After my degree i'd like to go onto a PGCE course, I'm currently considering Leeds trinity and all saints which seems to have a good reputation for their PGCE courses. It helps that I know people that have gone through it and received jobs easily afterwards. I've been told that Huddersfield have good PGCE courses which I will check out but I'd rather stay local and I know the schools Leeds trinity have their pupils doing placement at.

To get onto a PGCE i need as much experience as possible in schools and teaching kids. So i've applied to St. Marys School in Menston, and should be visiting the school for a few days at the end of June. Simply waiting for my CRB to come through now to ensure I can go.

I'm considering of applying to Benton Park school, Rawdon, in September. This is a specialist technology school which would be great for me as i'm wanting to teach design.

Found a series of advertisements that are all photo based, simply thought they were brilliant, definitely want to work in this way next year. I find photography like this engaging and i think the message comes across better because of its humor.

Reflecting on my work this year its clear that a lot of it is photo based. Admittedly I really enjoy photography and using it within my design. I really like the work above by Norma Burton, this staged photography is very humerous and very engaging. I like communicating through photography and i'll be taking this kind of work over into the 3rd year and developing my own photography skills to become more interesting and engaging.

I've been looking at local agencies and what they do as part of my enterprise studies but also to see the local competition.

As a designer i want to look more into promotional work for companies and identity, so logo design etc. So i've also started looking at design agencies which specialise in this area so i can see the standard of the competition but also reference from them.

I've come to like this work since completing the Typography module in which we did a lot of identity work. Although most of my work till now is photo based i'd like to combine the two to produce work which promotes existing businesses through type based and photo based work.

Heres latest work which i would like to include in my portfolio. Showing that i have done work for a different kind of distribution, as magazine ads. Photo based as a lot of my work is but i do like these. I think they work well.

Below is my online portfolio, rather plain at the moment, id like it to show more of a range of my skills and probably demonstrate them better. Definetely needs working on.