- What is working for me?
I have insomnia so atm nothing is working for me. So tired.
My current styling is VERY graphical. Lots of blocks of black, fluro accent colours, and line art. I’ll be maintaining this look for my textile folio as I don’t believe it’s wise to split my branding into different sections (Graphic Design, Web, Illustration, textile design) My folio will be massive. However, it will be curated down to 4-5 projects for interviews and job submissions. The content changing depending on what the job requires. So having a bound book is out of the question. I need a folio where i can add and take pages out, as well as easily print new pages. A high end printer is not a viable solution because of the set up costs involved just to get 1 print down. So its likely a smaller printer, or office works is the way to go., But If im clever with my stock choices and cut up the pages my self i can make it look like it was professional printed with full bleed. PLUS office works does transparent paper printing for cheap.
I won’t be updating my logo. I like my logo 🙂 Currently colours are “foil” green and blue, but in the past I had fluro pink. I may return to that as Impact Printing does fluro pink printing.
- What can I improve on?
Annotations. I HATE annotating my work. BUT i think if i do them with hand written notes and have some fun with it I may bother to get it done. Some of my projects could be photographed better. Most of them are done as single shots at home (home studio photos look good its just too small for more than one sample) I plan to rephotograph my work in a studio when i photograph my graduate collection.
Culling old projects. I’m very attached to some of my old work but its got to go. OR be revitalised as new current products and turned into collections/brand rather than one off pieces of design.
- What are my next steps?
SLeep. ATM I need to create a moodboard for the gradshow. Exploring colour, motifs and direction to be presented to my peers in marketing and graphics next week.