The Periwig

I spoke to the manager of the Periwig today, who is a very good friend of mine. He wants some work doing for him over the summer with regards to creating t-shirts, posters and any of other promotional paraphernalia that they want doing. This is great because this is going to give me a lot of work to do over the summer and I am also going to get paid for it as well. What is also good is that the owner of the Periwig owns a lot of other establishments in and around my area and if my works good enough hopefully i will be able to do other promotional things for them. I have quite  a lot of freedom to do whatever i feel is appropriate, so long as its current. 

Gravy Designs

I also rang up creative gravy today, one of the designers is a friend of my sisters and I have organized a visit around their studio for when im in London, i still need to confirm the date but they are more than happy to have me come visit them. What i lie about their design work is the facts its corporate but still innovative. I really love their website too i think its so sophisticated and clean, which is mimicked in their work. 

The Evergreen Care Trust

I will be doing some more work for the Evergreen Care trust this summer, its getting to the time where they have a lot of events coming up to help promote the charity and they would really like me to help out. I will be offering my services for free, obviously, and its such a good experience because they arn't just one client there are a lot of separate areas that may need me to do design work for them. One of them being the promotional good for the Summer Ball that is coming up. I will hopefully be designing their invitations and menu for the night, this is all really good experience because it means i can push my skills in my new found design practice. I am really looking forward to doing this because its for a good cause as well.

Satellite creative

I have organized a visit around Satellite creative for when im in London, It is towards the end of the placement because it takes a while to get to their offices. instead of emailing them I rang them up, I find it a lot easier to talk to people over the phone then by email because you get an immediate response. They were actually really nice and helpful, so im looking forward to going around their studio. they are an agency that specializes in branding, logo design and editorials they also do web design but im not that interested in that element.

Duffields visit

I have organised a visit around Duffields printers for after the module hand in because im very busy right now and i want to focus on my work. So i am going to have a look around after the hand in and presentation, its really good because next year i will be living with the son of Duffields printers - Simon Duffield so i am going to have a huge source of knowledge of printing living with him!

Helens Logos

My friend asked me to help out with a project she was doing and design a logo for a company she was starting. I had a lot of free reign to do as much as i wanted with the logo. I designed a wide range of logos varying for sophisticated to quite modern and edgy. I think the blank and white work a lot better than the colour, but it was up to Helen to pick the ones she liked.

POPCORN - Feedback 2

I heard from Popcorn again today, I had to ring them as i hadn't heard back from James when he said i would. They said that he was away on a trip, but had told them to tell me that i can start in July and that it's for a couple of weeks. If things go well then i could maybe stay for a month depending on the work load and timing.
So i am very very happy right now!! I have secured a placement at a company that i really respect and really wanted to work with!

Enterprise Evaluation

BA Graphic Design - OUCE255
END OF MODULE EVALUATION


Throughout this module I have learnt a lot. It has been a completely different experience to anything I have done before, and I have enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I think this may have been due to the fact it was looking at design from a completely different angle, and actually focusing on how to make our practice real. Which was really exciting. Not having a background in any form of business I was completely learning thing's from scratch, which was satisfying as I feel I have walked away from this module with a whole set of new skills and wider knowledge base. 
I found all the lectures interesting and took notes thoroughly in order for me to best understand them. I also found the tasks very interesting to do, as I mentioned before it was a great opportunity to try an analysis in a completely different way.


I really enjoyed the opportunity to create our own business. I really enjoyed working in my group and I know that we each worked really hard and we all felt as equally informed as each other. It was a great opportunity to put everything we had learnt into practice and really test what we had learnt, and I feel I came away from it knowing a lot more than I thought I did. I really enjoyed putting the presentation together, and it was nice to take on a brief in a different way and think about the logistics instead of the design. I think we delivered a strong presentation, with everyone being able to discuss their own parts in a confident and clear way. 
I think my weaknesses within this module would have to be understanding the finance structures and how that all relates. I did my best to get to grips with everything and stay as involved as possible but I defiantly fall short when it comes to numbers, It's something that has never been my strong point. However, I did focus myself on understanding the structure of the finances so as to walk away with some basic understanding. 


I think one thing i could have done better would be to use the quizzes that were available to us, i didn't utalise them fully i feel so next time i will. 


How I would grade myself on the following areas:
5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

Attendance 5

Punctuality 5 

Motivation 4

Commitment 5

Quantity of work produced 4

Quality of work produced 4

Contribution to the group 5

Final Presentation Powerpoint

Sai: Introducing each person and what they would be in the company as well as

discussing that fact we are a limited company etc. Passes over to me.

Robyn: Discussing the vision statement in more detail, outlining what we

are and who we are and what we would do in a general format. 

Nick: Discussing the product side of what we would be doing. All the products

as well as talking about the legal rites and copy writing.

Robyn: Showing our premises and what it's about, why we have chosen it.

Ailsa: Talking about the finances.

Sai: Discussing our company in relation the competitors and how we are

better.

Sai: Discussing the marketing side, pointing out the system we have

used and why.

Sai: Marketing, it outlines the budget we have set out as well as 

our finance structure. 

Ailsa: Discussing the finance side of the business covering all aspects

Nick: Discussing the future plans for the company, talking about the overheads etc

covering technology, economics, politics etc.

Presentation Done. We had a really good run through today so hopefully it will go well tomorrow, everyone is really well informed and I think as a whole we have worked well as a group.

Marketing and Promotion - Condensed

Budget: £5,000
(Communication and Mix Diagram)

4 P's
Product: Graphic Design services already mentioned

Pricing: 10% Discount to prospective clients - Competitive lower prices

Place: Advertisements - Yellow pages, local newspapers

Promotion: Communication Mix Diagram -
Advertising- Local to bring in local clients. Broadsheets target audience, broadsheet readers and businessmen. Design magazines - Publish ourselves against competitors. Publish our work in Idn, Grafik, getting reputation.

Costing': Yellow Pages £351 - Direct client contact
                 Idn - Double Page Spread £1107 - Reputation, picking us over competitors

Google: Putting in key words to help promote ourselves

Competition briefs to create award opportunities - makes us more credible

Enticing Customers: Memorable business cards, Cutomise direct mail made appropriate to the company we're contacting.

Using SWOT we've been able to analyse other companies and capitalise on their weaknesses to create a new and innovative company - VOICE.

I have put together just a basic outline for the power point, i still think there is too much information but i think that being able to break it up this much means we can break it up more tomorrow when we meet up to have our run through. 

              

Check Lists

I have been going through my initial notes when we first started putting the company together and I decided to go through some of our earlier business plans just to make sure that we had hit everything that we wanted to. I have filled them in and taken images, to show how much we have improved and how we have a solid ground base to be working from.

 First Check List:

Second Check List: