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3 Nov 2015 - Dolores
RGB FOR WEB IMAGES
CMYK FOR PRINTED IMAGES
Web Presence
Having own website is becoming obsolete
Google searches ought to bring up a
homepage/site that shows your illustrations
Dolores is setting herself up as an illustrator
at the moment so paralleling with us.
Scribing - visualising for business,
illustrators (Dan roam.com) taking
meeting minutes in pictures.
By visualising things is an aid to learning.
Domain name is yours forever as long as you keep
up the payments.
grundini.com
Peter Grundi illustrator.
ravenphelps.com Dolores' web address.
The "cloud" visual metaphor for the
Internet, we don't think about the warehouses around the world full of servers
and hard drives...
A domain is a name/signpost, points to where
your data is kept, the hosting, they are linked.
When you upload a file, they are stored
somewhere in a cloud on a server.
Some of these hosting sites cost £££, some
don't.
D recommends paying for two years so you don't
forget to renew it.
Tumblr is a great way to have a website and you
can use your domain name, cheap and reliable. Can point my domain name to any
of my social networking pages from GoDaddy.
Links will be on moodle.
Online portfolio services: Portfoliobox,
carbonmade, weebly. - look for reviews of ease of user interface. Portfoliobox
has excellent reviews, mostly photographers, but illustrators do use it. Cargo,
you have to be invited to use it, very prestigious as you have to be selected
to be on it. Indexhibit, Tom Gould uses this one, clean and simple. CMS - content
management system. Can synchronise all your stuff, Facebook, tumblr, website
etc. Look at Adobe Behance on Creative Cloud...Foliodrop has free domain
pointing. Creative cloud has Behance Pro for free.
Coroflot - people looking to hire illustrators
look here, illustration cupboard - Helen Ward uses this one. krop.com. patrion.com? kickstarter.com
Olio cover competition can be submitted
for this module.
And need to do a little button self portrait for
contents page of Olio.
300dpi cmyk convert to RGB for web images.
Web address & email address
Task : Research into different hosting /portfolio
site /domain name configurations.
Getting a domain name - needed for Olio - make it
businesslike, simple, name-based
Pros and cons of the “bespoke domain” – as opposed
to a free one
Pro : have your own transferable identity
EG if you change your host the domain address
doesn’t change, the SEO all still works, etc
(What is SEO? Search Engine Optimisation)
Con: you often can’t apply your domain name to a
portfolio site without paying
Hosting: the cloud
Domain name: the signpost – points to the hosting,
but can point to somewhere else as you change your websites
The domain can only point to one site at any one
time!
Domain registration services:
123reg.com . Easier to buy the two together at
first.
Portfolio sites :
Portfoliobox – Free domain?
Foliodrop – free domain??
Carbonmade
Cargo collective
Squarespace
Wix
Weebly
Virb
Networkng websites:
Behance ProSite – Linked to Behance network.
Krop
Coroflot
Dribble
DeviantArt
Social media is becoming larger in terms of P&P
than your site; however you should have a good, clean portfolio site as a “base
camp” and somewhere that will be trawled by search engines.
Portfolio review sites: (look for
more reviews)
Crowdfunding websites
Patreon.com
Kickstarter.com
9 Nov 2015
Branding and business cards
Packaging analysis
Waitrose Cup Soup
Slimline label design gives illusion of
slimness, large lettering for calorie count. Basic Waitrose own brand colour
scheme/fonts "LoveLife" healthy option impression. Font suggests
quick to prepare, hand written.
Ainsley Harriot Cup Soup
Strongly branded busy composition. Strong logo,
photo of Ainsley with his signature. Black background looks slick/classy. 19x name appears. Male
audience, colour palette similar to Linx. Calories appear on front, photo of
vegetables.
Business card seminar. An interesting session looking at the enormous variety of designs and card formats and materials available. It was particularly interesting to see previous students business cards.
We also discussed the importance of a business card and production and looked at some samples and websites. I definitely prefer the cards with illustrations samples on them, and have decided that this is what I would like to do with mine.
We also discussed the importance of a business card and production and looked at some samples and websites. I definitely prefer the cards with illustrations samples on them, and have decided that this is what I would like to do with mine.
17 Nov 2015 Dolores
Online printers. This was an interesting workshop, sadly I completely miss the point of the exercise and approached the task from the wrong angle! We world in groups and had to compare the pros and cons between a supplied list of printing services, from mugs, to tea towels and mobile phone covers. Our group was assigned t-shirts. I thought that we would be able to find cheaper alternative company to use for mass production, but alas, this was not the point. It was meant to be assessing them as suitable platforms for promoting your illustration work.
This is the list:
Portfolio box vs Foliodrop
London book fair - publishers portfolio workshop
Social media and digital platforms
Network: Behance vs DeviantArt
Print on demand: society6 vs
Ecommerce shop bigcartel vs shopify
Print 2 :
Skreened vs spreadshirt
DaWanda vs Storenvy
Http:tanyadraws.blogspot.co.uk
http://thehellolovely.com
9 Dec 2015 George
A fun workshop today with a Christmas theme no less!
As groups we had to design a Christmas Card, A Christmas GIF and a branded loyalty card from a brief supplied by George who posed as a new client with a new company. Our was a new, modern coffee bar with minimalist decor, organic coffee and cakes. We discussed and brainstormed all three ideas as a group then dived into 3 pairs to produce the 3 jobs, meeting at intervals to feedback and discuss further. These were the outcomes. It was great working as a team, ideas grew quickly and dynamically, we were constructive and well balanced.
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| Storyboard for the GIF |
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| Christmas Card |
16 Dec 2015 Dolores & George
Christmas homework: to work through the little handbook lovingly produced and supplied by George to assist with this module. A very informative comprehensive document, thanks George ;0)
Olio Cover Competition
Think about design ideas and complete by 4th Jan.
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| Olio 11 - The Eleventh Hour Cover Design - final submission Kitty Skye 2016 |
17th Feb 2016 - Dolores & George
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