Designated Designing

So now that a few sessions with my designer are complete things are well under way to completing the portfolio. With December just round the corner it is not long before my logo, portrait, business card template and end of year poster to be over the half – way line. Since the original idea of “The Meters” end of year project now binned I have now been focussing on my new project of “Jamiroquai”. Since this change I have began analysing attributes and album covers of the band to get a feel for the type of artwork I’ll be using for my project. Aside from this the main objective is photography and either later on in the week or the beginning of next snap shots will start! I have many ideas to bring to the table and I’m sure my designer has the same!

Portfolio number 2!

Since the last presenting a portfolio lecture I have improved extensively on my knowledge of the outline of the course and productively progressed with ideas and topics with my designer. Now that I have completed the proposal and other small tasks with my designer we have began brainstorming ideas for my logo. I feel that the logo is an important part of my portfolio and so this week was mainly spent on ideas for my logo and what key attributes it should contain. I felt that it had to be slightly personnel and give the impression that I am a drummer/musician and so with this in mind we experimented with ideas on musical notation, drums and drum sticks to see the possibilities of fitting them in to my signature logo. In the end we managed to conclude on three or four possible logos that my designer will experiment with over the week to see the possibilities. Aside from that work has also began on business cards, posters and CD/DVD covers however with the time we have till deadlines, there is no rush!

It begins!

So, we are now two weeks into the module presenting a Personnel Portfolio and I have already joined up with my designer to begin working on ideas to promote myself and the up and coming gig for both my ensemble and individual project. I have been keeping in touch with my designer and attempting to give her as broad a spectrum of my likes and dislikes when it comes to photography and design. There is still a great deal of areas I am not sure about but I’m hoping that with help from my designer and constant research I shall gradually become more confident with ideas. It is still early days though and there is still a lot I will have to research to help to pull off as professional a portfolio as possible. After meeting with my designer it seemed a possibility to work together further afield than my end of year gig and hopefully assist on publicising and designing my out of college band that has begun. This is still in the proposal stage but is something I hope to work together on. Well that’s about it for this week. An update shall follow in a week!