Abi Maiden

Graphic Designer

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continuation of magazine from last post

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Magazine titled “Making Dreams a Reality”

Photography and Interviews by Hannah Williams

Graphic design by Abigail Maiden

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Moodboard l5 Collab

This is a mood-board for our photoshoot inspiration. We are aiming to take photos in an outdoor location and an indoor studio. We are doing this to form part of our campaign of raising awareness of homelessness. We are doing this in a unique way, by combining commercialisation with fashion, and how it exploits streetwear. We will produce a fashion film along with narration and statistics to back up our points.

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Building your Portfolio Career

A portfolio career:

Is it for me? 

Pursue a variety of interests and skills, design your own career, find more meaning and purpose is your work, be prepared for changes and structure of work as the wage might fluctuate. You have to manage your own tax when freelancing. 

Skills and Attributes

Good time management, self discipline, self confidence, multi-tasking, networking skills, business awareness, great organisation. 

Values

Standards you set yourself to and reasons why you do what you do. 

Networking

Linked In, connect with people you already are working with. e.g. Superdry. Look for people with the same interests and same field of graphic design, e.g. editorial. Professional Association websites often have freelancer pages, events etc. Look at the careers+ website for links. Business link resources. Keep online presence maintained and updated. 

Your Brand/Story 

Make sure your name is consistent throughout, don't use middle name on some things and not on others. Instagram account, keep things separate from personal accounts. Behance.net, Wix, Tumblr. 

Next Steps

Think about financial needs and skill set. Keep part time job just in case. Talk to people and test your ideas out, friends, tutors or industry professionals. 

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Subterranean Canal Walk around Birmingham City Center

This was research for my collab project about Birmingham’s “hidden city”, but also I can relate it to a project I’m doing for YCN Dalstons soda company.

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Creative Day Brief

exaggeration, metaphor, consequences, humour, facts/ educate. 

Frontline Plus Flea & Tick Spot On Dog

£15.95

Frontline Plus Spot On for dogs kills fleas and ticks and controls biting lice on both cats and dogs.

It is fast acting and kills fleas within 24 hours and ticks within 48 hours. Frontline Plus also attacks eggs and larvae to keep your pet parasite free for longer. Frontline Plus Flea & Tick Spot On for Dogs is the most advanced formula within the Frontline range of flea and tick treatments. It not only kills fleas, but also stops their eggs from hatching and infesting your home. Unlike other flea treatments, Frontline Plus kills ticks too, helping to reduce the risk of tick-borne disease transmission. Use every 4 weeks all year round for optimum flea and tick protection.

Key Benefits

• Kills fleas on your pet within 24 hours

• Stops flea eggs hatching in your home

• Kills ticks within 48 hours, helping reduce the risk of tick-borne diseases

• Kills lice

Please note: - These are medication products. To comply with VMD regulations and to ensure you

receive the correct product for your animal, we will need to collect some basic information about your pet. Thank you!

Target audience: pet owners

Media: poster adshel, social media, press.

Who is involved: pet owners, dogs, vets, word-of-mouth. Anxiety for dogs and owners.

Tone of voice may change for different dogs too, for example a poodle might be a french accent, or very posh (stereotypes). English Bulldog might be very traditional and patriotic. Could do an advert involving different dogs and their stereotypes. 

Behaviour of dogs, do they have habits? Sleeping on the floor rather than their bed. May not like it if you take them somewhere else for their walk. They like having their dinner at the same time everyday. 

Place- not available everywhere to buy. 

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Professional Futures 1

The world is your oyster.

Liam Blunden talk- 

be pro-active outside of uni. Work ethic will always be remembered. Do more=become better. think about your future

Portfolio/leave behind. 

liamblunden.com 

@liamcoolstuff

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Balenciaga's Summer 2019 Campaign Is an Absurd 'Matrix' Homage

The tiny sunglasses fit right in.

Inspiration for our film. I like how choppy the film is. 

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Political Fashion: Films

A wide selection of industry experts have answered Nick Knight's brief to express their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts through film

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Lucy Orta

https://www.studio-orta.com/en/artworks/serie/1/Refuge-Wear

references tents and other refuge wear in her work.

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Grassroots campaign for Raising the Roof: Raising awareness of youth homelessness

As part of a campaign to get people thinking about the way they treat homeless youth, these posters were placed on the ground, on steps and other places where homeless youth are often seen and ignored. This campaign was created by Leo Burnett with media planning handled by Starcom and Grassroots executing the placement of the posters

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For Many Designers, “Homeless Style” Is This Year’s Biggest Fashion Trend

This is a big no

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N.HOOLYWOOD Official Instagram (@n_hoolywood) • Instagram photos and videos

77.2k Followers, 1 Following, 1,388 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from N.HOOLYWOOD Official Instagram (@n_hoolywood)

Fashion inspired by street living

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Homeless Inspired Fashion Collection Sparks Debate at Men's Fashion Week

N. Hoolywood designer Daisuke Obana had the fashion world buzzing on Wednesday.

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Poverty chic

A corrugated iron shack in a Soweto township and a homeless woman on the streets of London have both featured in the style press in recent w

Collaborative project Week 1 research

How the subject of homelessness is becoming commercialised in the sense of fashion.

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Identifying Direction: Introducing the RVD

RVD- 3000 word reflective visual document

a PDF which presents personal project. It’s reflective, visual and a hybrid document. It is not meant to be a journal. Includes a bibliography and skills picked up in L5. Supposed to look forward towards L6. 

Due 28th May 2019 by 10am, PDF by moodle.

things that help- blog, sketchbook, RVJ

‘soft deadline’ 13th May to finish off personal projects/briefs

Structuring RVD

Cover page- name, student number, module code (vis5041), project title and word count. 

Contents page- don't forget page numbers

Introduction- background and rationale, aims and objectives, research methods-summary of how the research objectives were met, and overview of documents structure. 

Main body- around 2000 words, most substantial part. Could separate into chapters. should include the planning and development of personal project, context of work-target audience and brief etc, review of appropriate academic literature in relation to personal project, and consideration of contemporary and historical practitioners- try and get in contact emails etc. Final outcomes as well. 

Evaluation and direction- summary. possibility to evaluate, the pros and cons. consider directions for future research and practice moving into L6. About 500 words.

List of images- Harvard style referencing. formatted differently to the bibliography. ID RVD labelling and listing images- Moodle. 

Bibliography- list of reading, Harvard style referencing. 

Appendices- extra added on, include anything you think is important to the project, but may distract from the main point of the document if included in main body. May include photographers, practitioners, contact sheets, fetched etc. 

word count only includes the intro, main body and evaluation. 3000 words +/-10%. 

finding academic material- www.bcu.summon.serialssolutions.com. A-Z databases on the online library. Google scholar. podcasts. 

Adobe indesign to create pdf. use tutorials on lynda. 

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Artfund_ in-situ

sorry for the bad quality