Worked all day on this tedious job, making the whole thing quite cohesive but making it look as though it is falling apart as well as combining the text and the shirt as much as possible.

When your work is your life, it just doesn't seem that much fun for me, I would rather have a casual/creative job where I earn enough to live but more importantly enjoy life. Bringing back the incident of the business man being hit by the bus I have this image to represent that. I'm going to add blood splatters to bleed out the tie, just subtly.

For this pair of posters I was looking at what was representative of employment to me and also our attitudes to work in New Zealand and perhaps globally. I was going to look at particular aspects of jobs I've had and the ideal job for me after I graduate. But decided to go with something a bit more general but still personally relevant, so I went with work shirts, the Hare side will be represented by a business shirt and tie which links back to the initial catalyst for my project, the man being hit by the bus. For the tortoise side I have been working on the shirt, which is a shirt of mine, more casual with the sleeves rolled up, reflecting a more casual approach to a creative job.

Worked on the Quality over Quantity a bit more, AS I thought about what represented Quality without relying on the opposite which was a beer label, but still mirroring the elements so they could become recognisable as a pair. I adjusted the Quantity over Quality to suit.

I managed to apply the vinyl today so I could have a finished lightbox to photograph for the graduate catalogue. The limits of vinyl cutting changed my design somewhat and this was a learning curve. In saying that I always knew it would take at least two goes at it to see what worked. For the final one I will change the design a little bit but there are parts of this design that I like.

I have been trying to think of ideas for a service box around the New Market business and retail district. The service boxes needed covering and to look good. A group of us students at Whitecliffe are putting together some concepts to put forward. Hopefully I get chosen as it will give me something to work on over the holidays. Here is my concept that I have put together in quite a hurry. It follows a bit with my studio project but leans more towards something that I would like to look at further and that is hand painted type. Type today seems to be mass produced at a fast rate, which mirrors our attitudes towards consumerism. With the older type used in this one I wanted it to represent the older notions of consumerism and capitalism which seems relative today with all the financial struggle the economy is facing here and around the world. Not sure if this is what they'd like as it's not exactly promoting patronage but getting the consumer to question theirs needs against wants and thinking about the effect on the environment etc.

This is a picture of my desk at the moment, I wonder what it will look like in 6 weeks time.

Almost forgot to mention that I went to Rocket Signs on the North Shore and found the right vinyl I was after for my light box. I want to have the same effect of the process colours overlapping to make secondary colours. Of course because it is a different process the vinyl colours aren't actually the process colours but I managed to find the ones closest to the colours I will have on the prints.

I went back to get production of these posters sorted, to make sure I was confident that I could pull it off, and do multiples at the same time without having the screens clog up and having to wash and dry them. I thought a lot about what I had been taught and also what would work for me personally. I improved my process and setup and it came out a lot better, I managed to do two that looked the same. These are still the old screens but I still made them work better. Way more confident now and can't wait to do them all. One problem I found was the mixing of the pigment and extender, stronger concentrations of the pigment created dark patches on the print, will hopefully rectify this next time round.