My Visual Logbook

I really like Ed Ruscha's photography, and his typography style, but the lack of colour I always found quite boring and although I could appreciate his compositional style, the images didn't do much for me. I find his compositional style similar to Edward Hopper, very considered and structured.

I love the colour of his paintings, and the geometric aspect all the main shapes are so straight. The use of leading lines in all of the images take you to across the canvas, I also really like the colour palettes of all three, the bold colours of the first and last, with crisp blue sky, but also the muted purple but still a pop of yellow.  

I'm still unsure on the light; I really like how you'd look at these images as a viewer and think that they could have been shot somewhere other than England, (maybe the three not including the full body shot) but I'm so used to shooting in bright sunshine around midday where the shadows are shorter and more contrasted. I definitely prefer shooting without cloud, I really think the cloud ruins the shot so I'm going to go back and try to get rid of them in post.

After finally updating my website to have all my current work I gave it a little revamp too and added some new features which makes my website easier to navigate and enables it to have more content.

When I attended the degree show in the summer last year I picked up a few business cards, mainly because I really liked the designs and thought they were cleverly done, (Or that my housemate is the girl with the 'fro) Without realising, I picked up three different cards; two standard but one with curved edges and one with normal, and a square business card.

In my crit on Thursday Sophie was talking about business cards and whether anyone is having an image on it or not. An image is very impactful however it is only as current as that image is your best work; whereas having only text will keep my business cards current and wouldn't date.

In terms of information on my business cards, my name is my brand so I plan to make that clear and the main focus of my business card. I think Hannah Crystals business card reverse is going to be the most similar to my own in terms of content, having a job title I think it pretty key as the other ones give no clue as to their job title.

I like the square design, bit it wouldn't fit comfortably in someone's wallet or purse which is probably where it will live for the first hours of being given to someone at least. But on the other hand it is memorable and different, which could have a positive effect with being contacted because of someone having my business card.

For the purpose of my business cards and having a professional self promotional package including a professional email address. My current address is rebeccajdennis@icloud.com, which is still professional, but I wanted an email address with my website domain. So I went and purchased info@rebeccadennis.co.uk which I think is much more professional, and definitely worth the £20 I spent.




I know I want to use MOO.com to create my business cards, they have options to add gold foil, spot glass and raised spot glass. I want my business card to be really minimal; either same colour on colour or keeping my colours very basic. I think it will be more impactful. I want my business cards to be MOO Luxe, they're more expensive but its much nicer having a thicker paper stock and a higher quality finish. My business card is the first impression for my business and I need to ensure that my first impression is good.

Below are some images of business cards I found on pinterest which I really like and want to emulate on my own business cards.