Today I spent the morning designing three boards for Hallmark that needed to go to print today in order for them to be ready in time. However, this simply involved placing three images on three different boards, tweaking them and then adding the logo so it didn't take long and I was easily able to get them off to print for the time that they needed to go.
After that I spent the rest of the day working on the banners for the Vape competition. I have managed to get a Facebook banner finished and am waiting for Danny to okay the design before I translate it into a website and Twitter banner. I then just need to work on the second competition that Vape will be running soon that involves participants choosing the favourite flavour combination from the liquids available on the website. The winner of this will win 5 eliquids of their choice. We have already discussed this competition and came up with the strapline "mix it up", so I have created a draft of the next banner with this strapline and an illustration of a chopping board, but I am not happy with the illustration and tomorrow would like to give it another go.
There is not a lot of work to do in the office at the moment and I think that this is an after effect of having two students here on placement. Jack has been working here for three and a half weeks now and it has been good and we have been working on separate projects so we haven't been stepping on anybody's toes, but I think that now it is starting to show that the studio doesn't need three full time designers as at the moment there isn't enough work. Jack will be finishing this Friday and going off to do another placement elsewhere so it will be interesting to see if my work pace picks up again in a week or two. As much as it is nice not to be completely rushed off my feet, I do think that I work better under pressure, so knowing I have a lot of time to do little work is making me work at a slower pace, whereas being under pressure would keep me focused. In addition, for the first week or two I completed a lot of work and had a few things come back from their print run that I can use in my portfolio, but for the past few weeks I feel like I haven't worked on half as much, and therefore the work I have to show is not as frequent. If the work load doesn't pick up in the next few weeks I am going to ask if I can write more blog posts and design banners for them and spend more time on the social media for Revolution Inc. so that if I can't work on projects then at least I am doing something to get myself out there and network.
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