Design Jones

Some really cool work from 24 year old designer, Kyle Fletcher HERE. Anyone that can work a pigeon into a logo deserves some respect in my book!

Just ordered a copy of this to refer to at this year’s student workshops. A seriously valuable resource for students, recent graduates and even young design companies, in terms of what potential emploeyrs are looking for and how to best present your work and break in to a tough industry.

“Through more than forty case studies, nearly twenty interviews with experienced professionals, and a series of (nonscientific) surveys, Flaunt is a resource for design students as well as young, experienced, freelance, and independent designers. It explains how one can find a way to cohesively, succinctly and creatively showcase their work through an accessible, effective, and creative portfolio. Flaunt showcases a variety of alternatives through a selection of portfolios that represent both the most common approaches as well as some offbeat executions. Hopefully, this book will help ease the anxiety and burden of creating a portfolio—and, perhaps, even help demystify the process of putting it together, along with the expectations of presenting it.”

Find out more HERE, you can order the book or download it in full as a PDF for just $15!

I found this website/showreel/info film via Computerlove. It’s BooneOakley’s new website but they’ve opted for an innovative use of YouTube, you can check it out HERE.

Computer Love have a link through to one of the most varied portfolios I’ve seen in a while, Kelly Harlan appears to be a very creative and multi-talented designer maker, you can view some of her work HERE.

Over the first year of Ray’s life we been creating monthly updates with photos and short descriptions of how amazing he is. Now that Ray is one year old we’ve been wanting to collate all those updates in some form and blurb.com I think is the answer.

They allow you to create your own one-off books by uploading your own imagery and text, even having control over layout through their bespoke tools and software. You can even put your books up for sale on their store.

I’m also considering using it to create a mock-up for my book in progress ‘Bone to Bone’, the Design Jones portfolio and maybe even finally getting round to creating a wedding album (we’ve been married 5 years so it’s long overdue).