With New Designers coming up rapidly there has been much fretting about who is doing what and who is designing what. With myself and a few others being on an internship at Samsung it has proved hard to keep things consistent.
After much arguing through many emails I have decided to defer my vote to someone else as it’s getting heated. Just need someone to make a creative decision who is higher up in the hierarchy than we are.
Forgetting all of that stuff, I have redesigned my website, business card and all pdf documents and updated my ‘brand’ since doing that for the final degree exhibition. I changed the colour to 100% Magenta instead of orange but kept the same font The portfolio section is now up with proper descriptions, pictures and styling (with some more projects to come when I get a chance).
My business card can be seen below and yes I am aware that the back of the card has the wrong corners rounded in the image.
While at Samsung I noticed that my new website design did not look correct in IE6 (no surprise there then) so I spent some time correcting some CSS problems. No sooner than I had done that than I tried it in Safari and it failed even more to display correctly. Read more…
After reading a post on one of the many design sites I follow I decided to try and create my own. I was hoping to come up with something new and exciting like the ones I had seen but thought it best to keep it simple. After all the best design is often the simplest.
So I need some feedback. My website name needs to be changed as well as my YouTube to allow for design consistency but here is the preliminary design.
The cards are double sided. Read more…
I love new things. I love shiny things. I get distracted and I always start a re-design and then never actually finish or implement is because I find some new inspiration and try to do that.
Recently I had to create a paper portfolio and went for a simple way to convey my projects with as little distraction as possible. Unfortunatleyit ended up looking a bit corporate but I would not have been happy with the final result anyway as I like things to be perfect. And lets not mention the “best” printer in college apparently has very poor colour reproduction of blues *sad face*. Read more…
Here are a few more images showing a few more refined areas of the proposed blog design. The main blog page now has extra items on the left at an angle which will need to be images and have a image map to create links. Then there is a more detailed side bar for the photography section. With the image mapping involved in this design it means it will be even less able to translate into a Wordpress theme than the current design.
When CSS 3.0 is relseased and browsers accept the standards, I will be able to create the slanted text effect without using images and so will be able to turn it into a dynamic menu and therefore a theme. Unless I’ve changed the design again… which is more than likely!
This is a concept for a new blog design. I don’t know if I will have time to finish the concept and put it into action but after a few comments by Daniel O’Connell relating to a similar looking piece of work, I decided to prototype a few bits. I still need to show how images will look, YouTube videos, links, tags, tag cloud, blogroll, search box and comments. Also I want to tailor this to include my latest Flickr uploads (possibly in the photography section) and my twitter feed, something I didn’t do in my current theme as I didn’t know I was going to use them as much as I have.
I will keep working on it and post up a more polished picture in another post.
Here are the results, comments are welcome.
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I have been trying to come up with a design for an offline portfolio. Here are a few pages from the latest concept. I created them in illustrator and not in InDesign as I have done previously as I seem to get on better with Illustrator.
Let me know what you think.
Every year my Dad and his friends head of to Le Mans to watch the 24 hour race and every year they do something to make it fun. They all drive fancy super-cars and always get a lot of attention so they always like to take advantage of that.
Last year I made up some signs for them reading “Lamborghini parking only, all thers will be towed” replacing Lamborhini with the respective car’s logo. I made them using a vinyl cutter my Dad got me a few years ago.
This year he wants to do something again, so he came to me with an idea which I have turned into a reality.
After looking at the logo for a test-pilot society he wanted to create his own with drivers. So the ’society for experimental and high-performace vehicle test drivers’ was born.
