About me (and my chin)

To introduce myself to the lovely members of White Space I was asked to do a short presentation. I decided to create a song/video combo and play it to them...
About Me_WhiteSpace from Jennifer Bows on Vimeo.

White Stuff...

Last month I spent a week in the design department at White Stuff in London, and I had a great time!

I really liked the environment where everyone from different teams works together, and I think that within retail design might be where I fit best :)

I got to dabble in a variety of tasks, both analogue and digital, and I enjoyed all of it! I'm not sure what I can put online from my time there, so here is just a sample...

 

(concepts for Summer flyers, bounce backs etc...)

(cropped images for web pages...)

Edinburgh Woollen Mill placement...

Mica Connelly and I I recently spent a week on placement in the Marketing department at Edinburgh Woollen Mill, and had a jolly good time! We were able to work on ideas for the new brochure, next year's window displays and many other projects! The images below show some examples of what we got up to, although they are just ideas that we put forward and are not necessarily going to be used!

("Cashmica-Bows" - typeface created using EYM cashmere scarves)

(typeface created out of ribbon)

Summer Placements...

For some experience in the 'real' world of Graphic Design, I spent two weeks at Founded (Newcastle) and two weeks at Elmwood (Leeds). My time at both these places was invaluable, and I learnt more by 'watching' than I ever have 'doing'.

At Founded, I met these two fellas (Chewy & Badger), and realised that dogs aren't so bad after all.

I worked on a few different projects -identity, to signage, to web design, and got to see the kind of work these talented guys produce.

These were designs for a folder for the University of Leeds gallery. 

Founded have done a lot of work for the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, and one of their current briefs was to design a poster for the reopening of the theatre. The first show was to be 'The Madness of King George', and a phrase was needed to inform the public of the both the reopening and the subject of the first show.

I was given the task of brainstorming puns for such an event, and after a good half hour I came up with the following:

A Royal Entrance

Hail to the King

Drum Royal Please...

Refit for a King

The team then gathered for a meeting, and decided they would put forward mine ("Refit for a King"), Anthony's ("One would be mad to miss it") and the Theatre Royal's suggestion ("A Right Royal Reopening")

Well, I think they liked it...

I wish 'pun-maker' was a valid profession...
(I cannot take credit for the designs..)

I thanked the lovely team at Founded with a personalised cake.

...and one for the dogs.

I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone at Founded for having me and for teaching me so much! Check out their ace work: http://wearefounded.com/

I then spent two weeks at Elmwood Leeds, after sending them a CD including my portfolio and a song written for them. I wish 'comedy song-writing' was a valid profession...

Anyhow, Elmwood was a MUCH bigger place, with very different yet equally impressive work. This section will look rather bare, as I signed a piece of paper saying any work I do belongs to Elmwood.. However, amongst other things I did work on a website for a new national charity, an identity for an internet marketing agency, vitamins packaging. I didn't come away with anything I could put in my portfolio, but I came away with more knowledge about the design world and I met some very talented people. I'm very grateful to everyone there for making me feel like part of the team, putting up with me asking multiple questions, and especially to Rob and Steve for introducing me to 'fish butties'...

Check out their wonderful work: http://elmwood.com/