Magazines as references

This kind of layout is one possibility for one section, or the back of my flyer design - images i include could be anything from photos that i have taken for this project, or work in process designs, to tell a story of the process of making / organising this event (to make it look a more real opening).

Throughout my project i have been collecting magazines and leaflets, from places such as shops and events.

By doing this i am getting ideas for layout, directly linking my project to fashion based magazines - seeing what sort of design is used.

In the photo directly above i think i could this layout design, or something simular would be suitable for my work.

Catalogue images.

As part of sorting out our end of degree show book, each of us in the class had to choose 2 images that we would like to see appear next to our name and headshot as a form of showing off our style and ability.

We all had to format these 2 images to a certain size with 5mm bleed around it to give to louise on a CD.  The two images that i have chosen to present in our book are the ones you see above.

I have chosen these particular two, as i feel they really shown off my skills so far on this fmp project. They portray how i have a great interest in fashion and my abilities with mixed media collage (how i intend on working when i leave uni and build up my portfolio some more). 

This is an image that i was thinking about using from a past project, from a double page spread i cropped into a lively area and formated the image to the required mesurments. I do really like how this looks, but this work alongside one of the images above looked abit inconsistant when it comes to the meanings. plus i am very glad i used images both from the project im doing at the moment.

Identity Wall

Today we all got together to carry out the task of creating an identy wall for our degree show bookcover, this consited of what work inspired us and some of our own work. Today was all about sorting out what jobs we would individually do when it comes to the opening of our degree show, i signed up for helping sort out the bar for our opening... other jobs included advertising of the show (design and production), invites and bag designs. Above is the identity wall in its early stages where people have begun to stick and draw their work directly ont the wall.

The end result looked like this, areas will be blown up and scaled for parts of our identity book, this was a simplier effective way to ensure everyone who took part was involved with the production of our degree show product. The work that i put up i thought portrayed my style; from being very collage like (below). this being a double page spread from the book 'Selfish Giant'.

End of year photo's

Whilst sorting out the identiy wall, we were set certain times through the day to get a photographe of the whole year and a black and white headshot done - to go alongside our images and catalogue blurb in the end of degree book. Today was very relaxed and fun and all about how we can make our show look great.

After today it has really sunk in that there isnt much time left untill all this planning is put into action. Therefore not a great deal of time for me to pull everything outof the bag and pull all my efforts together.

Life Drawing

Taking louises advice of getting a different perspective on drawing people from life, i have done a selection of quick sketches on my own and my housemates legs.

Primary sketch's

Still life drawings, done to aid my initial idea of following the theme of possions.

Some life drawing whilst out in the sun.



Degree Show presentation with Johnny Hannah

In Johnny's presentation, there was alot said that was pretty much the same as the tutorial i had with Peter yesterday, when the methods of mounting work were concerned.

The main point of the presentation today, was to show us a few exibitions from the previous years.
There seems to be a big variety of options out there with what we can achieve from our show, from window paintings to work presented in belljars. But today has just comfirmed that i will be going for the cleancut white frames, hung spiradically around my area of wall.