William Murray Hamm Interview

After the BA2a hand in we had a week off for assessment, in this week I made myself a pdf portfolio and set about getting a placement over the summer. I send emails to all different agencies inside and outside of London. 

I emailed Chris Ribet with my attached portfolio who seemed to be impressed I was asking for a placement during my second year. We arranged an interview time for me to go to their London studio and talk through my work. I was really nervous about the interview as I didn't really know what to expect but it went well and I have been offered a placement in June. 

Williams Murray Hamm was founded in 1997 and is celebrating it's 20th year. They mainly work in fast moving consumer goods such as food packaging and branding. They have worked on redesigning the Barclays Bank identity, Juiceburst packaging and Carlsberg. Last year they came to the Lecture Programme at NUA, I thought their talk very inspirational. They work with D&AD a lot and want to nurture new talent coming in through students. 

Interchange - Book Binding Workshop

The uni held an event called Interchange, where we are all encouraged to try a new skill from a different course. I was lucky enough to get a place of the Bookbinding Workshop where we learnt the process of creating a hardback book. 

From creating the signatures and stitching them together, to gluing the spine and covering the book. We did the whole process in a day. I really enjoyed this workshop and I feel that I have a new skill that is practical to use within graphic design. Hopefully you are reading this Reflective Journal in a hardback book. If not there there was a lot of stress binding this!

Illustration Workshop

Waterstones in Norwich have started to run illustration workshops on Thursday evenings. Each week has a different theme to explore a different area. The first night I went we looked at creating collages from found and made images. We were given a list of quick tasks to do such as creating patterns and textures to use later in the collage. 

It has been nice to do something off a computer and using more fine art skills. I used to enjoy drawing and painting in sixth form and school and have missed it over the last few years. I will continue to go to the workshops when I am available.