Stella Vine

Valero Doval

Frank Warren, Post Secret Project

Frank Warren started a project called post secret 2 years ago now. He ask anyone and everyone to write in saying one of there darkest secrets and with it design an A^ page to go wiht it. he got a huge amount of response and he published the best ones in his book 'Post Secret'.

Tad Lauritzen Wright

Anna photography!

I used these series of three images at the start of the year on my ani batton campaign and had totally forgotten about them!

20 min poster design.

These describe me as a designer: click on them to enlarge!

Poster breif

Holiday snaps which i found.

I found these bundle of holiday snaps when i was back at home over easter. There of my dad and one of his old best friends, if was really funny seeing my dad so slender with a curly mass of hair, haha he changed alot when he was older and i knew him! I really liked seeing them as i didnt know that my dad was such a traveller, but on the back of each of these photographs is the date and the location, they were taken in 1973. What caught my eye in the first place to pick them up and look at them, was the packaging. Pictured below, it was vibrant pastely colours, depicting a beach holiday typical of the 1970's everyone smiling and happy!

Baldwin colour expresstions.

From our final book presention last friday, most people commented as to why my developing work was in colour, highly contrasted similar to Martin Parrs - as to why the final books were in black and white, This was partly due to cost as it would of doubbbbled the price of the printing and i wanted to book to look clean cut, smart and move away from a younger audeince which these types of books are nromally associated with. Another reason was that with balck and white is allowed the skin tones to match up alot easier, to make the ne cropped much more realistic and bealivable.

However form this i have decided to make one more book in colour, to see if asethically the piece works better, here are the expresstions before i make the book...

Sarah/Georgia

For part of my book breif, i made mock up of how i could bind them and how i could incorperate a mix of identiys to make a new face. This was one of my ideas which i really liked and worked seemlessy.

face painting

Helping vo to complete her elective skecthbook. started to face paint one another.

Rob Ryan!!!

I can remember seeing his works at christmas time 2007, he had designed a series of display windwos for Libertys in London. I recall walking past and stopping to look closer at the display, i didnt know who he was then even though i recongnised his style, so after researching i found out the designers name was Rob Ryan. His style uses sometimes simple other times complex screenprints, on white backgrounds using coloured inks normally. He combines typography wihtin objects or borders which he has creted using thick bold lines. His typography, hand drawn style is distincitvly recohnisable, capitals with filled in centres in letters.

Fetish Photography

I came across this photography randomly, though there was no name of the photographer or where/how it had been used and its purpose. However it stood out to me, with he contrast of the models pasty pink skin to her red full lips and her high heel, connoting danger and seduction.

Culter and Gross

Sunglasses designer, high fashion wear using bright, bold and dynamic colours to attract and turn heads. the bodies and part of the face which we can seem, all seem to be nutted toned down in colour. this adds empathises to the presence of the glasses detracting form the all of the model beauty.

Diary Project:

About The Diary Project, it is by a young designer caller Kirsty Hall.
The Diary Project is a year long art project. Every day in 2007 she is drawing on an envelope, placing something secret inside and posting it to myself before midnight each day. When the envelopes returnerd to her they stayed unopened until they could be exhibited as a whole artwork. Then members of the public will then be able to open the letters and investigate the contents.

Dolce and gabbana

Dolce and gabbana last summer 2007 did a range of clothing focused on simple dresses, trousers and tops splattered with pastel shades and multi coloured tones of paint. It made the clothes look like old paint overalls which you could find in your own cupboards at home! Instead of paying the huge prices Dolce and gabbana charge you could even make your own if you didn't have any old paint ridden clothes, all you need is paint!

However i particularly the framing and contrast used within the photos:

Tinhead...'The Sixth Foal !?'

The 21 year old works I find fascinating, its eye grabbing and combines the elements of mixed media which i love using within my work. he is mainly known as an illustrator, with a loose hand rushed style of drawing his work look like they belong on pieces of scrap paper. This is what i find so effective, as he combine these drawings with parts of colour or minor detail and thickly italic thin font making the image beautiful and interesting to read.

Foals!! 2007

I went to see the foals way way back in September after just coming to uni. I had seen them before at Reading festival and they were amazing, but not in such a small venue as where i saw them in Leeds. They were just at that breaking point when they played at the cockpit still fairly underground. There set was fuelled with energetic frantic dance movements and beats, with the lead singer Yantis dancing in a similar way to Ian Curtis. There was such an electric, crazed atmosphere.
I cannot express how gutted i was for not taking my camera with me to the gig, i was worried in case it would get hit or dropped during their set, instead i took some shitty blurred photos on my phone and a video. It was still possible one of the best gigs i have ever been too.
However what first attracted me to Foals, was my friend Craig showing me samples of there demo art work for the single Hummer. It was very in intricate in parts, also with rough textures by mixed media and illustration. They are designed by a 21 year old illustrator from Brighton called, Tinhead. because his art work has been so influential on the band, he had been described as The sixth Foal. Here are all of the final art pieces used for Foals covers: