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While I'm updating new design work...

While I was at LapSafe Products, I helped complete a whole new redesign of the companies logo and brand image. After a few ideas were developed, we showed them to the MD's to look through, and after a lot of fine tuning and editing, the new logo was decided, and launched after Christmas.




'The LapSafe® logo refects how its products are mobile. The idea of the circular design creates the look of motion, movement and revolution. This movement suggests progression, that the company is always moving forward, and the revolution suggests that the company is innovative with its products. Combining the circular shapes in different positions made it look fresh and modern, the positions make it look continuous, and shows that LapSafe® is a strong brand that is reliable.
The font is strong, and compliments the logo in a fresh way. The colours both differentiate the words and make the overall design more visually interesting, as well as emphasising the word ‘safe’ in bold. The unique ‘a’ style is modern, and refreshes the whole logo name, complimenting the circlular style throughout.
Using the different shades of colours on the circle, it creates the idea of depth, layers and perspective, that the company is at the center because it is the brand leader. Product development is at the core of the LapSafe® brand, and as LapSafe® was the original creator of the laptop security trolley idea, it seems fitting to produce a logo that reflects this creativity.'

The new logo is being used for all new product literature, business cards, letter heads etc, as well as for their exhibition that has just taken place in Olympia, London.

My new skills in Dreamweaver

So before Christmas, I signed myself up to a Dreamweaver for beginners course because my web design skills seriously were lacking, and all of the jobs I seemed to be finding wanted experience or a little bit of knowledge of website design/updating. So I did the first 6 weeks before Christmas learning some basics of Dreamweaver (albeit learning VERY SLOWLY because of the amount of old people who kept asking questions and didn't really know how to use a computer - the first lesson, which was a whole two hours, was spent on file management... aka moving a file to another folder). I got the jist of it (I only really wanted to know the very basics of where to start, and from there I've been able to play around with everything myself), I have created a website for a sheet metal company based in Great Tey. So this is the website, it's still very basic, doesn't use any of the real photos, and has very little text (as I haven't got it all yet), but it shows the basic frame of the website, which i'm quite proud of. My next challenge is redesigning my own website, and then I've got a couple more websites to design after that, so I'll be keeping myself busy!

I updated my website...

Now it has the whole of my final major project book on it, called 'The Uncooperative'.



Still no luck with jobs yet either, if any employers are looking at this (I don't expect so...) EMPLOY ME :D

My Final Major Project book is BACK...

I got it back from the printers today, so I'm very happy, but I've still got to make my box, which is very frustrating, and I've got to cut my jacket to fit, but apart from that, i should be all good right now :D

Some website lovin;;;'

So I just pretty much finished the website for our college show. We've yet to decide on a name for it, but I think that it'll be decided by the end of tomorrow, mainly because we're going to put them on the postcards. I have used all of the images of the deskspaces as the gallery, and used each individual desk space on each persons page. I have also created thumbnails of their portfolio work, and created a image preview application where a preview appears above the page with the larger versions of the images (this took me bloody ages to figure out), but they're looking good with everyones work (except for jasons whos image sizes I need to sort out)). So there we have it.

Block Foil Front Cover