oh, i wish it could be christmas every day!

We were given a photography project around Christmas time last year entitled 'Collections'. We could pick any subject as our collection and as it was Christmas time I thought I'd choose Christmas decorations as my collection. At Christmas time my house is always hugely decorated with all sorts of Christmassy/religious stuff that my Mum has collected over the years. The photographs above are a few of my favourites from my collection. I love the bright colours of the decorations & especially the baby Jesus ones which my Mum has collected from various parts of the world.

rec. - visual communication.

For the first task of this project we were asked to pick a noun out of one tub (there were loads of little folded up papers so it was completely random) and an adjective from another tub. I picked 'angry' and 'record'. We were then asked to ask somebody that if they could go anywhere in the world on holiday right now, where would it be? I asked my boyfriend Eddie & he said Tokyo. So I had 'angry.record.tokyo'. We were then asked to design a poster to communicate the adjective, noun and destination.

This is what i came up with. The image quality isn't very good because the poster is in a frame and it was hard to take a good photograph without the flash ruining it. My first idea was to make the Japanese (Tokyo is the capital of Japan, well some of you might not know...ha) flag using a record. I went on a 'white record' hunt round Newcastle and managed to find one, limited edition..so i was lucky. I then painted the middle to make it look like the Japanese flag. For the 'angry' part, I asked lots of people on a night out to look as angry as they could and let me take a photo of them. This formed my background.

In the weeks following this we were asked to come up with an idea for a shop based on the noun or verb we were given, i chose to take my noun 'record' and decided on creating a recording studio. When decided we were asked to design a moodboard for our chosen shop idea...

The next part of the project was to design a logo (when decided on a name) for your company. After much deliberation I decided on the name rec. for my recording studio with inspiration coming from the record button on a camcorder. This is the logo I designed, starting a corporate identity with the red and black, I chose red as that's the colour most record buttons are basically...

We were then asked to come up with a strapline (slogan) to fit with our company.

Again after much deliberation I came up with 'create it.play it.live it.'

Following this we were asked to design a materials board for the interior of our shop. I wanted to stick to my red, black and white corporate identity I had maintained so far...

(apologies for the bad angle, I was getting a horrible glare/reflection from the camera with or without the flash =()

We were then asked to design two (i found it hard to pick a final two, hence three below) posters to be displayed on the windows at the front of our shop, again keeping to the corporate identity & usuing imagery/text relating to our company...

 

Finally, we were given four days to come up with a storyboard of an idea for a TV opening credits for a programme about your company, I wanted mine to start with a black screen and have the words flashing up in lights...

preditutor!

These are images from a book I made for a project called 'The Rule Book'. We were asked to think of a set of rules/instructions and apply conceptual thinking to them to relate them to something else. I chose the instructions on 'How to avoid a rattlesnake attack' and applied these instructions with images to correspond with 'How to avoid an attack from your tutor'. I wasn't sure how to lay the pages out on here but the instruction pages on the left are to go with the image above right (eg. instruction 1 goes with the image above on the right in this case it is the tutor's close up shot), hope that makes sense?

also it would be nice if i'd have saved the 4th image as RGB instead of CMYK. =[ (this is why the colour looks dodgy.)

i have NO idea how to put the right one in its place without having to upload them all again in the right order, sounds easy..believe me its not! ha.

sarah beetson.

Sarah Beetson was my inspiration for the 'pop art' like food in 'The Feast' project.

I absolutely LOVE her work.

Definitely one of my favourite illustrators.

I love her use of colour & mixed media like marbling & stickers.

She's been a huge inspiration to me in many of my projects.

http://www.sarahbeetson.com/

food fight!

These are a series of images I made for an illustration project entitled 'The Feast'. I took inspiration from church murals that I saw in Padua & Venice by Giotto. I wanted to make them quite amusing so I had the idea to create a food fight between the angels and religious characters in the murals. I wanted to keep the people in the illustrations realistic and 'mural like' & the food quite 'pop arty'. I used a gold leafing effect on the illustrations which isn't really shown very well in the images above as I had to photograph them as they were bigger than a3. I also used an Italian ultramarine pigment in the background that I bought in Padua which is really vibrant in the illustrations but isn't really done justice in the images but you get the general idea!