Good times/Bad times/Love/Hate. Money conquers.
Well, at the moment I weld and bend steel/wire. First of all,no I haven’t given up on design before I’ve started, and it’s not because I’m rubbish, or can’t be bothered searching for jobs. Honest!
I am going to INDIA! Oh yes.
It’s quite easy to get all defensive and over justify why I’m not slaving away in at an agency for ‘nawt’ (zero pence). I do currently have moments of ‘oh my god, why am I spot welding a bread shelf for a well known supermarket!? I should be chasing the dream job’. But the main thing at the moment for me is to earn as much money as possible to fund my 6+ months in India. It has proved impossible to find a well paid job, in graphic design, for only 4 months work.
So, overall I’m a factory lass (AKA Petal Face/Darling/Sweetheart) who dreams about graphics at every given moment. Everything I do is perfectly aligned, neatly placed, and fits the grid. Oh, that just works too well.
Hopefully I will be able to continue designing bit’s&bobs through freelance projects. Although working 11 hours a day, plus Saturday keeps me pretty busy as you can imagine. Thank god for wireless internet and endless amounts of design blogs.
I best stop ranting now, you get the point!
I aim for ‘Wire Queen’. Factories require many fans. They are too hot.
Filed under: Graphic Design | Tags: Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, Typography
What are the factors which create our identity? Is it the image we create on the outside, through the clothes we wear and the colours we dye our hair? Or is identity something which is in-built and cannot be changed?
After exploring the physical elements of my identity, my clothes, my features, my faults, I realised this picture I was creating didn’t reflect who I really am, or how I see myself.
I wanted to create a more insightful and interesting image of myself.
A true view.
Through knowing a persons likes and dislikes, you can start to develop an understanding of the persons personality and identity.
I have created an A-Z of objects, places and people of which I love, or that make me happy. Some things are daft, some are serious, but overall this project intends to give an honest insight into what makes me tick, what makes me who I am, what creates my identity.
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Tomorrow has finally arrived. My last day as a design student. We’ve been so busy over the last few days that it hasn’t really sunk in. Final projects are completed and the end of year show is almost finished. Everyones boards look great!
I have just emptied my last spray mount can, the cutting knife blade is blunt, the printer is out of ink. I think they know it’s the end of an era.
Friday 1st May 09 4:00pm…..FINI.
(A peek at part of my business card.)
For each and every project I have created, I have done my own printing, cutting, binding and photography. Just thought I best point that out as I have been asked about this a few times recently!
Perfect bound process:
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One Sunday afternoon I found myself in an industrial factory with a few hours to kill, like you do. As you can imagine, this didn’t thrill me very much. But then I got a little bit snap happy and realised there was a feast of photographic opportunities! I noticed that amongst the dull shadows and dingy corners, there were splashes of colour everywhere. 300 photographs later I had a brilliant collection of images that captured the true, yet hidden, nature of a sleeping factory.
A very short and sweet project. Basically, this poster is inspired by my parents madness. They are trying to tidy the house up at the moment, get rid of all the clutter. So, like you do when you don’t want your antique furniture, they took an axe to it and used it as firewood. Yes, I believe they are mad. “Oh it’s just in the way and no one will want it”. Need I say anymore.
As the poster states, they always told me to let them know if they were going mad….erm, Mom, Dad.
I was listening to some music the other night, iPod on shuffle. Skip, skip, skip…where are all the good songs? This made me think, I would like a list of songs that randomly pop up and conjure up great thoughts, memories or just a smile! I have so many songs, and these lovelies get lost in the endless playlist. So, I cherry picked a few of my all time favorites, some classics, some embarrassing ‘I shouldn’t like but I do’ tracks etc, and spent a few hours creating some posters. I can put these up on my wall, and whenever I feel like I need a dose of good music, I can take a peek and choose my ear candy!
As a year group we were asked to design a piece of work based on the theme of aniticipation. The actual pages are around A5 size. This is my submission printed in poster format. A collection of posters relating to how I would like my future to be, or more how I think my future might be. I want a simple, easy to follow plan, but then I want random occurrences, mixed with stability every now and again. But really, I just want a mixture of all those possibilities.
Let’s see what happens eh!
Filed under: Graphic Design | Tags: Books, Graphic Design, Photography, Poster, Typography
This is another project based on the theme of sleep, both the lack of sleep, and actually getting sleep. The project is presented as an oversize A3 poster book. The first half of the book consists of posters which represent issues on not getting any sleep. For example, recommendations and remedies to aid sleep. The middle of the book is made up of a sleep diary which I kept for a week. And the second half of the book represents elements of sleep. It mainly consists of illustrated dreams, both my own, and others.
The book is presented as a single unit, but each individual poster can be removed from the book and works as a stand alone piece of work.
The name (“I cannot sleep…”) and cover of the book refers to a dream I had many years ago. I spoke fluent French the whole way through. Or at least in dream world it was French! It was brilliant. Oui oui
