Hi, I'm Victoria Rosso, I'm a designer and this is a little summary of my artlife. I love photography, graphic design, video editing, fashion and travelling.
We have just confirmed that we will be organising another fashion show in 2010 making it an annual event, most likely still in Leeds, so I figured if I start fixing the website for my fashion show now, by next year it might be a very useful tool when the time comes.
So I've bought a real domain and hosting this time, incorporated a contact form and a flash gallery of this years sucvcess will be up there too
Basically, I was being bullied by a classmate (S.L.) for a while, we lived together as well (things hadn't always this way between us) and life became really awful for me living in Leeds... I was also slightly unsatisfied with my course. I know it's everything I want to do, but something wasn't quite right. I wasn't motivated enough I think and I just wanted to travel, my heart hadn't been in it this last year.
I was going to defer and move to Montreal for a year and think things over some more. I didn't want to go back to school and study yet and even if I moved out of the house that guy would still be in lessons with me everyday and I couldn't bear even looking at his face...
I applied for jobs and housing and had almost paid for all my visa and such, sorting it out with college too when I got a job offer as a designer/video editor for a good sum of money. It took me a week to decide, as I still wanted to just leave the country, but in the end I realised I shouldn't waste this opportunity.
I've been working now for 5 weeks and it's ace. I've learnt so much, particularly with After Effects and Premiere Pro. I know them both well now. It's been good working with real clients for deadlines that actually matter and having professionals like my work.
With this new found wealth I finally bought an overlocker and am making my 2nd collection of clothes for shows. I was involved in a few since the one I organised. I bought tickets to go and see New York and some go to back to Amsterdam with some friends. Also learning to drive. Things are still changing a lot but it's looking up from 2 months ago for sure!
I'll find some examples of my recent work soon enough.
The show was a marvelous success. In the end we had 12 designers as follows.
Vicky Martin, Kookai, Heidi May, Arrogant Cat, Me, Linzi Hofman, Becky Collina, Verity Smith, Anadlus, Kelly Ewing, Orlando.
It went really smoothly, especially considering the whole thing was run by 2 people with little funds. Some guy from Hollyoaks came and we had the Yorkshire Evening Post there.
I just have to get round to editing the video footage now!
I had the best time in Italy, like everything was immense, and I do quite like teaching. I also learned a bit more Italian. Soon, I'm going to New York to see some of my lovely new friends too.
And now, with a girl I met in Italy, I am putting on a Fashion show in Leeds. We decided it'd be something to do so we don't sit around all day and wonder why the hell we're in the UK.
It's quite ambitious, but we're good. So far we have designers and models confirmed and a venue for the show, 28th August. I also have to make 4 pieces! Watch this space for photos of the show.
Well for my final project I had to completely change the idea cos it all went tits up
but it's not too bad I guess, instead of using my super 8 film (I couldn't because the royal mail hate me) I made a scrapbook of my travels accompanied with a diary of events that happened while I have been away. I decided to just use the past year of trips away as I remember them better, it's not as skilled to create as my old idea, but I do like the result and I will definitely continue to add to it.
finally getting a few photos up from some of my trips this year, I didn't have a digital camera so I took a SLR and a disposable one with me on these trips.
these first photos are on a disposable in Marseille.
Here are the croatia ones, some ar SLR and some are disposable... I like to use both because I like the different effects they have. I did take some with a Lomo camera in Marseille but I haven't had the chance to scan anything in yet.
I figured it was about time I put something here actually relevant to the course.. perhaps!
A summary of some of my projects, and my feelings about them
First one was the book project. I decided to base it on the Central Viaduct towards the west of Leeds.
I did have some nice photographs of the top of the viaduct as shown above, but I had a lot of problems with Quark I recall in the printing and the printing quality was not great. The book itself was not too poorly made, I think with more practise I would be alright. I think this project dragged opn a little bit too long, it seemed to last for ages!!
I think was my Beerfest plan. I decided to hold a one day Beerfest to promote a dutch beer
The idea was to create a brief, and think about everything, but not actualy do what the plan states. i felt this project was rather successful bar one factor, i couldn't attened the pesentation because of a cut on my foot that rendered me unable to walk for a week, oh man did that suck...
I did look in detail about where to hold it, what license i would need for booze, how to get volunteers, what staff I need e.g. first aiders and the all important piece, what beer to use!
This could have actually worked, but I emailed a company with some imaginery questions and they said they wouldn't do anything abroad, so if i were to do it I'd have to find another company... boooo
I tried making a website using a few different methods here. In the form of a blog, using dreamweaver solely, using a free website and using Flash.
My aim was to see which way was the easiest, cheapest, least effort to make the site above and host it online.
This project was quite helpful to me, I did improve my existing knowledge of Flash and Dreamweaver and i also learned how to host your website for free without using a stupid premade template.. yay.
This is the audience brief, which actually I really enjoyed and found to be quite successful, hasn't been marked yet so i don't know if any teachers agrees with me..
Basically, we had to make something, based solely on feedback from people, specifically students.
This turned into me making a website gallery. Man it was tough making this website work, but i did it!
Here's the home page (y)
I don't actually have a blog for this cos we had to hand in a presentation, this might be the downfall of the entire project.. but only time will tell..
