In review + work in progress

These days I find myself always thinking and asking 'Where has the time gone?'. The last 4-5 months have been so busy and hectic with life matters, church activities, a dissertation, and minor to major deadlines that have had to be met. So far 2012 has been one big blur. I have not had the time to process recent events, which I guess is where good ol' blogging comes in useful. :P

Work in progress

I'm currently working on four final major projects. One of them is one of the YCN student awards, live creative briefs. The brief is to promote the currently unknown soft drinks company 'Feel Good Drinks Co', and their brand of drinks.

Their tone of voice is friendly, cheerful and cheeky (wanting to put a smile on peoples faces); aimed at a young market, 16-35 year olds. My approach for this project is to steer away from the cutesy innocent drinks style and tone of voice (excluding the smiling sample cups below) because its been over done and I have chosen to focus on students and young professionals as my main market. So at uni I conducted an interactive survey, in which I got students to have a sample of the drink and then draw or write in response to my research question 'what makes you smile?'.

Here are some of the results that I have now plastered on one of my walls for easier analysis and viewing...

Overall I can conclude that students are pretty much a social bunch, who love free stuff, being with their friends and other happy people.

What makes you smile? :)

Uni Graphic Design #1

So its the end of term one & I'm officially on my 4 week Christmas holiday, here are some pictures from some of the work we have done during our first term at university... Firstly here is one of the final pieces I made inspired by a fashion designer I love; Jean Charles De Castelbajac.

The rest of the pictures I took are of some of the final pieces that I really liked by other students on my course.

A New Chapter - Wacky Races

The Wacky Art & Design Students!

As I said in my previous post, I've started University & it's a new chapter in my life. We got given a mini group project, nothing serious, something to break the ice. The project was based on the cartoon series 'wacky races'. In each group of 5-6 people we had to come up with some wacky designs/themes of racing carts that we were then going to create & put together out of random stuff we found around Central London, the uni or buy at shops...Each group had a starting point somewhere around London (not toooo far from the uni) and had to race back to the uni completing about 5 different tasks e.g record your team asking a member of the public what they like about London & why. My teams theme was a princess bed, and we wore PJs...here are the pics below....

Our Starting Point, Piccadilly Circus

We got Tourist attraction

Some more tourist attraction

With a busker in the London Underground

It was such a funny & surreal experience....I wonder what other projects my course has in store for us! Would you be brave enough to do something like this????...

This is my excited face...

Whaoo soo excited got my results last night from my first choice university and they gave me an offer! Whoop Whoop What it do! I was literally praying for this...Thank you Jesus!