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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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.

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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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.

Mail Art

Hello 3rd year of uni!
Our first project is called Mail Art where we got posed 12 questions and were asked to produce 4 responses to them and then mail them to our tutor. Here's my 4 responses, all packaged and now posted, I tried to include some kind of interactive element into each to make them work on a more advanced level.
I'll reveal more after we've presented them all on Wednesday.

Bank of One Hundred

Final Prints.
Heres my final note designs for my 100 project based around the idea of how the value of £100 has changed from 1910 to now and how it will change again in 2110. I printed as wad of 50 notes for each and printed 3 cover notes using gold silver and bronze foil transfer.

Bank of One Hundred New Notes

Here's the next two banknote designs for my 100 project.

The first is the 2010 version, I based it around the idea of the internet and design styles of now, I used the grid system as the background pattern and then a binary pattern and a depiction of the internet as the imagery.

The second note is the 2110 version, I based this around the idea of future technologies. I was influenced by code languages for the design, using the typeface used in Actionscript for the main note design. Then I built up code languages to form the image of a carbon nanotube used in nanotechnology, which is cutting edge technology.

Bank of One Hundred

An update of my 100 project, I've developed my idea to make each note show the year in which the value is based. For this, the 1910 version I decided to go with the imagery of a car, as this was revolutionised transportation around this time. Im then planning on having the 2010 note's imagery based on the internet and the progress of communication and the 2110 note's imagery based more on the further advancement of technology, maybe nanotechnology, using abstract imagery and adding technology onto the note itself.

Lots to do basically.

.... Still Money

Another days work and this is how much further I've progressed. A lot of intricate work, but very fun to do.

Money Has 8 Different Typefaces!

Working on my new project called "100" I've decided to go down the route if £100 and how the value of £100 has changed over 100 years and will change over the next 100 years. So I'm designing a banknote based on that of the UK banknote, except adding in my monetary values and imagery relating to my idea. So yea... 6 typefaces on this beast, it really shouldn't work but it does. Also a lot of time goes into making money, this right here has taken me pretty much all day... and its not finished........

The Devil and Daniel Johnston Title Sequence

My title sequence for the documentary film The Devil and Daniel Johnston. I was influenced by the way Johnston he recorded his music onto cassette tapes, so I decided to put the titles onto cassette tapes. Next I was influenced by his artwork and how he drew on his cassette tapes, so I made small stop motion animations to go over the cassettes. Then I cut this will footage of Johnston, to give the viewer a clue as to who he was before watching the film.

The music is True love will find you in the end by Daniel Johnston.