Stop Frame Animation

The PEN Story from PENStory on Vimeo.


Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
We are working on stop-frame animation for the brief title: Don't Judge a Book by it's cover. These are some of the animations that have initially inspired me. I am looking forward to starting this!

Draft.2. Architecture

1: 3D Model for Architecture

First Draft: Architecture Illustration

I want an illustration which looks as much like a blueprint as possible. This is my first draft, I now want to work on making this plan look realistic - get a few measurements and printers marks in. (click to enlarge this image)

Uncovered

I brought myself an amazing book by Thomas Allen called "Uncovered", he uses 1930's imagery but breaks free from 2D confines. His pictures are alive and are given an entirely new life. He uses no computer aftereffects of any kind to produce the images, only a four-by-five-inch film camera. Incredible stuff!

Amsterdam

I spent this weekend in Amsterdam, an experience to say the least!

Dutch Graphic Design has always been outstanding, however even when it comes down to cheap flyers and shop signs they continue to create some real beauts. I picked up a few of the flyers below when I was there.

I also went to the Foam Gallery while I was there, the exhibition on at the time was "Alexander Rodchenko - Revolution in Photography". I have always loved Rodchenko for his collage and propaganda work from the USSR, but to see the photography work as well was incredible. It was great to see one of the first most recognised photographers and the analogue vintage prints.

If You Could Collaborate

I went to an awesome exhibition in Shoreditch this week. It was called "If You Could Collaborate", designers teamed up with other designers with different experience to create some outstanding work. 
With the Architecture Type I'm working on, the typography from Praline & The Model Shop called "Avec" was very inspiring. It's based on architectural floor plates and comes in three weights, they presented the type with neon lights. 
Craig Ward, Sean Freeman & ALison Carmichael also exhibited a set of wooden laser cut typography. They were beautiful! The type was called "Calligraffiti".

Word Play

It's been a while, but it's a new year and going to get crackin' with some work. 

I've been working on an illustration project recently. The objective is to create a contemporary and conceptual solution to communicate the word "Architecture".

This is the zine I compiled with my research and first ideas; included is a centre pull-out.

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....