Following 50 Cent on Twitter results in endless amusement.
March 2011
15 posts
You're awesome!! Thank you for following me, it's such an honor! :D
Aw thank you! No problem, saw your Royal Tenenbaums poster and immediately had to follow - it’s amazing.
well i can see why they gave you an offer straight away, your work is brilliant. what software do you use? i'm scrambling loads of work together at the moment, i'm getting square eyes from sitting in front of illustrator on the computer all day! applying for art & design degrees is torture.
Aw thank you! Just the Adobe suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and I do quite a bit by hand.
Tell me about it, I’ve had so many interviews and sample briefs to do. It really annoys me when people act like graphic design is a soft touch - it’s fucking hard to get on these courses.
hey, saw your blog whilst searching for mmu on tumblr & saw your post about getting on the graphic design course there, jealous big time. i've got my interview next wednesday & i'm shitting it, it's my top choice. so i was just wondering what sort of work you had in your portfolio? i've no idea what they'll make of my work D:
I don’t blame you, I was freaking out for mine. I got the place based on my online portfolio so I guess they saw something they liked in that: http://1070116619.blogspot.com/
Pretty much everything in my portfolio is print based and quite typographic because that’s just how I work. I guess just put in your favourite pieces and what shows your style the best. Good luck, maybe I’ll see you next year!
Hi
My course told my class that we need to produce a blog instead of a sketchbook for our research.
However down the side of each pages we need to create pages that we can send certain topics to.
I see you have one for all of your portfolio work, how do you post or tag your work to that certain page?
Hope I am making sense :s
cheeers x
Haha it makes sense. You tag posts as something (like all of my portfolio suff is tagged with portfolio) and then you can link to all posts with that tag like this:
People Who Type Using Capitals For Every Word Really Piss Me Off
Just had to vent.
After 8 long days, I finally have my Macbook back from the Apple store. I was hoping it would be a detoxing experience, spending a week without access to the internet (well I have my phone but it’s not really the same…). But it was actually really awful. A bit like that scene in Trainspotting when Ewan McGregor locks himself in a room with a bucket to get off heroin. Replace smack with a laptop and that was me.
So, lesson learnt: I am too reliant on computers but I honestly don’t mind being a slave to technology as long as I have constant access to amusing twitter jokes and BBC iPlayer.
I have a place at MMU for Graphic Design!
They had 1004 applicants (it’s a 70 place course) and they asked for an online portfolio from all 1004. They decided who to interview from that but they gave 5 people offers without interview, just on the basis of the online portfolio - and I was one of them. Which is a bit mental, frankly. MMU is one of my two top choices and the course is so competitive so it’s amazing to know they actually want me.
I also have a place at Reading but I’m fairly certain I won’t be taking it up. The department was great but I know now that a campus uni really isn’t for me - I need a city, with decent gig venues, a Topshop and properly franchised coffee outlets. Sadly, Reading can’t offer that. But I did get a very nice email from the admissions tutor complimenting my portfolio. It’s weird - I think I’m finally starting to accept that I’m pretty good at this design lark…
Anyway, just a little uni update. I also have my London College of Communication interview next week and then my Leeds College of Art interview in April. Fingers crossed.
