Search for Terrestrial Life
Yes, I am actually alive.
The past few months have been crazy and fun. Since my last post we’ve been to London to launch our site with a massive party, then the real work started. By real work I mean real clients. In The Project Lifecycle, my group was working for a group of very entertaining clients - Fluffbabes, a company dedicated to making everyday life a bit more glamorous. They wanted us to help them plan their online strategy, and together with suggestions on ways to market themselves we also designed a new blog and a flashy intro page (that will be online soon).
This was followed by work for SVT (Swedish Television) in the second design specialisation module, producing an entirely new profile for the revamped version of the show “Djursjukhuset” (The Animal Hopital). Included in this was a title sequence, two scene-breakers, credits, complete design of their website and ideas for further development to expand on their online value. SVT has decided to make our design official, and after doing some work with it, they will use it for the real thing.
Right now I’m in The Industry Project, where the whole class has been divided into groups of 16, imitating the structure of a real agency. Our PMs are learning organisational skills, we grunts are learning how it feels to work for real and learn how balance in real projects works. Currently I’m involved in producing a profile and website for a company that owns a set of cottages on a small carribean island. It’s fun stuff, and I’m sure it’ll be a cool product in the end.
Also, I finally managed to update my portfolio - perhaps due to this strange maladie that has stricken me since we got proper working hours (no “about 10″ to “when it’s done”, it’s 8 hours a day and then the boss kicks you out) or perhaps it’s everybody else around me getting internships. Either way, I have some more work up now, and it makes me feel a lot better about the minimalist style I chose for the whole thing.