www.cargocollective.com/ifd

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www.cargocollective.com/IFD/

Immunityfromdestruction is currently having domain problems, this is my alternative for now.

Invoice and CV

Portfolio imagery

Due to a struggle I am having with my pdf uploader I have had to add the imagery files of my portfolio on separately.

For the FMP hand in I have added my digital portfolio to a DVD ROM which accesses the full finalised version including the title and description of the projects which are being displayed.

This weekend I went to the Adelphi in the 'lovely' Liverpool where a tattoo convention was held, I was kindly given a part of the display stand of local Leeds tattoo shop, Ink vs Steel to raise awareness of my brand and sell merchandise.

Below is a photo of my space you can see the print in the back, the lovely Gabbi modelling my womens vest dress and in the right hand corner my t shirts being displayed on the table.

I just so happened to get a tattoo as a thanks for letting me come down and use some of the stand.

As with the tattoo show I promoted and sold more of my work in the Leeds college pop up shop, This will allow IFD to steadily get it's name out among the creative crowd.

Business card

Pop up shop at liverpool tattoo show

I have been down to see a lot of people in the passed few days, I have made strong contacts with a few clients at shops based upon Leeds, these include paper sis, stone, who will be purchasing some of my print work.

On the wall will also, as will the other store.

The pop up shop was a good way to visually show who I am, although a slow day I made a few sales and gained a lot of interest which made going a great success.

Hype

To my surprise I received a few emails from Hype and Macbeth asking to see some of my work for feedback which is great as the companies are very busy and don't tend to reply to emails as regards design.

Contacting

I emailed a few more brands today in hope of gaining some new contacts out of it, some of my design heroes who's names are anonymous as it stands. In having these names I will then contact them and gain feedback on my design work and hopefully gain a stronger portfolio and possibly placement.

Blog

I recently re invented my blogs appearance as it was such a basic layout and was sky blue and girly with awful typography. I think that having a visually attractive blog is a key element within design so I altered the blogs appearance in colour type and pt size added links and then added a visual header which makes the blog really cool to look at.

www.c-matthews0811fmp.blogspot.com/

Sixpack clothing

I contacted sixpackclothing and got an email back from a nice man named Matthieu (who I assume is French) he asked me to send him a few images of my work, so I sent it out to him and am now waiting back for a reply as to wether or not they are interested in purchasing some of my designs for their website.

Graniph

Si Scott recommended contacting this company: Graniph

I basically filled in all my details

Then added three images set to 72DPI and 400x400 pixels in Jpeg format.

Then I received the confirmation informing me that I would be entered into the monthly selection to see if they would like to purchase my work

Portfolio Surgery

I had my surgery with Si Scott, his feed back basically resulted in me gaining a series of websites and illustrators to check out and gain contact with, I learned about Graphic novels and to possibly explore them, also to check out some clothing sites such as Granoph, Threadless and 6 pac clothing . also to check out Del Naka and insect 30 design. I gained a stronger market and got a lot of inspiration and some interesting companies to contact and possibly get some prints done.

The works

The reply

the works

I just emailed a local skate park to gain some photographic research towards my skate brief and to get an idea for lay out and the context my work will be featured