Bad news

Unfortunately, web designers Inigma who work in my home town, will not be able to accommodate me in their busy summer schedule but I will hopefully be able to visit them later in the year. Time to find out about my other possibilities.

Layout: first stages

One of my favourite fonts is Century Gothic. During the type module last year, we had to think about using a typeface to describe the subject it is for, and I think Century Gothic suits my personality of being friendly, approachable, open and honest with its rounded features. Obviously I will experiment with other typefaces as well, but for now I have used it as I am concentrating on the layout.

Here are a few initial experiments with where the text could sit.

Back to business

As I've got the holiday blues I wanted to get into some designing and come back to proposing more briefs later. I didn't like my business card design, it didn't say 'me' - I like simple colours, lots of white space and elegant type - so I set to work from scratch again playing around with logo ideas:


















































..more to come.

The big list

Before I go away on holiday I set myself the task of writing out ideas for the proposed 10 briefs that I want to use come September when I choose 5 of them to begin working from and the others as potential final major projects.

I started out by doing a similar task to the one I did when planning to create my first brief; make a few lists. I considered the options of what I want to get out of the brief, core subject matters that I want to include and skills I want to develop on: