Freelance & Enterprise

I have developed my brand across a variety of mediums, such as my portfolio website http://www.robporrino.co.uk/ and email hello@robporrino.co.uk. 

I am also active on Twitter (https://twitter.com/RobPorrino), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/rporrino/) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Rob-Porrino-Design-338464123013085/?fref=ts) and I am working to create a consistent brand across all these platforms. I am also on Behance, and have a Dribbble, and i’m working on receiving an invitation to become a contributing member. 

I sell illustrations and custom requests on Depop and have been having some success with this having sold approx. 20 prints as of now. (https://www.depop.com/en/barneyrobble). I am also on Etsy and working on building a following on there. (https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PorrinoDesign?ref=hdr_shop_menu)

Placement

During March I took part in a placement at Supremo, a digital agency based in the Northern Quarter,l Manchester that specialise in web design and development. As part of my placement I developed characters to illustrate how ‘Supremo’s’ design process works. 

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/140812007966/some-pictures-of-my-work-from-my-placement-at

Geocatching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere in the world.

Iceland

Liverpool

Places of Interest

Media City

Manchester

Networking and Portfolio development

Here you can see my new logo and self-branding I have developed. 

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/139809532386/logo-design-in-progress-i-began-at-looking-on

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/139809532386/logo-design-in-progress-i-began-at-looking-on

Logo design in progress. I began at looking on puzzles and based the logo on a block puzzle. The idea is the puzzle looks really simple but is actually quite complicated to put together, and in the end looks simple and works together, the way good graphic design does. I used the CMYK colours as a colour scheme as a nod to design. I’m not too sure I have got the type right though.

Business cards:

Here is the portfolio I put together for Sal’s Takeaway, which was our networking event. 

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/141255647901/pics-of-the-portfolio-i-put-together-for-sals

Attending Workshops & Talks

Workshops

We took workshops with John Powell Jones to learn about different printing techniques such as mono and lino printing.

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/133139355451/monoprint-tutorial-results-monoprint-print-ink

We had a workshop from Textbook Studio and Dr Me. We were given names by random, and each group had to create a beer brand around it. Our name was ‘Bear Trap’.

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/137628603816/our-work-from-todays-workshop-with-textbook-and-dr

Talks

A very interesting networking event with talks was Note To Self which included talks by Jim Williams, Chris Gaffey, Lord Whitney and Spin. 

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/138725321016/pics-from-note-to-self-networking-event-with-talks

Many former students and people from industry have come into uni to do talks about their careers, self-promotion, freelance work and other aspects of life after uni. 

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/137816459976/some-pictures-from-yesterdays-talks-from-former

Other speakers have included Andy Golpys from Shape and Mia from Shield Yourself.

Level 6 Course Projects

SONIC MANCHESTER

The first project of the year was for Sonic Manchester and involved getting students interested in Classical Music. Here you can see some of my early inspiration:

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/130132788316/ltiplady-i-looked-into-how-i-could-lay-out-the

Here are some paintings I created, http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/131557111271/some-more-paintings-i-did-listening-to-mozart and final posters (http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/132597355396/finished-posters)

ORCHARD PIG CIDER

Craft beer/cider inspiration:

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/133331184416/some-more-nice-craft-designs-i-especially-like

Learning how to create patterns:

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/134014051781/looking-at-the-image-above-and-a-tutorial-about

Final posters (which were later worked on and improved a lot since this):

http://robporrinodesign.tumblr.com/post/135438216306/final-posters

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Set up a depop shop! Can be found at https://www.depop.com/en/barneyrobble