Preparing Your Portfolio

6.00 – 6.15

Registration and drinks

 

6.15 – 6.25

 

 

Chair: Vicky Fabbri - Events and Membership Assistant Manager, Hidden Art

 

6.25 – 6.45

Speaker 1: Juliet Sheath  
Photographer / Pool of Specialist member

Juliet originally trained as a jeweller & silversmith, completing a BA Hons in Sheffield in 1995. During the degree she learnt the basics of photography before using photography as an inspiration for jewellery design. She also capitalised on this talent by employing it as a tool to promote her jewellery. In 2004 she started working freelance for a photographer, and after completing her studio portraiture photography qualification, set up the photography business Full Focus Photography Ltd.

Currently Juliet is the main photographer in her business, which specialises in commercial shots of jewellery, textiles, ceramics and small interior products. She mainly works with small businesses and publishers. She has had photographs published in House & Garden, Grazia & Grafik. 

Juliet will be speaking about ways in which photography can be used to help with the presentation of your portfolio. This includes tips for designer-makers who photograph their own work, ways to manipulate images and ways to source photographers.

 

 

6.45 – 7.05

 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Dickens is an exciting and innovative young UK designer. He quickly grabbed the limelight by winning a prestigious Purves & Purves product design award just a few months after graduating from Buckinghamshire and Chilterns University College. He has since gone on to produce and exhibit his own design concepts at major European exhibitions in Italy, France, Germany and the UK.

He is now assembling a portfolio of designs, which focus on the benefits of using product design as a tool for branding, promotion and advertising.

Anthony has worked with and for companies that include; Audi, JAM Design, Sotheby's, Red Bull, Anglepoise and On|Off.  

Anthony will be talking about his experiences as a designer-maker, and why presentation is so important when hooking clients and making deals. He will be talking about his 3D rendering skills and why these are so important when presenting your portfolio.

 

 

7.05 – 7.25

Hagar started Little Green Monkey in early 2004 providing design solutions in web and graphic design. Working with small companies and individuals (many in the creative industries), Little Green Monkey helps them to get a unique and professional presence online and in print.
Little Green Monkey provides web design solutions, providing the visual and functional solutions needed for a successful website.

Little Green Monkey also provides graphic design services, including branding, stationery, flyers, press releases, brochures, large format posters and signage.
Hagar Lee will be giving advice on how to apply graphic design skills and techniques to the presentation of your portfolio and promotional material. She will look at some of the computer programmes that are used for this, including Illustrator, Photoshop and Quark.

 

 

7.30 – 8.00