The promotional task set for this week was to create a series of promotional stories and a promotional post for Instagram. The primary focus was to tell the story of our work. It was advised that a good place to start could be our portfolios. I decided to move forward with this as I have […]

Mood Board I created the above mood board to help me consider the various approaches I could take to designing my proposal. As I want to create a document that is easy to read I want to keep my content concise and laid out in a clear manner. I would also like this document to […]

Overview of Brief The job in question is the design of a website and brand to represent Hill Street in Belfast. Considerations This is an entirely new website so there is no existing design in place. However, there will be similar websites for other areas of Belfast, including the Cathedral Quarter and Titanic Quarter. Consider […]

Purple Cow is a book written by Seth Godin on the importance of being remarkable. This is a fairly high standard to reach for but he does offer some helpful tips along the way. The first tip that jumped out to me was inviting the user to change their behaviour to make a product dramatically better. […]

This week we looked at creating a promotional strategy to help us promote ourselves as designers. We looked at how helpful social media can be in this context. As designers, we can use social media to help us tell the stories behind our brands and design work. When used effectively social media can help us […]

This week we covered what to include in a proposal with a particular focus on pricing and payment schedule. To begin we looked at the benefits of creating a proposal. The general rule is that it is always a good idea to do a proposal, even with family and friends if not more so. A […]

I have some experience using Webflow however I always struggled with creating consistent page structures and making top nav’s. I found the tutorial we received in class particularly helpful. I didn’t quite keep up but did my best to follow the steps throughout the demo, see above outcome. I have applied the same method to […]