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INDUSTRY

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DEVELOPMENT

REFLECTION

WORK

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OKIDO MAGAZINE

8h21JAN

26MAR

RACHELORTAS

+SOPHIEDAUVOIS

THE STUDIO

THE HOUSE

ALEXBARROW

+MAGGIELI

ARTDIRECTOR

+FREELANCEILLUSTRATOR

A CHILDRENS ARTS & SCIENCE MAGAZINE; READERS AGE; THREE TO SEVEN

The Daily Routine

BRIEF

ANIMALS

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MAGAZINE

BOOK

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1 .

idea generat ion:

BR

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RE

SEARCH+

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CO

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CEPTUALIZIN

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1. 2.

AN

IMAL MASK

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LONDON

develop + test :

SHROPSHIRE

CHRISTIAN

wit

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1 .

develop + prototype:

AN

IM

AL FLIP BOO

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an act iv i ty, wherechi ldren can use there drawing sk i l l s to mix bodies of d i f ferent an imals .

head

body

legs

BRIEF

ANIMALS

to come up with a concept and f ive v isualnavigat ion mock-ups for the contents page

BOOK

Commissioned by Thames & Hudson

Sophie asked me to focus on

the Okido Book, more than

the magazine because of my

background of creating

navigational visuals.

2.

contents idea generat ion:

RE

SEARCH

INF

OGRAPHICS

ICO

NOGRAPHY

U

I /UX

DIG

ITAL MED

IA

PR

EVIOUS BO

OK

S

CONSISTENT

KEEPING IT

2.

HABITAT

SIZE

COLOUR

NUMBERSTHOUGHTS

f ive concepts that where sent to Thames and Hudson, Bologna. They thought the st rongest ideas where habitat and separat ing chapters into numbers , i t r ied to combine them.

To gage more feedback i

regularly uploaded screen-

shots to instagram. This gave

me an insight into how i could

change the design.This spread was not approved

by Thames and Hudson as a

contents page but, yes to

a

spread in the book. It

seemed

the world was too confusing.

BUSY

So I worked on the contents

page and decided to go back

to the numbers spread and

develop it, this was approved

for the contents.

REW

ORK

R

ETHINK

Ai

quick

ergonomicp

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ct m

atc

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I don’t know what I would

have done without my graph-

ics tablet. It speeding il-

lustrating up so much. I am

slightly scared of depending

on it now though.

BRIEF

ANIMALS

to des ign a concept cover to send to Bologna Thames + Hudson.

Bearing in mind, the cover

is the first thing people see,

it had to include the regular

characters from Okido.

Keeping the coverconsistent was key.

to des ign a double page spread for the book.

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From previous re

search i had

loads of ideas, b

ut decided

on a board game, t

o teach

children about a

nimal

groups.

( c l o s e d e a d l i n e )

3.

develop the cover :

BR

A

INSTORM

ING

PATHWAY IDEA

( b e a k s + w i n g s )

MAMMALS

FISH

INSECTS

REPTILES

AMPHIBIANS

BIRDS

3 .

develop the spread:

WH

AT

IS AN ANIMA

L?

( s i m p l i f y )s e p a r a t e a n i m a l g r o u p s

INF

OGRAPHICS

ICO

NOGRAPHY

( w a r m b l o o d + h a i r )

( g i l l s )

( 8 / 6 l e g s / w i n g s )

( s c a l e s )

( l i v e i n w a t e r + l a n d )

3.

develop the spread:

the spread is a board game. i t teaches k iddies to ident i fy separate animal groups by thei r i l lustrated d ist inguish ing features .

the key that the k iddies have to f i l l in before they start the game.

THE FINAL WORK

front cover

contents page

double spread

I am massively happy, working at Okido has taught me that you can have a professional environment while working in a home! If anything I think I worked better because i wasn’t afraid to ask for feedback. My goal going forward is that I would love to free-lance for another one of Okido’s issues.I gained great skills working to meet a dead-line, even with a a broken foot in the snow.

Also i have gained invaluable

advice over lunch, for going

forward with my career.

PORTICOGALLERY

21FEB

26MAR

A West Norwood based space and gallery, that has a little problem with visual communication.

2NDVISIT

1STVISIT

3RDVISIT

4THVISIT

ASSESS

MAPPING

QUESTION

USE IT

1 .

assess :

2 .

map:

PLA

N OF ACTION

accessibility

navigation

signage

advertising

system

RE

SEA

RCH METHO

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US

ER JOURNEY M

AP

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ESTIONNAIRE

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AY IN THE LIFE

3.

quest ion:

DANGER

TAXIDANGER

TAXIDANGER

TAXIDANGER

TAXI

The portico project is really

remissness of SVR, but with

real clients, that aren’t the

easiest to get on with. Which

proved a little difficult to

handle.

Community

Welcoming

Facilitative

Low Cost

Active

Craft

Children’s

Arts

because we were working as

a group and are all busy, this

project is still on going. W

e

just need to collate all of or

research together to present.

CRAFTFAIR

7APR

7APR

£The goal for the craft fair, was firstly to produce some happy lilttle prints and notebooks that would hopefully sell! The second goal was to get our name out there as crafters and illustrators, and our work noticed. the third goal was to observe how Porti-co gallery handled having that many people where there and to gage the at-mosphere.

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First goal reached, things sold! second goal reached; An illustrator from Dorling Kindersley Publishing, ask me and Holly to get in contact about freelancing! Third goal, humm, research need to be collated between all of us.

D.I.Y

MIKI + THE MONSTERS

27MAR

16APR

SELF INITIATED

CHARACTER BASED CHILDRENS BOOK

I had a chat with Alex from Okido, and he saw some of the illustrations I do in my spare time. He put forward to me that i should try illustrating + writing a children’s book. Get it printed cheaply overseas, and send it out to various places.

Ai + Ps

I am also hoping these illustrations could feed into my final major project.

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TH

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HARACTER

TH

E STORY

AFTEREFFECTS

15FEB

16APR

PERSONAL + PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

As I do a lot of character design work, i really should be able to animte them. So i have dedicated 1 hour a night to tutorials in after effects . I reckon this will help me when i come to get a job...full pack-age.

SELF INITIATED

By social media, i have been

able to get great feedback

and suggestions, which have

been so helpful.

The goal is to be able to aminate Miki + the Monsters by June 2013.

I have realised that after effects is not like illustrator, it way more fiddly. Also my learning after ef-fects, it as taught me to use il-lustrator better, by using layers.

SAVIOUR & GREAT TEACHER

BERGHACK

2MAR

2MAR

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT + FUN

‘We asked a couple dozen of our smartest – and most forgiving – friends to the BERG studio for a practice Little Printer Hack Day. (A Hack Day is a day spent with a load of people all coding side-by-side to make and show off neat ideas.)’

LEARN TO CODE IF I WANT A JOB!

PER-SONCLUB

1APR

NOW

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT + DUO

Holly and I both illustrate charac-ters, both digtally and print. So we decided to set up an illustration club exclusively for people that make outlandish characters. We are hoping to make a monthly zine/publication of submissions.

BRIEF

NAMING

make a name and ident i ty for our c lub.

H

OOPER

WAT S ON

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develop the c lub:

to have 50 people that know about per-son c lub in 1 week:

SO

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WO

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Include Okido Animals book in my portfolio apply to similar magazines e.g Anorak Magazine.

Freelance for Okido. At any time.

Get per-son club, properly set up and running and put out a printed issue by June 2013.

Find a job when I graduate, that emcompasses, user design, illustra-tion and animation. (From doing this three months I have found my specialiaty, and I love it)

Take my new found love for After Effects and apply it to my final major project.

FUTURE

Interning at Pick Me Up, for Zombie collective. Really looking forward to it.

Workshopping for Okido at the Hay Literary Festival in June 2013.

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