design my life

www.hayleyturnbull.co.uk

things i will change/feedback from tutors

For my website I went for simplicity,  I started off this project perhaps in a bad place; too many ideas but no great ideas, I found it really hard to create a website that represented me. About 10 ideas later and about a week behind schedule I was in the middle of another one of my ideas when this one just came out! I used a nice blank white page with some grass type brush running along the bottom, this concept represents me best, I am a bit of a perfectionist and more of a designer than an illustrator, all of my other ideas people kept asking "so are you an illustrator". So simpler is better in this case! 

well thats the screen grabs of my website

well last night i stayed here until 9pm getting it done, I saved over my website once and saved over my about me page twice but who cares i was so tired and possibly having a nervy b that I just got on with it and now I'm nearly nearly done!

so I have my final design, have all my images etc. but its getting harder and harder even though I'm all done with the designing! I find it hard to understand the concept of batching, where do theses images go? I struggling with the links and divs the thing I found quite easy and have since explained to several other people is the rollovers! they were much easier than a I thought, just got to get the main bulk done now!

As much as I love design I didn't think I would find it so difficult to make a website about me! I keep questioning myself and wondering 'who am I?' I am not sure what my website should look like to represent me! I have gone through 8 designs rather than 3. Each is completely different to the last! Got a lot of work to do this weekend!

Interesting dark web page idea, quite dark and mysterious. I love typography so wanted a type heavy piece.

I deisgned this poster based on 2 words drawn from a hat, "whispering, crow" it first sounded like a name of a Red Indian but after researching further I gained inspiration from "30 days of night" poster. I designed and created the font myself based on the other poster.

What is it about this advert? It came out around 2002/03 and from the moment I saw it I knew thats what I want to do! After researching other honda adverts it led me to Wieden+Kennedy, an international advertising company who worked on some of the biggest campaigns of modern time; Nike 'just do it', Coke a cola 'coke side of life', Honda 'cog', the list goes on! I don't know what drew me to the ad but its just so different, eye catching and poetic, who wouldn't love it?

.........I love typography, this was the 1st brief we were given in year 1 and one of my final pieces was used in an exhibition. 'Use type to illustrate a sentence'. I really enjoyed the brief and want to use type a lot more in the future.

The heaviest sport in the world is elephant polo, more humans ON elephants playing polo but using play along words I came up with this design which was made into a screenprint.

during college I was given a live project to create a set of gift cards for the beauty salon for christmas, they wanted contemporary design so I created these simple designs based on xmas objects with simple pastel colours, the cards were very well received and I ended up getting paid which wasn't necessary! 

first possibility I mainly concentrated on the title in a type-writer fashion but the rest is a bit empty?? I wanted boxes with my work in and you click on the box and it leads you to the project.

Spent last couple of days collating my work from my Mac on to memory sticks, lack of internet at the house is making life difficult. Problem is half my stuff is the unfinished final pieces, I know I have the finished ones on a memory stick somewhere, got to sort this out today and be a bit more organized!

feeling under pressure to learn how to blog fast!