Saturday, 26 November 2011

Long time no post

So it's been a little while since I posted anything. I've basically been spending my time freelancing and job hunting so I can move out...which is looking extremely possible right now! For the past few months I've been freelancing for www.graphicks.co.uk/ who's creative director is a fellow Reading typo grad. The freedom of working from home has been great, although it has resulted in me becoming a complete vegetable and never moving/doing any exercise, oh well. I've been working on a really broad range of designs such as promotional posters/e-shots and the programme for a Help for Heros play in London, lots of logo designs and packaging design. I've never done any packaging design but it's something I've always wanted to have a go at, so sprucing up the sausage packaging for The Great British Sausage Company was a great start. I spent hours and hours sketching, painting, cutting out, tracing etc. etc. pictures of apples for the pork and apple flavour. I've really missed proper drawing and painting since doing my foundation at Loughborough. Here is an apple...