Graphic Agency's

So I couldn't find a poll of the top 10 Graphic agencies so I have decided to compile a selection of highly rated ones, In no particular order:

Creativepool

Thinking Juice

Purple

Ecom Digital Recruitment

Propel

Monster

Reed

Coroflot

Aquent

Gabriele Skelton

F D. Roosevelt work...

around again...

The message that got me through last night when I was researching Mr Franklin was:

'The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.' - F D. Roosevelt.

I think that these words are an inspirational motivation to any project I encounter. After our critique today I received a lot of positive feedback to take away from me, and it was the least painless crit I have yet, which puts a positive on the day, I think this is mainly because I thought I had a strong piece of work to show.

So it's back to the drawing board, a new brief and a new mentality. I think this new work will be exciting because it's packaging and re-branding. So I shall see how it goes. The work from the crit will be posted soon.

Roosevelt tutorial

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself"- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fear could be that I went into my tutorial today with not much of an idea, but a lot of research? I was confused about what I wanted to do for my final piece when I went in, and I think I'm even more confused about my final outcome when I came out...

I think that there is a long night ahead of me experimenting on ideas.

The client...

I have been doing some work for a company called Linx financial solutions, designing a logo and stationary for them. From throwing ideas back and forward we have almost reached a conclusion...When you design something for someone you don't expect them to completely change the whole thing!! and what they came back to me with.. looks awful I mean.. who stretches text? It looks unprofessional! So most of the morning has been spent re-doing bits. You also get to have a preview of the work..

How it's going to work...

I decided last night, that because it is the start of a new year, the blog will change, it's going to include a lot more of what influences me, interesting work and obviously work I am doing currently, I also want to keep it a lot more to the point, instead of those huge essays, Cause they just bore me...

Was having a look at some of the links I got on my brief, so I went to the creative review website to check out the Tony Blair identity project:

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2008/january/tony-blairs-new-identity-wins-wallpaper-award

I'm not sure if I really like the designs, but I guess it sums him up as a person. Prime Ministers and Presidents aren't to dissimilar so I think this will help me with Mr Roosevelt.

Back to uni

Back at Uni for a week, and this is my first post for a few months. I have started on the second project of this unit already... our job, to create stationary for a person we got on a piece of paper. So I ended up getting Franklin Delano Roosenvelt, did some research on his life as a politician and found this real useful website:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/franklindroosevelt/

I think this guy will be a challenge because a lot revolves around politics, hopefully once I get more into it then it will be easier to find his stationary identity.