End of year show banner development.

The aim of the boards is to have impact. People may only give a passing glance as there is fifty students to look at. Although the boards do not show a great idea or product i feel that they are truer to me as a designer and also do the job of gaining attention.

New look updated portfolio.

Open publication - Free publishing - More graphic design

I feel that my portfolio has developed and now shows i can come up with an idea and spread across a range rather than just doing one off design such as posters etc.

It is also less stylistic in the layout and showcases the work and ideas more which i what i set out to do.

Lionhouse creative

Junior, creative-thinking designer

If you have just completed your degree, you were the best
in your class, are an outstanding creative thinker and
can use a Mac, we want to meet you.




Based near bristol.

Small Back Room

Seeking Designer for
brand / print GSOH and VGTS’s.*

Us:
"There's something missing from our studio."
You:
"I need to find a new home for my neglected creativity"
Us:
"Here's an idea. If you're a really, really, really good middle weight designer who wants to work in one of London's most friendliest, funnest and challenging design studios... read on. The usual suspects... All rounder, great with software, knows what a Pantone book is and works well under pressure - blah blah blah. Down to business... likes tea, typographic genius, has 'visual wit', beautiful work and knows the difference between a brand and an identity. A good idea of how things translate to web would also help!

Looks not important.

Email us.
*Very good typographic skills.

Again somewhere I would love to work. Perhaps might be above my weight but might be worth going for just to see what feedback I get and create a contact.

Wolf Ollins

About us:

Wolff Olins is a brand business.

From London, New York and Dubai, we work strategically with ambitious organizations worldwide.

These days, people believe not what you say, but what you do. So we use brand to help clients do new things. New businesses. New experiences. New relationships. New ways. New things that challenge, provoke, reinvent. And create spectacular new growth.

We help clients…

• Achieve new ambitions through brand-led strategy
• Create new businesses and services through brand-led innovation
• Reach new levels of performance through brand-led transformation
• Carve out a new presence in the world through brand communication

We’re 140 people, ambitious for clients, and optimistic for the world.

About the internship:

We’re looking for a rockstar strategy intern to work with our team in New York City. You’ll work on a range of internal and client projects, experiencing firsthand how brands are created and evolved.

You’ll get to:

Contribute to the development of brand strategies

Research and analyze markets, technologies and trends

Develop new business pitches and proposals

We’re looking for someone who is:

A clear + analytical thinker

Curious about the world + passionate about brands

Energetic + enthusiastic

A great storyteller + determined to get to the heart of an issue

Articulate + organized

A strong writer + researcher

Collaborative + fun

Does this sound like you?

If so, please send your resume and cover letter to peoplenewyork@wolffolins.com (Subject line: Strategy Intern)

Other details:

Timing: June-August 2011 (ten weeks), with potential to grow into a longer engagement

Location: New York City

Compensation: This is a paid internship

Who can apply?  College students, recent grads and grad students - all levels are welcome, the internship role will be tailored based on experience.

Internship at wolf ollins. Hopefully talk to john about what i should send through to them and see how it goes.

hugo and marie

Just applied for a internship in new york @ hugo & marie. really like there work it uses experimental illustration techniques and typography from freelancers. I would imagine its maybe similar is structure to Ultimate holding company in manchester.

So we shall see if i get a reply or even what feedback they give me.

Webanywhere interview.

I gave interest in to a freelance design opportunity that came through via fred.

Me and will attend the interview where we were asked to go through are portfolio which the girl who ran the design department.

Then we were asked to grade our selves within the different areas of graphic design out of ten. I didn't really understand the question and in my head i was think about publication design, interactive design design for screen etc. But what the girl ment to say was 'please can you grade your selfs out of ten on how well you can use the adobe suit ie. photoshop, illustrator, indesign etc. This had me worrying a little bit because surly the women in charge could of graded us on that after going through our portfolio.


After this we were then given the task of designing a splash page for a school website. That was the brief given. No specs of page size, no information about whether the school was a primary school or a secondary school, where the school was, what colour there uniform was etc. I then realised what i was doing.

Making a pick off the shelf design that could be used within one of there packages. It made me relies that this was not the kind of design i wanted to be producing there was no rational apart from 'we need it'.
It made me ask the question do these schools really need a website? who are the websites for the parents or the children or both. The people who were running the interview didn't seem to know when i asked the question and as far as i can see it was purely a business with a design/artwork department rather than a design led business.

Theres nothing wrong with these business's but it's not the kind of business where i want to work. I believe in design and think i understand design. I got the feeling this company didn't but defiantly knew how to make money.

Self promo posters.

TBM First for servicing brief.

Open publication - Free publishing - More cars


Whislt at my placement at the beutiful meme I was given the task to create an identity for a car servcing company.

The company came and picked up your car did the work then dropped it back off meaning theres no need for you to go down to the garage and deal with them pesky mechanics.

I used the idea of its as easy as 1,2,3 and creating the identity around that. Including it within all aspects of the 'brand'.

Email Send Out

Remember seeing a interview with Matt Pyke from universal everything saying to get his name out there he sent out a email with 50 thumbnails of his work on... so i have created a similar product and done the same.

Hope fully this is less tedious than a portfolio and if people are interested they will hopefully get back to me.

martynwoolley.com

martynwoolley.com is now live check it here.

Self Prtomotion: Dont Send me To LDN.

Another idea I had was to make a series of self promotional mailers or posters that will be based around the sentence - Don't Send Me To LDN. I have thought about what i want to do after i leave and i want to target studio that aren't based in london but mostly within the north of England.

Using imagery of my home surroundings of the yorkshire country side and synthesis it with my design practice to create something like this.

100 words

Whilst looking through ItsNiceThat.com I found they have a paid interm programme happening throughout the year, to apply you have to send a email with no more than 100 words to explain why you should be considered.

This gave me a idea:

Create a cheap publication that can be produced quickly to send out to people i would like to work for. Almost like a cv or a covering letter in simple form of '100 words'.

These words should communicate me and what I have to give.

Hopefully by sending a product, rather than a electronic mail might show a little more thought has gone into the application and is also a gift that they can keep.

New look Updated 2011 portfolio.

Open publication - Free publishing - More portfolio

Revised portfolio

Open publication - Free publishing - More techno

Urban Outfitters - A1 Vinyl Love.

Agency's, Studio & Designer's

Ive decided to put together a list of people to contact with my portfolio for feedback and possible work placements that have a focus similar to my practice.

This will make me focus down my design strategy more resulting in making me get to where i want to be/what i want to do.

I also wanted to look at studios that are based within Leeds or within commuting distance ie Manchester, Sheffield, York etc as these are the areas where i would like to work.

So here's my big long list of people some near some far away that i want to contact.

-Accent
-Airside
-Love
-Music
-Universal Everything
-Big Active
-Zip
-Bunch
-The Consult
-Stone Soup
-Drunk Park
-Eat Sleep Work Play
-Give Up Art
-Vector Meldrew
-Farrow
-Red design
-Sound Of Design
-Mash Design
-Sbt design
-Teabag Studio's
-We Are Boxhead
-Bark & Bite
-Andrew Shillito
-Motiv Media
-Young
-Type Slowly
-Huvi
-Mainframe
-CreativeInMotion

Re-worked business card

After i noticed some ( alot of ) typo's on my business cards ( thanks Alex ) I re-did them printed on a slightly thick stock and and also decided not to print them duplex due to the fact that it never works to a professional standard and that a blank back could be useful in situation where things need to written down etc.

Online Presence

I have re thought my idea for my website/online presence.

A holding page under the domain martynwoolleygraphicdesign.com with a little blurb info, contact details and within that a link to download a portfolio and a show reel. I think this gives the potential clients something to keep (and hopefully remember) rather than trawling the web or website.

Just need to find a photography that i want to use and represent my practice.

Invoice

After doing a little bit of freelance work i thought it was appropriate to make a standardized invoice to give to clients as a few on them asked for one. So here it is all visually consistent with the rest of my new branding.