PEOPLE

In my spare time (when I am not at work or working on a college deadline) I like to take on small commissioned art and design projects for my family and friends. In the past this has been things such as painting a large oil canvas to be displayed in someones home, designing retro inspired promotional t-shirts for a Hull DJ and designing a local football kit.

More recently I have been involved in creating some designs for Fitness Academy Hull, who are a newly established health and fitness group currently based in Hedon. I was approached by their manager and asked to come up with some ideas for a new range of clothing for their members. He was very specific with what he wanted; and the images above are my initial designs which I submitted to him... 


I think that these kind of fun little projects are really important to my development as a designer. They keep me busy and creative; they help me to learn to meet deadlines; they give me the opportunity to develop my skills on different areas of design which I wouldn't usually think about. But above all, what I find the most valuable is that these projects give me people skills! They help me to appreciate what it is like to have to deal with a real client, work on a real timescale, and how important it is to maintain a good correspondence between the client and designer throughout the process. I have also had to learn how to 'talk myself up' which I have never been comfortable in doing, but it is a necessary personality requirement in the design field.