It’s the end of 2013 and the end of my first Level 3 project. We had to design four lyric cards (or a little booklet) for a compliation CD made up of tracks picked from a list of pieces of music chosen by classmates. Below you can see the the booklet, including the covers and filler page, plus the jewel case covers, all complete with printer’s marks.
I was lucky enough to have two pieces of my work selected for the WAES end of year show at the Mall Galleries…
In exploring packaging that might appeal to children I created some animal based patterns in bright colours as well as starry patterns in more neutral tones…
Our second Level 2 project for WAES involved designing packaging for The British Museum. I created some postcards, plus their packaging, as well as gift tags and boxes which could be used by the gift shop to package up loose pens and pencils. Additionally we were asked to design napkins for two different cafes or restaurants within the Museum. The designs were based on sketches made from exhibits at The British Museum…
We researched Art Movements and spent days sketching at the Tate and the Tate Modern in order to create illustrations of the different Movements using different media and different techniques. We then used these illustrations to create posters advertising exhibitions focussed on the different Art Movements. Some of the artwork I produced for the posters appears below…
As part of our first assignment on the Creative Media course (Level 2) at KCC, we were asked to design a poster, business card and DVD cover promoting a Zoo, or an aspect of it…
For our final Level 1 project we had to design book covers for different sections of the V&A, after spending a day sketching in the Museum, followed by weeks of further research and development…
This is just the start of my adventures in illustration in graphic design, but I felt I should just add a couple of words on how I got here. Although I have always loved art and graphics, I was nervous to re-train and pursue it as a career. Eventually serendipity stepped in, the stars aligned, and I’m now loving every minute of creativity.
I discovered graphic design in all its glory, slightly by chance, whilst trying to edit a website very kindly built for me by a friend, to display the handmade, personalised gifts that I have been crafting (albeit slowly and rather painfully when repeat orders often meant that I became a one-woman factory production). My amazing cousin, Melissa Ditson created the graphics and Paddy set up the website using a content management system (CMS) so that I could edit the site, but even with the CMS, I was still bugging him constantly for more edits, and eventually I decided that I should bite the bullet and learn how to code – perhaps with a bit of graphic design knowledge thrown in too, having admired Lissa’s work so much.
So last September I enrolled on a coding course at Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning, and what started as a short course in something I thought would be useful seems to have become a passion for graphic design. I’ve followed up my first introduction into the digital world with Level 1 courses at Westminster Adult Education in web design and graphic design, and I’m definitely not ready to stop now.
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