ilovetypography.com

ilovetypography.com is a brilliant resource full of tutorials, fonts and the like to keep people who are interested in typography happy. The site even has a full tutorial on how to make typefaces! Really invaluable site, go visit here.

Redesign

I am currently working on my website jenniferscott.co.uk and I've been designing myself a logo that I feel reflects my design interests quite well. I've always had a passion for pattern (geometric in particular), purples/reds/yellows are my favorite colour combinations and I like working with clean and simple design. My website will be coming soon, look out for it!

D&AD Event in Newcastle (21st November 2012)

So myself and the ever enthusiastic and fellow graphic designer Luvena Petty took ourselves out of Carlisle for the day and visited Newcastle for the D&AD event in Newcastle. The event itself was amazing but I felt the talks didn't go on long enough! It was inspiring to hear how designers broke into the field after University. It gave me a new perspective and I think in my 3rd year I may very well tackle one of the D&AD briefs. Here are some pictures from the day:

The lecture theater was amazing. It was about 3 times the size of ours!

Long time no post!

So many things have been going on in my life I've neglected my blog. In fact I've been away from University for a little while now (due to reasons I'd not like to get into). This will be changing however and I will be posting again/back at University.

The past two weeks we have been given a brief on corporate identity. We were asked to design a logo for various made up companies. I decided to choose the company "Minders Keepers" a house/pet sitting service. When designing the logo I decided to go with these core values.

• Safe
• Trustworthy
• Approachable
• Friendly

This is my final product:

For the last part of the brief we were asked to create a set of corporate guidelines which explained how to use the logo and it's various applications:

Open publication

50 Things Every Creative Should Know.

This website is full of useful knowledge to aspiring creatives such as ourselves, here are some of my favorites:

Listen to your instincts

If your work doesn’t excite you, then it won’t excite anyone else. It’s hard to fake passion for mediocre work – scrap it.

Ask questions

Assume nothing. Ask questions, even if you think you know the answers. You’ll be surprised at how little you know.

Seek criticism, not praise

You learn nothing by being told how great you are. Even if you think your work’s perfect – seek criticism, you can always ignore it.


This is just a few of 50 great tips that I should be applying in my own life/work. To visit the website click here.

History of Music Players (reference website)

For my person reference later: http://amale16.weebly.com/1877-1928.html

Digital Grids

So after my hiatus of summer haze I am now back at University. So far I've been doing work on digital grids using indesign. This has been a fun project for me and I've been really invested in it. I'm no illustrator so doing graphic based work makes me happy.

Here's my 9 column grid which I really enjoyed working on. If you'd like to see my other indesign grids check them out at my issuu http://www.issuu.com/jenniferscott35. I've been doing a lot of looking at interesting things over the summer. I've got a lot of them written down I just need to compile some of them into a more in depth blog entry, expect it soon!