I’ve always been a happy jokey person from a young age.
These are some of the things people describe me as and how i believe I am.
I’ve put down some of the good qualities and some of the arguably bad qualities. I think this influences my work as it helps me to come up with some interesting ideas that often either need explaining or people have to wait till I’m completely finished to get the full picture (obviously)
Inspirations:
Creativity has always been with me wether it’s in story form or physical art and design ideas come to me and I love to get them out into the world not really for anyone else just for me but if anyone else enjoys it then that’s a bonus.
Evan Eckard has been one of my biggest influences, since I can remember I’ve loved art but never been great at the traditional painting side which a lot of high school level work is based around. It’s more because I’m lazy rather than my ability to do I just couldn’t be arsed. Teachers never thought about teaching computer based design work and Graphics was definitely not Graphics. Eckard was my teacher, Youtube tutorials were my life staying up from when I got home from school till past midnight to learn all these new skills.
As you will discover I love comics and Marvel has to be my biggest contender for the reason I love them. I never actually got into the reading of comics till a few years ago and I have been bit lazy with keeping up this past year but I’m getting back on top and starting some new interesting series not just from Marvel. It influences my work heavily and they always help to give me a more positive outlook on life apart from the fact I’m never going to have the ability to control time unless you count turning the clocks back.
Films have to be some of the biggest influences to my work (this might just be an excuse to watch them). I’ve taken quite a lot from all different genres (mostly superhero and action) I’ve even been working in a cinema for the past 3 year but had to quit to move on with my life and grow as a designer.
Music is the same as film for me if I ever need a release I’ll put on my favourite songs or play my guitar. Same for if I need to get work on I’ll pop some chilled out songs that I don’t need to concentrate on or that I can sing along to whilst working (I’m actually surprisingly good at multi tasking and compartmentalising).
Talk about briefs we have already done
- Logotype, rebranding
New processes learned
- Book binding
- Screen printing
- Letter press
- Mono printing
All these processes have given me a chance to learn new skills I was aware of but never considered opening up all new opportunities to improve myself as a designer.
I really need to travel more. I don’t exactly get home sick but more like bored as I’ve never just traveled for myself it’s usually with family meaning you have to do family activities which, I do love but I mostly just miss Rose (My guitar) I get agitated if I haven’t played for a while. The image is from my trip to Scotland and I think once I have my new vehicle I will be able to travel whenever I want. I think I also don’t travel because I’m lazy I love the release and being able not to care about things at home and with work but I only remember or can be bothered with this once I’ve actually gone.
Self Branding:
I don’t yet know who I am as a designer. I think I want to go down the path of creating my own comic as this is something I’ve been looking into for years and have been very passionate about but last year I wanted to go int advertising and 2 years before that architecture. I wanted my self branding to be personal to me and help me to create an online presence that I can use to get in contact with professional creative types and hopefully get a name for myself while still being able to post personal posts on other accounts. I designed the logo so that I could link all the accounts together keeping everything consistent and meaning I had an image of me to start with. The colour was selected to fit me as a person, yellow is what I would consider as my favourite colour but it’s garish and doesn’t work very well in block colour. I’ve always enjoyed orange and think it stands out well, it also relates to my hair colour. The typeface is meant to be fun but bold to help me stand out. The mouth is to signify laughter going with the name JoKES and me as a person rather than just me as a designer.
The Time Keeper:
I’ve always been passionate about comics and superheroes, I’m often reminded by family members that it’s all not real just incase I slip into some fantasy world I can never escape. Last year kicked off my comic series and opened up a whole new world for me. This year I sort of slipped back and felt like I wouldn’t be able to finish what I started but as I went through the year learning more and more skills that I wouldn’t necessarily be using within the design of my comic it reminded me of this whole new world and opened it up even further. I started officially writing my comic a few months ago and have now moved onto the design stage after finishing the bare bones of the story (it still needs a bit of tweaking). I have years worth of ideas all written about in different places that I should probably collect together and this is why I know always carry a note book or at least have the notes opened on my phone to jot down ideas.
How I plan on evolving:
I’m hoping my online presence can help me evolve and become more in the know about design and the industry. I need to travel more and definitely get my comic done. Once I have been able to identify who I am I think it will be much easier to decide on who I would like to work with or for. I’ve enjoyed all the visits we’ve had with college but haven’t yet found somewhere I think would completely suit me. The point of my branding was to leave it open, this is me at the moment as a designer, as a person but I think I will eventually change it and create a stronger identity once I know .
