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.

CV

I wanted to keep my CV clean and simple like my business card. I used the same colours to keep consistency. 

Possible Finished Business Card

Yellow line = Safe Zone

Red line = Trim Line

Blue line = Full Bleed

I decided to go with orange as my main colour because it was the one colour which had meanings linked to my brainstorm about me. I also felt like the black and orange was a good combination and helped it stand out.

I chose to just use the outline of the elephant so that it was not so defined, I also decided to keep only the head of the elephant within the trim line. I felt this gave it a less obvious feel so that it did not end up taking over the card. At first I was not sure about the uneven lines of the elephant but now I actually like it.

Personal Blog

I have created a personal blog as I have not yet been able to set up my own website. This is temporary but I have done the best I can to set it out as though it were my own website.

http://katfitzpat.blogspot.co.uk

I have also set up a separate email address to link to the blog.

Business Card Ideas

Rounded edge business card with logo and full name. Still not sure I like having my whole name on the front.

Trying out the logo with texture - when printed it was not as effective.

Originally the back of the card just had my contact details on but I felt this did not say much about what I can do - decided to add a strip of key words.

Rounded edge business card with logo and shortened name. Elephant still has texture which I like, but only on screen (shame!). Definitely prefer the shortened name.

Back detail with texture - does not look as good as on elephant.