Screenprinting!

Finally picked up my prints from the screenprinting induction I did last week. The process is basically choosing what you want to print/making it and printing it on transparency film. Next is coating your screen, exposing the transparency film onto the screen, giving it a wash, drying it in the oven and then you're ready to print! Choose your paint colours/materials (you can print on just about anything - the wall, wood, fabric.. sky is the limit).

I really fell in love with the whole idea of the Arts + Crafts movement so I thought I would print the motto for the society of designers which embodied the principles that hooked me.

Website building!

Our last assignment was creating a website, so here's a screen shot of a couple of my pages. It was fun + frustrating! I really want to redo the header, but I have enough on my plate with putting my portfolio together. Another day!

Typo book revamp!

I finally got around to fixing my book cover design from Typography, so here it is!

In the nick of time..

It was a day of resurgence, after yesterdays sequential snafus (what a great word!). I had a lot to accomplish and now at 1 am I can finally permit myself to rest and relax. Enduring a 24-hour panic is thumbs down.

My canon printer has been eating my paper for weeks and I couldn't be assed to haul it in to get fixed (especially since I lost the receipt), so I finally broke down and purchased a new cheap one, a reliable Epson. PLUS I ordered a typewriter!!! By 4 pm they hadn't arrived despite the website stating "if ordered before 5pm the day prior, your delivery should arrive between the hours of 7am - 1pm. I knew the delivery time ended at 5 pm. At half 5 my buzzer went off. A miracle had occurred and there was my night in yellow NHL uniform with my machines. My flat is now being overrun by technology!

I produced a booklet (my fanzine) and some crappy translucent stock head shaped folder to store it in. I am not completely happy with it, the head/folder is a bit roughed up and some of the pages don't quite feel right, but I am thrilled at the outcome of a few of the spreads.

Here are some images:

WHEN ART GOES AWRY

Sweet sass, today has been frustrating! I had this genius idea to make a cast of a head to contain my "thoughts" book, for my current project. I sculpted the head out of air dry clay this morning and was quite proud of myself, it looked decent for round 1. I quickly discovered after an experiment that it was impossible to make a cast out of a clay mold.

I disassembled the clay head and tried to mold it around my own face... that also did not work.
I then agonized over my destroyed clay masterpiece while Emilia helped me come up with an alternative plan. Next we tried strips of plaster over my face. I looked like a monster and the messy process failed too.

I tried to make a circular mold out of clay to pour the plaster into. It turns out that clay does not like plaster very much. I still haven't a clue what I shall do, but here are some of the photos from my dispiriting day.

Crumb collection completed!

Finally finished this lame project.
It was kind of fun being a messy eater, even though I tried to keep it organic and not spill on purpose!
In case it isn't obvious enough, that is a lunchbox with my picture on it.

Spills + Crumbs

How long has it been? I have been neglecting this blog for some time. I have been quite busy helping Emilia with her brilliant project - collecting wishes in exchange for expertly folded paper cranes. It is a Japanese legend that if you fold 1,000 paper cranes, you get one wish that is sure to come true. Emilia is achieving this on a smaller scale - 500 cranes distributed and the last crane will be her wish for everyone elses to come true.

I went with her to hand out in Covent Garden and at Uni, meeting lots of different characters. It was certainly more exciting than doing my project. The theme of this project is "A collection." I decided to do spills and crumbs, since I am incapable of feeding myself without some falling overboard. We have also been busy preparing for our second Hugo Boss presentation, which I think went quite well. Only one more cut to go, if we make this one!

Here is what I have thus far on my craptastic crumb collection dealio. I am trying to take a scientific approach. I would have 2 boards, one with a floor plan displaying where the spill occurred, the other would be photographs of the mess and statistics. Have I accomplished this? Your thoughts? I have a long way to go, but here is what I have so far.

Floorplan with illustrations of the edible items in their state of wholeness.

Board with photos + stats, the evolution from left side (rough) to a more refined design (right).

Botching book design

I really dislike the short stories we have to design this 28-page book based upon. The stories were about an old lady being forcible removed from her home and dying, a blind woman who gets attacked and her head booted in, a girl killing a pet bird and the author going to a book signing and chickening out from handing over his manuscript.

Here are two of my cover ideas, which I am less than pleased about.
I went forth with the second.


The final result: Catherine, the tutor preferred the back cover and suggested I use it as the front and scrap the business at the front altogether.

Pick N Mix Part 1 - Design

I have been hard at work on our first Pick N Mix project - we chose a brief that we like the sound of between animation, interactive design, illustration, photography and design and have 2 weeks to complete it. Emilia and I did not realize it was a timely matter and there were limited spots for each brief, so we took our time deciding and ended up having to do the design brief due to immense popularity of the others. I explained the brief and my concept already on here, but alas this is the final product.





You will notice I have addressed them to a Mr. D. Johns in Aussieland.. wonder where I came up with that one...


What do you think?