Last month our class was asked to each make 50 editions of an illustration to be given out to the class, so each of us could create a book from them. I made 5 different illustrations, and printed 15 copies of each one. Below are a selection of the 50 or so illustrations produced by the class, and my own 5 illustrations.
My Illustrations
Class Illustrations
Back in June I photographed a Wedding for Beth and Ed Mordaunt. Its the first Wedding I’ve done, and I really enjoyed the experience. Thankfully Beth and Ed were both really pleased with the photographs I took for them. Photography is a big passion for me, and although I would never want to be a full time wedding photographer, I’m definitely interested in photographing more Weddings for people.
The Wedding has been featured in this months Wedding Ideas Magazine, and has a link to my website. The Wedding is shown over two double page spreads.
IT’S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT’S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE
This is a book I bought a few weeks ago by Paul Arden for 5 pounds. Paul Arden is of course the Advertising God and former creative director of Saatchi and Saatchi.
Although this sounds like a self help book, I can assure you that I have no idea if its anything like a self help book seeing as I am yet to read one. What I can say though, is that the ideas within it have been very helpful to me. Obvious as many of the ideas may seem, reading them in a book by someone like Arden, and with the way he explains each point really put things into perspective.
Heres a few of my favourite pages:
Its a Short book, with lots in it. I’d recommend it to anyone, not just designers.
This is the last project I leave till the last minute!
I’ve done these up tonight although they should really have been handed in today.
So here they are. I decided instead of making one illustration, I would do 5 and print each one 10 times (printing tomorrow morning)
My rules state:
Be Open
Don’t Forget….:
Be Brave
Leave your Fears Behind
Be Individual
Each illustration is an interpretation of the title (all illustrated onto my very own hand!)
Firstly, I want to say a masive thanks to Joe Myers who helped me out MASSIVELY with this project. He’s the man you see in the photographs, and it was a great experience to work with him. Check his work out here.
He also makes dubstep which you can listen to here.
So today, I finally got my comic sans letters destroyed that I created yesterday… all 18 of them! The idea was simple, a man with a baseball bat smashes the crap out of the letters. We had a bit of a hiccup last night when we found out the place we were going to use to shoot the photographs, was in fact only usable at 3am in the morning. We ended up going to Hackney (thanks to Sophia) and after looking around for 15 minutes, found this disgusting, trashy alley way. The place was horrible, but it worked well for what I needed! We got to smashing the letters, and Overall I’m pretty happy with the whole thing. Whether thats cus I finally got it done, or because we made something good, I’m not completely sure yet. But heres a rough idea of what we did. Im going to re-colour them, and probably add and take away some of the photographs your not seeing here at some point tonight.
Thanks again to Joe Myers
Here are the 18 letters I’ve made from plaster… Ready to be smashed… So much work just to smash it all up!
This is an overall view of everything I have done this term. Theres a few bits missing. Keep in mind these were made to be printed A3, And some of them are overly busy.
So everything I’ve done so far for comic sans has been just been mediocre and boring. Nothing has really hit the spot. A few weeks a go I had thought about paying someone just out of a mental home to go crazy on my letter, but nothing came of it. Today, talking to Joe Myers, a similar idea was reignited, and so now the plan is to arm joe with a baseball bat, and set him loose on a family of comic sans x’s. Tomorrow Im going to cast about 20 of them, then on wednesday morning go and shoot Joe smashing them up.
Im writing this now as a way of making sure I actually do this, cus the amount of times I have set out to do something lately, then not done it… well its past a joke!
Wish me luck…
A few months ago we got a first chance to use the photography studio, with the help of the main guy down there, Alex Madjitey. I choose The Clash’s London Calling although looking back, I kinda wish I had done something you could see my face in! Still Its a pretty good photograph, and close to the original.
