Business Cards

It was set in the beginning for Lance and Sam to produce the business cards for the entire group. Over the course of the module it was put across the facebook group that they needed specific information from all of us for the business cards themselves.

I chose to include my email address, mobile phone number, LinkedIn profile and also my own personal portfolio website that I had previously created. It includes a lot of my uni work on the website as well as personal work that I have produced over the past few years.

With just 4/5 days to go before the first exhibition date, the final business cards were uploaded to facebook. Clearly not giving everyone enough time to print them off individually and them arriving in time without spending a substantial amount on delivery!

When I was asked to produce work for others in the module, I set out to produce it giving enough time for everyone to make the changes for themselves. Some of the entire group have shown this lack of enthusiasm throughout the 12 weeks.

Printing Advertising Posters

Jonathan had produced the poster that would be placed at various different locations for the public to see when and where the exhibitions would take place. And the task now was to gather up funds from everyone in the group so that we could print the remaining booklets and the posters. It was decided as a group that £5 each would cover the cost and maybe leave some over to possibly get more of one or the other.

As some people had gone home after midday, I took it upon myself to go to the printing shop to print off the posters to advertise the events. A couple of us went down there and decided that 20 posters would be the right amount as we could use around half for Chelmsford and half for Basildon. The total for the posters came to £10 so that left us with £30 for the booklets as not every in the group was in university to give their £5 and some did not have the money on them.

Unfortunately, the store was almost closing by the time we printed the posters so they asked if we could print the booklets on Tuesday morning which would leave it a bit close to the first exhibition date but I plan to go at 9:00am when they open to get them produced so that leaves over an hour to then help set up the exhibition.

Poster Template

It was agreed within the students of the graphics group that actually turned up, that Rhys would design the poster template with my design from the front cover of the booklet for the background image. Once he had finished this, he created half of the entire groups templates and I finished the other half then we both uploaded them to DropBox and then to the facebook group for people to download and create their own.

I then began creating my own poster by adding my biography and work to the template. I wanted to include a bit of everything, so there are images of 3D animation, Photography, Graphic Design and Artwork that I have produced whilst at University and in my own personal free time.

Exhibition Posters

The next task was to decide upon the layout of the poster template. The members of the graphics group that actually bother to show up every week discussed this and decided that the majority of the poster should include images or text of peoples work. That way it is clear what work the individual has produced and then if employers or the public are intrigued about the work they can ask that student about it.

We also decided that there should be the photo of the student that I took a few weeks back with the coloured schemed rings around it. That way it is even more clear who's work is being displayed on the poster along with the large name for the title at the top of the poster. We also wanted to include the atom logo, aru logo and our QR code for the Atom website. That way anyone can see the poster, remember the name they are interested in and see further work on the website. The last thing we decided to include was a 150-200 word biography at the top of the poster. This would state what the student is currently doing, their skills and what they plan to do in the future for a career. That way it is clear to an employer what the student is looking for and then that employer can see if they are right for their business or not straight away.

Exhibition Stands

Me and Rhys chose to workout how everyone would have their posters displayed at the events because it seemed the some exhibition group were not going to take charge of this or let anyone know what was expected for everyone to do.

We first wanted to work out what was available for the posters to be secured to and how many posters would fit onto the piece of apparatus. Once we actually asked the exhibition group ourselves what was available, we were told that we could use boards that are 1500mm tall by 800mm wide. They have 3 sides so can be closed into a prism shape and the task that we now had to solve was how many different posters would fit.

We came to the agreement that we would use the posters in landscape as this resulted in the sufficient amount of posters to be displayed for the amount in the group. The next task was to work out the template for the posters so that everyone could just put their work onto the poster and print it themselves, as the initiative from some of the group members has been poor so far and if everyone was responsible for their own poster to be made and printed then it would be their responsibility if it wasn't produced in time.

Booklet - Draft Print

We had completed a basic draft of the booklet from people's work given to us. Me and Rhys went down to the printing store to ask about the process of getting it printed and what format they would need every page in. We were told at the time to use PDF.

We originally created each page to the specifaction that each piece of paper would be double side printed and because it was a booklet, all the work would need to be laid out in a way that when everything was put together, it would be in the right order. However, when we first went down to the printing store, they suggested we needed to just put each students work on one page and the machine would print it off as a booklet no problem.

After the we made the changes and then returned to the store, this was soon to not be the case. We spoke to a different employee and were told that we needed to change it back and have every page as an individual page, not two pages together in one file. This was a simple process that we quickly changed and took back so that we could finally get a booklet printed for everyone to see.

Here's photographs on the booklet me and Rhys had printed.
(Photos courtesy of Rhys)

 

The back of the booklet was something I came up with. We wanted something simple so I just took all the photographs of the students and arranged them on the page. I also managed to obtain a QR code on a free website for our own website that the Web Team are currently finishing off.

Booklet - Layout Example

This week, me and Rhys were able to put the majority of the booklet pages together as we had received almost everyone's montage, personal information and their bio. Plus I had now taken the majority of the group's photograph, however Harriet and Jon refused to have their photograph taken so that they could take their own. I was frustrated again because we wanted the entire group's photos to link together with the style and background. Eventually, we persuaded them to take it and were only left to need David's photograph. In the end, because he would very rarely turn up to lectures he sent his own photo, that vaguely linked with the style of the rest, but I had to edit it so that it looked a little similar.

This is the booklet page example for my personal pages.