I am feeling much more positive after todays meeting with Nick about careers and my future. I have been updating my CV, website and gathering pieces for my digital portfolio as well as researching job roles to see what I would be more suitable for. I found many print design jobs which sounded good but I feel like maybe I would prefer to work for my self and have my own brand but I was unsure about this as I feel like it's hard to get your foot in the door and maybe I would need experience?? (or maybe this is good that I lack some experience?) Nick was encouraging and made me think of many opportunities- I am going to research art consultants and art agents whilst also researching designers/artists/ brands that I would love to work for, then work out how I could make that become a reality. I feel like having this meeting has made me research further and think about life after graduation, figuring out what I want from life and what kind of lifestyle I would like to lead. I want to think bigger and maybe look at jobs outside the UK, I want to travel after graduating so this might be a perfect opportunity??

Also, I need to think about who my audience is? What are the audiences of similar prints/ homewares? Where is this audience? How can I show that my work is suitable for many contexts?

This meeting has also made me think about how I could continue making work now which shows various skills that I have, meaning that I have a broad portfolio (for example using typography for degree show shop products to show that I can place type and using interesting and appropriate fonts for stationary brands). I also need to show that I am willing to learn new things and that I am a good and quick learner. I feel like I do learn things fairly fast and I can work on multiple projects on one go- as Ba3b has shown. 

I need to ensure that my website is more informative and professional and even have an option for people to buy. I also think I should look at other freelancers/artists/designers' websites to understand how to make it creative but easily accessible. 

Discussing my wallpaper made me realise that I need to think about what it looks like from far away- I think I need to alter the background in order for it to flow with the other shapes. I also need to clean up the edges now it has been printed out large, I feel like that if I didn't get them printed, I wouldn't see those small faults and also understand the scale and realise that the scale does work. 

website: ameliaellwooddesign.weebly.com

Website in progress

For the rest of this week I plan to complete a few more 1 metre prints for Project 3, Reassembled Space. Today I colour tested the pale background shades as I decided to not dye the cotton before hand any more and to just procion print as I am confident as achieving the right shades in this process. I feel that this is the most practical and efficient way of using my time and skills after trying out dyeing and being fairly unsuccessful with the pale neutral shades. 

in the process of colour testing for my background layer