Digital Portfolio

MMU’s graphic design programme has everything I want in a course. The development of both digital and traditional skills alongside the opportunity to embark on a placement. After a visit to the open day I was impressed with the calibre of the tutors. I’m currently working on an extended diploma which I am enjoying and succeeding at however, in order to reach my potential as a graphic designer, I feel I need to be taught by working graphic designers with industry background. I feel my key strengths as a designer are in experimenting with techniques and creative thinking, which is reflected in the eclectic nature of my portfolio. 

Alongside my college schedule I am also in a band , work one night in a busy restaurant kitchen and work voluntarily at a charity shop. This requires me to be both well organised and to employ multi tasking skills. 

The work I have submitted below is a collection of both personal and college work. 

Both of these design solutions were for my typography project, which explored type layout and letter forms. I like to believe I showed some diversity as a designer as both pieces were very different, one being illustrative and digital based and the other being 3D modelling and photography based.

This is the banner I produced for my blog which incorporates a logo I created on illustrator.

Both of these are posters produced in my personal time for local gigs. In both cases I entered a poster competition for this to used as the official promotional material, and on both occasions I won.

Both of these are posters created in my personal time as I wanted to experiment with reflecting two opposite views while changing as little as possible on the poster itself. In this case I was trying to create a pro-religion and an anti-religion poster just by changing the arrangement of what was used for the first I created.

This is a set of prints I made using a collograph plate. I quite like the unpredictability of the colour's after using several single colour prints. 

These 2 pieces were created in visual studies lessons. As a designer, I feel it is important to hold on to traditional means rather than relying totally on digital means. 

This is the final outcome from our nature inspired design brief, which simultaneously looked at the design development cycle. The background image was drawn in oil pastel, and the logo was constructed in illustrator. I tried to combine both traditional and digital methods to produce this poster advertising a surf and music festival. I wanted a balanced and slick style to give the festival a more modern feel to it, which is also shown in the bands chosen to appear.