Napoli Home Kit

Napoli Home Kit

   10:19       Dav31d

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As an avid Arsenal fan I always tune into the games online or at a bar when they're playing (If I can't get tickets to a match) but where they are playing I'm most likely following that's what you do when you support a club. Anyway this post isn't actually about Arsenal but their Europa League Italian opponents  Napoli. On Thursday (18th April 2019) we had the second leg of our quarter-final Europa League tie at their home ground the 'Stadio San Paolo' and one thing I noticed when the teams came out was instantly Napoli's home kit. The bright blue, geometric patterned shirt with fluorescent yellow marks, white shorts, with their crest on the blue socks and (the same) yellow strap.

Personally I liked the kit very much, we don't see designs like this in the premier league so it was refreshing to see something so different being allowed in a European competition (sometimes there are design restrictions) but it received a lot of backlash from their own fans and let's just say their fans remained split over the design. Something about the kit (which is where it won me) that I didn't notice until I saw it up close was, amongst the geometric blue patterns, if you look closely you can see a panther in the design which I thought was quite clever, the idea behind the inclusion of the panther I read, was that their club owner wanted to see 11 beasts fighting on the pitch this season, pretty cool stuff.

Take a look at the design below:

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Bauhaus Logo Makeover

Bauhaus Logo Makeover

   12:04       Dav31d

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Upon my weekly dose of inspiration I came across an article on the 'It's nice that' website where Bauhaus were celebrating it's 100 year anniversary of the art school by having a group of international designers redesign famous logos BUT in the style of Bauhaus, Netflix, BBC, Google and Starbucks to name just a few. 99designs created the competition with the online community being briefed on incorporating Bauhaus design principles when redesigning the logos, here are the designs having been given the Bauhaus treatment:

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Inspiration

Inspiration

   10:55       Dav31d

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I'm currently in the process of redoing my portfolio (what designer isn't?) and I will admit some days I do find it a bit daunting and lose motivation and other days I don't. The reason why I lose motivation from time to time is because, in 2017 just after finishing my MA I had major health troubles which are still effecting me now sadly. However I try my best to push through it because it doesn't immobilise my ability as a graphic designer.

I wanted to speak about being and staying inspired (originally why I brought up losing motivation), my MA lecturer always use to say to our class 'in order to output, you must input' (que thoughts of a dojo teacher dressed in a kimono) and it always seems true, as I currently search for ways to redo my paper portfolio I stumbled across this Creative Bloq article https://www.creativebloq.com/portfolios/paper-portfolios-5132559 and I'm completely amazed by what I see and it immediately gets the ball rolling for me.

Here are just a few examples of the portfolios + links to their pages

Lisa Dino

ALU

Dyla Rosli

Charlotte Allen

These were just some of the projects that I really liked and the ones that stood out to me, so if they did to me imagine how it will for an employer. Anyway with all this in mind I started generating ideas for my own paper portfolio, as I already have an online portfolio I like the idea of potential employers having something tactile in their hands as they observe the work, and if successfully executed they carry long lasting impressions, which might put you ahead of the competition. 

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