PPD; Scavenger hunt

In this PPD session we had to walk around farringdon look for graphic design agencies. The aim was to find information out about them, talk to a graphic designer that worked their, collect business cards and also find out how their career started once they had graduated, and also how to find work experience and what is the best way to stand out and get noticed. I found this day out very useful as it gave me an insight in what it would be like working in a graphic design studio and how i could find a career in the industry.

PPD; Researching Industry.

In this session we had to research design companies and find information about them. the first task was to list as many design company's that we could think of, this showed us how many design companies we knew, which wasn't alot at first. In the second task we was given a web address of an design companies that we had to look at and find  other design companies that were on the design companies web site. The website we was given was www.dandad.org or D&AD. From this website we found 3 more design companies; Pentagram, Y&R (young and rubican) and big active. From this we had to do more research in to these 3 companies, see what work they produce, who their clients are and the style they work in. The idea of this task was to get us to start researching in to company's more to help us find a work placement. The final task was to list ways of getting a work placement in these companies.



Our list of way to get a work placement.



Letter Press Workshop: 200 prints finsihed



Me and sacha finished all the 200 prints in under 3hours. During this time we learnt the processes of letter press, how to position our layout of that it printed correctly, how to ink the letterpress machine and how to place the paper on the letterpress machine correctly and how to work the letterpress machine correctly, using all the buttons, leavers and pedals.



letterpress machine







Some of our 200 finsihed prints.





A close up of one print.



Over all I have really enjoyed this workshop and have found that it will be useful for future reference.











The Brief

We have received our first brief, we had to roll a dice 3 time to choose our client, message and our target audience. My groups brief is: You are asked to produce and present a piece of graphic design and supporting research that meets the requirements of a client, communicates a particular message and meets the needs of a target audience. You should use a dice to determine which client, message and target audience combination you work with. Our client is a cultural organisation, the message is help others and our target audience is inner city 15-20 year olds.