Summer is here

So yet another year is over at the university and I have a busy Summer in front of me since I feel that I haven't quite reflected on the course with 100% of my abilities, so I am spending the summer doing research and looking more at artwork and contemporary design, try keep notes and view loads of tutorials to expand my skills and knowledge on software programs. Other than that I will try to replicate many f the designs to learn more about how they are done.

Todays findings is the album artwork from a band called Sigur Ros. I saw their albums and covers at Hal's house and it stole my attention. Beautiful artwork, photography and simplicity. It of course reflects on the bands style and their peaceful style of music. Here is some of the artowork and packaging. I loved the paper that the images were printed on and the folded into cd covers.

Soft colours and elements of nature is what captured my interest mix with the handwritten type on the outside and inside of the covers, with ink splatters and doodles. Some of the photographs are eerie but peaceful the same time. I would recommend whoever hasn't listened to the band before to do so. Sigur Ros ( Icelandic band).

My online portfolio showcase

This is a link to my online portfolio. This is the work I did which I consider most successful so far. I hope you enjoy. This is not the best quality portfolio but my work is shown on the links below as well :

http://haliho.co.uk/
http://juliaivanszky.blogspot.com/
http://issuu.com/julia_ivanszky
https://www.behance.net/hungrarianchick

and this is the link to my online portfolio:

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=E230F86DAF0975F6&resid=E230F86DAF0975F6%21235&app=WordPdf&wdo=1

Enjoy :)

PRIVATE - Photobook

This was a brief we were given which was about making a photobook. We had to choose a topic of our own, edit the pictures, create the layouts and then physically bind the book. This was a 12 week project and it ended up pretty well. I enjoyed making the book. My photobook is called PRIVATE and it is about trespassing and what makes it fun.

My book is completed from a stitch binded text block which was then perfect binded and glued in to a hardcover. The paper used for the inside was premium double sided glossy and the cover was printed on canvas to provide a contrast. Enjoy.

Marine traffic infographics project

We were given a brief were we had to follow a fleet of ships on a website called marinetraffic.com and write down all the possible information we could find including for example weather conditions, latitude and longitude, ports they visited etc. Then we had to gather and select information we saw appropriate and create a info graphics poster which was targeting a selected audience of our choice. I decided to pick useless information and create a nice visual treatment of information, so the main focus of my poster wasn't the information but what they created as a whole. I really enjoyed this project and I hope I will be doing it again in the near future.

TMR packaging project

We were given a brief were we had to package self moulding handle grips known as "Imprint grips" from a company in the UK. We had to come up with a net and a surface design and consider materials for the packaging. My project didn't go as well as I thought it would because of the problems I faced, part of which it was the card and ink options on our university printers. So I was really limited in options and didn't have a plan B. This is the package I came up with. ( I wanted my original design on brown paper with white ink )

Event publicity design

We were given a brief where I got "British Sandwich Week" as an international celebration week and we had to target a new target audience. My target audience were kids and I had to find a way to make the British sandwich week more interesting and appealing to them. When I researched about the topic I had no idea that British people take sandwiches so seriously and they even have an association about it. 

We had to create a poster, a flyer and a web banner for it.

This is the poster I created for the event. I came up with a Pick 'N' Mix week 

for the schools to give kids the choice to play with their food and make their 

own sandwiches. (the event is not real, it was for the purposes of my project)

This is the web banner I created for the event as well. I had to find a way to attract 

kids and make them click on the web banner, so I made it playful and colorful. 

This was my favourite part of the project. The interactive flyer I created for the event's purpose.

It is a flyer in a shape of a sandwich which has interactive labels inside showing the pick 'n' mix

menu of the week. There is a choice of savory and sweet fillings and when the labels lifted they show 

the words meaning. It was created so kids that can't read yet can understand as well.

My website is finished, anyone interested www.haliho.co.uk

It is not the best website ever built but it is just enough for now to show off my work, well not amazing work but getting there. This was just a learning experience on how to make websites and learned a bit of dreamweaver and coding. Not bad. I could do better :)