Work - Whisky Packaging (D&AD)

Ploral Scotch Powder

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Disguised as a Medical Packet, the purpose of this product is getting Powdered Whisky into nightclubs to save you money on the extortionate price of drinks! Put Ploral in your handbag and the bouncer wont look twice at it!

Galore Scotch Powder Pouches

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Disguised as a feminine hygiene product, you will be able to get your Powdered Whisky into nightclubs without any bother. Male bouncers are particularly sensitive to feminine hygiene products and wont try to inspect the contents.

Travel - Edinburgh

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Today I got a free ride up to Edinburgh with the foundation graphics course at University. I decided to set myself a challenge and go to as many places on the given list as I could. I only failed to go 2 out of 12, which wasn't bad. Anyway here are some of my images off my phone.

Featured - University Prospectus

A piece of my first year work has been published in the University of Cumbria's Prospectus, being image number 7. This work was looking at the process of image making through collage and deconstruction.

Travel - Hadrian's Wall

Yesterday Frances Hawkins, Ieva Boo and I, was up on Hadrians wall exploring. Here are some pictures off my 35mm SLR, we were just north of Haltwhistle educating Ieva on the Roman Empire. Also Frances was using a large format camera, so I got to be the assistant for the day.

Work - Birthday Card

With a small amount of time, I got to go wild with turnip stamps and inks for Jade's birthday card. I am really getting in with patterns at the moment, so watch this space.

Work - USB competition

Here are my submission for a Novelty USB competition ran by Satzuma. My range was focused on SeaLife and to start the range I chose to make a Octopus & Starfish. I liked the idea of being able to rip the cute creature in half to get to the USB stick. Will keep the blog updated with any results.

Work - Deconstructing earlier posters

I created this collage poster from the four posters in one day project (below). I do not really like this piece as it looks like a bee has flown into a tower block and smashed  the window.

Work - Experimental One Day Brief Posters

I was tasked with creating four posters in 6hours, making sure I kept to set rules which were implied for a Music Festival in London. We were given all body text, images and typefaces to use. I wanted my posters to be more experimental and test out what I could do in a limited amount of time and not always legible. I really enjoyed going straight onto the screen. I feel I could do alot better next time with focusing on attention to detail and being more experimental but really enjoyed todays work.

Travel - Tullie House (Carlisle)

little black dress

This exhibition at Tullie House explores the evolution of the little black dress over the last 100 years. I was really impressed with the detailing and how contemporary some of the pieces were. It was also really interesting to understand the context of when some of the old pieces were created. Worth a visit if your in Carlisle before the 26th Feb.

Travel - Ikon Gallery (Birmingham)

John Myers

Middle England

This exhibition covered work by Midlands-based artist John Myer, his work involves portraits of individuals and families living in Stourbridge and the Black Country. I liked his work due to the documentary style reflecting the area he lived in the 1970's. All the pictures were took witihn walking distance from his home and he documented the world how he experienced it. In this exhibition there was also "boring landscapes" where he took pictures of landscapes but also TV sets. Which was really interesting, I really liked the pictures of sub stations due to the bunker characteristics (one day I hope to live in a converted sub station).

Travel - Lost In Lace (Birmingham)

Lost In Lace explores how lace is a continuously evolving as a material; and shows off how people are using it and thinking about it. This exhibition is currently at the Gas Hall in Birmingham.

This was my favourite piece by Nils Volker due to the fact that these cushions kept inflating and then deflating in different patterns.

This piece by Piper Shepard was interesting with all the detailing, but also the scale and how it divided up the space.

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On a separate note, the Birmingham City library is coming along nicely!

Work - Nans Birthday Card

With little materials and printing capacity, I had to look for other ways of making my Nan a Birthday Card! So this is what I came up with! I just popped down to my local DIY store and collected a healthy amount of colour cards and made this. I am quite pleased with this card, I really like the colours and the hand made feel to the triangles in contrast with the typography.

Travel - RAF Cosford

I decided to take Danielle to RAF Cosford, which is a wonderful museums full of airplanes from all over the ages and world. Plus I just love the Cold War hanger (above) which is just such a stunning building but also really interesting with all the planes seeming to be in motion inside the hanger. (its like a young boys bedroom ceiling on a grander scale).

We loved this guys facial hair! Looks like he has just founded a mouse and placed it onto his face. Top show!

I really loved a lot of the type and patterns on the aeroplanes. The 'Z' on this stenciled typeface is really nice and looks similar to my website banner.

 

I love the idea of Vladimir Lenin being employed as a gift shop assitant, really made my visit.