Finally! It’s printed, finished, and has taken pride of place in my portfolio! Here are the final photos for The Abley Family Tree:
Jess Abley
Graphic Design – Photography – Inspiration
The Crystal Goblet.
As I’m about to graduate, I’ve currently been fixing up my portfolio ready for interviews (which may hopefully lead to potential job offers … ?) and recently re-designed a piece that I did in 1st year called ‘The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible’ by Beatrice Warde. The original piece can be found back in my posts from 2009/2010, but I felt that I could update my work and make it better. The images below show the new version, complete with glitter embossing (girly graphics at it’s finest!):
Final Major Project.
For my last big project of my course we were given an open brief. It was infact, so open that we could pick and choose our theme too! So I decided to focus around the idea of happiness. I wanted to answer to number of personal questions like; ‘What makes me happy?’.
The idea of happiness is something that we confront everyday, and it’s something that usually subconsciously we strive to achieve. It’s been part of our ‘humanity’ since before even psychology itself was discovered, and has puzzled the human race for a multitude of years.
I handed out around 210 cards asking people what happiness is and them collated them into 3 separate ‘books’, which are named after 3 categories of happiness; Joy and Pleasure, Wellbeing and Satisfaction, and Success and Fulfilment.
Below you can see the outcome of my research and design work, any comments and feedback would be appreciated:
Graze Box Redesign.
It’s done! The redesign for my graze box to enter into the YCN Student Awards has been packaged, photographed and sent off to be judged, it’s all very exciting! If I’m honest I’m not convinced that my designs are strong enough to win, but it’s an experience and I’ve never competed with my work before, so now seems to be a good time. Here you can see some photographs of the box:
Finished(ish) Family Tree.
Tadah! The finished version is ready to head to the printers, and I’ve had requests from various family members for a copy which is pretty flattering. The mystery of the ‘weird colours’ has also been solved, thanks to a comment on a previous post, so all is good really.
