Briefs 6-10

Briefs 1-5

Good news

Ghost Communications in Wakefield have replied to my email suggesting that I am very welcome to go over in a couple of weeks so I am looking forward to my first visit. They work from home, one based in Wakefield, the other in Paris, so it will be very interesting to see how they work.

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: