Boomer's PPD Blog

Got some crazy new ideas for my website, along an infographics type path. One is a crazy wheel where all the thumbnails ring a central section kinda like a colour wheel, and when you click each of the various the image of the work fades in to the central circle. It'd be mental to try and make and youd have to have your photographs right but oh well.

The more realistic alternative is a very stripped back approach, kinda like taking all the detail out of an indexhibit site and having the navigation along the left but written vertical.

I dunno, just spit balling. Here's some sketches see if it makes anymore sense:

Made some changes to my cargo collective site. Nothing major, just changed the templates and got rid of all the super high quality images that were taking up all my space. Wanted to keep it clean and simple though so theres not a massive amount of extra faff.

I've been having a bit of a fight in myself as to what to put on my website/cargo etc recently. I've been thinking about how you send a pdf portfolio thats just a taster of you and your work and the main focus is on the work when you go visit, so i've been thinking the same about the whole web presence thing - how much should i have on there? all of it? half? inbetween my printed and pdf portfolios?

So for my new look Cargo I've taken out a few projects and a few images from others as well.

So plans for Easter are as follows:

1. Email 10+ studios or designers about their practice for design context book

2. Arrange a visit to at least one to see the day to day running and make new contacts

3. Visit 3 printers of varying size - S: St Inks, M: Target Print, L: Duffields

That's just the relevant stuff, a corresponding post for work is on dp.

I play a lot of Call Of Duty (there's a point to this, I promise) and in the newest on Black Ops you can create, using hundreds of icons and colours, your own 'flag' or personal crest. Mine has been for a long time now a yellow smiley face with a massive red cross through it. I'm thinking of adopting it as my logo. Its a bit risky. And not particularily approproiate ha but still, I like it.

My first interview/portfolio thingy was with a couple of lads from Brass. Now when i think of guys from agencies i think of proper business men, or slightly older smarmy fellas who think they know everything. These two could not have been more normal if they tried. I honestly think one of them was younger than me. Anyways had my portfolio tutorial with them and we basically just chatted and went through my stuff. They're primarily digital based, which isnt an issue for me, just ive done a lot of print stuff last module, so we just talked about application to digital media and the like. They liked my Lost infographics especially and said it would be really nice to see it mocked up for digital and said i could send it them if i needed which was cool of them. So i got their emails and hopefully we'll keep in touch.

Yesterday was the digital creative milk round, basically a speed -dating -designers type situation. We had short presentations from the interviewers first in the main studio theatre (which was an experience in itself) and then had allocated time slots with interviews/portfolio tutorials with people from various sides of the creative sector.

Now i don't know if someone was having a laugh or what but i had two interviews, firstly witha couple of guys from Brass, and then with some weird inner city creative circus place, which at first i thought might just be a front for a more serious design place but soon found out was in fact... a circus troupe of gymnasts. Surely i must've been a pity interview, so they met with someone. Anyway i was booked into digital print so i missed that one anyways, but i also caught a guy called Peter on the way out who owns a small printing place in leeds that might be worth a nosey at.