Full of cold but still going

Woke up this morning like death warmed up! Got a cold and I've dosed on up on cold and flu tablets. I have even traveled all the way to uni to complete my learning agreement. Tomorrow I will take to the bed with my sketchbook and try and get better before my trip to Edinburgh on Monday. Fingers crossed I won't get worse.

Promotional pack

Well I've finished my leaflets, business cards and CV to go in my promotional pack which will be handed out at Indigo/Premier Vision, New Designers and Surtex. Really glad I managed to get them all finished early, one less thing to think about.

FMP: Merging images

Had a little play on Photoshop with some of my own images. I experimented with layout and image merging. 

Initial drawings for FMP

I have started doing some sketches using objects I found and photos I took for my final major project at university. Here is just a sample of them. 

Current Major Project

Feeling more organised now I've got all my work on here and my facebook page, www.facebook.com/laparnelldesigns is up and running. All my flyers and business cards are ready to be sent to Indigo, Surtex and New Designers, just my CV left to go. However as well as all this behind the scenes work and paper work I am also working on my final major project at university.

My current major project is inspired by the sea. I live in Redcar-by-the-Sea on the North East coast of England and can see the sea from my house. I walk on the beach every day with my dog, Button, and one day thought "why not use this" ha! I find it laughable that I have never really used my surroundings for inspiration before. So here it is; my seaside inspired major project.
I want to focus on the patterns at the seaside rather than objects, for example; the marks in the sand, the patterns on shells, fishing nets and drift wood.

I started by going along the beach and finding objects to draw from as well as taking pictures that I found visually interesting. I collected a number of objects such as seaweed (which I had to wrestle off Button), driftwood, netting, shells etc. Here are some of my images I took that day.

Took a lot more but keeping them to myself for now. It is amazing how I look at Redcar beach now and see how beautiful it can be, especially in the winter soon. I am continuing to go out everyday and collect objects and images.

More work from Trend Bible: Woodcraft folk project

The more I search through my old files the more work I find. Here is some more work from my live project with Trend Bible. There is sketchbook work, sampling, design development and final pieces. Enjoy.

FINAL PIECES 

Working on business cards

Currently working on business cards to send in packs to Indigo Paris, Surtex New York and New Designers in London. Here is what I have so far, looking for feedback so feel free to comment.

First year- Architecture

While browsing through my old first year files at university I found some old Photoshop work that I had forgotten about. I was surprised how much I still liked it and thought I would share it.
The task was to create a drawn scene of a street using the layering tool on Photoshop.