Website proposal://

As part of my personal & professional development, I intend to develop and produce my own website that would act as my online portfolio. This will be used in conjunction with the branding and the business cards that will be proposed. The main aim of the website would essentially be to promote myself as a practising graphic designer in the UK, it will also be useful when contacting designers and design studios for potential work placement opportunities.

For the website, I will plan to include a selection of my design work to demonstrate the range, skills and type of design work I'm into. Contact information, links to my blogs and information about myself as a graphic designer will also be available.

As I am not too confident with using Adobe Dreamweaver yet, I plan to use Indexhibit as the initial setup of my website, before gradually customising elements of it through Dreamweaver.

Mockups://
Developed a few mockups on roughly how I want the website to look and function. I want the emphasis to be on the range of work I have produced to demonstrate my multidisciplinary design practice. Each selected project will be displayed as black & white thumbnails, all loaded up at the same time so reduce the amount of time people will have to wait to load every page all the time. A description of the project will appear when users hover their cursor onto the image, and when clicked, a lightbox with the range of images will appear.

Team Impressions visit://

Trip to Team Impression today was a valuable experience, going from the booking office to the print and finishing workspaces. We were shown around by Peter Crowson who is the Managing Director of Team Impression Ltd who pretty much gave us a tour and explained to us the process from receiving a job, to preparing a metal plate to printing and applying quality finishes to add value to their products. A small group of us were able to witness and get a taste of what it's like to get our work printed, whether they're a small one off prints to large scale high end publications.

Saw some really nice work being printed, and was amazed by the speed and scale of print activity going on. The trip was definitely worth the taxi trip out and missing a few hours of college, definitely something to keep in mind when it comes to getting work printed in the future.