Portfolio Visit Three-Glorious Creative

For my third Portfolio visit I had a meeting with Tom Shaughnessy, Design Director for Glorious Creative LTD. The company is a Graphics company and has been established since 2002. This was an interesting meeting with Tom and I valued his opinion on my illustration- based portfolio.  He is a practicing Graphic designer an area I have only studied from afar and illustration is a new practice it was a good test of my work so far. When viewing my work he thought I had a lot of varied approaches and suggested that it may good practice to enlarge my images to an A3 format so they give more details. He also advised that laying out all my designs of the floor to see what is visually strong in order to detect my strengths. My recent designs for our Folio brief was an area of interest to him and I was surprised that the designs I hadn’t submitted were the ones he was most interested in. He made some suggestions to a couple of images he liked and said if they could be altered in a small way he would be interested in a large print of it himself.  This feedback was really pleasing to hear, as I believed my work to be directed towards surface and craft designers. We spoke about the industry as a whole and he explained that it was important that I have a narrative to my work. This I have come to realise this is a necessary equilibrium needed when planning my designs. We also discussed different approaches to design and he advised that all designers should balance a method of application, content and editing skills.  He commented that I had a good use of colour and that my images contained some good composition work. I have asked Tom to review my work again early next year as I feel his advice is something I will try to improve on.gloriouscreative.co.uk