Exhibition Opening Night and Personal Learning

It was great to see everyone together with their work. The evening was slow to start but it did pick up about an hour before the end. The people there were mainly friends and family but it was still nice for them to see others pieces of work. It was disappointing that none of the businesses that had been contacted turned up be it may turn out that they come later in the week. All in all I think it went well and I am proud of everyone who worked hard to put it together.

Even though most of the modules have involved working as a group, I have never had to work with as large a groups this before. We were split into teams but ultimately it was everyone who had the final decision on things. This meant pleasing 19 other people which is difficult to do. There were a few negative opinions in the group but conflicts were resolved and matters dealt with.

As part of the exhibition team it involved being organised and on top of what needed to be done. Helen was the perfect leader for the group as she is extremely organised. I feel she maybe felt it difficult to delegate tasks but everyone in the group was responsible enough to take on tasks themselves or support Helen by helping her with tasks.

I learnt that the amount of work that goes into an exhibition far exceeds what I expected. It is not until one thing is done that you realise something else needs to be addressed. Once everything is done though it is worth it to see your work displayed and noticed by others.

I have really enjoyed this module however I do feel the week of the exhibition would have been better a week later as this was the week of everyones hand ins.

Exhibition Vinyl Bowls

I came across a video online which shows you how to turn vinyl records into bowls. I thought this would be ideal for the sweets we will be giving out at the exhibition. I spoke to Helen and it was agreed that I would make some:

The vinyls were purchased from a local charity shop. They were placed on top of an oven proof dish and put in the oven for 2 minutes.

Once out of the oven it was pushed down into a large bowl and moulded to give shape.

Portfolio Work

Below are the chooses pieces of work that I chose to put in my portfolio. They mainly consist of photography and Photoshop work that I have done as this is where my best skills lie:

Portfolio Ideas

My portfolio idea consisted of creating business card sized examples of my work to then display so that they fanned out:

Ref: http://www.popupmailers.co.uk/promotional_article.php

To be able to do this design I needed to find quotes from companies who would eyelet the business cards. After contacting different companies I had a quote for £859. This was beyond my student budget and so I thought of ways to do this myself.

Eyeleting machines can be bought from lots of different retailers:

Ref: http://signworld.en.china.cn/selling-leads/detail,1079427130,grommet-machine.html

I watched and read many things on how to eyelet and considered giving it a trial run. However, when I went to order my business cards I came across this:

This is a business card holder which fans out. It did not work in the same way that I had hoped but I felt with the time given it could work.

I idea would be to place one of my business cards either side of the middle slot to show both sides and then insert my portfolio in the middle.

New CV

After discussing my CV with Mariana, a few changes were made:

In the Post...

Today my business cards arrived with a few little extras which should help with the coming together of my portfolio. I am pleased with the outcome and relieved that there were no mistakes!

Invites

Stephen brewers had been designing the invites, a few adjustments were done by myself to change the date and Anglia Ruskin logo. These were sent out to the list of companies. Anna also helped with this task by sending some out to other companies she had found.