At the beginning of the year, this was my original manifesto. Throughout the past few months it hasn't changed too much, however working with other designers and artists, and visiting studios and going to talks I have added to this manifesto.
I am still very much interested in print and layout within design, and I am also passionate about using different printing processes within my work. Since writing my dissertation about traditional printing processes within publishing, I am looking more into alternative printing methods and what processes work best for different projects and publications. The YCN Whistles brief has also gotten me more interested in packaging and promotion in retail, particularly fashion retail and this is something I want to explore further over the next couple of months at university. Working with other designers and artists on a few of my briefs this year has shown me that working with like minded people within the industry is something that I am really interested in also.
These were my goals for this year at the beginning of the year and I think that I have made a lot of progress on them. My dissertation research helped a lot with learning about a variety of printing processes and I intend to try as many as I can and learn about even more throughout my time at uni and afterwards. I think that I have improved upon my layout and editorial design as well with the briefs that I have chosen. I have definitely been working more with other artists and designers within the briefs I have been doing throughout the year, and also have been working with clients outside of the art and design world which has been really interesting and fun for me. The only thing that I need to work more on before my time at uni is over is to create a strong personal brand for myself so that I can better get my work out into the world.
These are the briefs that I wrote for myself at the beginning of the year, however most of them changed or I didn't do because of other opportunities coming up. I created the food culture of leeds publication as a small zine, which was one of my favourite briefs so far. For this I collaborated with two photographers and an illustrator from within uni, and I also interviewed Matt Dix, one of the creators of Leeds Indie Food Festival. I really enjoyed working with other people to create something that we were all happy with and excited to do. The artist book turned into another zine working with just one photographer from uni. She wanted a promotional book of her work to give out to potential clients and it was really exciting to do. We worked together to create a really exciting piece of work which we are both really happy with. The rest of the briefs that I wrote for myself have either changed slightly or I have decided not to do, because of other opportunities and new ideas.
These are the briefs that I have either finished or are working on at the moment. I have really enjoyed most of the visitors to the course so far, especially Dr Me and Intern Magazine. I really enjoyed the hands on and creative approach that Dr Me had to their briefs, and Alec from Intern Magazine was really inspiring to me, as setting up my own magazine is something that I would love to do in the future. Ilkley Literature festival was a one day brief to do the layout for a journalism workshop which was really exciting. It was the first live brief I had done for a client that I was actually getting paid for and so the pressure was huge, but overall I really enjoyed it and both me and the clients were really happy with the result. The one brief that I am most excited about is the yearbook. We put in a lot of work to the presentations and I was so happy to find out that we actually won! But now there is a lot of pressure coming from the other students to make the best yearbook so far, and so this will be really interesting and exciting to do!
So far this year I have been getting a lot more involved with the industry outside of uni. I have been to visit a couple of studios so far, and am in talks with a few others to see if I can visit them and hopefully get myself a placement somewhere. City Edition Studio in Bristol was a highlight for me, as Jono who owns it set up everything himself and has made a name for himself around Bristol, and now has a lot of work coming in for him. Leeds Print Festival was also a highlight for me. It was great to see the amazing work that is being created throughout the UK using print, and the talks were really inspiring and interesting to listen to. I have also been expanding my knowledge of digital design, going to a couple of talks about web design and the web design industry. Although i'm not really interested in web design, I think that its important for me to understand it more and know about the growing industry.
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