Hepworth Gallery Visit

In December, I visited one of my favorite galleries, not just for its exhibitions but the architecture of the building itself. I visited the Hepworth art gallery in Wakefield to see the exhibition of Alina Szapocznikow based on her ‘Human Landscapes’ sculptures. The exhibition highlighted Szapocznikow’s work and it was developed from classical figurative sculptures. The exhibition featured more than 100 pieces of work including drawings, photography and sculptures. It was interesting to see the exhibition as what I found interesting was the development of the hand-drawn pieces to the full sized sculptures. 

Personal Branding

logo/branding from first and second year 

logo/branding now

Above is my self-branding logo that i created over the summer this is a different logo than the logo i had from the first and second year as i felt that the old logo did not work well as it was over complicated and did not represent the style of design that i now create. I set out to design a logo that was sleek and uncomplicated which is the type of work i set out to do, but also create a logo the was simple and didn't suggest to any specific disaplin like my old logo as i do not have a dedicated area of design and i consider myself as a general graphic designer with certain interests. 

The logo i created was successful for me as it achieved what i set out to do, it is a sleek minimal design that references my interests of modernist design but doesn't limit me or my branding to a set style. the most successful part of this logo is that the design works in any colour combination and is still clear when using colours that have a limited contrast. (see examples below)

I intend to use this logo throughout my social media design account such as Behance and Instagram as well as self-promotional materials such as business cards, letter heads and on a cv. 

making a zine for photography student

I was asked by a photography students to make a zine for them for their cop submission showing their photographs. For this brief i was given a week to complete.

The brief:
make a zine about common miss conceptions
saddle stitch booklet style
cover, content, end in a paragraph from her essay

After meeting grace to talk about the details of the zine after the initial briefing over facebook it was clear that the brief was not as straightforward. The photographs were of people with certain illnesses and didn't want the zine and its information out in the world. This made me ask the question of why she wanted a zine if it wasn't allowed to be seen for anything other than the submission, which defeated the purpose of a zine as they are to be read. After this meeting i seemed to have a completely different brief as she has already told the people who she has photographed how the booklet was going to look and they had signed a form to agree to it. This meant i had many restrictions as didn't have any reign for creative design just the making of the document. 

the new breif :
make indesign document of her content. 


After the debriefing, i started to create the document. when placing the photos into the document i had to photoshop them as without doing it i would not be able to achieve the brief as they would look out of place. This took more time tahn expected as they were supposed to be already edited and the same colour. 


For confidentiality as the people in the photos sign a form i cannot show on the blog the development of zine nor the final design. I was never given a copy of the final zine for my submission.

please find a printed copy in my submission fold. (something went wrong in printed and no long have files as i handed them over to the student) 

Evaluation of experience: 
My experience on this brief was very unpleasant as i was miss lead to what the brief entailed, as she withheld information till after i had agreed to came the zine. They said that they had no experience with indesign so that was why they were asking me to do the brief but in the end it was obvious that they just didn't want to make the zine themselves.
If iwas to ever do a brief for another student i will make sure to clarify the details before saying yes and if i later find that information has been with heald i will turn down the brief.  

Website services

Upon researching into well-known brands for creating a website on their price ranges are:  

Cargocollective 2 - $13 a month or $99 a year 
Squarespace - £10 to £15 annually 13 to 21 month to month 
GoDaddy - 5.99 or 7.99 or 12.99 a month and on top of that domain name pricing. 
Wordpress - Free or £3 or £7 or £20 domain included free in the first year of purchase.
Wix - Free or $5 or $25  

Out of all the website and domain services I chose to create my portfolio website on Wordpress because of the free website building service that they provide. In this service, I was able to build a website that resembled a professional portfolio website relatively quickly and I chose to stay with the service as it did not take much longer to complete it. I chose a simple layout for my website but soon after I found a more appropriate portfolio template for my website which I have yet to customize and improve.