UEA Collaboration

In this project I was written a character by Jake Reynolds from the UEA Creative Writing course to respond to, and then it would go back and forth, each time us responding to the other's last piece of work.

The first image I sent was of his character in a park waiting to meet her Nephew who had written a damning article on her childcare, and she wants to set the record straight.

He continued to expand upon this character giving more insight to her state of mind. After a workshop thinking about physically manipulating a double page spread I came up with this idea.

He then took the narrative to twitter, tweeting as though he was the character, Meredith. Because so much was going on in the story it made sense for me to create a series of images displaying the thoughts and emotions the character was experiencing in the form of twitter headers. The images were driven by the restricted format of the header and newspaper grids, combining the visual language of twitter and newspapers.

I then translated this look back to the Penguin double page format in a jarring way.

The shapes and lines were all based on a grid for the perfect page layout.

A shot of my outcomes in the mini show in the studio

Lynx Peace x ASOS

Through Puck Collective I entered a competition with Lynx and ASOS. The brief was to create T shirt design that would appeal to men aged between 16-25 (roughly) that showed peace in a creative way. The deadline was 5 days, so my idea had to be quick, and they also wanted some documentation behind the ideas and creative process so it was quite a lot to do in such a short space of time.

I wanted to distance myself from the clichéd and overplayed images of peace used in fashion such as the symbol for peace and the dove with an olive branch and decided to go with a something that would look good on a t-shirt first, and be trying to represent peace second. I thought that people wanting to buy and wear the design would be most important, and the fact it represents peace is less so; If it was all about peace but no-one wanted to wear it then that wouldn't be any good.

Unfortunately my design was not picked, but I may use the technique to make a set of t-shirts at a later date as I really like how they look.

Playhouse

I was given the opportunity to show some work in the Playhouse in Norwich. I asked for work from other illustrators on the course and there as a great response. I curated and organised the show with the help of Amy and Holly.

Pulp Fiction Finals

Here are my final outcomes for the Pulp Fiction poster competition. The first entry came from the ideas mentioned earlier about multiple interlinking storylines and playing with the physicality of the magazine format to create fragmented composite face made up of the four main characters of the film.

The others came from trying to simply key scenes or events that make the film what it is down to a few shapes with a limited colour palate. These were created using cut paper and ink and then digitally coloured and collaged together.

I submitted this final image without the typography as my second entry as for me it was the most striking and stand-alone image of all of them, and I like how almost clinical it feels with the hard, clean edges of red and black on the white background.

I think the paper cut posters probably work best as a series and I may well create a sets of screen printed versions of them later on, either to be shown at Cinema City or if not for my degree show as I am happy with how they have all turned out.

Pulp Fiction Development

I tried using cut paper as a technique to quickly create bold shapes and capture the main ideas of the film in one concise image.

I actually really likes the way the reverse images looked on the sheets of paper I cut the shapes out of, and could potentially make a large collection of these black and white objects to make up an image of the whole film.

It reminded me of this style of design which is quite hectic and leans heavily on symbols and type.