Creative platform progress presentation
- 1. + Creative Platform progress presentation Shareena parmar 625797
- 2. + job research The design industry, is the industry I hope to go into. Job roles in this industry: Animation and game design Graphic design Illustrator design Photographer Web design Motion picture editing App design I would like to become a Graphic Designer. As I have the skill, techniques and experience working with design, advertising, creative concepts, branding, internet, social media and photography. A graphic designer can work as a freelancer, in an in-house design team or at a digital and multimedia design firm.
- 3. + Job profiles I have looked at three different job profiles for a graphic design. http://jobs.designweek.co.uk/job/423258/graphic-designer/ http://jobs.designweek.co.uk/job/423276/creative-designer-and- visualiser-/ http://jobs.designweek.co.uk/job/423198/junior-graphic- designer-/
- 4. + Skills Required In each of the job profiles I have looked at have required skills. The main skills/experience that each of this profiles have asked for are: Confident working to tight deadlines. Excellent working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. An impressive portfolio demonstrating your creativity, skills and experience. Great communicator, confident in presenting ideas to the team. Proactive and able to work independently, taking ownership of projects as well as working within a team Knowledge of Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML and CSS would be useful but is not necessary.
- 5. + CV Before being able to apply for graphic design jobs I will have to adapt my cv accordingly. As at the moment my cv is very boring and not very organised. from the research I have done, I have learnt and seen that my cv will need to be eye catching and have a graphic feel and theme to it. These are a few of the examples I have looked at:
- 6. + My cv at the moment This is my current cv at the moment. As you can see a lot of work needs to be done. I still also need to collect my feedback.
- 7. + Personal business card I have been working on a new logo and a new business card. As my first business card I ever designed was not very effective and was design rather quickly. I haven't design a new business card at the moment as I have been working on a new logo idea. I have looked at different sizes of business cards and different fonts. I looked at normal, mini, square and rounded business cards The Square business card has caught my eye the most and I will be using this for my next design.
- 8. + Design and Production Through out the year I have been working on several projects. From designing posters to mobile applications. I have been keeping screen garbs of my process for each of these projects from sketches, working in adobe Photoshop, illustrator and InDesign to the final product. I have kept all my screen grabs in a folder. So that at the end of each project I can then upload the full production of each project on to my blog.
- 9. + Blog Blog url: creativeplatformshareena.tumblr.com My blog will/contains the work and research I will do and need so that I can create an excellent portfolio for my future on becoming a graphic designer. Here is some research I have blogged about, The creative industry. Were I have Spoken about different roles and the role I am interested in. I have also looked in to the skills I will need and different job profiles so that I have an idea of what I will have to do before I am able to apply for a similar job
- 10. + I will also uploaded progress of some of my work that I am working on at the moment. I will carry on to blog more about my work and the progress of each design and how I got to the final product. I have done this already for a business card that I am producing for a client .
- 11. + Strengths Through out my last few years at university I have recognised my strongest skills our with working with Photoshop, InDesign and illustrator. I have worked with a few clients voluntarily designing business cards, posters, leaflets and more. Here our pictures of my best work.
- 12. + Weaknesses My weakest skills are with animation, photography and film. I have worked with animation a few times using the program flash to do so and iv always struggled with it. Mostly because of all the coding that has to be done. Film is also another skill that I really struggle with, from actually filming the footage to editing it. I have never been able to understand avid or final cup pro and get the technique of it.
- 13. + Skills I need to work on The are many skills I still need to work on and practice before I am able and confident enough to apply for proper job roles in the design industry. Even though my strongest skills are in designing I still feel as if I need to practice and learn more about each program. I also need to teach myself more techniques and skills with photography as I feeling at the moment I am ok but for me to reach my full ability I will need to learn more about the camera its self.
- 14. + Showreel I haven't created my showreel yet, as I am waiting to complete all my university work first that I will be including in my showreel. At the moment I have been researching other showreels for ideas and on how I can attract potential employers with my work in a showreel. I want to make my showreel eye catching and different, as I am going to pursue a career in graphic design. so I will need to show my designs in a particular way. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYzPA0I4CYE
- 15. + What I still need to do Add more work on to my blog Design my logo again Design my business cards Find a domain name Create a portfolio website Work on my cv Create my showreel