To further my typographical illustrations, I have been thinking about how to reproduce them for selling purposes. The book alone is a nice collection for them to all sit along side the descriptions of mental health. To make the prints themselves into a product for people to buy will be a nice addition to this project. I … More FMP – Research – The School Of Life
Back in the letterpress lab for even further experimental letterpress typography. I have been using the term illustrative letterpress this week, so perhaps that is what I should be calling it. Anyway, on my previous post I spoke about trying to use words associated with Mental Health and using them to further some unusual thinking, and … More FMP- More More Letterpress
Letterpress is something I never thought i’d be interested in, but my latest designs have shown me that it is something to venture into more. I am not using letterpress in the conventional sense, I am almost ‘potato printing’ if you will, but my results are proving really hopeful. In terms of results, I am … More FMP – More Letterpress
Looking into using my Digital Rorschachs further, and employ more fun, life affirming imagery. I thought about what might be a life thrilling, daredevilish, adventurous activity and I took the notion of ‘not being afraid’ which lead me to think about what thrill seekers do. From this visual research on what thrill seekers adventure to … More D&AD – Layer Masks
I had pre-planned a whole day in the letterpress suite, in order to start creating imagery for my FMP. Not only illustrative type work, but also to document the process, in video, pictures, and sound. The day started off, slow. It was ok, to generate ideas it takes time. This is why I planned to … More FMP – Letter Press Experiments
I recently been trying to read as much as I can about Bethlem Hospital, as this will be an incredible link to my horror stories for my FMP idea, and it also ties in really well to my Studio brief projects. Upon reading some information on the hospital website I have discovered that they have an archival … More FMP – Bethlem, Museum of the Mind
Ignaciz Ruiz Ignacia took our class, and what a delightful class it was! (yes it deserves an exclamation mark) A joyful day of exploring drawing, reportage, and wonky lines. To kick start the day Ruiz presented some of her working background and broke the ice with a haptic drawing exercise. Drawing blind. Continuous line drawing, … More Ignacia Ruiz
In order to produce a riso print poster for a final collaborative outcome, I thought it would be good to revisit my animal drawing study. I have taken influences from many of my favourite artists, which I will give some examples. The artist who’s work is above, goes by the pen name Jock, who’s name … More Artist Research
Day one of Making A Living week had us in the hall with wonderful guest speakers, straight out the creative industry itself. Will Hudson The founder and director of It’s Nice That. A company, a blog and a creative team. Will spoke of his journey into the creative industry. Not a smooth journey as we might think. … More Making A Living Day 1
Foreword As a lead on from the visual metaphor workshop, I took my digital collage and put them to one side. I have decided to take a more illustrative/drawing approach to the next step of development. I have also decided to now just focus on one text, which is, Ann Vickers: Southampton Zoo. Illustration Getting … More Visual Narrative
James Notarianni 