Friday 23 March 2012

Self Promotion - Website

I got my cargo site up and running so I have a platform to put up my work for others to see. It also is somewhere I can now direct people to if they would like to see my work.

The link is:
http://cargocollective.com/kirstyhair

This is how it looks:

 The projects pages pop up in a separate box with a slideshow of the images and a brief summary of the project.

The projects included at the moment are:
-Fedrigoni Imaginative Colours - YCN brief
-Firefly Restaurant - self initiated
-M&S Plan A - YCN brief
-LCA Graduation - self initiated - pitch
-Devilicious Ice-Cream parlour - self initiated

I will add more projects from my FMP once they are completed, but for now I have included a good range of different briefs.

Monday 5 March 2012

Stop being so boring

Here are a few key points from the Snask manifesto. Read them, learn them, hate them and, in the end, understand them and love them:

If you don’t like your work, quit 
If you love someone, let it show 
Generosity always pays itself back 
Always smile when you talk to an
annoying person on the phone 
If you want to be a rock star, don’t
study graphic design 
Talk with clients in the same way that
you talk to your family, friends and pets 
Social skills are as important as
knowing how to set type and spell 
See people as people, not target groups 
Just because you wear a black suit, it
doesn’t mean you’re successful 
Having enemies is good and necessary 
Work hard for your clients: it pays off 
If you look too cute, smile 
Luck doesn’t exist: don’t be lazy 
Learn typography, it’s not optional 
Keep it simple, not tedious


Opinion
Freddie Öst

Computer Arts February 2012