I like maps

Our aim was to find everyplace in London which sold Chicken Schnitzel. We walked around for about 3 days in total collecting information and tracking where we had visited. When back in the studio we had piles of menus, addresses and photographs of our adventure. Using all this we marked out all the places on a giant map of london, colour-coding all the places who sold it and who didn't.  

Deciding what we were going to do with all the information and present it as a shrine was the hardest part. We wanted it to look like something which had be obsessed over, showed commitment to the subject, and also showed some 'handy skills'. Our first idea was to have a giant collage which combined the areas of the map which showed the restaurants and the other gridded areas on the map would be made up of collage work layered up of all the information, papers and photographs we had. This seemed a good way to combine and show everything we collated, but it needed some order to be able to viewed well in the portrait photograph which was to be submitted for exhibition

The final piece we submitted, was a series of gridded squares combining the information, tracking and maps we collated.

No Hate Mail & No Laughing.

First term exhibition, lots of cheap beer, drunk frank and McDonalds.

excellent.

Destroying Poor Little 'h' pt3.

Hang out your laundry in Wolverhampton and it gets burnt.

Destroying Poor Little 'h' pt2.

My first ideas were the destroy 'h' by light....I photographed the wooden letter I made using a 35mm Black & White film and the idea was to print it the photos myself and film the development of the images as they were in the developing bath. Then I was either going to play the film backwards so the h disappeared or alternatively do not use fixer on the image and quickly expose to developed h to move light causing the paper to turn completely black.


The project began....film developed, some delightful satin photo paper to develop on, enthusiasm....BUT no darkroom. Unfortunately, I had a few troubles with the tech guy in the labs, and only managed to start the tester strips for the project..... nevertheless, I have a few prints. Time for a new plan to destroy 'h'.

H in the frame

After slaving for hours we have a set of work! Wahey!
Also.... I have gained an obsession with h.... it has taken over my room!

Handy Vs. Chicken Schnitzel

Christian I teamed up to create the shrine of Handy Vs. Chicken Schnitzel and all we got was these lousy wooden Chickens.

Yummy Club Graphics

http://www.toledohiphop.org/images/old_school_source_code/


Most of the Old School Party Flyers were Designed By Buddy Esquire and Phase 2. Phase 2 was a real big Aerosol Artist who wrote on a lot of the NYC Trains who also did a majority of the Party Flyers back then. Buddy Esquire was a regular Artist who did allot of party flyers as well.

These Cats Worked on big Art tables and had all the tools to make these flyers by hand including those Rub on Letters, wax Machines, exacto knives, Graph Paper and many other tools that are extinct today in the modern artwork world.

Day out with Comic Sans

Equipped with out white wooden letters, all shapes and sizes. We went on a family day out......we didn't get much further than The Tate and the sushi bar..

lovely hand tinted postcards

so so lovely. i love receiving post.

Mean Mrs. Mustard

A postcard design for the set of library rules. I always used to get told off for talking loudly. I still do. The type on the front will not be white, but cut-out. yummy cut-outs!


I'M FAR TOO LOUD (a Nash reference)

wouldn't it be lovely to hand tint these....

Adding Value

The delights of working with Emma Noble:

"Objects are commonly disregarded, paid no care or attention and therefore have none or little value. You commonly walk past a bed of leaves, but what if you looked a little closer? Appreciate the value...We believe skill and care is one of the most valuable qualities an item can possess. We want people to notice the beauty and craft but only once you take time to consider the not so obvious will you recognise this.

We hand stitched together old scattered leaves and crafted a golden carpet. By stitching the leaves together, the minute details and care taken to create this beautiful ‘carpet’ give the leaves an added value - The Value of Care and Intricacy. A irreplaceable value."

Dadaism

So I ended up recreating the Dada manifesto which was original written by Tristan Tzar. Whilst producing the manifesto, I found it difficult to reproduce the collage and print technique which was a key characteristic of work in the movement.

I started by cutting images, text and shapes from paper and scanning them in to rework on Indesign. However, this proved very time consuming and I could just position the text exactly.

I decided to go for a more graphic approach in the end. I used an image of Duchamp, a series of lines, circles and the pointing hand to make up this manifesto....