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
Today was not my day for screen printing. I had been trying to do screen print for 2 weeks, and finally the room was free to use. I had images prepared, clean screens and a whole day in which to make some prints. The light sensitive emulsion went onto the screen. It dried. I exposed my … More Screenprinting failure
As I have found a way through the workshops, the development, the sketches and designs, I thought it to be in my best interest to see if their are any artists out there that have a similar design based on what I have come up with. As our final deliverable is to be a series … More Liverpool Street Station Art Research
After the lecture on Elements of Design and finding beauty in our locations, with Ricardo, I chose to look more specifically at the architecture of Liverpool Street Station. I took notice at the roof structure of the station, due to the complexity and simplicity of the structure. Straight beams intersecting with each other supporting a … More Finding Beauty
Moving into Brick Lane in order to document, engage and interact with the street. Drawing, photographing and collecting as much information as we can. Brick Lane is a wonderfully multi cultured place and gives a real thriving appeal to the heart of London. The problem I find that with Brick Lane, and this type of … More Derive; awareness of psychogeographical effects
For a final outcome I have chosen to develop my concrete zoo even further. By making into a reality. Taking the research and try outs I had done using the origami, then using that style and creating digital ones; I have used the shapes I created and made templates. To make these animals, I had … More Concrete Figures
Taken the animal descriptions from the Ann Vickers Southampton Zoo text, I am now thinking of a different way of using my drawing skills. Instead of just producing drawings on paper with pencil, I am trying to find different, more interesting ways, of doing that. After some thought, it was not the pencil that was … More Animal study stop motion
In order to make my moving image piece, I had to research into looking for material I could use. I used the open source of youtube in order to find some footage of caged animals, that I could edit down. I then needed real images of what was Southampton Zoo, luckily there are some on … More Moving Image Research
Dissertation Class For my dissertation class, Studio 24 ‘Words In Space’, we had a film session. For my dissertation I am proposing a question of whether the language and artwork in comic books are illustrative or a form of graphic design. Therefore, the films we watched were of great interest to me. Each film was … More Moving Image
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
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