Timothy Stokes Graphic Designer

I rarely make things with the final result intended to be "cute".. This workshop was an exception, my attempt at animating hand drawn sketches. I present to you, Nothing like a nice cup of tea. 

Pete started the lecture running us through Project Costing, a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is fairly self explanatory and so I'm not going to regurgitate it on here but it was very interesting and something I'm going to be using I think as I research into possibly doing an EPY.

So, employment, how does it work? There are many ways for us to earn financial compense for our work; Self-Employment (Freelancer) Working on a contractial basis for other people for limited amounts of time/work. Partnerships, Much akin to Self-Employment but this time with more than one person, be it 2 or 12. The only downside to this is that everybody in a partnership is liable for all the other partners debts, corporate or personal. This means partnerships often show trust betweeen partners, displaying to their clients that they themselves are trustworthy. Limited Liability Firm, Like a partnership however people in this company are only liable for the amount that they put into the firm. A LTD firm must also publish their finances/accounts publicly by an external accountant (Auditor). They must also publish Annual Returns yearly. Annual Returns are Profit/Loss Account, Balance Sheet Statement, List of Directors and their Addresses plus any other directorships that the...

Poster Layouts We had three briefs to complete, using a limited colour pallete and no art we had to create posters with typography being the main tool used.  For the Acoustic club brief, I wanted to use the text on a path tool to make the text follow the shape of a guitar, I feel I executed it fairly well.  For the Craft Beer Expo poster I wanted to demonstrate how dynamic and culturally varied craft beer could be, so I used the word beer in lots of different languages as the main background focal. I wanted to dedicate my final piece to the works of Jan Tschichold, highlighting the font he created himself and in the style of his Konstruktivism book cover.  

Rotoscoping Rotoscoping is the art of taking video footage, cutting it out on a frame by frame basis and then adding effects and animations to those cut outs. Here is my attempt! 

RSA : Circular Futures  The Man Box A monthly subscription of mens toiletries spanning shower gel all the way through to condoms, you can customize your box for up to 6-9 items, 3 large 3 medium or 9 medium.  Utilizing waste recycling for the packaging, and using a send/take back system meaning absolutely no waste packaging.  

RSA : Circular Futures   The Freezer   A box made from waste plastic lined with temperature control material, holding 3-4 freezer draws of meat and frozen groceries. The freezer draws also made from waste plastic and are customizable to slot into your freezer easily. All items have zero packaging and the draws and box are collected by the driver on his next delivery and reused. The Freezer can be delivered to your door or to a freezer point, a delivery point close by where you can collect when appropriate for you. All groceries are locally sourced from farmers and meet fairtrade standards. This idea meets the following Criteria in the RSA brief a new product and/or packaging that promotes re-use and is not thrown away  a new business model or system that promotes a ‘take/send back’ model for a product or packaging after use  a new or repurposed product made from existing waste streams  a product or service design solution that e...

28 Briefs to chose from, 3 to shortlist, 1 to rule them all, wait.. This morning we were given an introduction for our next brief, a 6 week brief before christmas. While the actual hand in for this is march, we have another project starting after christmas so we need to get this finished before.  Brief 1: http://www.ycn.org/awards/ycn-student-awards/2016-17-ycn-student-awards/briefs/orchard-pig I've chosen this brief to develop initial ideas because of my experience creating packaging for a Guinness craft beer, I enjoy working with alcohol products and think this would suit my skills well. Brief 2: http://www.ycn.org/awards/ycn-student-awards/2016-17-ycn-student-awards/briefs/the-grown-up-chocolate-company This brief sounds fantastic, seriously. Designing a packaging box for grown up chocolate that is customizable? Who wouldn't. Brief 3: http://sda.thersa.org/en/challenge/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/phase/rsa-student-design-awards-2017/track/circular-futu...

Dealing with Demand. Two different types of Demand, Elastic and Inelastic. Elastic is where a very small change in price will drastically increase demand, and Inelastic where a large change in price increases Demand. In opposition, Supply does the opposite. (See Fig. Below) Taxes Often cause both deflationary and inflationary pressure at the same time, it causes people to have less disposable income which causes a reduction in demand but also causes a demand for pay increases. This means the cost of employment rises, which often leads to an extent of employment loss. Which increases the amount of benefits being given out, meaning the government needs more money. Taxes up? This looks like a viscious circle but it isn't, Taxes only go up by very minute amounts, and there is always slack in the system to cope with it. It is also impacted more/less dependant on what taxes are raised.  Interest Rates can be used to counteract inflation, see fig. below. We did an excersize...