Week 5: CV, Covering Letter and Personal Card

During the last week I have begun work on editing my CV and started designing the business card I will be handing out on the day of the exihibition. In the design I wanted to combine my skills in graphic design, web design and my natural ability at traditional illustration.

Business Card Progress:

Boarders:

Top:



Side:



The above boarders were originally created for my website. However, since I like the design I will be attempting to impliment the designs into my Business Card, CV and Covering Letter. This will demmonstrate originallity and display each of the main skills a posess.

Curriculum Vitae & Covering Letter:

So far, I am following the sheets provided, explaining what is to be included in the CV and Covering Letter. I am having a bit of trouble trying to think of what to write down for both however. I will be asking for assistenace from my parents and personal advisor so I should have something to show for my efforts for the next lecture.

Week 4: Gathering of Media for Presentation

During our last lecture, each member of the group were assigned to gather different media to present in the main presentation in week 4 of the Semester.

My contribution to the group work was finiding Audio that best fit the two main ideas that our group had chosen. These ideas are, Natural Environment and Magnification.

I found it difficult to find any audio at all on the topic of Magnification due to it's purely visual context. The Natural Environment was easier, I found a number of decent sound scapes which could be used in the Exhibition, including 1 audio track in particular called "Spooky Wood".

My idea is to perhaps combine mood lighting to best enhance the mood and atmospher of the exhibition area coupled with the sound. This will give an atmospheric feel to the space and possibly help to pull in viewers to the exhibition and will want them to view our work.

The audio track in question, "Sppoky Wood", can be found here:

Spooky Wood.mp3, added by priestjd.

Week 3: New Idea

During Last week our group met up and decided to change ouridea from the theme of Science and Technology to a more natural based theme.

This theme was put forward by another member of the group, we then discussed the idea and all agreed that it is a simpler and concentrated topic than Science and Technology.

I agreed with the change in ideas particularily because the natural enviornment is a topic that I am really interested in and I have done a few pieces of work in the previous years of the course based around this topic.

An example of my work is shown below.

Module: "Comunicating with Images"

Conservation:

Pollution:



Conservation Logo:



De-forestation (Bar Chart):

Week 2: Developing ideas and CV

During yesterdays lecture, our group got together and began to discuss the ideas for the 'Exhibition' theme in more detail. Each member of our group made suggestions on how best to display our work which relates to our chosen theme.

The main suggestion was to have a 3 dimensional display made of glass shapes, containing our work. These glass panels are to be spaced apart from each other with lighting behind the work to best make it stand out. The spacing out of the glass sections is to give the optical effect of a 3D display when viewed from the sides and a 2D image when viewed from the front and back.

My contribution was the suggestion of having the glass sections being suspended from the ceiling of the Exhibition area. My suggestion was greatly supported when explaining our ideas to the lecturer.

However, after getting some rather unexpected feedback from our lecturer, we decided to change our idea to a single, large glass plane and utilise a Mosaic effect to display our work in a more confined space.

CV:

I had previously created a CV in College and over the last 3 years or so have been editing and updating it as I progressed through my life of higher education. However, after listening to Jo Bomans talk on how to lay out a CV and what's best to include in it, I found, when observing my own CV, that I had made a few of the critical errors which Jo had said to avoid.

So it is clear to me that I will need to edit my CV a Great deal in order to get it up to standard. Fortunately, I have kept the hand out Jo had provided 'Producing a Covering Letter', to assist in my editing of my CV.