KesselsKramer 'Royal Memorabilia'

Very funny project from KesselsKramer where they have produced their own range of Royal memorabilia for Prince William and Kate's wedding. Adding in humour whilst taking inspiration from the traditional memorabilia produced for Royal weddings.

You can even buy it here http://www.kkoutlet.com/shop/products/royal-memorabilia

Printmaking

Been doing some printmaking experiments this weekend for my current Uni project called Language. The brief is to brand/ celebrate/ promote language, my line of thought brought me to Shakespeare and to Shakespeare's use of slang in his works. I then took this further to our own use of slang and symbols and decided upon emoticons and then to explore Shakespeare with emoticons as they in themselves embody emotions and work very well to convey the meaning within Shakespeare's plays.

I experimented with lino printing and mono printing using emoticons and a blocky aesthetic and generally getting very messy in the process!

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Little White Lies 'The Black Swan Issue'

Very interesting little video of the making of Little White Lies' latest issue 'The Black Swan Issue'

Beautifully made, especially the hand-drawn image on the cover and type designed by David Carson, and a great insight to what it takes to make a magazine from start to finish

Found at Creative Review

Design updates:

Website design following the same brand style as I used for my business card.

Letterhead design for a covering letter.

Tweaks made to the wedding invitation me and Amy have been working on, cleaned up the typography and drew the heart accents properly. Planning on screen printing a limited amount using silver and mint green inks.

Smile for London on the tube

Second trip to London to see Amy's winning animation playing on the underground, we decided to view it at Victoria station as this was on our way to the Saatchi Gallery.

Great to see the animation in the environment of the tube platform on the massive CBS screens they have, also great to see it alongside the animations from Airside and Aardman, the latter being particularly good.

Proud.

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The beginnings of a re-brand

Initial ideas for new self branding, working currently on the business card and getting some kind of logo sorted.

Eventually will have a business card, website, CV, covering letter and maybe something extra.

Currently working on...

Working on a small side project with Amy to design her sister's wedding invitations, going with green and silver colour scheme and a minimal design as this is reflective of the couple's tastes.

Then with the heart at the top of the design we will be having two thumbprints from the couple which fit together to form the heart shape. Little personal touch

Forgive my hand drawn hearts, better ones will be designed!

Smile for London Launch Night

Me and Amy went to London for two days on the 13th January for the Smile for London launch night at the Museum of London, which was for a competition that Amy entered and was chosen as the overall winner! Pretty surreal for her and got to schmooze with some designer folk.

Then we had a nice peruse of Camden Town and spent a little too much money, it's hard not to in Camden.

Amy's winning film: http://www.vimeo.com/16845078
Smile for London website: http://www.smileforlondon.com/

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Have you been swapping?

Here's what me and Amy have been up to recently, lots and lots and lots of work for our community project.
Made interactive posters, gift tag leaflets, regular leaflets, small viral presents and screen printed giftbags for people who have swapped to take away!
Been crazy busy, stay tuned for the final video edit of all of this.

Screenprinting!

Last Monday we had a screen printing introduction, crazy as I’m a 3rd year. Such a shame we’ve not had access to this before, or been aware we have because we had great fun making some simple prints using simple paper stencils and luminous green paint! Now myself and Amy want to frame this baby, lovely a2 print goodness.

Community

Sneak peak of mine and Amy's community project!

AM/PM

Just finished this brief for uni, we were asked to take the title AM/PM and either create a title sequence for BBC4 or as I chose to create an interactive kiosk design.

I took this and adapted it to an installation based on the idea of space and time. I then decided to create the installation for the science museum as a way for kids to learn about the solar system, called "Solus". The installation puts you in the position of the planet, the interaction involves you walking on the floor interface and when you stand on the name of a planet it triggers the sun, represented by a wall of light, to be brighter or dimmer depending on which planet you have stepped on. Then at the same time the temperature of the room changes in accordance to the planet you are stood on

Then this is a video animation of how the floor interface changes when you step on a planet and trigger the interaction.

CV: self promotion

CV time.
Here's my design for our recent CV project, I decided to go big but simple in the design... and by big I mean 2 meters.
Printed on the plotter double sided, which was a nightmare but I got it to work with a lot of help from the technician, so all in all worth it.
The design is on the front, my CV: about me, qualifications, experience, contact etc etc. Then on the back is a kind of wallpaper design, as the size of it reminded me of wallpaper and could then be something that the recipient could put up, the design became a play with typography saying "employme" repeated in an op art pattern down the length of the paper.

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Studio View Work Experience

I recently spent a week at the design agency Studio View based in Lincoln. While I was there I was given a project to produce illustrations for songwriting.
I decided to use a collage approach and choose famous songwriters as the basis for them. I chose Ian Curtis and Joy Division, Patti Smith and Robert Smith of The Cure, the collages then became inspired by a song of theirs I felt showcased their songwriting skills best. For Ian Curtis I chose Transmission and the collage shows the industrial style and the idea of telephone wires all connecting together. For Patti Smith I chose Land and the collage shows the imagery of the song, which the horse and the flames and the boy with a butterfly coming from his mouth. For Robert Smith I chose Pictures of You and the collage shows an underwater style, with aqua colours, it consists of an image of a woman floating underwater and then behind it is green card and a piece of scourer, then over this I placed a grey film to give a more murky effect.

Mail Art: Presentation

We presented all of the mail art together on a line of tables, it was really cool getting to see everyone's work in an informal way and actually letting the students open the letters all round the table created a great atmosphere of discussion.

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Mail Art: University

This was in response to the question "should university education be free?" I chose the idea of sending a statement of the debt that they will have after 3 years of university and I then expanding this further by thinking of the packaging and making it so it was first wrapped in loads of brown paper and then wrapped in string and then wrapped in sellotape and finally more string. It shows the idea of working so hard to get through university and what you finally get from them is a huge debt.

Mail Art: World Population

 This was in response to the question "how many people should there be?" I chose to go down a more symbolic route and started thinking about the idea of something that is ever expanding and then the idea of this expansion being restricted, like the earth is restricting the limit of population expansion. From this I came up with the idea of placing an elastic band around a balloon which when blown up restricts the user and makes blowing up the balloon near impossible.

Mail Art: Aliens

This was in response to the question "does it matter if there is life on other planets?" I chose to write a letter from the government as if aliens were invading Earth in the format of a telegram. I also included a piece of foil saying to use it to make a hat in order to combat alien mind control, this came from the idea of cliches involved with aliens. I then wrote on the back of the envelope "the truth is out there" which is again a cliche term that everyone would recognise as being about aliens.

Mail Art: World's Economy.

Here is my response to the question "Who is to blame for the economic crisis, bankers or politicians?" I chose the idea of representing the ecomony as a piece of moldy bread, which also works to symbolise bad money. The idea came from a project I did in my 1st year called Excess where I again used the imagery of moldy bread to convey my message.
I then stuck a sticker on the front of it saying "contains world's economy" to further communicate the idea.
The last photo shows how moldy the bread got in the 4 days it was in the mail system.

M.I.A

Amazing new set of music videos from M.I.A with Hype Williams. I love the use of old internet imagery and the effect of 'it's so bad it's good' XXXO is definitely the better one, I like how they've used the style of teenage girls myspace pages etc. plus the use of cool little gifs, maybe thats just because I love gifs.