Re-doing the website mockup!

We had the same problem with the website mockup as we did for the logo; the file was corrupted when Billie sent it over. I re-did it again on Illustrator and again this was fine as we still have enough time for accidents like this! (I think it looks really nice).

Updated van design

After consulting the team, we agreed it looked a little weird with our three heads floating in the back window with no one driving, so I updated it. It definitely looks better now!

Van design and logo problems!

I have made a mock-up design to go on the van in the animation, to give a better idea of what our van would look like during the pitch. We wanted it to be bright, colourful and eye catching, so I tried different basic patterns in the colours of our logo. Ideally, that three colour combination could become associated with us, like the Cadbury's purple.

The logo was originally made by Billie (we loved it) but we had some problems with the files when she sent them over to us to work onto the van and animation. I re-did it, as Billie is now away and can't access them to re-send until past the presentation! It is good that we left enough time to cater for accidents like this; it could have been a last minute nightmare. 

Illustrator portraits

I have quickly made these on Illustrator, to go on our presentation slideshow and website mock-up, so customers and clients get a better idea of who we are. I worked with shape as Billie and Fennell both work quite shape based; it's so different to how I usually work and it's hard! I guess that's the sort of compromise you have to make when collaborating on a project and everyone has been assigned a different drawing/creative task. Hopefully they fit in enough with the logo, website design and animation. 

Colours May Vary exhibition: emailing potential sponsors….

This is the email I have drafted to try and get Tall Boys Beer Market to sponsor us with some tasty beverages at the exhibition. This is weirdly one of the scariest things I've ever sent off! If they don't like it then it could ruin potential links forever (ahhhh.) I have sent it to my peers and a friends on an events management placement to check it over and see if they think it is appropriate.

THE EMAIL:

Hi Ben,

I am a second year BA Illustration student studying at the Leeds College of Art, contacting you on behalf of the rest of my peers about an upcoming exhibition we are putting on at Colours May Vary, "Off The Page". We will be exhibiting a series of limited-edition prints we have recently made, based on and celebrating the lives of well and lesser known classic authors, such as Agatha Christie, Oliver Sacks and Aldous Huxley. We are all very proud of our work and are very exited about being able to show it off in such a great space!

We have noticed you have collaborated with local Leeds businesses and creatives in the past and were wondering if you would like to support our exhibition and Colours May Vary by supplying us with a little bit of your lovely beer. We currently have a marketing team who are working on promoting the exhibition by creating posters, flyers and social media campaigns, so of course your name and logo will be added and promoted along with ours. We are also looking to ask other businesses, such as the Tetley, if they would like to be involved as well; it could be a sort of creative, beery evening to celebrate great artwork, and Leeds-based breweries. You will also of course be invited to what should be a very fun and successful event.

The exhibition private view is taking place on the evening of Friday, February 12th.

Thank you for taking the time to read my email. I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards, 

Charlotte and the rest of BA Illustration.

Instagram - Print related accounts!

Following my recently discovered love affair with analogue print, I have used Instagram to find some accounts of printmakers and print workshops. Print Club London is my favourite and I want to see if I can try and get in contact with them over the summer as I am in London with easy access to it at home; it would be a great potential contact to make and really fun to spend some time there! Maybe ask them if they ever offer work experience, even if I am just making tea and getting sandwiches - I would love to be able to watch a proper workshop in the real world in action and learn as much as I can about printmaking! I will send them an email once I have a bit more print based work to show and then drop in - fingers crossed!

Contextual Research - Instagram

These are my current favourite professional Instagram accounts that I am following for inspiration and contextual research. I love Instagram for finding new practitioners to reference as it has the easy discover button, where it finds people related to the accounts I am already following - giving me loads of new stuff every single day whenever I want it. As they are all constantly updated with new work it keeps research fresh and interesting, compared to when you Google image someones name and it comes up with the same most well known stuff over and over again, and you have to dig for anything new.

I like Instagram as a platform for my own work as well for these reasons; I think it will make it easier for others to find me (Kate Gibb recently liked a few pictures of my work and my cat!! So it does work).