OUGD502 - Soplyhq - Social Media Feature

Following my advancements in my professional social media accounts, I have been featured on the Instagram of 'Soplyhq', the page currently has over 40,000 followers which should give my notability amongst the internet a huge boost. This is what I set out to achieve in my PPP sessions all last year and with my final project in PPP.

OUGD502 - Soply Portfolio

After the approach from my new Instagram account, I have since created an online portfolio on 'Soply' and have added all of my latest work and PPP self branding work.

OUGD502 - Instagram & Social Media Advancements

After a couple of weeks of building upon my social media pages to build my online presence, I have started to build relations with other design pages and groups. The design page 'Soplyhq' for example, wants to feature me on their page which currently has over 22 thousand followers. This will hopefully hugely benefit my online presence within the online community. They have also asked me to create a Soply Online Portfolio which they can include in the feature.

OUGD502 - Manchester Art Gallery - Matthew Darbyshire - An Exhibition for Modern Living

Back in January, I was in Manchester City Centre and decided to visit the Manchester Art Gallery as there was an exhibition based on modern living. I felt as though this exhibition would expand my knowledge on Modernism however, many of the installations has post modern attributes as it was looking at modern fine art from todays standards instead of the Modernist principles of the 40's-50's. I found much of the work very hard to relate to any graphical principles as much of the instillations were very abstract pieces therefore, I took this opportunity to focus on the way finding systems in and around the gallery.

OUGD502 - Magazine Feature

The professional hairdresser magazine has used some of my photography from one of the events to be featured in one of their magazines. 

OUGD502 - Solidifying My Understanding Of Post Modern Architecture

This example of architecture near the college uses aspects of Egyptian hieroglyphics, material and architecture in its design whilst being implemented into a modernist outer structure. This experimental architecture does not correspond to modernist aesthetics and has been built after the modernist era. This merge of elements from different cultures and eras can be considered as a post modern design which does not abide to any traditional rules.

OUGD402 - Presentation - Evaluation & Reflection

Having just completed my PPP presentation, I thought that this would be a good time to reflect on the experience and try to pinpoint some of the areas that I feel I need to improve upon.

Personally, I feel that my main downfall was my time keeping as the presentation went over to around 9 minutes. This in turn negatively influenced my presentation as some key points, my future ambitions and evaluation were all rushed in order to compensate for the time management. I feel that this could have been prevented with further rehearsing and planning however, this is now a point which I will focus upon solving in my next presentation.

Looking back, I also seem to remember being very concealed at the front and kept my head down. This needs to be addressed but I feel as though it will come with more experience. In the next presentation I will focus on trying to keep my head up and possibly stepping to the side of the laptop and expressing myself more with hand gestures and body language.

Seeing other students presentations also made me realise that I didn't include many inspirational sources. I found that this was one of the most immersing areas of other peoples presentations.

I also forgot to bring in a bottle of water which I felt could have helped as my voice started to go a little bit towards the end.

OUGD402 - Self Branding - Evaluation and Reflection

In hindsight, I would have liked to come up with more distinct design ideas for the posters however, I had already taken the photograph of my cat and therefore the photograph informed my design ideas instead of the other way around. The forest photoshoot however, was very considered as my design ideas depicted a jungle scene as the background image to represent the genre ‘jungle music’. I would have also liked to come up with a logo to represent myself on the posters but, as my practice emerges, I feel that a logo will be developed into my designs and design boards. I have also used my context of practice knowledge to inform the design decisions of my presentation layout and my design boards typeface and composition. This modernist design will be reflected in future briefs alongside my studio projects. Constructing my online presence has been a long and tedious task however, I really feel as though my social network accounts are striving in leaps and bounds every day and are helping to build and cement my place amongst the creative industries. These sites are have also become a huge influence when locating inspiration from other designers work and I now find myself watching more inspirational talks and podcasts throughout this process.

The self branding poster project has really seen me build my confidence when having to roam around the city centre with a bucket of wallpaper paste and a brush to put up the poster designs. I feel that stepping outside my comfort zone like this with hundreds of people watching me will help to build confidence in other areas such as presentation speaking. It has also pushed me to utilize my new found online presence by approaching other designers and design studios using twitter and my work email address. This project has massively helped me to evoke a sense of bravery within myself.

OUGD402 - Self Branding - Approaching Designers & Design Companies

I have sent my designs to the head designers for 'The Warehouse' and 'Mint Warehouse' asking for some feedback on the designs. This has also given me a chance to utilise my social networking profiles by tweeting the designs to not only the design studios, but also the artists themselves. This gives me the opportunity to possibly get retweeted and be seen by the thousands of fans of the DJ's.

OUGD402 - Self Branding - Applying My Self Branding Project

Below are documentation images which show the process which was embarked upon to apply my concept to the real world. I used wallpaper paste and a brush to paste all of my final resolutions to various areas around leeds.

I managed to apply my posters to the locations marked below, I have tried to focus on applying it to student areas however, I also got one located right in the centre of the city and one located down near trinity and some other student accommodations on the other side of Leeds.

OUGD402 - Self Branding - Printing My Design Concepts

I printed the designs in the digital print resource on A2 waterproof digital poster paper. The final resolutions were then cut down using a guillotine ready for being applied around the city.

OUGD402 - Studio Brief 3 - Presentation Notes

Communication with agencies, exhibitions, placements

Ambition, Improvement

What you want to learn

What you have learned, new key aspects to your development

Weaknesses? How you tent do dress this

Dislikes, likes, who you have discovered this year

7 minute presentation saved as PDF, 3 minute for questions

17th March

Your vision of where or who you want to be is the greatest asset you have

7 min

a reflective summary of your experiences on the course to date

your evolving design practice

your ambitions and how these may have changed

creative concerns, personal aims and professional ambitions

tone of voice

conclusions

experiences

personality

ambitions

examples of your own work

creative skills – practical / theoretical / conceptual

include self branding

consistant and appropriate typography an font reflecting my own tone of voice

consistant use of colour, things that influence me hacienda eat

Developed from digital to quite manual

In loving memory of work – designer

Inspirational designer - Stephan sagmeister

Possible Speech Notes -

The ever changing design which I view every day is the events and music posters around the city. Every day, I use these as my own personal life inspiration, I get my music events news and design elements.

What is the best way to grab the attention of people with similar interests to me?

Even grabbing the interest of the design companies who I would like a placement in by pasting over the top of their posters. I highly doubt that they would involve the police in the matter so technically by pissing them off, I get a personal email from these design companies telling me to stop pasteing over their work. From this I can reply, “Hello its great to grab your attention, I am heavily inspired from your design work every day ect…”

I find that this is the best way to grab the attention of my favourite design companies, admittingly it will be negative attention at first however, I now have their attention to possably open up more doors and contacts.

Speech - Going off in tangents is sometimes quite time consuming and prolongs projects however, it really broadens your mind about creative ideas and knowledge

Talk about my influences from Grafitti and constructive vandalism

The importance of feedback and sketching

Collaberation

Cooking and living alone

(Also complete PPP self branding design boards)