~ Alphabet ~

Alphabet Leeds & Manchester stands out to me massively for internship potential. Their style of work is contemporary, fresh and very alike the outcomes I feel I would produce myself. 

~ Mark ~

Mark is an independent branding and graphic design studio. Since 2005, it has been producing work for clients of all kinds and sizes, winning a fair few awards along the way. Mark likes to keep things simple, works hard to understand a client's business and what makes it different, and works harder still to communicate that difference in the most engaging and effective way.

~ LOVE ~

Love (Manchester) is a design-led agency that takes an integrated approach to storytelling, utilising advertising, branding, digital and experiential to meet its clients' aims. Love believes that design sits at the core of brand success, and seeks to develop visionary solutions that drive conversation and engagement for global brands.

Visually I find their work really appealing, its a broad range of styles and finishes which shows their willingness to experiment. 

~ Music ~

Music studio Manchester is an award winning studio. That focus on fun, target audience lead design. They have an internship scheme already set up which makes it appealing for a future potential placement. 

David Simpson and Matthew Beardsell opened Music studio in the Northern Quarter of Manchester back in 2007, with the intention of establishing a hardworking yet fun-loving environment where creatives would feel supported and valued.

That rationale quickly bore fruit, and Music has since grown into a successful 24-strong team that works across branding, digital, advertising, experiential design and interior solutions, with an original approach being the only pre-requisite for tackling a brief.

"The vibe is hardworking and fun – hopefully a place where individuals feel supported and valued," say Simpson and Beardsell.

~ Creative concern ~

Thinking forward about internships this year i'm looking into studios that interest me due to style, values, project focus etc.

Our ethical approach

Creative Concern is an ethical agency with a strong commitment to continuous environmental improvement and sustainable development. We aim to minimise our environmental impact through good management and by adopting business best practice and greener alternatives wherever possible, throughout our operations. Here are just a few of the things we are doing to reduce our environmental impact.

• We calculate our carbon footprint and offset our emissions every year.
• We are a Buy Recycled business and are very proud of the fact we achieved Gold standard in the Environmental Business Pledge scheme.
• We have even developed our own standards for sustainable design and production. We call it Design for Life.
• We have introduced low energy lighting to our office environment and use 100% recycled paper in our printers and copiers. We have full office recycling of glass, plastics, metal, paper, card, printer cartridges and CD/DVDs through Emerge Recycling.
• We use public transport or walking/cycling wherever possible. We are members of the City Car Club car scheme for those trips that require car travel. The car club scheme is a greener, less polluting option that encourages staff to use public transport into the city centre and home again, whilst only using the car for essential trips.
• We buy our energy from a green supplier – Good Energy. Good Energy is an independent renewable energy company based in Wiltshire. Good Energy’s commitment to its ethical values as well as to promoting and developing renewable energy in the UK has been independently accredited by the Ethical Company Organisation over the past three years.
• We are a founder member of a European network of agencies focussed on sustainable development communications called DNS.
• We have also developed a trusted partnership with Faelix web hosting, a local web hosting company with strong environmental credentials, that utilises low energy technology.

Creative Concern is an active supporter of a range of environmental and ethical causes. This has included contributing our time and skills on a pro-bono basis for a number of charities and environmental organisations.

I am particularly interested in Manchester based design studio Creative Concern. There focus on sustainability and ethical concern is something that stands out massively to me as a designer.

~ OUGD602 - Personal Professional Practice 3 - Module briefing ~

Interim (PPP presentation) 30th March & Deadline Monday 15th of May 2017

- Preparation for employability 
- Skill set
- Area thats unique to you when moving on from education 
- 2 weeks Internship - sooner the better
- Action plan (portfolio/promotion pack)
- Networking, studio visits, exhibitions, visiting speakers etc.


Brief one - Personal Branding
Brief two - Design strategy

LOOK AT REQUIREMENTS & Elements that should be produced & considered 

~ Taking care of buissness - e ~

Due to the overall concept of the business and the name I decided it would be an interesting idea for each of us to create a variation of our letter 'e' that expresses our design style. 

Similar to Snask's approach this idea could then be taken further so that each e represents  a service we provide for clients.

Due to my interest in illustration and markmaking techniques used within design I decided to illustrated within the template of the letter. The illustrations show my imagination and personal style well.

For the final execution I vectored the illustration and made it orange; orange showing my happy and outgoing personality and injecting some colour into the design.

Each of us created our bespoke e designs expressing the way we work; giving us a range of digital, hand drawn and printed styles. This has then been partnered with a small description of the areas each of us specialise in. In theory each of these could be on the website and when clicked on link to a more descriptive page about each of us and the things we bring to the business/services we can provide.

I also took each of our designs and made them into a gif, this could be posted onto social media and web platforms to effectively show our diversity as a collective of creatives.