ISU branding slideshow

The Danish company ISU were impressed by the slideshow I had created for the exhibitions. They asked me to take some more photos of their staff in working situations and come up with a slideshow to aid their branding. Take a look.

The slideshow is up on their website for all to see, and is also shown whenever they have a their sales meetings.

Rewkachu exhibitions in Denmark

The work I completed last month for the commendable project Virksomhed Vollsmose - creating a prosperous future for female asylum seekers, if you haven't read the entry - was recieved so well that they asked me back to Denmark for further work. It was very exciting for me because they were all so interesting, and it was something completely new for me.

They asked me to host my work in an exhibition. One which would be shown at 6 different locations around Denmark. This involved me choosing my favourite photographs from the previous job and design a layout for them as an exhibition. I chose twelve images, and for cost reasons decided that I could make them work in A1 frames, alternating the amount from 1 to 3 images (see the photo attached). I also decided that for maximum impact I should print two of the images on canvas to hang from the ceiling as 2m x 1.2m prints.

I was also asked to create a slideshow of images that would cycle through and repeat throught the day. This had about 100 of the colour photographs I had taken previously on the ladies.

This was a truely rewarding experience, the women involved had been subservient and down trodden their entire lives. Now here they were in a new country with a fresh start, and what's more, they were the stars of the exhibition. They were as proud as I was.

I must say a thank you to those employees that set up the 5 other exhibitions as I couldn't stay in Denmark for a full month at that time. And also a thank you goes out to Claudia for taking the snaps of the exhibition for me.

50 Page evaluation document

I know this must sound a little strange considering that I love taking photographs and being creative with design, but I really enjoy designing minimalist, corporate books and documents!

ISU briefed me with such a job recently. They needed a neat and professional looking report to show what they had achieved with the Virksomhed Vollsmose project over the last year. In recent years they had simply created a document themselves in Word, which had suited them fine. But now they have much more success and a wider audience they decided to step up a notch.

Here you can see three of the pages selected at random from the 50 page Evaluation Report which they printed. Everyone agreed that it was much more professional and interesting than their previous years. I enjoyed this brief as it allowed me to get stuck into text alignments and punctuation amends. I love sorting and organizing, maybe I have a problem?

Event-O-Scope branding

Event-O-Scope is a new company for which I've been designing the logo and branding. At the moment I'm sworn to secrecy in regards to the details of the company (until its launch ofcourse). I can however show you a few of the twenty logo designs that I sent to the client. This is the first stage of the design process. I'll keep you posted.

Photos coverted to posters

The Virksomhed Vollsmose photographs that I took in Denmark were recently converted into posters. These have been printed in 4000 copies and are currently being distributed all around Denmark.There will also be 6 exhibitions of the photogaphs around the country from April onwards. I'll keep you posted.

Design in Danish

While in Denmark I was met with a rather different kind of challenge. ISU wanted me to design an A4 4 Page invite for one of their up and coming projects. In itself, it's the kind of job I'm used to. However, I was in Denmark and therefore had to use their computers. The operating system was in Danish and so was the design software. I surprised myself, I designed the whole thing without being able to read the software menus. I guess I proved to myself how well I know the software by using the shortcuts and simply remembering where things were in the menus. Danish isn't like French or German, it is quite different to English, so this was definately a challenge.

The end result was ISU being extremely pleased with the design makeover I gave their invite, aswering our question of "can we work together despite the language barrier?" and also me feeling rather proud of myself.

ISU have showed alot of interest in using me for other work. Fantastic, and they are also a great pleasure to work for.

Virksomhed Vollsmose

Virksomhed Vollsmose is a Danish project set up by ISU (Insitut Serviceudvikling a/s) and part funded by the EU. The projects' aim is to help asylum seeking women - who have come from various parts of the world and terrible situations - resettle and start a new life. Starting again with nothing must be an almost impossible task. What Virksomhed Vollsmose does is work with the skillsets that these women have, and then put them into a business perspective. For instance, alot of these women have children, and therefor have various family skills. Using this idea, ISU started the organisation Virksomhed Vollsmose. Two parts of the project are a catering company, and a sewing company. These women are now working in a friendly and safe environment, with likeminded women - using skills they are familiar with - All helping them earn money to get their lifes back together.

I was lucky enough to be commissioned to travel out there to take some promotion photographs. The images would be used in various things like posters, adverts and an exhibition. I was out there for a week in the company of these women, many of whom spoke no english. They treated me so kindly and even fed me free arabic and vietnamese food! I had a great time!