I totally forgot about this project, simply just a cover design for Alice in Wonderland which I’m sure all of you are very much aware of.

And if you’re curious as to how I made the cover -

As you can see, I’m very hi-tech with the equipment I choose to use…

This is the last ever project I did for uni – a branding project in fact, which was a bit risky considering I’d not really done much in that area previously and who really wants to fall flat on their face on their last ever project? Anyway, I was pretty pleased with it in the end, especially since time was not being particularly kind to me.

The project involved branding a new range of paper targeted at designers, typographers and high quality printers. I came up with the name, the logo and created a swatch book (pictured below) and a promotional book (which will be up soon).

Here are some pictures of my idea for my unconventional Flatterland proposal which involves every letter of every word placed into a square, which then are arranged into a square. I wouldn’t say it’s fully resolved to be honest, I will admit I ran out of time to develop the actual format of it really, but I thought I’d show it anyway. I might go back to it, but it’s not likely as now I don’t have access to a £1 large format printer, creating things like this will cost a bit too much unless I’m really interested in it!

Going back a few months, when I was stressing away at university, I worked on a project which involved creating two new proposals, one conventional and one unconventional, for the book ‘Flatterland’ which is a crazy, complicated book (if you are mathmatically challenged like myself!) about introducing different dimensions to a character that lives in a flat dimension called Flatland.

I did post some work in progress screen captures of my unconventional version a while back (which I will show you later), but I never posted my regular version which takes the form of a diary, as throughout the book itself, the main character (Vicky the Line) keeps a diary of all the places/dimensions this orange spacehopper is taking her to (yes, true) and I wanted to reference that part of the book visually. Plus I really like blank notebooks/sketchbooks/large quantities of paper so for me, it was a fun book to make a dummy for.

Over the last two weeks I’ve been residing at Studio8 and it’s been brilliant. I’ve had a chance to work on some editorial stuff which I’m thoroughly enjoying and I’ve also been liking the cheeky drinks at the 3 Kings pub round the corner from the studio after work.

Lucky for me I have another two weeks left of great work and great people :)

A while back I posted some scans from the crit notebook I kept throughout the second and third year of university, so now I’ve finished, I scanned in a few more pages.

I will admit, to begin with I wasn’t particularly that bothered about using it to record any notes of thoughts down that involved work – but after sticking with it for so long, I’m quite glad I have it around and now I’ve finished, I’ve started a new one for me to use for all job and work placement related things, or anything that involves work in general.

Computer Arts 176 – It’s pretty cool to be in a magazine I read when I first started getting ‘serious’ about design. Plus it’s always a good thing to show the parents!

I’ve been MIA from here (again) for the last month or so, but not intentionally – I’ve been keeping busy.

1. University = no more
I’ve officially finished university and on course for a pretty good grade. It feels odd for me because even though I had handed in all my work (some of which I will show you at another time), I was still working on things related to the degree show so I didn’t really ever stop working. Which leads onto…

2. Show Ten
My degree show opened officially on Friday last week and it was a nice event although the heat was almost unbearable! Finally, all the extra work paid off! I have no idea how I became involved in so many things to do with it to be honest, in fact, I barely remembered what day it was during that quite lengthy period leading up to the opening night.

If you’re interested in making a visit, you can find out more information at the LSAD Graphic Design blog.

If you can’t make it or if you have some spare time on your hands and you just can’t quite make that decision on what to do, check out the Show Ten website featuring a fair bit of work from my entire year. Cheers to Dirty Mouse and the guys at Just Us for their posts about the website.

3. Felt
I’ve been lucky enough to be on a work placement for the last week in London with Felt and it is really good. I’m also absolutely loving being in London and wouldn’t hesitate at all about moving down here.

4. Computers Arts
I’ve had my work published for the first time! My work has been featured in Computer Arts 176 in the Exposure section along with a tiny written piece that took me ages to write because I was self conscious about how I was writing. Pictures soon. I say soon, it probably won’t be!

Good new part one – I’m happy to say I’m part of the 2010 Just Us Design Collective. Make sure you check out the fab work from the other members!

I’m currently working on one of my last university projects! It basically involves creating some new design proposals for the book Flatterland (which I dare you to read).

For one of my proposals I am placing every letter into a square, then all the letters for each word are also arranged in a square. Yep…

More later, if my eyes haven’t died.

(Oh I have some mega exciting news which I can’t wait to share – Don’t you just hate it when people do that? I couldn’t help myself though!)