Goals 2010/2011

I can't believe it. It's been almost 5 years since I left high school. Crazy ey? I'm 21 years old and I'm at the stage where I'm starting to reflect on my life. People are getting married, engaged, working full time, going overseas to work...it's so. old. Seems like it was yesterday that I had my first day of orientation at uni and now I've completed my Honours degree, 4 years like that. Sounds like a mid year crisis? Quarterly crisis lol? But I think it's about time I set new goals for myself. Hopefully I won't age in the process as I figure out what I want my 2011 to be.

Things to looks forward to this summer/holiday/til I find a job...
-JAPAN AND HK (FEW MORE WEEKS!!!)
-Creating my own portfolio website
- Probious branding job *refer to meanwhile blog >
-Completing my portfolio
-NEW YEARS YEA!
x Getting an ABN (done!)
-Submit illustration tearsheet to Jacky Winters
-Complete Munny for KK
-Finish Peter's illustration job
-Sell off my major project cards
-DESIGN 9-5 JOB PLEASE

Here's a job I completed a few weeks back. I think pixel art may be a style I'm picking up (it's meant to be animated)
Congrats to Bec and Angus :)

Knock Knock

I was at work today and came across these products by Knock Knock. The post it's are really clever as it pretty much takes the words from your mouth and puts it on a post it.

"Knock Knock seeks to integrate art and commerce—creating original, authentic, noncynical products that support themselves in the marketplace so that we don’t have to deal with “clients.”"

I've noticed a lot of stationery companies are starting to think about the function of things and how they communicate with their target audience. Typo is starting to have a lot of quirky/crazy/crude stuff lol. Funny how their logo looks like kikki except they are more wit less swiss.

Sketch Moodboard

Finally finished my Jap elective HOORAH! Now major project time~

Decided to cut out and collate all my images together. I was quite surprised I had so many! I chose the best ones to categorize and took photos of my mood board. My room has the worst lighting so please forgive the sepia hues!

IOU. I remember a friend of mine used to count everything by PHO, cause it's so damn cheap ;)


Good luck


Random statements


Get well soon


Sorry


Thanks


Thinking of you


Mean yet nice


Advice

I think cutting these images out and categorizing it really gave me a clearer idea of what I want to achieve and how I can expand these designs into other products. Stay tuned for more :)

Research #6

I had a discussion with the class last week and they suggested that my brand could expand outside of cards. Pete suggested that I should design things that were another alternative to communicating with people.

Some ideas they had were:
-Post It's
-Ipod application
-MMS
-Email E greeting
-Postcards
-Emoticons
-IOU coupons
-Magnets

I think the post it's would be a great idea as people can post it on their computers, fridges, notice boards to communicate with the next person who sees it. Here's some images I collated for post its:

Research #5

October update:
For the past few weeks I've been pretty much been coming up with concepts for cards and not so much the stylization of the drawings. I've been a bit lost on how to draw them, but I think the best way for me to execute this is to not limit myself to a certain style. I like to design things according to the brief, so my illustration style tends to change a lot. I've gathered some images which I thought would best capture my ideas- focusing on how the illustrator has captured the characters personality.

Research #4

Had a killer week with the first part of my Jap Exam so I've kinda been neglecting my card blog for the past few days (will get onto it tomorrow though). Things I will focus on next week:
- card materials (trip to paper point)
- start finalizing my designs
- finesse my sketches
- figure out good prices
- investigate gocco machine

Peter said I should charge them cheap but mass produce it like crazy. Nice cards are pretty expensive and since my cards aren't really used for a particular occasion, people may be more willing to buy them cause they look cool (therefore buy more! hopefully....) Definitely something worth thinking about :)

Oh here's some friendly typography I found by 'steph says hello'. Not sure if it's for cards, but it would be really cool if it was!

Cards #1

Interesting cards I found which had quirky illustrations and quotes on it :) My favourite is the kitten pack. The quotes are amusing but the cats are so serious haha

Research #3

Illustrations by Lauren Gregg.

I like how she characterized her animals as geeks and how each character has a designated colour. I can imagine these as cards...somewhat similar to my style B)

Research #2

Hrm 2 posts in one night.

I've been contemplating buying a gocco machine for this project.

Only problems are:
$$$$$$
Ink is bound to run out
Apparently the bulbs give u cancer...(as long as you don't touch it!)
It will have to be an awesome design for me to mass produce it (will my designs be in demand?)

Other than that, it looks really fun :D Plus I can keep it forever and use it for other stuff.

Here's some gocco pieces I found:

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