In the workzone!!

meetings and presentations

Yesterday i had my first presentation before a company. Last week i've been hard at work creating a layout and visual style for the magazine i'm making for Lions club Nootdorp-Pijnacker. I went through their briefing with them focussing on these important factors: A magazine to keep and attract sponsors. It shouldn't look like a glossy and it should show the fun of helping, the helped people and and not so much on the club it self. What I felt I needed to do was to create a lower threshold of helping.

I looked to my diaries. They have an extremely low threshold and people always seem to want to look at them. Not to mention they're sincere and most of all human. Something important when creating a magazine about people being helped.

A couple of pages from my last journal

So i went to work, and created something that would have that diary feel, yet be a bit cleaned up. And a bit easier to read. It should be fun, but informative as well. I came up and presented the following:

And guess what? They liked it! Pleasantly surprised they said. It was something they could work with. Of course it wasn't perfect. I need to make the second spread a bit more calm. But the whole style and look was approved. Presentation went well as well. I'm still too fast of a speaker and that really rattles everyone, but knowing that it's my fast speaking that's a big part of my presentation flaws means i can focus on that and fix it.

So it's an exciting week. Now i'll be waiting for text and making some illustrations for the magazine. seeing as we gave each topic a place in the magazine. (i'm at a loss for the proper english here)

warm up painting

Warm up self portrait from this morning

werkoverleg/work meeting

Today was my weekly work meeting. On todays agenda: planning, communication and concepts. All having to do with the magazine i'm making for the Lions club in Nootdorp- Pijnacker.
I get my ass whooped, the chance to take a step back and see what i'm doing and reassess myself and make the necessary changes to keep going forward.
These weekly meetings are extremely helpfull. And it's a good chance to keep conversation alive about what you're making and what you're communicating. Sometimes the ideas and opinions of others help give new insight.

Modern Icons

3 of a series of 5 paintings i've made about modern icons. I've looked at medieval icons and their use and meaning and then translated that to how we look at modern celebrities these days. And found that people worship today's stars in the same fashion as people once did with icons. Celebrities have become in a sense, modern icons.

small intern update

So school has started once more. And smack bang next to my intern ship i've been attending a theory class and catching up on crosslabs with a task.

Today i have a follow up appointment with the company Orator. A communications bureau that works mainly with large construction companies to get potential clients interested in their company and ideas. They take something like construction and give it an idea, give it a starting point. Make it human so to say. I originally went to get an internship. But i've been given the great opportunity of an assignment.  One that allows me to make a 12 page brochure/magazine for the lions international club. I'll be getting guidance from Orator, but it's expected that i show all the iniative. Something i'm completely up for.

I've been busy with another assignment which i've put on the back burner for now because of the task i mentioned above. I've been making pictures for that. So i'll post those tonight. I'll also be showing some of the work i've made in the previous months.