Contrast

For one of our last projects we had to design a logo with the theme "Contrast", starting with lots of sketches and then taking them into Illustrator.
I found it really challenging in the beginning but then I started to really enjoy playing around with colours and repeating simple shapes.

Creativity and Play

Final draft of my Semester 1 portfolio, which I handed in this morning...

Open publication - Free publishing - More university

Home

I felt really inspired by this photograph and decided to make a drawing of the house :)

(The image is from Stella magazine)

(And this is my drawing)

Pinhole Camera

For this week's project we had to make our own pinhole/matchbox camera and take two sets of photos (a digital one for each film photo we take). I'm pretty sure we have to present the two sets on Monday morning so I made a PDF last night :)

Open publication - Free publishing - More pinhole

Presentation

I have to make a presentation in about 2 weeks time of all of the work I've done so far at uni and talk about it in front of the whole year group!!! :O 

Freaking out a little because I'm nowhere near finished with it and I've been so so busy lately..

Uni's been quite good so far, we've had about 3 Typography workshops which were quite intense and I learned so much about typesetting, the anatomy of type and also how to use InDesign..

I have about 4 projects running alongside at the moment and Contextual Studies exam in a weeks time to  worry about... so yeah. *Taking a deep breath* Wish me luck!

Word pairs

One of the projects we had this week was a typography one and we had 5 different pairs of words each that we need to represent using typography on a piece of paper.

I thought about making the letters look like the word and then I decided to swap them around in each pair and this way they will actually be connected even if you move the words around the sheet of paper.

These are some quick sketches that I made :)

First Week in Epsom

Hello world!
It's been over a week now since I moved here. Last week I had a pre-entry course for 3 days and one of the tasks we had, was to make some sort of presentation showing the connection between a word (my group's word was 'Spiritual') and Epsom.
We found it really hard because we didn't want to go for the obvious solutions but at the same time there wasn't much going on in the city and so we got really stuck half way through.. We then decided that if we can't find anything spiritual then the best thing we can do is actually make our own marks and hidden messages. This is one of the videos we made in the park outside the university:

Bored..

There isn't much going on at the moment as it's summer and I'm just doing lots of overtime at work to get some cash... Going to meet up with some people from Foundation on Thursday so that should be nice :)
House hunting is a bit slow at the moment but I'm working on it..
Here's some quick experiments I did the other day.

Private View

Today was the private view of our exhibition and it's pretty much a big thing! It's not my first ever show because I had one at the end of my Graphics A Level but this one is at a much higher quality and scale..
But I feel so ill... have a horrible cold and did not get to make the most of the viewing.. everyone is going out to celebrate tonight and I'm going to bed!
It's also a shame that this private view clashes with Epsom's grad show exhibition so I can't go even though I got an invite :/

Anyway here are some photos of my exhibition space:



I think I could have definitely done better but didn't have enough time.. I missed about a week of college in the beginning of the FMP and never really managed to catch up completely. I just feel like there is something missing :/

Hummingbird

Been playing around with that pattern of mine and experimented by dying white thread using felt tip pens, its so easy and convenient! I used the colours of the rainbow here.

I'm a bit stuck at the moment.. dont know what I'm doing :( and I can't go into college to talk to tutors as the studios are being used for the exhibition...not long left anyway..

I also tried to tea-stain an old letter but that was an epic fail too haha I know how to do it properly now and might try again :)

Stitching

In the last couple of days I've been experimenting with paper embroidery making different geometric shapes and I looked at Evelin Kasikov's work and I also found an artist called Rebecca Ward, she uses electric tape in her installations and makes all of these really complex shapes using them..

Anyway, I started off by trying to add a twist to one of my photographs but then kept experimenting using the thread and needle instead.. I made some really interesting shapes that I thought would make a nice pattern and so I scanned it into Phtoshop to experiment with :)

This is the outcome ^ but I think it looks much better when its printed out. I might start doing something with the pattern and adding photographs on top of it now..
I need to have it all finished by Tuesday as this is when we start hanging the show! It's gonna be a long weekend...

Studio Photography

I had booked one of the studios at college to take photos of my 3D pieces as I was planning on including them into my FMP (as printed images) but I changed my mind last week and decided to have it as a 3D installation on the wall instead, alongside some more images..


It's getting really exciting! I am going to have this piece on the wall plus 2 more big images, plus one really small framed typography piece and I'm also working on 2 more mixed media images at the moment.. don't know for sure which ones will be actually included in the exhibition but I'm still going to keep experimenting and try to improve them.

We are painting the boards tomorrow and the hanging of the exhibition is next week so I should try and finish everything over the weekend hopefully :D

Weekend off?

I decided to take the weekend off (college work) as I've been in 9am-6pm almost every single day in the last 3 weeks... sooo exhausting!
Here is some work in progress that I did this afternoon :)

typewriter family

Some of the photos I took today.. the intention of the whole Final MAjor project I had was to be converting 3D images into 2D photos and add text to them so I'm finally getting to do some 3D work.. It doesn't mean anything, just messing about at the moment but hopefully I'll find a strong concept soon and stick to it. :)

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This is one of the illustrations I made today using a photograph of my granddad I took last year.. I don't actually have a clue what I'm going to do with it but I thought it was quite cool and he kind of looks like a gangster here haha

Also, I accepted my place to do BA Graphic Design at UCA Epsom this afternoon! It means I'm going to be living away from my parents for the first time and I'm so scared but I'm sure It's all going to be worth it :)

End of year exhibition poster

This was my submission for our Final Major Project exhibition poster, all of the graphics students had it as a project to come up with a poster for the college :)

The seagull symbolizes Brighton (the city we study in) and the bird's been going around college eating random things, hence the pencil shavings in its stomach ;)

FMP initial ideas..

Using a photograph of my mum as a child and some calendar photos of mountains..
You can download the typeface used (which I made) here but I still haven't finished working on it so there's no punctuation marks and the upper-case looks pretty weird too..

Portfolio work

I though I'd share some of the work I've done for my Uni interviews portfolio:
These two are from a project called Envirotype, where I had to choose up to 7 words and insert them in an environment..


And this one was a 1 day project with a theme "Open/Close"

PostCode

Some initial type experiments for my FMP,I found a lot of old, Russian postcards over my grandparents and on the back of them they all have a special grid where you write the post code ...I decided to see if I can create a typeface using it..