“Two extraordinary exhibitions showcasing the innovative work of LCC Post-Graduate students” Click here to download the invite and remember to RSVP or (allegedly) they won’t let you in.
Friday 3rd December Includes work by MA Graphic Design, MA Graphic Branding & Identity, MDes Innovation and Creativity in Industry, PG dip & PG Cert Design for Visual Communication, MA Graphic Moving Image, MA Design Writing Criticism & MRes Information Environments students.
All Press and Private Views by invitation only 6-9pm, RSVP (essential) and all enquiries: events@lcc.arts.ac.uk – The shows run from 25th November until 9th December. London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6SB
If you’re not that into artsy things then maybe just pop along purely because I will be wearing something pretty and there will be drink ^_-
Above is the end video of my outcome for the final major project of my MA in Graphic Design, the whole project was handed in for assessment yesterday morning!
The title of the project “How can I create interaction using multipoint perspective”
The basis of the project was, I wanted to see if I could create a deeper understanding of content if the viewer has a chance to physically interact with the form in order to decipher it (or whether they would be able to decipher it at all)
This involved developing an output which used multipoint perspective to incite user interaction.
I used a quote by Henry David Thoreau to illustrate my method “it is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
I looked at how John Berger and David Hockney had said that visual depth is lost when content moves from 3D to 2D form. But here I created 2 dimensional form from 3 dimensional objects.
In time I will upload the visual summaries and the report so that, for those of you who are interested, you can read more about it.
The output installation itself took around 2 weeks to finish, stringing up the 32 letterforms of four different sizes, “exploiting” diminution present to make them all appear the same size. Not to mention kerning in 3D!
Projecting the second view type onto the foam letters was the most difficult part. Ever tried to draw/paint on hanging letters that have to stay in millimetre perfect positions? Punishing.
Although difficult, it was brilliant fun to put together. Created in a classroom, there were always people around who would slink about the perimeter of the installation and try to figure out what it says. Which was incredibly fulfilling to know that I had made such a curious object (:
This still currently hangs in D207 of the London College of Communication and will be included in the post graduate design showcase starting on the 3rd December, so please come and have a look if you can, it really looks much better in real life!
I’ve been working on my final project for what feels like forever, above you can see a (rough) video of it, I’m taking the final shots of it tomorrow including filming it.
There is ultimate pressure on to get it finished asap (obviously aside from meeting print deadlines and the like) and it’s big BIG news, I want to tell you all about it but I don’t want to jinx things.
As usual I will keep you updated with more info nearer the time. But let’s just say 2011 is looking to be a MUCH more exciting year than 2010!
Halloween is coming up this weekend, which will give me a much deserved break from work. Whether I like it or not!
In the mean time, check out these pictures of some of the finer details of the project, up close and personal!
Procrastination should be my word of the month. It’s like I want to torture myself! The deadline of my final project for my MA is due in on November 10th, and without risk of jinxing myself, I am actually ahead of schedule by *weeks*.
BUT
Instead of just getting it done sending it to print and having time to relax, unwind, and reconfigure before I have to start self promotional stuff, I subconsciously decide it would be a great idea if I sit and play World of Warcraft for a few hours. Or perhaps I will organise the bookshelf, tidy the house, paint my nails, blog… or just click around the internet for a day or so.
It is like the only way I can function is when there is a deadline looming. Which I find utterly preposterous! How disfunctional am I??
The good news is that aside from this, there’s lots of fun stuff coming up. to name a few, I have a trade show to attend tomorrow, I get to see lots of my designs from this year up on shelves and hear how popular they are (with any luck). I have a massive portfolio update coming very soon, along with some MA work previews too. Also I’m off to France in a couple of weeks! There’s also some secret stuff coming up. What could it beeee?
Richard Harvey is a recent LCC graduate who studied a BA in interactive design. His work is amazing, I think you could describe them as inventions, they really are mad scientist type ideas.
Especially my favourite “Sound, Fire and Smoke” a variation on the Ruben’s Tube theory, a gas filled tube with different sound qualities applied, pushes out more of the gas where the wave peaks, resulting in a sound wave of fire… though not exactly safe as you will see if you watch the outtakes video. Definitely do not try this at home.
However, this featured video above is a floating display that reinterprets weather information via hovering patterns and flowing movements. Quite different from the fire experiment, in this one the user is invited to create patterns and sequences using either an iPhone interface or a sequencing program. Ah iPhone, is there anything you can’t do?
Really brilliant innovative work from Richard Harvey, be sure to check out the rest of his work in his portfolio and prepare to be amazed and inspired. Mr Harvey, I salute you!
YAY! Unit 2 is due in on Monday and my books arrived back from Ripe Digital first thing this morning! Because of how quickly they were posted I now have loooads of spare time. Such a relief!
This project is my proposal for Unit 3, the final project for my MA. It’s full steam ahead with the brief from now until November 12th when I finish. No pressure, but it’s going to be epic… and expensive! >_<
So relieved that this is nearly over, I work alot faster than I’m “allowed to” at uni. There are tutorials to work around and they only want to see some things by certain dates, when I have usually figured out my final outcome a couple of months before I’m supposed to. Which is usually fine if I can keep my mouth shut. *If* being the integral word in that sentence ^_-
You can see my final outcome for this brief at the bottom of the post. Roll on November!
There are some very magical people on my course at the LCC one of the most talented in the bunch is the lovely Andrea Forgacs, and it just so happened to be her birthday this weekend. ^_^
Take a look at her portfolio, blog and take a peek at her book and prints here, her work is literally everywhere and for a good reason, I think you’ll agree! <3
Feeling pretty stupid that while I had been whining last week about how tricky it is to keep working and plough through all this uni work she appears to be handling it pretty well!!
Due to high demand following my Unit 1 Square project, I am posting photos of my final outcome here for all to see.
Thank you everyone for such awesome feedback. I have had loads of messages comments/twitter/facebook/email and texts about it, and whilst the project was great fun to do, the fact that it is totally focussed around user interaction means it’s nothing without you guys <3 I never knew you cared!
It's always nice to get feedback on work you spend alot of time on. Once I have taken some proper photographs I will upload some previews of the artwork.
So I handed all my work in for unit 1, aka the square project, on Monday and the next morning at 10.30 I was given the briefing for unit 2. Such is life. Not even 24 hours later and I am rammed with work again.
In short, this 2nd unit is all about planning for the 3rd unit. The 3rd unit being my final major project.
The two projects on the, go as of yesterday, are my final major project proposal (a 2k essay describing the work I plan to do in the 3rd unit) and a project called Design Rhetoric, which involves compiling all the work I will be undertaking in order to decide on my major project.
Essentially it requires that my final major project be epic, and that I spend the next 3 months working on ensuring this!
I’m not panicked, I think that I already have an idea of what I am going to do, it will involve creating an extension of the main things I looked at in my first unit… which I will explain fully when I have figured it out.
At the moment, I am still working on Elective A (that’s silk screenprinting to you) and Elective B – “Branding and Identity” starts in a week. When I have wrapped those up I will let you get a peek ^_-
Watch this space! I will update this post with the new briefs once I have scanned them in.
Today was the day I handed in my Square project, as part of Unit 1 of my MA in graphic design at the LCC. It developed from looking at just the form of the square to a brief about perspective and space, inspired by David Hockney and his ‘ways of seeing’, I explored the ways of creating a square in a depth of field by using abstraction as a reverse methodology.
It took 4 months to finish the whole thing, an expansive project with loads of different aspects, I decided to contain it in this box, with my books printed by the magical Ripe (they were a huge help I cannot thank them enough!)
The box was an added extra, four layers, hand made, foam slots for all the books. I am a bit of a perfectionist and wanted it to look “whole”, I am super pleased with it, let’s just hope the tutors think the same! ^_-
