OUGD 602// Email Sent to New Clients: Propagation House

Propagation House is a residential recording studio in Cornwall. I have got to know the owners Mark and Marina over summer and have worked out a plan for me to create a visual identity for the studio and redesign the website. They have been running the studio science 1996 and have had some amazing world famous acts record there in that time so this is a huge opportunity for me.

You can find their current website here: http://www.propagationhouse.com/

Hi Marina,

Firstly I'd like to thank you for the opportunity to work on this project and also for helping with getting all the bits together for me to have a look over!

I've just moved back up to Leeds and the 3rd year starts tomorrow morning, so if yourself and Mark are still happy with me doing this I'm good to start as soon as possible.

My plan of action would be to have a look over the stuff you send to me and use this as framework to produce a few examples of logos and identity that I think would work well for propagation house. If you guys like some of the ideas I come up with we can move forward from there, which would be great. At the same time there is no obligation for you to use any of the work I produce at all, it will still be a great bit of experience for me, and will still go towards my grading.

Thanks again for everything,

Luke.

OUGD 602// Summer Placement at 42 Square

 I managed to get a summer placement at a design agency down in London Bridge called 42 Square. It was a great bit of experience and taught me a lot, both about being a professional designer what it would be like to commute into London every day. My contact at the studio was a guy called Marc, really helpful with setting me up and going thorugh the processes with me.

The plan for the week was to help develop a new website for healthy living in London schools. On Monday morning we had a briefing and then got to work. I also spent some of my spare time drawing sea monsters. Below are just a few images of the development of the front page of the healthy schools site. I also worked on some graph pages and interactive options pages.

Overall the experience was extremely helpful to my professional practice, giving me a level of experience that I would not have got from doing a simple studio visit.