Daniel Barber

The idea of taking a job overseas is terrifying and exciting at the same time. If I really was going to choose somewhere to live outside of the US I feel like I would need to visit before I moved there to get a feel for the atmosphere and culture. On short notice for this theoretical, I defaulted to a place where I at least spoke the language: London.

I don’t know much about London but I don’t know any other languages and at least I like British TV. Plus there’s a sort of romantic idea about living in a big famous city overseas that’s attractive to me.

A quick search revealed multiple job postings for graphic design work in and around the city, but I took interest in this position at Doc Martens because I like their product and it’s a recognizeable brand that would help build my resume. It’s on the low end of salaries to live in London but it’s a hybrid position so I could get an apartment out of town and use their excellent (citation needed) public transportation system to commute when necessary.

Plus I get a free pair of boots, what’s not to love?

Using Clockify, I kept track of my week in as much detail as I thought was necessary. Organizing my time and keeping track of it is perhaps my greatest personal weakness so this was a difficult project for me. As the one who asked the question which prompted the assignment, I personally apologize to my fellow students.

Goofs aside, this was probably a valuable experience and I should try and at least keep track of the time I spend on assignments in the future!

I may have gone a little overboard, but I wanted to practice with Premiere.

Let’s do it. For this assignment I did some quick background work on the artist I was assigned: Empress Of, an electro-pop singer-songwriter from LA! She doesn’t make the kind of music I like to listen to but I did enjoy Kiss Me (feat. Rina Sawayama).

I looked at some album art, skimmed her Wikipedia page and listened to an album, but what I latched on to were some images from a photoshoot with this incredible blue-patterned packdrop:

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The pictures in the red dress especially gave me Art Nouveau vibes, probably because that’s my reasearch topic for Design History, and I wanted to attempt an Art Nouveau-inspired poster. Using one of the photos above and some Alphonse Mucha covers as inspiration I sketched the design in pencil, painted with watercolor, and then inked the outlines.

For the plant imagery I used flora local to her homestate of California.

After adding the text and making some final color adjustments in photoshop, this is the final product!

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