Manifesto Presentation

Hello Everybody, this is my manifesto :)

I consider and call myself an illustrator, graphic designer and craft maker.

I have many different influences and my main interests lie in many area's ranging from food to music to nature and animals and working with children.

As I progress through the course I can feel myself becoming more environmentally aware and concerned, this concern has came mostly from sources outside of college, for example seeing fracking and things like this on the news is hard for me to ignore.

My environmental awareness is evident in one of the briefs I am just starting out with now - the Save the Bee's one.  I would like to raise awareness of the situation while also making people aware of how they can do their part to contribute to the cause.  I am also planning on contacting green peace for any further information.  I'm really excited about this brief as it is something which can involve the community while also letting me research into something important to me and it should give me a chance to do some good illustration and design.

So what are my main aims and focuses?

Crafts, outside of college I spend a lot of my free time making crafts and am slowly building up a stock of goods to start off my own table at a Craft Fair, the first place I intend to go is the Hand-picked Hall in Leeds, which is a great centre for makers of hand-made goods to sell their work.

Another aim of mine is to gain more experience working with childrens art classes.  One place which I intend to contact is the Artbug Studio in Pudsey which is a creative place for children to make and do art from the ages of 2-11.

Working with children is something I'd like to pursue when I graduate, and am considering doing a Teaching Assistant Course - but not sure yet.

My last main aim I have at the minute is to go traveling to Indonesia and then on to Nepal where my boyfriend and I plan on signing up with the WOOFING organisation, which stands for World Wide Opportunities in Organic Farming which would give us opportunity to work with the native people there helping in schools and on farms doing a range of things.  

I have also put up there freelance design work, it is something I'd love to do but my main focuses currently are on the three other things and hopefully it is something I could keep ticking over on the side.