Pointless

dear santa...

seeing as its christmas soon & then my birthday the day after best start looking at what santa will be popping down the chimney... if money wasn't a factor eh! Just a sucker for FREDPERRY :) 

TeePay

I love HOWIES and when I was just browsing through the season catalogue I noticed teepay buy, design and make money from tee shirts. So I registered and uploaded a few designs... just waiting on an email back from them.

warehouse project

YES.
FINALLY.
I've always wanted to go to the warehouse project.
I missed out on alphex twin in early october due to work.
BUT...
today a few of us have booked tickets to see deadmau5 on december 30th 4 days after my birthday :)

G-Man aka Graham Jones

Visual Essay

Wonder/Wander

The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

Nicola Rowlands

Tutorial with Hitch

Libby Scarlett

Silence the sequel...

Zine

A few of us came up with the idea to create a themed zine with our responses and publish with the intent to send it out into the “big wide world” with contact details in order to spark any interest in ourselves as designers, may not happen but its at the end of the day it’s a bit of fun between friends.

Onomatopoeia was set by John Walsh as this issues word I used “thwip!” trademarked by Marvel Comics for the sound of Spiderman’s web shooter. This is my response, which took about 30 minutes to complete :) 

Live brief

Brian Smith Walters of Elemental Opera contacted Hitch to offer anyone with an interest to submit a design for a flyer/poster design for Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. With the only comment really made was that red, green and white could be used to symbolize purity, lust/death and jealousy.

I decided to attempt a response for this brief and after reading about the opera and the fact that there are only nine characters within it, I decided to map out the characters similar to a wordsearch linking them altogether with the four themes expressed. Though I made death a separate identity to articulate the reality of it. I stuck to the three colours plus black and used Gill Sans as to allow the type to be legible at any size. This is my response

Dissertation Tutorial

My dissertation tutorial with John went well, feel more focused now, I felt like I was biting off more than I could chew one happy bunny 
Like this little chap I found as part of Banksy's exhibition in Bristol 

I forget just how much I love Banksy... I wrote my dissertation on foundation on graffiti as an artform... right more note making now I have a flesh new list of designers and structure to go at John you brilliant man you! Cheers!

La Jetee

Jonny Hardstaff Lecture

Jonny's lecture left me inspired. I loved his honesty.

Unlike alot of the guest lecturers that come to show their work Jonny presented his "underwear" as in his sketchbooks and starting points for his work, this meant you could see the development of his work from a spark of an idea to the final polished piece. 


He trained at St Martin's, graduated in '92 with no software knowledge. His sketchbooks are gorgeous full of page upon page of doodles and graphics. Storyboards, drawings, freeforms, making the drawings move, the detail in the drawing.
"history of gaming"
timeline -->
movement retro feel
wow! that wasn't the same as we'd found on Thursday in the studio made for himself + playstation(sony) grabbed onto it. playful theme > target it into something


that drawings, doodles can become something bigger and come together


"future of gaming" they got silence as a response positioned ps as dangerous anti corporation
sony couldn't openly want it meant they could put it anywhere.


recent commerial, heavily crafted
all elements from the sketchbooks
love/hate relationship with corporations
rollerball - individuality/not having a master/taking "presets" and breaking/bending them
do you expect us to be the good guy?


orange print - brilliance
lovely and scottish "gentle" resurring 
paint "plenty" more flowing
manipulation as designers what we have to do
go deep into black Jeff Coon
absence of meaning


radiohead video - Tom Yorke allowed Jonny just to do what he wanted tracks merged together


graphic is a sensation a whole set


playful > making something you want > getting on with it - semotics > what does it do to you > do you make people think 


Norman Klein Verticans of Vegas - History of graphic effects


Graphic design as a weapon as art - John Hartfield 
Design holds everything together

First Impressions of Silence

I started off brainstorming different aspects that silence can be achieved, some where initial notes made in the lecture when sparked by comments from the tutors but after a good hour I had something to go at.

I then fished through old photographs on my computer that related to the particular theme of silence and others where found images on flickr, quite a broad range of images that with my annotation in my sketchbook will show my thought processes as to how I've got to this point.

I chose my favourites/strongest 5 images to present to Hitch.

Thursday Seminar 10am with Hitch

Firstly we presented our film posters, explaining the reasoning behind our ideas

Hitch asked some interesting questions as to the brief we were actually set.

The reasoning for a logo, is it necessary? Does it limit? A logo for each film? Corporate stamping?

Take the poster further, don't just drop the project, think of the application across the series, reconsider the use of the logo and layout. 

Is there a system? Apply the poster to a film you know/like resolve the problem/develop the poster for a finished article for your portfolio.

First Impressions...Of Silence

Everyone in the group had some great interpretations towards the brief and I was reassured that I'd definitely understood the task

These are the images I presented to Hitch

Silence of intrigue, people watching, silence between strangers and building profiles

Twilight, taken from the Hilton Cloud 23 Bar, Day as noisy night as silent... but is it? 

These two images together, paratroopers dropped in on the enemy, a silence descent and the other of the thoughts of a soldier in the waiting time "calm before the storm"

Actions speaking louder than words, unwritten laws, the silence of a kiss, a hand hold, a text, the inner thoughts are busy

Escape, finding new places, casting shadows, funny how you notice things when you sit back, taking in the bigger picture

I expressed how with the brief being in two parts at the moment I didn't want my first part to limit my second, which was a issue of the sound and vision project in the second year. Hitch commented that as much as this was a good point to raise he didn't want me to spread myself to thinly across many ideas. 

I need to decide as to the direction of my silence response, Hitch liked the Twilight image, of time, space, light/dark. The relationship image as to the inner thought process and the parachute image but felt that a issue/subject such as war is a large subject which with the circumstances could be too personal a subject.

Happy in the know that so far so good, just to get on top of my annotation, develop the initial ideas and by the next seminar have a focused response to show/discuss.