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Joe Leadbeater Level 4 What I’ve Learnt as a Designer and as an Individual

Joe Leadbeater Level 4 What I’ve Learnt as a Designer and as an Individual

Being an ignorant southerner drowning in the North Sea . . .

meat and potatoe pie

pants jesus wept you do well.. raad ma baak

cornish pasty meat and potatoe pie trousers pants jesus christ jesus wept you do well.. you’re doing the right thing raad ma baak ride my bike

Joe Leadbeater Level 4 What I’ve Learnt as a Designer and as an Individual

This time last year....

Liked to draw people in movement - Ice Skaters in Hyde Park

Still haven’t developed my own illustrative style - develop in Level 5?

Took 7 hours each - didn’t even consider selling as prints!

Software Programmes: Photoshop.

MS Paint.

The ENTIRE Microsoft suite.

Designers / Studios David Carson What?

Proud of Where I Study?

Dropped out of Loughborough after recieving an Unconditional.

Began the course here, and voted in as a class rep!

Now

Thing’s I have learnt How to use Adobe Illustrator.

How to use Adobe Photoshop.

How to use Adobe InDesign.

How to use Adobe Photoshop.

What an infographic is.

What the word ‘stock’ means.

The use of stock.

The anatomy of type.

The history of type.

Colour theory.

The history of a book.

How advertising persuades.

RGB. CMYK. Leading.

Kerning.

Tracking.

Script fonts.

Roman fonts.

Block fonts.

Visual literacy.

Sign / symbol / signifer.

Bold / Italic / Bold Italic.

Layout.

Grid.

How to produce patterns.

Editorial Design.

Packaging.

Information and wayfinding.

Infographics.

What a mailshot is.

What a live brief is.

Branding.

Identity.

Design studios.

Design blogs.

How to print double sided.

How to add crop marks.

What crop marks actually are.

Pagination Imposition.

The history of ‘the book’.

Methods of binding.

What a folding bone is.

Modernism.

Postmodernism.

Avante - Garde.

Screen printing.

Laser cutting.

Embossing.

Metal Etching.

Consumerism.

Communism.

Using a scalpel.

The Bauhaus.

Half - tone.

Optical mixing.

Physical mixing.

How to present your work (hopefully)

Thing’s I have enjoyed most How to use Adobe Illustrator.

How to use Adobe Photoshop.

How to use Adobe InDesign.

How to use Adobe Photoshop.

What an infographic is.

What the word ‘stock’ means.

The use of stock.

The anatomy of type.

The history of type.

Colour theory.

The history of a book.

How advertising persuades.

RGB. CMYK. Leading.

Kerning.

Tracking.

Script fonts.

Roman fonts.

Block fonts.

Visual literacy.

Sign / symbol / signifer.

Bold / Italic / Bold Italic.

Layout.

Grid.

How to produce patterns.

Editorial Design.

Packaging.

Information and wayfinding.

Infographics.

What a mailshot is.

What a live brief is.

Branding.

Identity.

Design studios.

Design blogs.

How to print double sided.

How to add crop marks.

What crop marks actually are.

Pagination Imposition.

The history of ‘the book’.

Methods of binding.

What a folding bone is.

Modernism.

Postmodernism.

Avante - Garde.

Screen printing.

Laser cutting.

Embossing.

Metal Etching.

Consumerism.

Communism.

Using a scalpel.

The Bauhaus.

Half - tone.

Optical mixing.

Physical mixing.

How to present your work (hopefully)

Stock

A Brief History of...

Speaking From Experience

Packaging

Branding...

A future career?

Who knew that going to a funeral could help you gain work experience?

At my grandma’s funeral around Easter, I found out that one of her friends’s daughters was a graphic designer...

Fiona Berry - Managing Partner We believe in the power of creativity to transform organisations.

We believe creativity is the most precious commodity of the 21st century.

An international agency - work all around the world.

Client: E - Courier ‘eCourier.co.uk was set up with a simple mission in mind - to use state of the art technology to transform a boring, stressful and unreliable category.’

BIG

BOLD

who?

where?

Joe Leadbeater, a 20 year old undergraduate, studying at Leeds College of Art.

I stay in Leeds (where I study), but out of term time live at home in London.

design experience

in contact with

promotion for GHC events london

Fiona Berry, managing partner at Heavenly, London.

work experience with Sue King, logo designer, london

NB Studios, London.

education

qualifications

merchant taylor’s school northwood

GCSE: 3 A*’s, 3, A’s, 5 B’s.

Venture 3, London. publication designed for Adam Tanser’s Rishi Sodha, 2 Creatives, London.

FMP Photography degree project (graduated BA Hons Photography Sue King, Freelance, London.

Student - LCA Alumni)

loughborough university art foundation

AS: Art: A, English Lang: A Design & Technology: B, Psychology: C

leeds college of art ba (hons) graphic design

A2: Art: A*, English Lang: A, Design & Technology: B

interests

contact

skateboarding, fashion, surrealist painting, DJing & electronic music

lead-bea-ter@hotmail.com http://lead-bea-ter.wix.com/portfolio

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths: Confidence - Personality / Work Experimentation Ability to Learn Concepts Research

Weaknesses: Stress Time Management Design Sheets Illustration Craft Skills

Questions?