Letterpress

Some great letterpress work. got to get me in the print room.

 

Found on debutart.

Barney Bubbles CR

Barney Bubbles with some great letterpress work in January's Creative Review.

Found on the CRblog.

I hope our Bus doesn't sink!

Found. http://www.andrewpougher.co.uk/house/img/SinkingBusEarlhamRoad.jpg

Hemisphere

This is great piece of design by Hemisphere. such a simple idea that looks great.

Found on Hemisphere's website.

Simon and Steve's RC Grand Prix Adventure

A smart little video I found on the Interweb.

Found on youtube.

Interbrand

Baboo is a swiss airline that has recently been re-branded by Interbrand.

They kept the Swiss feel by incorporating the Swiss cross in the 'B'.

Found on Interbrand website

Love

Love. 'One of our dinosaurs is missing' MOSI.

Avery clever idea and use of ambient media. 

Found on the Love website.

The Chase

Layezee Beds. This logo uses a capital L on its back to create a bed then people are added to give it a real feel, This is a great idea that works because it is so simple, like a lot of the work designed by The Chase.

Cock-a-Doodle, a distinctive binding device that contained the limited edition number on the metal rings was adopted for the illustrative book. This is a great piece of design with a great idea.

Cidu the creative industries development unit at the University of Central Lancashire. 

Charles Wilkin

  

Designs by Charles Wilkin. I love his collage style which has been improved on the computer from his original cut and paste style.

Found http://automatic-iam.com/

Hemisphere

As of yet I have not received a reply from Hemisphere.

After waiting 9 days for Hemisphere to get back to me, I decided to give them a ring on the number that was on the website. I phoned at 5:40 as I figured that any receptionists would have gone home by then. I asked for Sue who I sent the email to but she was off until Tuesday. I then asked if she could help me, after the exchange of names I continued to tell her that I was a third year student and was after a portfolio viewing and any advice I could get my hands on. she told me she did not have a great deal of work on and could see me on Monday at 11:00. I'll keep you posted.

The Visit

Today (23^rd March) I went to visit Hemisphere Design company, I choose to visit Hemisphere as I love the Imperial War Museum work that they design. I also thought it might be a good idea to pick their brains as my final major project is based at the Imperial War Museum.

I arrived 20 minutes early, so not to be late. I got buzzed in after a little trouble finding the offices. After meeting Faye in the office, the first thing I noticed was a serious lack of a Mac. We then went downstairs to the second floor where I begin to talk Faye through my portfolio and some third year work.

Faye was enthusiastic, polite and gave some great advice. She also gave me some pointers within my portfolio like writing the entire brief out or having more description to each set of designs, so they can fully understand the designs.

She seemed to like the work I showed her and said the collage style that some of my work was very interesting. To this I said that in my third year work I have not used it at all, partially because it has not fitted he brief but mainly because I believe that the collage style is not as commercial as I want to make my work. I believe it is important to show you can produce commercial work, as that is what I will be doing in the future. She agreed with this point but also said that my collage work shows good designs skills.

After we had finished looking through my work we went back upstairs to their office and that’s were I was introduced to Andy who showed me the Imperial War Museum stuff he was working on which looked great.

Faye gave me her business card and said it would be fine to email her with my final major project work, she seemed really interested in the Code Project.

Over all I really enjoyed this visit and found it very beneficial.  

Think Tank

Think tank is a graphic design company based in London. I had the opportunity to show my portfolio to a couple of designers that had been working there for about 6 months, Andy and Amber. They were both very welcoming and immediately made me feel at ease, the office was nice and spacious with a beautiful pool table taking pride of place in the middle of the room. I started by showing my second year portfolio in the book format, which they seemed to love, saying they were sick of the boxes after seeing a large number of them in the past and its something extra to design and show your design skills in the book format. They were very encouraging about my work and seemed to like it with some great advice along the way. In particular Amber really liked my third year work and the chess stuff I have designed saying she would not be worried if a few people took offence the phrase ‘chickmate’ and told me to push that idea as well as the live pawn idea. We were then showed the studio and some of their work, which was going out the next day. The visit went well and was very informative, I now think differently about the London design world and believe its not as scary as possibly I once thought.

Interbrand

When we went down to London in March, we made a visit to Interbrand, a large branding company. Tim, one of the speakers said it would be fine to email him with some work.  In this first email I introduced myself and asked if it would be ok to send a PDF of my work.

This was the reply I received from Tim, he emailed back quickly, very promising. 

I then sent this email with the PDF attached hoping to hear something soon.

As of yet I have not heard anything from Tim, so I decided to prompt him with an email. I can only guess he has a lot of work on at the moment but I hope to get a reply soon.

A reply from Tim, still waiting on some feedback though.

Im a polite guy.

Astrid Stavro

When I was in Barcelona last November, I visited Astrid Stavro, a graphic design company. I had never heard of the company until a few weeks prior to getting on the plane so did not really know what to expect, not to mention I never seen a graphic design company with my portfolio outside of England. After struggling to find the building in the maze that was Barcelona, we had got there. Now for the hard part.

We rang the buzzer ad was invited up by a member of staff, we were greeted by Edward who was working on some design work. But came to talk to us and offered us a drink. Its always interesting and valuable to hear how design students managed to get into a company. Astrid was running slightly late but I barely noticed as we were talking away. After hearing about Astrid’s past and how she studied at Saint Martins College of Art and Design and then the Royal College of Arts. She then told us about the history of her company and talked through some of her best pieces of work. Astrid was very warm and polite and made all four of us feel very comfortable. We then individually showed her our portfolios and got some advice along the way. In all I was very pleased to have had the chance to go and see her design company it was one of the best parts of the Barcelona trip.