Assignment one – Introducing yourself.
As I write this I already feel like I am way behind on my work already! As I said in one of my earlier blog posts I have the fear very much of failing or bad things happening! Anxiety very much creeps in! I have been struggling with time lately.. I have been reading, watching tutorials, making notes, sketching, brainstorming, getting inspired! juggling 2 jobs, trying to stay visible to the outside world and maintaining a social life!.. Almost 3 weeks in I think it’s time to put myself out there and show what I have been working on so far! – I have to admit getting to grips with wordpress and how I want to lay my blog out has taken a massive chunk of the limited time I have had! What I can say though is that what I have done so far I have really enjoyed! At home I have created my own little sanctuary to escape and create and so far I have some great ideas (I think!) that I can’t wait to develop! It’s Easter holidays for me now and 2 weeks to dedicate solely on my first assignment!
Trying to take people through your mindset and thoughts can be exhausting and sometimes it is difficult to communicate a thought process to someone who is completely unfamiliar with who you are and what you are all about! .. therefore I have included sketches from my learning log sketchbook! I have to say when I started I was totally confused as to what I should put in here but now I absolutely love this book already! 🙂
The first pages of this which I shall show you first basically explore around the ideas of who I am; my core values, morals and beliefs and then explore more into who I am in appearance and who I am in relation to my likes/dislikes/favourite places etc. As I wrote and sketched these thoughts I thought to myself “How do people see you and how would you like strangers to see you?” I have played very much on my nickname and the first things people think and see when they look at me. Barbie, blonde and pink. I do not want it however to look materialistic and narcissistic and purely based on aesthetics. I have toyed around the Barbie idea, the fact that it is “girl empowered” and she can be “whoever she wants to be” . I have explored colours, the meaning behind certain colours. I have taken pink as a colour and developed into further ideas for my blog name and any potential text that I might want to appear on my postcards. I have explored around the idea of a “series” of postcards, repetition and continuation. Type is another big influence I want to put on my postcards; I have studied tutorials and already started to form ideas around what I might want to create in my designs.
LA is one of my favourite places in the world, I want to include this somewhere in one of the postcards. I have attempted to scribble down initial ideas and played with words and names.
I wanted my first pages of my learning log sketchbook to be engaging; not only to me but also to anyone who wishes to look through it and get a better understanding into my mindset. I have included things I have collected which inspire me and give me ideas. I have looked into Ideograms and certain designers who used this into their own branding.
After completing the first few pages of my first initial ideas and thoughts I now have an idea where I want to head for my designs and postcards. I now plan on starting some sketchbook pages and developing these ideas further!
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