To get myself out there a little more.. 

I have started advertising my graphic design in with my wedding photography.
I have done this through facebook, twitter, networking event with 'build your own business' conventions with business links.

This works quite well as I then earn more through the opportunity to design wedding stationary; such as the place settings, invites and anything else they may want.

Also in aid to get myself out there and to show design companies my work, I have a cargo collective webpage which allows me to create a clean simple online portfolio of which I can add the link to on the bottom of my emails to companies.

Also more about getting myself out there..

Along with my twitter I have linked my Tumblr. This allows me to post my designs and designers I like onto, this then comes up on my twitter. Both working hand in hand to show companies on twitter the kind of work I want to create in the future and what I am interested in along with the work I am doing now.

Twitter!

I am now hooked!
Through being on twitter I know what the design companies I love are doing.
Also new things/news within the design companies, and also job opportunities advertised on there.

My Twitter is also linked to my tumblr. So any work that I am to do and upload onto my tumblr is published on twitter for the design companies to see.

Perfect for advertising my work and getting it out there.

Mmm what to do??

I already have a photography business which is named 'kimberley jayne' but as I am also going into graphic design do i:

a. design another logo called 'kimberley jayne' of which would work over both graphics and photography.

or

b. do I create my own logo for my graphics and keep the same logo i have now for my photography and keep the two separate?

I quite like this little number:

without the lines??

Think ill stick to using the I'm kim thing for my graphics and use this kimberley jayne for my photography.

Enterprise Evaluation.

At the beginning of this module I was really excited to learn some practical skills of which I knew would be hugely beneficial to me. Although I am running my own photography business at the moment it would be very silly and naive of me to think I know everything there is to know about running a business.

Through the lectures and seminars I have learnt a great deal about different aspects of running a business. From thinking more in depth about promotion and getting yourself out their, to the legal side of setting up. It has also benefitted my existing business as well as focussing me more into the future and if in the future I do indeed want to set up a successful graphic design business I have much more knowledge about the considerations. Also as well as learning more about actually setting up a business it has also benefitted me with getting placements over summer, they way in which you speak to people and contact them along with keeping yourself informed with what that studio is doing on a day to day basis. Making me a better candidate going into a job interview and also at networking events.

I also believe that the tasks have helped me a great deal by forcing me to thinking more about the profession I want to go into and what kind of designer I actually am. Whilst I know that the decisions and companies on my tasks will change as I do through the design process I now have a starting point of which I can build on. Furthermore I think the last task of creating a realistic group business in a group of four was very informative. It forced us into researching in depth what is required to be a successful business and what actually needs to be considered in the process of setting up.  I also believe that we worked really well as a group as we split up an shared out the criteria and subjects between us and met up on a weekly basis to feedback to the others on our findings.

Overall I think i have a greater knowledge of what is needed to be considered when setting up and running a successful business. Also a more structured and focussed idea of where I want to be in the graphic design profession and my ambitions within this creative industry.

Final pieces of the presentation.. 


Deciding on the way in which it will be presented, in what order and who would like to talk about what in the presentation, 8 minutes doesn't seem very long anymore!