www.jadebarrett.co.uk

After a lot of extra work i am excited to reveal i have created my website, check it out and let me know what you think! I wanted a simple and contemporary user face that allowed viewers to easily navigate across the site. I decided to move on from Wixx (which served me well). Even though i used a website helper, this is something i have never done before as for some of my photos and external features i had to explore into html coding. After much frustration getting my photos to roll together as a collection here is the link below!

www.jadebarrett.co.uk

Portfolio Inspiration

Looking at different portfolio idea i decided to have a laser cut white acrylic folder, Here are some of my inspirations for portfolio that lead me to my final product.

Inspiration

Klo portfolios- I wanted a laser cut straight through portfolio to allow my work to be seen through, either a pattern or plain colour will be put behind.

The idea of plastic piano hinges to make the whole thing come together works best for me.  

White acrylic looks sleek and professional with a contemporary simple design lazer cut into the acrylic 

Had great difficulty finding a suitable D ring for my portfolio but finally came across a company in china that sold a 4 ring d ring for A4 folders. 

My Folder 

After having problems laser cutting i found a company that could do it for me ,  i decided on a A4 and an A3 folder for my sketchbook work,  below are some images of me making my portfolio, including riveting the binder in place. 

Illustrative Line up

After creating my fashion face below is the full illustrative line up of my 24 piece collection of 'Fluorescent Pastel Punch'

My collection has an eclectic mix of textures, knits embellishments and prints to create this tongue in cheek collection 

Jade

Business card ideas

There are so many different creative and unusual ways to have business cards, this draws in an employer to ring you for work, so must be sleek and contemporary.

Below are some ideas of business cards that inspired me to design my final card. 

 Laser cutting- Origianally i wanted laser cut business cards to match my portfolio, but due to pricing costs this was too expensive .

Punch printing- The most likely choice for my cards , these card above are shiny card with punched text and glitter at the top, very creative!!

Foil Printing -Looks amazing on textured papers for contrast, however very expensive to do.

 Printing on numerous different papers- for example above on tracing paper, not very durable though.

Different sized cards- Effective however usually business cards are held in a purse or wallet so this would be ineffective.

My Design

Card is punched on the text so has a sheen over it 

All links and QR code on the back 

Fashion Face

I needed illustrative style of doing my fashion faces that gives a cheeky tongue in cheek feel. As my collection is humorous. I was collaging ideas together and made this face using elements from different images. 

Having the hair in coke rollers is a quirky way to have 1950's hollywood kitsch.

However i wanted to go further than just collaging my own photos together, and so put coke can rollers in my hair and pulled numerous funny faces, i then used photoshop to add the glasses and crazy coloured hair. 

Here are my final 8 faces with slight changes

I also made over 35 different combinations of faces with different coloured hair, various props and faces. Here are some of the others below. However for the final ones i made the neck smaller to allow fit onto rest of illustration.

Composition Explanatory Flats

Although the illustrations for this collection explain my fabrics textures and technical detailing i have also made rendered flats. This shows exactly what the garment would look like if my collection was to be made. Here are previews of some of my rendered flat CAD's below.