Currently I am looking down the barrel of a gun called graduation. I only have this and next quarter to prepare, it seems as though it's a million miles away and also just a step to the left. Right now I'm looking at three essential step to graduate on time and with the best prospects available.
1) Get an internship
2) Redesign my Portfolio (again)
3) Finish creating my personal website that matches all of my collateral
In some regards I feel I've ben progressing along quite nicely. I've nearly finalized my letterhead for cover letters and I'm nearly done redesigning my resume to match. However I didn't realize how large of a task recreating my portfolio would be, new pieces must be made, old ones must be updated & finding a way to elegantly display it all is turning out to be more difficult then expected.
Perhaps the largest project I am taking on is creating a series of book covers. I created one last year that I have always been extremely pleased with its outcome, however I've sense realized it would be a much stronger piece if it was a series instead of a stand alone.
The original cover I created in Photoshop with the help of some stock photos and a beautiful type face. I used Bathing Beauty - 1 by mjranum-stock as reference for the woman, smoke stock photographs (used for all of the covers) came from the talented ISOStock. The final element used is the Champagne & Limousines type face by Lauren Thompson, which is also used for all of the covers. The second and third covers also used stock from mjranum-stock's gallery. The final step is to purchase some high gloss paper, print them out, place the covers on real books and then have a photo-shoot.
