Museum Visit

For this requirement of the module I decided to go to one of the most famous and prestigious museums available within close proximity to me, The Tate Modern. I found this visit very useful as it gave me a sense of how to portray certain pieces of artwork and why principle of exhibits. Although i am writing about this visit now, i actually went at the end of week 2 this semester.

The images below are just a few of what I took (I do apologise for the quality of some images as these were taken on my iPhone).



The above images are of sculptures and paintings that i found fairly odd. I thought to myself how can this be art. Art doesn't always have to be appealing to the eye, but it is having the idea to produce it and portray things in such a way.



These two images however were taken in order to capture the way an exhibit/section is set up. As you can see the one at the top has a grey-scale theme and the artefact's fit together very nicely with one another. The other is of an exhibition hall (this is the best picture i could get it because of the dimensions of the hall). It is a very open planned exhibit, i feel this is very good because it gives the opportunity for the viewers to appreciate every piece of work in their own time (well, this is what i did anyway) because it is not cluttered.

Overall this visit to the Tate Modern didn't really give me any great inspiration for an idea for our theme for the exhibition, but it did give me a huge insight into presenting work aesthetically.

Week 4 Blog Update

Today we had to present our idea of the theme we would like to use for the exhibition. Although I felt that ours was a very strong contender it was unsuccessful. The theme for our presentation was "Progression of design". In the end "3D" was the chosen theme. I am pleased with this as this is the one I believe that this was second best to our proposal.

Once the theme for the exhibit had been chosen, it was now time to split ourselves up into different groups to work with towards exhibit in May. I went into the "Exhibition" section along with 6 other students. We have all taken different roles which vary from trying to gain sponsorship right up to layout structure.

My role is to contact local media to see if they are interested in coming down to our exhibit. This would provide a great opportunity for student's work to make it into local newspapers and would even promote their chances in the future to gain employment.

So far I have a list of 8 or 9 local newspapers, radio stations and television stations who I will contact within the next week. These will be contacted in various ways such that will include, email, telephone and in person.

Personal Branding

For my personal branding I have decided to research a number of colour palettes. These give me a good understanding for what a colour palette is and also enable me to draw up a few of my own designs. The images below are my own interpretations of colour palettes.

Overall I think that all 4 designs are strong and could all work. Therefore over the forthcoming weeks I will be able to try out each palette within my CV and business card ideas in order to see what palette fits best.

Development of my CV

Creating an effective looking CV with use of design was one of our first personal tasks to complete. The images below show my original CV along with one I created in Photoshop. I am very pleased with the outcome of my CV, as it only contains 3 main colours it will be easy to edit the colours to suit my needs. For example the blue could be changed to a dark green by just selecting colour range, and changing it in Photoshop.