Love Is Like A Cabbage

A set of charming, designed by Uniform, (if not deliberately cheesy) chat-up lines, guaranteed to put a smile on anyone’s face. Based around the idea of making a good first impression they designed this set of six cards, which were mailed out to prospective clients in time for Valentine’s Day.

Publications PITCH

Today, Isabel & I pitched our idea for a publication based on ideas which should not be published. 
The pitch was in the form of a video, in which we spoke stark naked explaining our theories (censored of course). 
The pitch went something like this:


"Why do we publish things?

We publish ideas, imagery, work and beliefs because we want to make these public. We  want people to know. But what about things we don’t want people to see or aren’t acceptable to be public?

Domestic space, thoughts, our bodies, communications and behaviors are all things we have personal control over. But what if this control was made public? What if we exposed your secrets, what you hide, what you know, your personal details, what if your thoughts became broadcast nationwide? 

Saying things we are not meant to say, doing things were not meant to do, making public what is not meant to be public. The politically incorrect, the shocking, the intrusive and the controversial."

We won the pitch and the project is going forward!

Desperate Cars by Sébastien Girard

Exhausted, abandoned, wounded, the collection of cars captured by Sébastien Girard are in fact desperate. We find them in the middle of the night, broken wrecks bearing the scars of their mad days wheeled by man. An analytical flash captures them in their everlasting solitude. Desperate cars is the second book of the series inaugurated by Nothing but Home.

Book Binding

I had a workshop with Cecilie Barstad to learn the basics to book binding to help with a project I'm currently working on called based on collections. The craft was a pleasure to learn and I am really looking forward to use the skills Cecilie has taught me.

Publications

One of the projects which I will be working on soon is to create a publication. I've been doing some research and came across these from Iris Tarraga, 1985. Graphic Designer from Barcelona, Spain.

Working in Marnich, a multidisciplinary graphic design studio founded by Wladimir Marnich in Barcelona, from June 2007 to December 2010.

Love Triangle

As a day workshop to introduce us to publications, we were asked to create a fanzine based on a given word. I had 'Triangle'. It seemed a pretty easy, simple word to create a zine on. However the idea of a zine full of triangles somewhat bored me. 

I have an obsession with collecting crude & vulgar postcards. As you can image there are some disgusting ones, but also some hilarous ones. They provoke me to wonder what on earth is the story behind them, if infact there is one to their obscenity. 

I decided to use these postcards for imagery for a zine based on love triangles. Within the zine I created a narrative between the images.

I find making zines allows for creative freedom, they can contain such a broad spectrum of ideas, imagery, text or photographs. I like using them to allow for research and developing ideas, they are useful to show as progression in work.

There are a few photographs of the zine "Triangles" below: