Russell Weekes, a refreshing honest voice, with a passion for creativity. It was interesting to here Russell’s opinion of himself, as he descried himself not as an illustrator or a graphic designer, but ‘A way of thinking’. He explains this by talking about how his artwork is created and based on how he, or the audience, see’s … More Russell Weekes
Alistair Hall, the founder, creator of wemadethis.com, a company that works closely with clients and practitioners, printers and artist to create some remarkable objects and prints. Not only do they have an impressive range of clients, but some extremely beautiful work. Most of there work I can see, and which he spoke about was a brand … More We Made This
Workshop with Emily Evans. Collage: Dialogue using mixed media and image. The brief for this project was very straight forward. Set out like a display of instructions. Numbered, lettered and some underlining. Choosing text, sketching some ideas and attempting to produce a mass of collage work in a given space of time. A short, inspiring presentation … More Collage Dialogue
The first of the Hothouse Talks kicked off today, with what I can only describe as a presentation which consisted of the life of Abraham Games. Naomi Games, daughter of Abraham Games, was our speaker. Abraham Games was an expert in advertising posters, and communicating a message through the smallest amount of information as possible. Games also … More Maximum Meaning Minumum Means
A visit to Four Corners Books. First impressions A short walk to the publishers studio and we were faced with a beautiful little street, with craved architecture at each turn. A wonderful scene which set the tone of our visit. We were greeted by Richard and Elinor, I instantly got a vibe that they loved what … More Studio Culture
I have been trying to get a comic book printed, a specific size, quality, price, specific type of paper and with quality print control. After going to a few printing shops in London, they have all failed to produce or even understand what I was after. However at the end of a long day I … More The Color Company
This project I enjoyed very much. I enjoyed doing the research for this project to find out any information based around my initial first ideas. Looking into this project in-depth helped me require the knowledge and information I needed to achieve a realistic approach. Finding out what type of technology is out there today, gave … More Evaluate and Reflection – Beyond Limits
In order to present myself and my work, I will need my own visual identity. Doing this project gave my insight into how creative I can be when presenting work. As I apply professional ways of producing work, it can work both ways by having a professional standard to laying it out to a client. … More Evaluate and Reflection – Brand identity
This project was a great insight into how I can make my artwork into something else. A moving image. Getting illustration to another level of practice. I enjoyed research into various types of motion imagery which really sparked ideas and inspired me to try out different things. Making try outs of different motion imagery was extremely valuable … More Evaluate and Reflection – Moving Image
If there was any project to generate narrative it would to be with advertising, and poster design. To find a source to advertise was a fun investigation. I wanted to do an event within the Local Universe to which my poster could be a part of. I also looked for something of my interest so … More Evaluate and Reflection – Posters
James Notarianni 