Category: Portfolio

Moving Forward into the future

Working on this portfilio project has built my confidence in my abilities and made me feel like I am a more established perosnal freelance brand. I now have a creative tool kit to bring into industry with me that I can apply and alter to both my freelance styling/photography work and potential PR roles. Through producing a more official and aethetically consistant creative identity through my portfolio outcomes and reflecting on my values I have gained clarity about what is important to me post graduation. This mostly being in the present, oppurtunities to further build up my portfilio through assisting work throughout the summer. I am hoping that this will allow me to manage my time and mean I can have a healthier work life balance and allow me to enjoy my last summer before anticipating settling into a full time job at the end of summer when I move back to London permantantly.

Over the coming months I intend on further buidling up connections and presence on Linkedin and the Dots. Whilst remembering to stay active on all social platforms, ensuring that I am updating my website when I have new work, as well as staying active on instagram by engaging with fellow artists and posting my own work. This will help with mainting contacts and keeping up to date with my peers, so we are able to support each other in the future as we all venture into industry.

Reflecting on my values and how will this impact my career path

• Good work life balance – Time to build other skills, and contribute positivly into society, such as through volunteering work or learning a new skill to build my portfolio
• Supportive positive environment – Day to day quality of life better, help to grow and learn from my peers
• Possibility to travel – Enrich my career, would work in both a global agency and
• Responsible and Sustainable – Wouldn’t be suited at a big high street brand or fast fashion company. Lifestyle / Arts and Culture focuse good be better. Or a smaller brand as this is something that is a key value, I want my work to have a positive impact on the world not a negative one.

CV and Website Workshop: Identity/Logo/Website/Portfolio

Websites to bare in mind Dafont

In todays lesson we did individual research into websites and instagram pages we found engaging, successful or not so successful, which I have docmented in my skethcbook. This gave me good inspiration into how I might like to lay out my own website.

I took away that for my practice a simple stripped back often monochrome approach at Graphic Design can be most effective as it allows a strong focus to remain on the imagery rather than the Graphic Design as this isn’t something I want to do.

I also feel like a simple yet well considered website conveys my slow living values, focusing on quality over quantity in design.

Building a Website and Getting to Know Wix

Previously I have found website design and building intimidating and something I would deem myself quite bad at despite having confidence in many other digital areas. It did take me a long time, several templates, and some patience, but I do now have a functioning website! It is simple but does everthing I need it to do currently. Building the website has taught web design skills, and reminded me to give myself the freedom to experiment and take risks with graphic design more, but also the relationship between my work and how I should be communicating it on a platform that is more formal that instagram for example.

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