New Year, New Direction

Within the week there'll be a new Redd-Design web site launching...and I'm excited! I'm making a push to make the site less me and more about clients...ie, separating business from personal stuff. I'm still looking for a full-time position, but I'm still running a design business, therefore I'll keep my personal resume on a new site I'm still working on, and use Redd-Design.com for primarily business. I'll (now we'll) be focusing on getting more clients, and making them happy.

There's a lot more stuff going on the new site...this blog is there, as well as Twitter updates, etc. I'll also be focusing on creating new blog posts related to the design industry, and my opinions on things such as CSS3, HTML5 and how much IE still sucks.

- Ashley

Since the show...

The last post was after the show in March...so yes, it's been awhile.

Lately I have been working hard at my freelance work. Between part-time jobs I am working on a website for a womens cycling magazine, designing logos for start-up companies and lacrosse teams, and have started to design admin UI for a software company...fun stuff!

I also completely revamped my website, making it more web 2.0...and basically teaching myself a lot more with html and css.

Links of interest:

shePedals: The Journal of Women in Cycling


Redd-Design

Will be posting more as I get client work out the door.

- Ashley

Show and Moving On

So the show's been over for a few weeks. Looking back I think it was a success, there were a few things that I could've done better but overall it was a learning experience. Crazily enough I'd almost like to be in another exhibition, besides just at school. I really enjoy the business-like, print design aspect where I'm working for clients, but in the future I'd almost like to do more work for myself based on my ideas.

Regardless, here are some pictures from the show:

Overall


Large Accordion






Medium Accordion






Small Piece






Fire Book


Mobile Pics


Here's the text from the label on my work:

Ashley Hill
On the Road

My project is based on the various road trips I have taken, as well as the photographs, experiences, memories and stories gained from each adventure.

Being the first show we had a number of people show up, and overall I'm very happy with how it turned out.

The big question now is "now what?" I'm being pushed into working more on my book series, refining it and also working on more book ideas using the same format. However, something I've started working on is a book based on the mobile pics I've taken. I've since added quite a few since I take photos of everything, and I want to use the random comments and captions that friends and such have posted. I have the format figured out, I just need to sit and organize and do the tedious work. I need to gather comments and put them in with the photos.

More photos from the show are located here:
Facebook Album

If anyone would like the high-res version of any of the pics please send an email (from a non-Montserrat address) to me.