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.