It's been pretty quiet across here, again but the reason for that if you do not know is because I've been prepping for getting my dissertation and honours projects finished and submitted. And also getting things ready for my degree show...

Two years ago you may remember I shared my College End of Year Exhibition in which I shared my stand and wrote a lil bit about the opening night and the details for attending, so it makes sense to do the same for my Uni Degree show too. 

On Tuesday, my friend, Steph and I decided that we would head along to the Gray School of Art Degree Show to have a nosy at all the work on show this year. I particularly wanted to go along as I was hoping that seeing all the different work would maybe help generate ideas for my show next year whether that's my actual work, or how I set up my area or something else entirely! 

But anyway, we had a look round all the different areas of the degree show which includes; Commercial Photography, Communication Design, Contemporary Art Practice, Fashion & Textile Design, Painting and 3D/Product Design. Although I'm a design student and so should find the Communication Design the most interesting, the two areas that took the crown for me was the Painting and Contemporary Art Practice. These two areas were soooo diverse and left me coming away with so many ideas of things I just want to try out for myself! 

Overall, I really loved seeing all the different work on show and for the first Gray's one I have been to I really need to make sure I get to more of them in the future as it was incredible! Also apologies for no info about who the artist/designer was! In the whole scheme of things I got to excited to take notes of people, so if you know one of them let me know.

If you fancy visiting the exhibition yourself it's on till the 27th so there's still a couple days left! 

Next weeks vlog will feature some work that hasn't been shown in this post but in the mean time check out my latest one here. 

On Tuesday night the show kicked of at Aberdeen College! It was a pretty awesome night even thought it was extremely warm and packed. 

After last weeks updates, I have received my business cards and have the keyrings finished with hoops intact! I've also had a few little bits and pieces made for displaying these and the other promotional pieces but I'll share that later. It's been a hectic week but I'm so excited for the show now!

This blog post is to share the designs for my business cards and CV. At the moment I haven't fully finished the letterhead due to the fact I've been busy with other bits and bobs. I'm also not going to include my promotional pieces just yet! But if you've been following me on instagram/twitter you would have already seen them!

This entry is to do with my self branding again! This one shares more of my computer development that I done throughout the past few weeks and my final logo! I will hopefully get to implementing this design on this blog once college is finished but in the mean time- enjoy!

Another little update on my book covers! I have to admit I have slightly fallen behind with this but I will just share my kind of development of my designs on illustrator and the current design of them.

It's been a while since I've shared any updates on this blog about my College work. But if you have been looking at my instagram/twitter you would have seen that I have been doing some stuff -and stressing about it! In this entry I'll be sharing the sketchy bits and bobs of me self initiated 

So far I haven't really shared much to do with my self branding and such but that's been due to me focusing on my self initiated brief slightly more to be honest! 

In my usual fashion, I started with some mind maps! The first one I done was just a general kind of one for the different types of techniques and situations I could use for the covers.

Since last week I've managed to get a little further on with my projects for my End of Year Exhibition. On Monday I finished my report based on different Graphic Design Trends- which featured things like 3D printing, Adobe Cloud and Laser Printing. 

I also decided what I was going to do for my brief. If you had been keeping up with my on twitter this week you may have seen that for my project I've decided to combine my two majors loves- books and design. Obviously I had to do something with the later but I've always wanted to design a book cover or something so felt this would be the perfect time to try it!

After deciding on this it meant deciding on which genre of book I was going to do.With most of my read books being of the Young Adult or Fantasy genre I initially felt that this would be the way to go. The first book I thought of to do was The Book Thief, as this is one of my recent reads. After speaking to my lecturer she suggested that I should do more than one book so that a collection would be created. 

After a bit of brain storming I have came up with three books that are going to be used in the collection. The first obviously being The Book Thief. Since I have already read The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas I felt this would be a good one to include. The last one was one I came across on GoodReads which is Code Name Verity. I picked up copies of the last two yesterday so I can have a refresher of TBITSP and to actually read Code Name Verity.