A much needed update

My my it's been quite a long time since my last update!

Since I finished uni I've been busy developing some of my work for my degree show, which is at London College of Communication from 29th June - 5th July, more details here

I've also been creating lots of new items for my Etsy shop iheartrosie, and working on my portfolio, website, and personal branding!

I just thought I'd do a quick round up of my finals for my degree, before sharing exciting new things!

First up - final books for the 'aesthetics of industry' project - patterns, colour, photography and maps

 My favourite project of the year was working on the YCN Package the perfect M&S picnic brief
(for more photos of my fabrics for this project, read here)

Below: Fabrics in product range pattern, food and drink packaging and summer playing cards

Just quickly projects I have covered previously - Vanessa Golborn School of Dance rebrand

And the dissolving umbrella project

 Now I'm off to collect together images for next blog posts! Coming soon - my new Etsy items post, my personal branding and new website, development of YCN project items for my degree show and a small freelance project I've been working on. Come back soon :)

One finished project down, 3 and a report to go..

This morning I finished off one of my projects for the final hand in of my degree in 18 days (I just scared myself realising it's only 18 days away.. no idea how I'm going to get everything else finished!!)

So I thought I would quickly share a few images from the project I have finished.

The brief was to 'make something and explain how it's made'

So I made an umbrella, that has sections that would dissolve if the umbrella was taken out in the rain, and turn from a full umbrella into a detailed parasol.

It was a fun project, I designed the motif on illustrator and then mocked up how the umbrella would look

Then I made a sample panel to see how it looked and test how the dissolvable fabric reacted when water was poured onto it

Here is the finished umbrella, 8 panels each with the same rain cloud motif. The dissolvable fabric (inside the cloud and rain drop shape) looks very similar to the panel fabric, but is slightly more opaque and catches the light beautifully.

I am pleased with how the umbrella came out, I like it too much to dissolve the actual umbrella!

Onto the other part of the project, the explanation of 'how the object is made'. I decided to change this slightly from the brief as how the umbrella was put together was not particularly interesting, but how the umbrella 'makes its change' is much more interesting. So I made a card that has a dissolving umbrella (also made from dissolvable fabric like the cutout shapes on the umbrella) and another little surprise, when dipped in water!

The umbrella made of fabric, dissolves and leaves a cutout umbrella shape, and coloured ink appears in the writing! How did I do this? I used the paper from the 'magic painting' books for kids, when you paint water onto the page and colours appear.. (if you've never used one of these, try it, it is so much fun!) The card explains that when water meets the umbrella, something dissolves and something fun and beautiful happens!

More updates coming soon!

Where I've been recently..

I've been rather quiet recently so I thought I'd do a quick post to let you know where I've been and why I've been so quiet!

It's mostly because I've been working on my dissertation. What's it on you ask? Well the title is 'has technological development resulted in cultural anxiety?'.. So there has been a lot of researching and writing (or at least attempts to!)

And it's partly because I disappeared off to France for a bit.. here are a few pictures!

Beautiful flowers in Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon


Hiking the Dentelles de Montmiral


The next three photos sum up Provence!

Lavender Fields


Olive Trees


Vines full of juicy grapes


Boats in Martigues


Looking across Canal De La Villette in Paris


Our hotel in Paris


Quai de l'Oise sign with added heart!


Since getting back I have been busy doing more dissertation, updating websites for clients, building new websites for new clients, creating new items for my iheartrosie shop on Etsy, planning and buying furniture for my new house and trying to kick Student Finance England into order for buggering up my loan so I can actually go back to Uni and finish my degree!

I will post some pictures and links to new stuff as soon as I can!

Professional Placement Report Photos

I handed in my report this morning and I just though I'd upload a few pictures of the finished printed book. It is beautifully printed and bound. The pictures aren't great as I just took them quickly before handing it in. I will have to take some better photos at a later date..














Really happy with how it turned out. The paper used is lovely and the quality of printing is very high. I used Blurb to get it printed and would definitely recommend it if you want a book printed!

Professional Placement Report Preview

Recently I had to produce a 'Professional Placement Report' as part of the final assessment for my Diploma in Professional Studies. These are a few screen shots of the design as a preview and hopefully in a few days when the finished book arrives I can post some pictures of the final thing.

The cover -
You may recognise this from a pattern I posted a few months ago, I restyled the pattern with the colours I had used inside the book, with the repeated pattern on the back and one motif at an angle of the front cover.



Contents page-
I used the turquoise colour for the contents page, with an introduction and about on the left page and contents page on the right



Spreads 1 & 2 -
I chose green for the section about Croudace, featuring some of my work and a photo from launch day




Spread 3 -
I used purple for the artdesignetc spreads, featuring screenshots from the website



Spreads 5 & 6
Pink had to be the colour for iheartrosie on Etsy, featuring images of products I have made




Spread 8 -
I chose a nice neutral colour for Dorling Kindersley, with images of projects I worked on and a full page image of the view from the office because it was so fantastic!