Day to Day Log

22nd May - Wrote blog post and adjusted the code of the image to make it responsive and work on mobile devices,

27th May - Made some amends to the layout and text of a GGS E shot

28th - Created artwork for a Monsoon banner for Saxon Air

29th - Amended some business card artwork for Success Management and sent the AW to print. 

30th - Did some cut outs of Kingsland Engineering company machinery and placed on a white background.

2nd June - Did more cut outs for Kingsland and also amended the E shot I had been working on.

3rd - Finished E shot and then sat with web designer and learnt how to build it online.

4th - Made some amends to a GGS D400 exhibition stand - balanced out the images and tweaked the layout.

9th - Amended the CNS school prospectus

10th - Continued working on CNS prospectus

11th - Made artwork for Country Cottage D Dodds and Sons, Monsoon and outdoors banners for Royal Norfolk show. Also sent the AW to print.

12th - Put a quote together for Open Door PR business cards and sent to client

17th - Built a practice E shot with web designer.

18th - Artwork for business cards (ODPR)

19th - New branding for Cryptomathic; concepts and the artwork of 5 product banner stands.

23rd - Continued work on Crypto branding and also amended the business card artwork for Open Door.

24th - Sent business cards to print and did some retouching for jewellery company Winsor Bishop.

25th - Created a leaving card for web designer; art working and discussions about mounting the artwork onto foam-ex.

26th - Made amends to the Crypto banners.

27th - Contingency plan made for Open door cards as a reprint was needed for their clients cards. (In House Manager).

1st July - Created a new E shot for GGS

2nd July - Started a map illustration for Westover Vets, an indication of vet visiting days in particular locations

3rd - Crypto banner amends.

4th - Practiced building an E shot on my own - Web designer has left now.

7th - New brief for KMS who want new packaging for their products.

9th - Requested and received printers quotes for the CNS prospectus.

11th - More work on Westover map.

15th - Built my first E shot independently!

16th - Quoted for amending the Lynn Grove Information booklet from last year. Requested print quotes and created a quote for client.

17th - Discussed maps with Westover vets, had a few queries and received approval on map artworks. 

18th - Made amends for the Lynn Grove booklet and also started a new GGS E shot.

21st - Created web ready artwork for artist Tony Lodge and his new website. Front page artwork and the resizing and saving for web images for his online portfolio.

22nd - Broadland High school photography shoot for the new prospectus, sat with photographer Chris and together selected the best shots for the prospectus and the way in which they would be used. 

23rd - KMS packaging artwork

24th - Artworking for Broadland, new images and text inserted into new layouts.

25th - Cut out several images of Broadland students - 5 hours worth of cut outs to be placed in a flick through book in center of prospectus. 

28th - More amends to the Cryptomathic branding. 

29th - Success Management website; updates to the 'About us' page. Had a new person to include, image and text which I added to their website. (Dreamweaver site).

30th - Created an A5 flyer for Lynn Grove, to be placed in local Advertiser.

31st - Our printer is away on holiday next week, consequently I had to learn how to use large format printers for the printing of banner stands and other exhibition equipment. 

1st Aug - Updated the Booja Booja website; needed an update on an ingredient list so amended master PSD, saved as JPEG and uploaded onto site.

5th Aug - Made some amends to the KMS packaging, some more creative ideas were wanted.

6th - Printed out the Broadland Prospectus. Cut out and stuck pages together to create a physical booklet and mock layout for the prospectus. 

7th - Did some large format printing for Seacon. An A3 poster, set up artwork, sent to printer where I prepared the file for print before loading the printer and hitting print.

8th - Did some social media posts. Scheduled for this evening and two more posts for next week.

11th - Made some amends to the layout of the Lynn Grove A5 Flyer.

12th - Built our latest Exhibition E shot but due to the relocation of our website onto a new server did not complete the upload. (to be continued tomorrow).

13th - Assisted Chris (Designer), with the creation of the Wrightform Brand Guidelines. Created some A4 Literature examples and listed the conventions.

14th - Made some amends to the CNS Prospectus; mainly text changes but some consequential tweaks to layout.

15th - I amended the Exhibition E-shot; the image of a curved pop-up was to be replaced with a photograph of a recent stand we did, I then took the generic artwork used for marketing materials and superimposed it onto the stand photograph, that section of the E-shot was then re-uploaded onto the GGS site.   

18th - I inserted the high resolution images into the Broadland High School Prospectus. When doing photography for a prospectus, rather than editing all of the images to a high standard, we will first just select which images we want to use and where. At a later stage, once the images are in place and we are happy with their positions, we can insert the high resolution images and edit them as necessary.

19th - I did more work on the Wrightform guidelines, fine-tuning and getting the file ready for the proof stage.

20th - Changed the size of the Cryptomathic banners, 800mm wide instead of a 1000mm wide. I resized the documents and then proceeded to scale the content down to fit the new size.

21st - Began some design concepts for a MoCo van. Not definitely going ahead as a job and didn't know the specifics of the vans, so spent an hour trying out designs on black and white vans of different sizes. 

22nd - Worked on a GGS leaflet, marketed at engineering companies. I prepared the final artwork and then we discussed whether we should print these in house or get them printed elsewhere. A practice print on the printer downstairs showed that duplexing on such a heavy material comes out slanted.

26th - Retouched an image for the UEA. Our photographer Peter, took a photograph from inside one of the rooms on campus. He then took a photo from outside the window to give a clearer and better image of the view. I had to combine these two images by using a mask to outline the edge of the window and then insert the better quality outside image into this mask. I feathered the edge of the mask and adjusted the levels of the image to make it seem more realistic. 

27th - Worked on a flyer for Tony Lodge. After just having his new website built with us, he wanted some postcards that he could hand out with his contact information. The postcard uses the same main image from his website with his contact details on the reverse. I resized the web image to fit on the postcard and then created the artwork for the main and reverse sides. 

28th - I made some amends to the Westover Vets maps. I made them more detailed by drawing on the roads and rivers, this made the maps more fit for purpose as people could identify their area on the maps more easily. They could use the roads as a reference point to figure out which area they are located in. 

29th - I created the artwork for a new Roger Skinners banner. I included the dog food pack shots which we had in our archive and laid them out to match an A3 poster which they had done recently. 

1st Sep - Made some amends to the images in the Broadland Prospectus. The images of the students in the middle were looking rather dark and unsaturated so I created an action in Photoshop and applied it to the row of thirty students. I used levels to brighten the images, and then I increased the saturation and included more yellow.

2nd - Today I liaised with someone who works at the local printers. He came in to discuss some printed proofs of the CNS prospectus and we gave him an older version of the prospectus that he could match the colours to. 

3rd - I did some more work on the Westover maps, I resized them so that they can be zoomed in on without becoming blurry. We realised that if we export them as GIF files in an Indexed colour mode, at 1500px wide, this was the optimum format for them to be in.  

4th - Built the latest GGS E shot and sent a proof around the building.

5th -  Spoke on the phone to Cryptomathic about the main images used in their banners. They were having doubts about the main images which we had selected and so we discussed possible alternatives and also ways in which they can be improved. Spent some time going through stock libraries to find better alternatives. 

8th - Fixed the logo section of the GGS site. We realised on Friday afternoon that the logo section of our website wasn't loading images properly. We were planning on sending out an e-shot advertising our logo services and so it was crucial we had the site working by Wednesday. I managed to fix it though, to my surprise, by simply adding in new images and this seemed to fix itself. 

9th - I put together a quote for some billboards and bus shelter adverts for CNS. I worked out how many hours I thought we might spend creating the artwork and sent over a price based on this.