Interactive Portfolio

We are designing a interactive portfolio for the year show where people can browse for your previous work. We will need everyone to send in portfolio work just like what you did for portfolio and career development.

Id suggest sending in the best work per project and talk about it (don't write an essay, they'd want to have a quick look and move to the next one), send in up to 5 pieces of work (amended from 10) send them as jpeg and description in word doc, and all in one zip folder, do not send as PDF. I need it ASAP so we can get it done over the weekend. Year show is not far away now.

Banner Free Range Portfolio Updated

We need more work from you guys for the banners at the Free Range space, the REQUIREMENTS are 300dpi, CMYK, 44.67cm x 109.87cm (new size) but obviously this is a huge image so if you can send in separate files of your best work in a zip folder (remember the limits for each email is 10mb so split it if its too big) and we'll use the best one or make a collage of it. Dont for get it HAS to be part of the work that will be displayed at the year show. Send to treatyourself10@gmail.com.

It will look something like this

Free Range has a portfolio page on their website that let you upload your work for potential employers and access to your profile to change stuff i.e change/update your emails and such.

Download this file which has hyper link to the log in page, follow the instructions and text me on 078.543.790.32 for your password.

DONT FORGET TO SEND OUT INVITES

Invites

Part of the Free Range requirements is that we have to send out minimum of 10 invitations per person to people from the industry. It can be both emailed or printed out and for that Josh has designed a generic invite for us all to use. It is compulsory for everyone to do this and also a chance to invite potential employers so dont miss out. Heres print ready PDF

your sweet

heres the link to the picture of the sweets on facebook James has kindly numbered. First come first serve, go to the link and write down the sweet number you want and make sure noone else had it already.

Changes to About Me and extra funding.

Due to the change from leaflet to A6 cards for the year show we have now got a limited amount of space on the card for the "About Me". We need everyone to redo/resize their About Me to no more than 600 characters (with spaces), we are now measuring it in characters not words. (Word - Tools - Word Count - Characters (with spaces). People who has done theirs below the required amount of characters still need to resend to the year show email so we can easily keep track. This will need to be done URGENTLY.

Also we need another £25 as a third instalment for the year show within 4 weeks time (end of April). This is because we are not doing any fund raising (i.e people are too busy with their work, not bothered etc.)

Urgent

Mike is doing a 3D layout of the Free Range space, this is to see what format of work goes where and we need EVERYONE to write to this email treatyourself10@gmail.com explaining what their final piece is going to be i.e installation, projector etc (based on the email from Janice for the Minor and D&aD). And we need this urgently, deadline is Thursday 24th March. If you don't then you'd be holding everyone back.

Also dont forget to send in work for the year show.

Work for Year Show

Above is the layout of our card which will represent each of us in the year show and like the pick 'n' mix sweets, people can pick and mix work that they like in the show. The card is a A6 size, left side (picture) is the front which will have our sweet and right side is the back with our work, "about me" and contact details on it. So we need everyone to start sending in jpeg of their work for this part of the card, and deadline is 2 weeks from today (Mon 21st March).

The work will need to have all of these requirements:

1. A6

2. 300 dpi

3. CMYK

4. JPEG

5. related to the work that will be displayed in the show i.e if your major is a book, the work need to be one of the images/pages.

(send in 1 image preferably, but can be more if need be.)

all work send to: treatyourself10@gmail.com

video of our Free Range space

Filmed by Josh.

"show schedule"

Schedule is right up to the last day of the show but contain mainly the design schedule, fundraisers and all the others will/might be added later. Here is the Schedule, to download the pdf click on File top-left of the page and select Download Original.

"about me"

For the About Me section in the book, everyone need to do one for themselves outlining their interests, who you inspired by and any other stuff that would sell you as a designer. All had to fit in 100 - 130 words and all had to be completed and sent to treatyourself10@gmail.com for proof read before we are back to Uni in January. Make sure you all meet the deadline, it shouldn't take long. This applies to Graphic Media group as well.

A new selection of sweets will be on here shortly to replace the black & white, brown, the boring ones and the ones that are too big for the section.

"week 4"

Deadline for show funding, first instalment of £25 is to be in on Monday 15th November (this is non refundable deposit), second instalment is in January.

Monday Meeting A month has gone and not much been done so Josh and Sean took the liberty and drafted a list of groups to speed things up.

Ideas Team Sean, Josh, Thanh, Sam, Ed, Helena

• Breaking pages
• Contents pages
• Sections?
• Group photos
• Maybe business card in book?
• Flyers, different mediums
• Bags?
• Packages to companies?
• T-shirts?
• Remove black and white sweets?

Design Team Sean, Josh, Alison, Helena

• Document set up
• Pages?
• Size - A4
• Flyers, map direction ect
• Body text? Gill Sans/ Helvetica?
• Logo Art working
• Layouts
• Pictures per page?
• Impositioning?

Photography James, Helena, Kai, Mariya

• Take pictures of sweets as a group
• Sweets on their own
• Lighting
• Organise photo shoot
• Images editing i.e sizing, colour adjustments, CMYK

Web Design Sean, Josh, Luciano, James, Thanh

• Wire frames
• Design...
• Pages
• Navigation
• User experience (UX)
• Flash/HTML?
• Content
• UCA attachment/ Link or stand alone site?

Screen Printing Sam, Ed, Stacey, Alice, Tom Stanley

• Bags
• T-shirts?
• Packages

Art Work James, Gemma, Helena

• Alignment
• Widow words
• Soft returns
• Font
• Font size
• 300 dpi
• CMYK
• Image Sizing

Proof reading Ed, Higgy, James

• Everyone's "About Me"
• Flyers
• Booklet
• Web

Organisers Thanh, Helena

• Make timetables so people ca hit their targets
• Stay on top of people to make sure they are getting the jobs done
• Group pictures
• Getting all contexts to designers
• Communion through Blog, Janice ect

Finance Luciano, Ed, Nicky

• Budget
• Books come first. See what's left over
• How many bags/ booklets/ flyers ect can we have?
• T-shirts/ Bags?
• Package to companies

- 10 ideas per person (30 people)

- Plus 30 from group = 330

- Post and packaging = roughly £2 each

- £2 x 330 = £660

- Worth it...No

- Alternative, just an invite.

Fundraising Open for volunteers

Creating bags of sweets/ Putting them together/ Every bag has a tag Everyone

Fundraising Ideas On going...

Any complaints send to Organisers (Thanh and Helena) through facebook, text etc.

Thanks Frankie Biggs (Graphic Media) for attending the meeting.

"space viewing and hightlights of monday's meeting"

Space viewing and the meeting with the organizer of Free Range on the 27th October went well and we've all agreed to go for the middle space T5, Hugh has gone ahead and booked it for us. Click here for photos, below is the layout.

Important The definite dates for the exhibition are the 8th to 15th of June, so book off work and devote all your time on these few days.
Exhibition Schedule
Wednesday 8th Setting up the exhibition 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9th Setting up the exhibition 9am - 6pm, Private view 6pm - 10pm
Friday 10th Public view 10am - 7pm
Saturday 11th Public view 10am - 7pm
Sunday 12th Public view 10am - 7pm
Monday 13th Public view 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 14th Packing up 9am - 7pm (needs to be clarify)
Monday's meeting We have talked about and agreed to have everyone paying £50 towards the show because it will ensure that we have the sufficient fund but also we'll do some fund raising for awareness of our exhibition. The £50 is divided into two installments of £25 (15th November and January)
For the show we need to invite 25 industry representatives (i.e magazine/graphic design companies) as a group and also individually invite 10+ representatives you'd want to work for using our pdf guide (coming soon).
We have also divided different tasks for the year show and would like everyone to be involved. Below is the list, by all mean join in the ones you like best but also try to spread yourselves out evenly so all the tasks get done.
Finance Kai, Luciano
Web Josh, Sean
Brochure Josh, Sean, Sam
Magazine Nick, Homaira?
Flyers Josh, Sean, Thanh
Posters Josh, Sean
T-Shirts Sam, Ed, Stacey
Proofing Ed, James

We will be talking to Mike Gibson? who has done exhibition design before so it would be good to get a professional opinion, and if anyone find a good exhibition don't hesitate to post it on here for everyone else.

Exhibition dates available at Free Range

"we have a name"

We all have decided that "treat yourself" is our name for end of year degree show, have a go at designing a logo for it. Below are topics of what we've spoken about at today's meeting.

Budget Hugh has told us today that the budget from Uni for our exhibition space at Free Range has gone up from £3000 to roughly £4000. He has also said that we should spend about £1000 on our Brochure and £500 on stuff for the actual event i.e food, drink for guests and other expenses which will need to be addressed nearer the time.

We also have 5 volunteers who would go to the Free Range space at Brick Lane to check out the space for us and their travel expenses will be reimburse from the Uni, anyone else who wants to go will have to pay from their own pocket.

List of Volunteers

Oda Regine

Thanh Nguyen

Sam Whetton

Kai Bohannon

Oli Osbourne

Pictures will be taken of the space and uploaded on here.

Important Exhibition date is the 8th June.

Fund Raising Ideas Think of more ideas for fund raising and post it on here.

Sangriá Party at SU bar - Bar owner agreed to let us rent out her bar for fund raising.

Slave Auction - Third year being hired as personal helper for first and second year for few hours or a day.

Bake Sell - Ed and Helena have volunteered for this roll.

Screen Print on canvas bags - Sell at Uni shop or other shops in town.

Adsense - Get paid from Google for traffic and advertisement through our website/blog ect.

Advertising - Rent out spaces on our brochure/website to companies.

Because of the name "treat yourself" we have relate ourselves to sweet. Over 30 names of sweets has been selected and picked out of a hat, each of the sweet will represent one of us and has been chosen at random, unless you can think of a sweet that you like better - it has to be unbranded and doesn't match any of the sweet chosen by other members of the group.

Names & Sweets

James MacIntyre - Egg

Stacey Rivers - Cherry

Sam Whetton - Flying Saucer

Cesare Serventi - Pink and Blue Bottle

Kai Bohannon - Banana

Alice Mutua - Ring

Nikki Harvey - Rhubarb and Custard

Nick Hostler - Crocodile

Gemma Hoskins - Heart

Helena Castle - Candy Floss

Sean McCarthy - Gummy Bear

Josh Gay - Jelly Tots

Oli Osbourne - Coke Bottle

Ed Stone - Jelly Bean

Thanh Nguyen - Candy Cane

Alison Gardiner - White Chocolate Mouse

Erica Newman - Liquerice Wheel

Oda Regine - Cola Cube

Michael Vince - Lollipop

Heens Chen - Prawn

Georgia Hendry - Humbug

Priya Sankhalpara - West Indian Lime

Laura Kirk - White Chocolate Fish

Mariya Petkova - Stick Rock

Lisa Bedelle - Babies Dummy

Daisy Redfern - Chocolate Lime

Jamie Farnish - Strawberry Laces

Homaira Kavde - Teeth

Higgy Gauden - Lips

Zhoufang - strawberry milkshake

Cecilie Amundsen - Ice Cream Cone

Glen Down - Dinosaur

Luciano Frige - Aniseed Twist

Tom Kucharski – Dolly Mix

Anna Nedelcheva - Gummi Butterfly

The next meeting will again be on Monday 1st October. Please attend.

"treat yourself"

"Treat Yourself" is another group name that Josh and Sean came up with recently. Have a go at analysing this name as well as the other names from the meeting on Monday. Josh has also thought that it would be good to see visuals mock ups for the names you have chosen and the reason why you choose it. What we could do is to put people who has chosen the same names into groups, for example, say there was top 4 names so there would be 4 groups pitching a name and concept each, hopefully by the end of the meeting we will get some results.

Anyone who would like to post ideas/concepts on to the blog need a google account. Here's how, go to blogger.com - click create new blog - sign up using your existing email (i.e yourname@hotmail.com), this will be registered as a google account. Send the email to Thanh or post it on here and I will add you to the admin list.

Group Meeting on 25th October at 5pm, please attend.

1st group meeting

Below are the names 16 of us have come up with today, three has the most votes are The Cook Book, Pixel/Pick Us All and Now for Something Completely Different. The other half of the class who couldn't/didn't turn up please have a look and have your inputs (comment below)

My Eye View

What Next?

On

10,000

Trix

New Angle

Umbrella

Elephant in the Room

P45

Forward Stroke/

Owl

Pick & Mix

Spectrum

Spark

Hatch

Delivery

The Interns

Spoilt for Choice

Soul Creation

Generation Now

Fresh Meat

The Cook Book

Enjoy

Beginning to Beginning

Pick Me

What Do You Think?

Now for Something Completely Different

Inspired

Reflect

Enigma

Euphoria

New Corners

D - Team

Ready & Waiting

Hungry

Imagine This

Just Imagine

New Perspective

Unlock

Uncover

Locked Out

Out The Bag

First Contact

Free Me

Shiny New

New Tricks

The Breakout

Fresh Creations

Jumpstart Visuals

The Mo Sho' Fo' Sho'

Light Bulb Transitions

Pixel/Pick Us All

UCmyAok (correct me if im wrong)

P.S just to remind you all that next Monday we are having another meeting with Hugh, similar time in the Graphics base room. please attend.

3rd year blog

First of all, we need a list of people who are interested in having the end of year show, comment on here and join the facebook page so we know. If there are over 50% of us then we should have it for the job opportunities as well as learning to presenting work in a public space.

Space will be rented from Free Range (check them out), uni will cover most of the renting expense but there are other expenses we need to cover for example, money to print out brochures, food and drinks for guests, travel and so if this year show happens we will need to contribute money towards it, some suggests giving in a pound each week, raise money by having events at the SU bar, sell of art work..ect. So if you have any good ideas please post it on here.

free range space in brick lane

pictures of other shows hosted by free range