2 month paid placement with Thompson

Officially got a 2month paid placement at LOVE

WAHOOOO!

I start on the 2nd July for 2months... get paid fix amount everyday :) pretty good!
Really excited to work for a studio I've loved for ages, can't believe Ive got this great opportunity :D

I've also found a room to rent just outside the city center for 2 months, I'm really looking forward to moving out of leeds for abit and it will be a great opportunity to see where I would like to be based in the future.

Placement at Vast

Just finished a 6day placement at The Vast Agency -Leeds.

It was such a great experience and much needed to polish up on my design and styling skills. I find I have good ideas but find it difficult to execute the idea as well as I can invision it. So Vast was an excellent place to go to really push myself. The first 3days I felt abit out of my comfort zone working closely on a logo design I really had to look carefully at the crafting of the letterforms and colours etc which I feel I especially struggle with type so it took me a while to get something I was happy with. This was really good for me as I can sometimes leave a logo half done... thinking it looks ok but really it could be pushed and crafted so much better. I feel I understand a lot more about this now and this will really help me with future work/ placements. The guys at Vast were really lovely, we had a good laugh and they showed me their extensive range of beautiful bespoke lookbooks which really helped with my design context publication.

Whilst there I also did abit of work on a lookbook collecting material samples for a swatch book, colour matching and then adding them to the collection. It was really nice to get hands on with a project and was nice to break up the day with this kind of work. I also helped make some mock-ups to send out to companies including promotional concepts for a well known supermarket brand.

On my final day I worked on a crest logo for some Vast promotional work... can't really discuss the nature of the work but I really loved the design that I produced... much more my style of work and Phil and the team were really happy with my design.

Phil said I'm welcome back anytime and to keep in touch so that's really nice to know and I'll be sure to be in touch with them to let them know whats going on :)

Thanks guys!

Feedback from interview for the Sh! Awards.

It was so great to meet all the judges at the Sh! Award interview and get a good range of feedback from all different companies. It was really lovely to hear such positive feedback and was nice to see some friendly faces in my group Chris Jackson and Andy Lodge. I took through my portfolio so far to show them and they really loved the concepts and thought the branding for each project was really strong graphically but the story behind each of the briefs was really creative and captivating.

A big thumbs up :) was such a great experience.

2 Week placement with Elmwood

Saw the guys from Elmwood today



Sorted out a 2week placement for 18-29th June just before my placement at LOVE!

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Tutorial with Fred