Exhibition Fundraising

As a class it was decided that creating prints to sell would be a way to raise funds for our exhibition in May.

Here is my limited edition print with the lyrics from the legendary Bob Marley :)
Any comments would be greatly appreciated, this is the first piece of work I've ever created to sell, so I have no idea how well it will!

.laura

Updates!

Hey guys, not had change to post for what seems forever!
I have actually produced quite a bit of work, considering the dissertation has taken over my life until last week!

For now I will just post images from the photography course exhibition brochure design 'competition'. Basically our class was briefed by the director of the course to submit designs for their exhibition brochure. I got down to the final 4.. but not any further!

The images are here..


Front cover.


An example of an inside double page spread.



As soon as these designs were submitted I received images and the name 'Seamless' for the surface pattern brochure and decided to crack on with designs before I had even found out the results of the photography brief. Lots of my class submitted for this, and I was chuffed to be shortlisted to the final four again, they required some amendments before they made their choice which I created and got back to them within a week.

Yesterday I found out my designs were picked! Very chuffed :) So i'll be posting my first design and process to my final design soon :)

Meanwhile, here's a picture of my dissertation printed and bound, I'd like to thank Jem printing in the uplands Jason did a great job, and I'll definitely be sending my exhibition prints there!




.laura

for the dancers amongst us..

New York Photographer Jordan Matter, such a clever idea. Watch the video, you'll hopefully be as impressed as I was.

Advertising is bombarded at us every second of every day, really.. unless you're in a padded white cell you really won't get away from it all. This video is about product placement, Hersheys being the first company to pay for their product to be in a film.

Looking around my room now i'm hard pressed to find anything that doesn't have a logo on it somewhere, I suppose my carpet doesnt..

Have a watch, its pretty interesting :)

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Incredible

I really need to share this work with you guys..











Marion Bataille has won awards for her 3d pop up books - these are so beautiful and cleverly crafted. I'd really like them, thank you please! :)

Five months left...

ARRRRRGGGHHH!

..this thought is on a continuous loop in my head at the moment.
I can't think of much else other than our final deadline day of the 9th of May at 12pm!!!

It's all about the deadlines for the next five months, and if I haven't been particularly organised for the best part of my degree so far, then this is the time to really glue my butt to the computer chair and cover my walls in lists and calenders.

This being said, I have managed to get some new work and ideas down..




The above image is from a photograph of my boyfriend taken by Constantinos Kokkinopoulos. Using type I recreated the image.
This was just a test, to take my mind away from deadlines and experiment with other, fun, graphic design work. However, I really like the effect, and although it took me a good few hours to do this.. I would really like to apply it to a project, or perhaps evolve my own personal project from this.

One of my tutors suggested using a full size photograph of me and using this type technique recreate the image and use it for my exhibition space for the end of year show. Much like supermarkets use full size models to scare the crap outta you in the supermarkets (i'm sure that isn't their exact intentions..) ..see below.




I'm gonna leave you with a website.. a graphic designer I've loved since I was sixteen http://www.bantjes.com/
If you're unfamiliar with her work.. why?!

stress stress stress :)
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Antonis Demetriou

Finally got these bad boys printed a month ago using solopress, the turnaround and quality of this printer was great, I really recommend these guys to anyone looking to print! Also sent me a nice pack of all the examples that they print on to, really nice design on that too! It's a really great feeling to see your work printed for the first time - and an even better feeling to have a satisfied client! :)

Thanks Antonis!

Meanwhile.. i've been getting a lot of work done lately! Got 5000 words ready for my 4000 word deadline when we go back to uni in jan, pretty happy with my designs for the photography exhibition brochure and working on a magazine client project with Rhys at the moment! Things are happening!

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