Graduation! - UCLAN, Preston

Well, today was the day I finally graduated!

I have not posted on the blog for a good couple of months but will be picking up my posts again in the next few weeks. I want to keep you updated on any job hunts and also any work placements that I any try to achieve over the summer months. 

Today has been a strange experience, as now it feels real that I am off in to the big wide world, facing employment and standing on my own two feet!

Graduation - Cap & Gown

All smiles!

So, what is the next step? Freelancing? Job hunting, Graphic design? Advertising? Promotional?...

Finally published!

Finally published my own website! 

I am now out there, known to the world, but whether they realise this or not that is a whole other matter.

I set up my new website on 'Wix', which is a free service, easy layouts and a breeze to use. The idea is, whether you are a small business, or a lone designer (like me) their website helps you choose a template best suiting your identity.

Initially you start off with a homepage, deciding on colour schemes and layout, adding titles to promote yourself as soon as a potential client logs on to your page. The further you go on, the more advanced the site gets, changing image settings, positioning of text, alignment of images, quantity, etc. Basically, you are building yourself an online portfolio, creating an interesting site that employers will enjoy and love interacting with.

Website: Molly Kerfoot the Designer
http://mollyxx0.wix.com/watch-this-designer

Mobile version

Mobile version

Mobile version - Contact me!

All Published!

I still need to keep adding to the website, boosting my portfolio, but I am happy with the results so far! 
Check it out!

Want to employ me yet?

Seeing as I am nearly at the end of my degree I decided to redesign my business card as I hadn't updated it for a while. The idea is for me to put them out at our end of year degree show with my work from the year, advertising myself to any potential contacts, and also to use it when out in the big wide world! 

Business card set out

Interesting Internship

While looking at jobs again today I found an internship for Trivago, the hotel price comparison website. Job title below:

Internship

Product / Content / Design

Düsseldorf, Germany

Duration of the internship: 6 months

My tasks if I was to get the position:

• Consistently create new high-quality ideas and concepts for landing pages, our websites etc.
• Enhance user experience, usability & functionality of our website, and our hotel information & internal tools.
• Create new and responsive interfaces for all devices based on our brand guidelines and provide graphic elements for final implementation.
• Design graphics and illustrations that millions of people will see.
• Learn from and teach your international colleagues.
• Help establish and reinforce consistent design patterns.
• Keep up to date with the latest web design trends.

This position sounded exciting and something that was a new challenge, not only is there an opportunity to be based in another country but also how I could build up my contact list, experience another culture and expand my own knowledge and personality. 

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Maybe, if I'm lucky, the German I learnt all them years ago back in school will come flooding back!

Jobs applied for today!

Task for today was applying for jobs. Below is a list of 4 jobs, including company and job title.

•     Jaeger – Product Development Assistant - London
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•     Harrods – Assistant Interior Designer – Knightsbridge, London
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•     Harrods – Retail Graduate Programme – London
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•     East Lancashire Recruitment - Junior Graphic Designer - Lancashire
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     I am excited to hear back from the Harrods Assistant Interior Designer the most because when reading through the description I found that I really interested me. I hadn't thought must about the interior design side of the industry but this job sounded different and intrigued me! So hopefully, fingers crossed, I hear something back.

Sketch-up Model

Only a short post today, based on my honours project moving swiftly forward. So today I thought I'd share with you my sketch-up model, bringing you up to date on the interior. It is nearly complete – I just need to render certain areas, giving a clear indication of what my design purpose is. I have uploaded a range of images to demonstrate my ideas, how fixtures work together, colour schemes and positioning of feature points.

So below are a couple of images of my sketch up model.

Full image of model - not rendered

Cut out section - not rendered

Concept Sketch of interior