Final Chupa Chup Campaign

It's been ages since I posted but I was just so busy at Uni! This is the completed final Chupa Chupa Campaign- the print campaign and the promotional material for sponsered Chupa Chup Club Nights. Our concept is that Chupa Chups are the new Zeitgeist. Smoking, drinking and drug taking are uncool and unclassy. Have a Sweet High instead!

Good ad!

I am totally against the gun use in America. It' something that really needs to change and this advert is so good as it shows how crazy the gun laws in America are. Why ban Little Red Riding Hood and not a gun?

Back at Uni

Started back at Uni on Monday and got my grade for my storybook.... A!
I'm so happy as I put so much work into it. I'm glad Jo liked it and she personally complemented me on Tuesday!

We had a different tutor for CTS on Tuesday. He's great! He's given us a long list of reading for our essays, and as you know I am a massive geek so can't wait to get stuck into that. I've already ordered three books from Amazon!

Our chosen campaign for the Pitch brief is Chupa chups by BBH. Last week I sent a box to Singapore (the agency that creates the campaign) and today I got a reply! They want to take part in a skype conference when we pitch! To even hear back from them is amazing. Today has been a good week!

It's finished!

I finished the book today. It's been sewn together, which was actually easier than I expected and I've mande the front cover out of mountboard covered in velvet. I'm really happy with the way it looks and proud of what I've made. I hope it shows my tutors my skills and I hope the effort and work I've put into it shows.

Painting begins

As soon as I got home Friday night I started painting and I'm really pleased with what I 've done. Four day of solid painting and my fineliner is well and truly dead but its done. Some of the pages could have been better if id had more time, but overall I'm happy with the way it looks. It will probably look better when it's all come together and bound. Will be seeing Sam on Wednesday so he can show me how to do it then.

Second time lucky

Been in to Uni today to re print my book. On Tuesday I found A3 cartridge paper at only 15p a sheet so just bought 5 of those and cost me next to nothing. Its thinner than the other paper but still suitable for painting on. I thought the printing aspect of today would be fine as me and Steve managed to do it only a couple of weeks ago. Of course, nothing ever goes simply with me. We couldn't work out how we had printed it and between us we probably killed a couple of trees with the amount of paper we printed out. After fiddling with the printer settings of Indesign for about three quarters of an hour I finally managed to print the damn thing. And... I printed it perfect bound, the way I had orignally wanted to print it, as opposed to a booklet! Don't ask me how I did it, I still don't know myself. The ink smudged a little onto the paper but no where near as much as it did before- its perfectly legible and looks so much better. I'm so glad I decided to reprint it. It was worth the time, effort and train fare into London.

Rethink

So over the weekend I was looking at my book and I'm not happy with it. I tried to convince myself that the smudging was ok, and on some pages it is. However on other pages the writing is illegible. I'm not going to hand in something shoddy so I've decided to re-print it. I'm going to have a look in the shop tomorrow for some thinner paper.