Sacré Cœur & Pigalle, Paris
Nov 16.11 / Travel
Back in March I took a short break to Paris which was lovely! The usual standard tourist spots were visited, including Sacré Cœur. It was very picturesque, in fact, it reminded me of the background scenery from the Aristocats.
A Year In London
I don’t think time has ever gone so quickly before – it only recently occurred to me that I’d neglected writing anything for nearly a year and that I’ve pretty much fallen off the social media bandwagon altogether. There are probably many reasons for it, although I would say it’s mostly down to being on a computer all day, which means the last thing that I want to do is park myself in front of another screen when I get home.
However, after nearly a year of getting used to the pace of working full time as a designer, I’m not spending my evenings crashing out on my sofa and have actually been making the effort to do things outside of work. I seriously don’t think I’ve ever appreciated being able to do anything away from my screen as much as I do now.
So here’s a very brief recollection of the last year since graduating from Lincoln University:
During first placement at Felt I got the chance to work on the identity for Bee Me, an independent frozen yoghurt shop on Portobello Road. I wasn’t fortunate enough to stay until the end, but once it launched I took a trip down to Notting Hill Gate and I have to say it’s absolutely delicious. Definitely worth the hassle of fighting through the crowd of tourists!
Whilst at Studio8 Design I worked on a couple of issues of SHOP magazine, which I was pretty excited to get back from print – my first pieces of commercial work!
Over at FutureBrand I worked on the look and feel for a pilot site for Café Rouge, creating a pattern that would be used throughout the identity and designing items such as the packaging.
Rounding up a busy period of placements, I returned to FutureBrand as a full time junior designer at the end of October, where I currently learn a lot of things from a lot of talented people!
Rebecca Weeks
Jul 14.11 / Inspire, Photographs
Rebecca Weeks is a marine conservation biologist and her Flickr photostream is full of photographs documenting her travels around the globe. I absolutely love water, the sea, anything to do with the coast etc, so it’s pretty much guaranteed that when I have a click through, it will make me want to drop everything that I’m doing and travel the world!
Apache
Jun 20.11 / Illustration, Inspire, Motion
A few weeks back I had a look at a link from my friend Stefan for a music video for the band Danger Beach – it is ridiculously charming and is now one of my favourite animations. Check it out!
Directed by Ned Wenlock and character animation by Rodney Selby.