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Introducing Yourself

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About me – Profile

  • Name: Rhys Alexandra Jade Wylie
  • Sex: Female
  • Born: 1992
  • Nationality: British
  • From: West Yorkshire
  • Height: 5ft.2
  • Employment: Banking Consultant
  • Star sign: Virgo

About Me – Personality

  • Inspired by Arts, nature, photography, music, fashion, positive people, random crap (Hoarder-alert).
  • Mixed working background – Advertisement sales, Stationary sales, IT/Hardware support sales, Banking.
  • Hobbies – Photography, music production, hiking/climbing, cooking.
  • Likes – Music, cats, the outdoors, documentaries, abandoned buildings, mountains, tattoos, Vietnamese food (Pho in particular), singing, people watching, storytelling, seabass.
  • Dislikes – Modern buildings, Donald Trump, racism, fascism, bullies, Ugg boots, cleaning, sloths, and the smell of malt.

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A6 Postcard 1 – An apple in their eyes

I used this deign to demonstrate my chaotic start in life and how my parent’s lives had such an impact on me from a young age. My teenage Mother, who had not had a great upbringing herself, would become a single parent aged 19.  My even younger Father went astray for the most part. Things were tough growing up, but its that same chaos that would open-up my mind forever and make me who I am today.  Hence the quote “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.  (Found here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/chaos).

I took inspiration from a Damien Hirst sculpture called ‘The Virgin Mother’ which is currently displayed at The Yorkshire Sculpture park. This design shows the anatomy of a pregnant Virgin Mary, and foetus in the womb.  I transformed a photograph of the statue into a vector, keeping the foetus and womb in colour to focus attention to that area. The foetus represents Me and the beginning of my life.

As with the Virgin Mary my birth wasn’t planned, but through determination my life would give my Mother the strength and reason to become the woman she is today. The figure stands proud, head held high, with a grasp on her soon-to-be child.

I have always been inspired by my Mother and her interests in music, design, fashion and photography.  Whilst Dad wasn’t around, I was always taught he was an amazing artist/illustrator.  His illustrations were dark and subliminal with twists of illusionism, mostly black and white in colour.  The spiral in my postcard is a replica of this style and appears to be spiralling out of control through all of us.

I felt it was important to be open and honest with my design, so I incorporated references to psychedelic drugs and bombs to demonstrate my parents’ malfunctioning, self-destructive lifestyles at the time.

The male vector to the right of the postcard shows a man taking an acid tab.  If you look closely you will find my name and date of birth on that tab.  In the constricted pupil of his eye you will also see an apple in the eye, as the spiral falls away gradually.  Hence the name – An apple in their eyes.

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A6 Postcard 2 – My Inspired mind

In this design I wanted to showcase an array of subjects and interests that inspire me.

In my research I found an image of a male silhouette, who’s head had a lid and brain exposed, giving the viewer the impression of an open mind.  Using this as my inspiration, I created my own version using a female side-profile vector that I found on pixabay.com.  I achieved this by cutting a lid from the head and adding a cartoon style brain image that I found on the same site, which I felt complimented the overall style. For the background colour I used a Jade hue.  Despite the irony, I liked the contrast between the brain and the colour Jade.

Using a simple spider diagram-like design using arrows pointing outwards towards logo’s I have created that depict my most influential hobbies. (From left to right but in no particular order – Hiking/climbing, music, cooking, black cats, modelling, photography, and weight training).

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A6 Postcard 3 – Square peg in a round hole

Here you’ll begin to understand how I ended up here, Studying a Graphic Design degree with no experience what-so-ever.

This image shows the confusion I have felt growing up and becoming a working adult, in a declining economy with little to no education, let-alone GCSE’s. Though I lacked direction in my younger years, over time I managed to form a long-lasting career in sales.  While I have worked in various industries, Sales has always played a dominant role in my career. I’ve had ups and downs in sales, mostly downs, and an underlying urge to get ‘more’ out of myself has forever burdened me.  I’ve spent my career trying to find something that fits.  Hence the reason I named this postcard ‘Square peg in a round hole’.

This idea inspired me to search for a quote I could incorporate into the deign that represented my working life.  On my mission I found Farrah Gray’s – “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs”. (Please see link: https://medium.com/career-relaunch/30-inspirational-career-quotes-2c26662adb99).

In my design I used a suited female worker vector image to describe myself as a standard corporate saleswoman, with a question mark for a head, with a female side profile cut into the design for added meaning.  I felt orange worked well with the design and incorporated the word ‘LIFE’, into the background, which when observed closely can be seen as a maze, adding more emphasis to the confused, uninspired career I have been living, up to now.

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A6 Postcard 5 – When her inner self became free

In this image I demonstrate my vision for the future.

I used a female vector image of a woman working on a Mac as an example of my future in Graphic design.  The bleeding love heart that surrounds the female sat within a birdcage, suggests a tough journey, but a journey worth-while, that will safeguard the longevity of this dream come true.

I used a birdcage to describe how I have always felt trapped within myself and my sales career.  In this image the birdcage has been opened, the door to the cage placed close to the heart for significance, and bird’s flying free.  This is an example of my inner self becoming free, which in-turn gave birth to the title of this postcard – When her inner self became free.

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