Manifesto

Manifesto for Sustainability - Buy Less, Waste Less, Save More!

Every item has a story. Pass on your memories to people, not landfills.

So the Summer term at uni resulted in turning totally knockternal and compleatly ignoring the blogging world.

Now i'm back into the swing of things, I thought I'd add a few of my portfolio pages of the work that never made it up itself last year.

Pocket Archive Project based on Saftey Pins.

Photoshop Sequence - turn one photo into another.

(close up)

Typographic representation of a quote (experiental project)

Campaign for UCAS - promoting Higher Education.

Berlin

I have a bit of a thing about street signs.

Berlin

I've just returned from a Uni trip to Berlin. Weirdest city i've ever been to - so open and flat, un-bustled, yet kind of daunting at the same time. Ridiculously confusing transport system and you defiantly need an insider to point out the best places - it's very 'underground'. Absolutely fascinating though and some stunning (and odd) visuals dotted around the city. Wish I'd had longer to explore, by the time I'd got to grips with it all it was time to go home.

The great thing about it being a uni trip is it meant we got to go inlaid some lovely design studios too, and of all shapes and sizes - Meta, Eboy and 908 Video to name a few.

If anyones ever in Berlin - defiantly check out Tacheles - it's way more than a graffiti covered abandoned building.

Travel.

While waiting for my several hundred photos from a recent trip to Berlin to upload, I began looking through old albums of other travels and found a couple of photos that I like.

Prague
A lovely little street artist - I really wish I'd had some money on me to give to him!

North Wales
I made my Dad U-turn down the road because I saw this view and just had to take a photo..no other part of the road would possible do. I didn't tell him that my camera battery died almost instantly after...still, I got the shot that I wanted!

Weather

This was a mildly ironic project, mainly because it got severally halted because of the snow.
The photography of these is admittedly poor, due to a) serious lack of lighting (my fault) and b) the fact I knew they would be temporary anyway!
I'm hoping to turn the images into animations.

Some more Uni projects.

________Type

Create a poster and leaflet (Typographic Based) to advertise a new Rachel Whiteread exhabition.

This exercise was mainly concentrated on exploreing what can be done using Illustrator.

Myself and my partner decided some of our previous designs were much stronger, so will be reverting to these.

________Magazine

Take a list of ten items (ours theme was Flowers) to include within a magazine layout.

Front and back covers

Inside spreads.

The above image shows a page of origami, and a page concentrating on the pronunciation of the flowers.

________Help!

"Help" a rival group by analsing their answers to a series of questions (What would you do if you were invisable, Who is your hero, etc.) and deciding what they need to 'Help' them around Kingston.

We were analysing a group that had been catagorised as 'shop-lifters' (this is what the members would do if they were invisable) and want to help them by rasing their serotonin levels - hopefully therefore haulting their need for shop-liffting.

We made a collection of audio-cassets that could be 'perscribed' to raise serotonin. The tapes were to include, for example, meditation music, a work out tape, recipies for home cooked food, and a tape made of chocolate! They were packaged to look like perscription medication, and our presentation to the group involved white lab coats and fake moustaches!

Second Hand Books

________Books

We were asked to re-think an every-day object, and my group was given 'Second-hand books'. We spent a lot of time thinking about what makes a book 'second hand' and where a book gets it's identity from. Searching charity shops, we found some fascinating books with notes, messages, time-tables, receipts, greetings...whole stories stashed away inside them. From some of the examples, we were able to create an entire history or journey. We were also fascinated by the smell of the books, and how each old book smelt different. We even attempted to make an 'Od De Old Book'...not something I recommend! However we were keen on the smell idea, and so used it to help us give 'new' books 'old' personalities - we wanted a blank book to have an old books charm, because it's not the content of the book that matters at all. We infused the new pages with old smell, and made each an identity card with details of its history.

The Great Vegetable Debate

What is the 'best' vegetable? This is our contribution to the argument.