I want to talk in this post about my plans in the future. In general future is something uncertain and even though I might be making plans now to fulfil my goals, I can’t never know how it will actually turn out, but at least setting up my goals helps me to go to the direction I would like to go. So this is basically what I’m going to talk about in this post.
When I think about future and what I would like to do I can already say I know what I would like to do. I already wrote a letter from my future self here and I must say that it reflects well my opinion on the things I would like to do. For example I still want to be the person that will create metal band logos, because I always used to find them fascinating and it was something I talked about in my personal statement when I applied for this course as well. For more than half of my life I’m listening to metal music and it’s definitely something that I want my work to be about.
The other thing I would like to do is to develop websites from scratch. Since childhood I always wanted to do something with the computer, like IT or so, but I was always an artsy soul. People used to tell me that a lot and it is something I’ve noticed myself too. So graphic design course seemed to actually connect both of those things together and so does website design. I can still be an IT person in a way and to be honest make a generous salary if I will get good at it. This is why I want to practise it in the summer time and make some websites, so I can finally show it on here and not only. I want to make a use of this blog and upload my portfolio about it.
Then there’s advertisement campaigns and branding. Since I’m a fashion blogger for more than 2 years now, I have seen a lot of advertisement campaigns on social media and this is something that got me into it in the first place. As a blogger I do a lot of advertising of the products on daily basis. I’m also the one that was to do all the creative writing, that’s why I think I found it easy to write my text for leaflet for design practice. Speaking of design practice module, I believe it plays a huge impact in the fact that I want to do some branding. The whole idea that I get to create not only website, but other things on top would still keep me in design direction more than just with the website design. I have seen some amazing branding examples during this term and it keeps me exited when I find the new ones. The thing I’ve noticed that most of the branding identity designs are very simplified now, which I believe it’s hard to achieve.
In conclusion, there’s quite a few things I image myself doing which is website development, metal band logos and branding. This is something I will be working on in my free time too, because I want to be able to have something to show when I will be applying for work placement.