Author: Jo Cheung

Woohoo! Gia-London website is now officially online! After almost a year’s worth of work I have to say I’m so happy to see it up. We had a little party/ sample sale to celebrate see here for the photos.

At the very start of the project Najia the creative director was happy to let me do what I thought was an interpretation of the Gia world, something nostalgic, playful and fresh. After lots of prep work and so on I used these elements and created the web pages and desktop backgrounds, icons, the Gia Birds well everything.

This experience has been throughly amazing and extremely worth while, partly because I started this project when I was doing my major project. At the time when I told one of my tutors they were like, “Er don’t do it because you only have one chance to do your major project.” Hmm well frankly  I DISAGREE with this and I did it anyway. Surely the whole point of being in uni is to do as many things as possible, to gain as much experience as you can before you graduate. it kinda just shows in your portfolio you haven’t been doing uni work but things outside.  I’m not going to go on a tangent but you should really take advantage of your time at uni and explore as much stuff as you can. And now I’m in a position where I would LOVE to do some work experience but can’t really to afford to work for free.

Do what YOU think it’s best in your personal interest and DON’T let your tutors dictate what you should and shouldn’t do because like I said experience is really going to get you somewhere especially now that it’s pretty tough.

I’m now the freelance graphic designer and illustrator so designing e-mail banners and newsletters, packaging, backgrounds…. fun fun fun! I want to do more things like this, never really considered being a digital designer but now I am!

My Owl and Shapes illustration is featured in the first print edition of Cut-Click zine. You can buy it here. Woo hooo! This issue features Tigz (front and back cover) along with Simon Wild, Lesley Barnes and loads more amazingness.

I have not had much time to blog as I’ve currently been updating my Etsy shop….. yes giving this another go………. plus some other exciting things which I will mention in the future kinda don’t want to jinx it haha.

Hope you all have a great week! And what’s happened to the weather anyway??!!

This Sunday I was busy printing out stuff and basically getting ready to send out some goodies to The Spider and the Fly pop up Gallery in Edinburgh. The temporary gallery is organised by Magpie who are a bunch of creatives promoting independent artists and designers and host their own art and craft events.

You can follow them on their Facebook page for more information and updates.

Have a lovely week and hope you all enjoy the sunshine while it lasts!

This time last year we were finishing uni and taking down our work at P3 ready for exhibiting our work at the D&AD. It’s be really strange how one year has already gone so fast………My day started with the realisation that I missed out on the Westminster BA Illustration 2010 Degree show which for some reason only lasted for two days. Ah my bad.

Well anyway I decided to check out Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design show down at Shoreditch High Street today and I was pretty impressed with what the students produced.

There was a variety of work to look at and how each student has taken their own personal approach to graphic design/ visual communication as a whole which made the show all the more interesting. From glitchy animations to installations I particularly loved the works above and below. Unfortunately I didn’t write down any of the students names so massive apologies for images with no credit!

There was a section about illustration and I think it was more to do with a module or something (please feel free to correct me as I was absorbing all the lovely work i didn’t read the info, gaaah!!) The images below are from this section.

I had to pull myself away from the shop, there was so many prints for sale and quirky handmade books. All I have to say is well done guys!

More photos of the show here.