Getting myself out there..

To promote myself, and make myself known I have set up my photography business in a nightclub in Leeds.. Doing this will send people to my website for their pictures of which they can then look into my graphics and what else I do.

Also hopefully get some work from people visiting the club/ or bussiness people within leeds seeing my work.

My new business card!

After playing around with the font I liked I have come up with this logo..

I am really happy with this! 

I then need a little line underneath with the full name, and also try out colours as I don't like the grey and black combination

Out of all the colours on the page, I think the strongest in my opinion is the deep red!

I really like the deep red, with the deep red I think I will use a grey  also.

On the other hand I do like the white type on images like the sky.. This would look quite good on top of my photographs and for coloured backgrounds.

I would like to say a massive thank you to the graphics team at M and everyone that made my placement possible. Also the invitation for next year! Along with the positive feedback of:

 "if you do want to come back again next year we do sometimes recruit graduates for our big briefs, and next year we do have a brief for the olympics" 

In third year I would like to experiment a lot with publications and layout design, also taking into account what we have learnt from graham and making the document readable, yet using design to make the reader read it in maybe a different direction or movement around the page.

Self Initiated Brief:

Firstly for the logo. 

I want something simplistic and elegant and pure type.

I quite like the font at the top however I want it to say: 'kimberley jayne photography' which in that design would be too big.

 KJP in my opinion will make a better logo as kimberley jayne photography is far too long to put on the top of headed paper and such things.

This year I want to create packaging for food, as I think this is a huge market and very few stand out for having a 'good' packaging design. 

Third week of placement..

I had such a good week! I was asked to design and make the template for a website for a client, I was also asked to do a photography shoot with the company to capture them off guard for pictures for the new website.

Overall this 3 week placement was amazing! I got on with everyone and they all made the effort and found work of which I could do and I was involved in a lot of good briefs. They have also offered me another placement at the end of my third year and said there may be a job for me at the end of my degree! Which is AMAZING!!

In third year I would like to create a range of packaging for food. It could be a new company or even re-branding an already existing product that I could do my own interpretation of.

Another company of which I would LOVE a work placement at is B&W studio, whom have done a lot of work for republic and the brands within it.

 I really love this packaging for seven, simple but I think you would be excited to get something like this through the post, therefore it works.

Second week of placement was amazing.

I got asked to design a template for the company to use when pitching to their potential clients, I also was asked to do a photo shoot of the olympic route, so I got to see all the sites at the same time! As M have got a brief to design within the boroughs of london for the olympics.

I have also been asked to come up with potential creative ideas and places to advertise for the olympic brief, of which then can be either toned down or made depending on the budget.