Thursday 22 July 2010

Cross-stitch



I took a trip to Whitstable the other week and we went into a shop which was selling these really cute little cross-stitch items! It really made me want to give cross-stitch a try! I could tell it would be one of those things that I would just get addicted to..and yes, it is! Always good to try out different bits and pieces no?

I like the bee one I did, its really simple and took me no time at all! I made it into a necklace! My friends really liked it so Im making a few for them as well!

Summer Project

So...the brief was to create a font that represents who you are as both and designer and person and to then present your name in the hand made font. This is what I have so far! Had a nice bit of brainstorming time and took on the fact that i played the cello for 10 years which allowed me to develop creativity in a musical sense as well as an artistic sense. Once I started to look closer at my cello I realised I could find and create all of the letters of the alphabet which quite obviously was a great relief. Once I started to play around with the photographed parts and put them together I thought it started to look pretty successful! Plus its a bonus that you can actually read it...assuming you actually can?
So yeah, this is the idea I'm going for, I was originally going to go for the symbolism of where I live i.e. it being a seaside town so theres lots of great typography along the coasts etc but turns out my friend was also doing the same idea. Therefore, I decided to think a little deeper and use a smaller and more personal aspect of myself and then BAM we have this!

Posing away with my work!

This is the main poster for the exhibition, I simply used the same generic image as I had for the invites and added the information at the bottom...it was pretty cool seeing this up in the college printed on A0 size paper, bit crazy!

I also had to design a map which would be displayed around college during the exhibition. Here it is...





Better late than never...these are the final outcomes of my FMP- well part of the outcome, these are the posters for each pathway! It was said that they catch the essence of the studios well, with all the busy-ness and creativeness! I pleased with them and im glad I was able to keep some continuity within each of the posters!