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I recently worked at Mark Design on a two week work placement. Mark Design is a small graphic and web design agency in Brighton and they produce such beautiful work. I worked on a variety of projects including some branding, web design, print and I even got to design some football kits for a college! As a big football fan, designing the football kits was definitely my favourite part of the placement. It was a great experience working there for the two weeks and a big thanks to Gus and Andy for making my time there very enjoyable!

Here is a selection of brochures that I have worked on during my time at Three Sixty Group.

Here is one of my first projects from when I was working at Three Sixty Group. The brief was to design a new brand identity and a marketing brochure for Columbia House in Worthing. The aim was to give it a more modern feel and help attract future companies to want to use the available office spaces within the building.

After a little bit of a rest after all the excitement of graduation and winning my yellow pencil, I have managed to get myself a job in graphic design! I will be working for Three Sixty Group in Hove who are a small design and marketing agency that specialise in the commercial property sector and allied industries. My role here will involve various tasks such as design brochures and signage, branding design, sending work to print, answering the phone, interacting with clients, producing estimates and various other administrative tasks. Thanks Mr Yates for giving me a chance!

On Thursday 2nd July 2009, I experienced my most proudest moment of my short design career so far. I was awarded a D&AD first prize yellow pencil for my packaging entry in to the competition. Words can’t describe how thrilled I am about this. It means so much to me and makes all that hard work that I put in to the brief seem worth it. It was an amazing moment to achieve this award and I’ll never forget it.

After a roller coaster three years studying at University for the Creative Arts in Epsom, it all came to an end in Guildford when I graduated with a first class BA (Hons) degree in graphic design. Although it is all over I will be able to take some special memories away with me, and I have also made a lot of great friends. The three years went very quick and although it is very sad to all be over, my graphic design adventure has only just begun!

It is a very exiting time at the moment what with graduation and my D&AD awards night just around the corner. First up though it was the D&AD New Blood exhibition to go to. Only a handful of UCA students were chosen to represent the University for this exhibition and I was honoured to be one of the lucky ones chosen. It was great to talk to professional designers and to walk around and seeing some of the amazing talent around the country. It was certainly enough to inspire me and to also realise that competition in this industry is fierce so I should never rest on my laurels and also look to improving as a design all the time, and that is what I plan to do.

I didn’t quite get the dream job I had hoped for after our end of year show but it was certainly an exciting experience getting to see people in the design industry and was just nice to be able to display my portfolio after three years of hard work. I may not have got a job out of it and university might just about be over but it is just the start of a long adventure in to the world of graphic design. I hope it is anyway!

I have just ordered 500 business cards for my end of year show. Hopefully my work will attract some interest and some cards will be taken. Does anyone take bribes?

I have been fortunate enough to be nominated for a D&AD Student Yellow Pencil Award for the packaging brief that was set by Homebase. I am very proud of this achievement even if nothing else comes of it and I am very excited about the awards evening that will be taking place at the start of July. Fingers crossed!

I got my first taste of the real world of graphic design when I got a chance to do a two week work placement at Mother and Baby Magazine in Central London. It was a great experience and gave me a good feel as to what working in magazine design would be like and it is definitely an area that interests me greatly. Thank you to Ruth, Victoria and everyone else for so friendly and keeping me busy. I had a great time. Below are a couple of pages that I contributed towards.

I’m not one to not turn up to work on my first day but unfortunately the crazy weather conditions put most of London to a halt. I was meant to be starting a two week work placement at Mother & Baby Magazine, but with no trains or buses running it was practically impossible to get there. I can’t complain though. We rarely get snow in this country so you might as well enjoy it whilst it is here. The novelty soon wore off though when I could no longer feel my fingers!

I’m a strong believer that the more ideas that you have for a design brief then the better the final outcome will be. That is my motto for the D&AD packaging brief this year. Hopefully if I can come up with lots of strong ideas there will be a very special idea amongst that lot that can give me a chance of impressing the D&AD judges! Below is a selection of some of my early ideas for this brief. I certainly feel that I have a few ideas to work with.

Here is a video that me and four others at university have been working on to help promote Persil. The brief was set my Wieden + Kennedy and the experience of visiting their London office once a week for a meeting has been amazing! In this video I’m that mug that decided to get drenched. It was fun to do though and would highly recommend people washing their clothes in this way!

Around Christmas time I was in London and I have never seen so much fog! It was quite interesting to see London in more of an unusual way though.

I love any excuse to just walk around London with a camera so as part of a personal brief at University, I used it as an opportunity to practice my photography skills.