Schoolwork: Collage Project

This was the final project under the Power Of 3 brief - and I can't pretend I'm not glad it's over - the number 3 is not my favourite theme upon which to base work. Collage however, has probably been my favourite of three rotations. I chose to look at the idea of 3 Meals A Day and created little 'food characters' which I intended to animate. However, we have an enormous deadline looming (it's tomorrow! Argh! But I'm nearly done - yay!) and that took priority for me, so I had very little time to spend on this project. 
So instead of animating the characters, I photographed them in my kitchen. I'm pleased with the outcomes, and the crit (which was yesterday) went better than I expected. I'm definitely going to develop this idea over the Easter Break - if it ever arrives!

Currently working on: University Book Project

We're working on a book project at university at the moment, creating a bound book and a pdf around the theme of collections and archives. I'm looking at wool (obviously) and knitwear. These are a few scans from a little mock up I made of an initial idea, full of drawings and black and white photographs and photocopied ephemera.

The project is a challenge, but I'm enjoying it so far. Two weeks till deadline day!

Brave New World finished outcomes

My final outcomes from my Brave New World project:


It was my first time using photoshop to put images together - which was a learning curve, although ideally, I'd rather hand render and photograph, because I think the images would look a little less flat.

A piece of design I absolutely… LOVED

The sixty-second countdown animation to the start of the opening and closing Olympic ceremonies. Photographs and video clips of numbers seen around London, edited into a countdown, a really effective animation that captured my attention, before the ceremony had even started. I love photography and I'm fascinated by details, like door numbers, that are generally overlooked.
If you didn't see it, you can watch the clip here.