illustrator to make my work look professional yet clean and tidy.

For my professional practice module, I was involved with a group of 6 other people in re branding an Entertainments business. We all had our roles; I was involved in creating an information booklet, with some posters to help advertise the business. During that module I learnt to communicate well with the client, but also with fellow designers was working with. I also learnt about budgeting when it came to printing.

I have studio experience, from when I spent my summer holiday working for two different companies. One company was ‘Terry Farrells & Partners’ where I was doing some Graphic Design work creating brochures and invites for the Architects Company. The other company was ‘Ignito’ where I was working in the Graphic Design suite at a Creative Advertising & Marketing company.

I am set on achieving my goals and I hope to become a successful designer & illustrator.