Lora Nevill1006700Graphic Design Yr 2Methods and Madness EGRD 2009

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Shooting StarsThe main idea behind the video was that the media coverage after 9/11 was very much based on the firefighters and ‘heroes’ of the horrific event. The ‘jump-ers’ were forgotten about very quickly and the photo of the falling man almost disappeared after appearing on news-papers September 12th, despite giving a better insight into the true horror that went on that day.As much as the jumpers shouldn’t be forgotten, images or sound from that day weren’t necessary in the film. Everyone has seen them and instantly recognises the event. My film contains interviews from the documentary ‘The Falling Man’ which shows both opinions on the jump-ers, their speech animated using kinetic typography. Using no images means you are fixated on the words and its quite striking to just be listening to such emo-tional recordings.

Having never used After Effects before it was a real struggle to begin with, and

learning how to use it took a while. I would have liked it to be a bit slicker and to maybe have used so more effects like camera movements, but with the limited knowledge of the programme it was a hard to get anything done.

Having a brief that forced us to work in film, which I had never ventured into be-fore, was a really interesting experience. Putting myself in the deep end and trying to tackle a hard programme as well as never making a film before, didn’t feel like a good decision to begin with, but af-ter persevering it paid off. Everyone that watched the video has given me very positive feedback and I am glad I stuck to it as the final video is really effective.

Live Brief - Paperco/HendersonCreating a direct mail piece to promote Hendersons brand values to new customers. When approaching this brief it was hard to find a starting point because it was so open. Being in a pair was really helpful as ideas where created twice as fast. After the first crit it became clear that the form would be determined by the brand values. After creating the brand values we had more of a starting point, and when we got the idea of using a hexagon it all fell into place. Although not particularly enjoying the brief it was a good opportunity to experience a live brief and am glad I did it and am proud of the outcome me and Rhea produced. When producing the mock up we wanted it to be as close to the real product as possible and so hand embossed it so the client could see and feel what it would be like not just have to imagine it.

Working together to build a strong and secure future.

Like bees we will make the best of our resources and create a strong friendly

community you can depend on. We work to give you the best prospects for the future and

beyond.

We strive for responsible investment and have an active and engaging

approach with companies.

Working to shape and prolong a sustainable

environment.Striving to form an environment that will last and work for everyone is the bee all

and end all for us.

We will work together to produce long term benefits not just for the business

but for the environment too.Providing to Produce

We are a hive of activity and do our best to give you the best.

We provide guidance, support and beneficial results when it comes to investing.

Collaboratively, we will make positive change.

We invest in companies that take a proactive and enthusiastic approach

to corporate responsibility issues.

We believe that such companies exhibit higher management qualities

and enhanced market reputation; this in turn attracts lower risk

premiums and consequently a higher valuation over the

long term.

French folds; a sustainable printing solution allowing us to layer text over image.

Business card; useful element, increasing communication between prospective clients and Henderson.

Stitch bound; it is held together without the use of glue - a sustainable and environmental solution as well as giving the design a unique edge.

Debossing; utilising the ‘touchy, feely aspects of paper’ and giving the appearance of ‘honeycomb’ encouraging interaction and decreasing ink usage.

Envelope: echoes the idea of the hexagon. It wraps around the booklet without the use of glue, making it easily recyclable.

Hendersons Global Investers:-Strong growth potential

-Proactive approach-Working together

-Dedicated-Collaborative-Sustainable-Pioneering

Hexagon Symbolism:-Shape of nature-Communication

-Interfacing-Balance-Union

-Bees/ Beehive

Meaning of Six:-Equality

-Integration-Perfection-Reliability

-Dependability

Bees:-Co-operative-Hard-working

-E�cient-Community

-Build-Interconnect

For our design we decided to start with a shape. The Hexagon came to mind because of its significance as a part of nature. After looking into it deeper we found that it had a variety of meanings; symbolising communication, interfacing, balance and union and it also connotes the image of a beehive and the hard-working ethic of bees. Using this idea we looked further into bees and found that all of our reseach

was linking together. The co-operative, efficient community that bees have is what we were trying to get across in our brand values for Hendersons. From this we used the image of a Beehive and the idea of bees to create our direct mail piece, connecting our Brand values to the concept of the booklet with some extra copy.

Hendersons Global Investors Ltd; Direct Mail Proposal.

We began by researching Hendersons Global Investors thoroughly to gain an understanding of what is at the core of the company. We produced a list of what we considered keywords; strong growth potential, proactive approach, working together, dedicated, collaborative, sustainable and pioneering. Next we took the shape of a hexagon due to its use in nature and direct link to bees; this symbolized communication, interfacing, balance and union as well as connoting the hard-working ethic of bees. We could see that the keywords were a good foundation to build company values upon as well as a strong link to produce a de-sign concept around. The number ‘six’ was also significant as this also backed up the connection between Hendersons and the hexagon, representing equality, perfection, reliability and dependability.

We now felt confident enough to produce company values that were strong and honest;-‘Working together to build a strong a secure future’-‘Providing to produce’-‘Working to shape and prolong a sustainable environment’-‘Collaboratively we will make positive change’

Although unsure of what our design was yet to entail aesthetically, we knew that stainability was very impor-tant to Hendersons. The brief asked to ‘utilise the touchy feely aspects of paper’; we thought that emboss-ing/debossing would be the most effective way as this would encourage interaction through touch and not necessarily through seeing – in short, it allowed us to decrease ink usage and still have an impact on our audience. We discovered that french folding is a sustainable printing solution through only one side would need to be printed; we explored this through using tracing paper. The advantage of tracing paper was that it permitted us to layer text over images.

Settling on the idea of a booklet meant that we could collate the company values and visually display this through the characteristics of a beehive; layering and overlapping with French folded pages and a debossed cover to entice the prospective clients in. The envelope echoes the hexagon, wrapping around the booklet without the use of glue, promoting an environmentally aware company and product.

The follow up direct mail piece takes the form of a fridge magnet; we wanted something that the customer would keep. This would be sent within a similar envelope as the first direct mail piece, adopting the beehive image and reinforcing the company values that could possibly be printed within the envelope - greeting the perspective client as they open it.

We feel that we have made the best efforts to fulfil the brief, prioritizing the communication of the com-pany values with intentions of introducing new customers to Hendersons through a high quality, creative, print based direct mail piece. Our design utilizes the ‘touchy, feely aspects of paper to engage the senses’ through techniques such as debossing as well as employing traditional binding techniques. Environmental credentials was a key element of the brief, this has been achieved by examining and deciphering what is most important, forming hierarchy of type which allowed us to lower ink usage. Choosing to stitch bind and utilise the characteristics of paper such a bending and cutting and acquiring techniques such as debossing have encouraged environmental ethics to be applied to our design.

French folds; a sustainable printing solution allowing us to layer text over image.

Business card; useful element, increasing communication between prospective clients and Henderson.

Stitch bound; it is held together without the use of glue - a sustainable and environmental solution as well as giving the design a unique edge.

Debossing; utilising the ‘touchy, feely aspects of paper’ and giving the appearance of ‘honeycomb’ encouraging interaction and decreasing ink usage.

Envelope: echoes the idea of the hexagon. It wraps around the booklet without the use of glue, making it easily recyclable.

Follow-up Direct Mail: Fridge Magnet.

The fridge magnet will be sent out approximately three weeks after the initial direct mail booklet.

The idea of this follow-up is to provide something that the customer can keep, something that will keep Hendersons in mind. The magnet would be sent in a similar envelope as previous mail out, pictured right.

The company values will be reinforced here, inside the envelope.

The sides of the envelope will adopt the beehive image from previous mail out.

Hendersons Global Investers:-Strong growth potential

-Proactive approach-Working together

-Dedicated-Collaborative-Sustainable-Pioneering

Hexagon Symbolism:-Shape of nature-Communication

-Interfacing-Balance-Union

-Bees/ Beehive

Meaning of Six:-Equality

-Integration-Perfection-Reliability

-Dependability

Bees:-Co-operative-Hard-working

-E�cient-Community

-Build-Interconnect

For our design we decided to start with a shape. The Hexagon came to mind because of its significance as a part of nature. After looking into it deeper we found that it had a variety of meanings; symbolising communication, interfacing, balance and union and it also connotes the image of a beehive and the hard-working ethic of bees. Using this idea we looked further into bees and found that all of our reseach

was linking together. The co-operative, efficient community that bees have is what we were trying to get across in our brand values for Hendersons. From this we used the image of a Beehive and the idea of bees to create our direct mail piece, connecting our Brand values to the concept of the booklet with some extra copy.

Having the opportunity to participate in a live brief added a lot of extra pressure. You were having to think of what the client would want and make sure that every idea you have fits to their criteria. To begin with I found it a real struggle because I wasn’t that interested in it, but after the good feedback we got after the presentation to PaperCo it pushed me to want to make it the best it could be. It was a good opportunity to present to a client and get feedback, although nerve-wracking it has now giving me an experience and practice of a serious presentation.

‘Make a drawing a repeat it ten time’Taking a drawing we had previously done on tracing paper and photocopying it, layering each copy under the original drawing so the layers continuously built up.The task made me think twice about going for something too obvious, and about how the process and method you use, changes the outcome and how it is perceived.

Biography- Part 1After picking 3 tasks out of a hat we had a day to complete them and represent them in an interesting way. ‘Imagine a story’After Abi came up with a story about a Gopher and Alligator going on a date we decided to realise the story. Making masks we acted out the story taking photos and creating a story board with our images. Our initial response to this was to draw it out, but it seemed like an obvious depiction of a story so we tried to think of another technique which would create a more interesting outcome.

‘Taste and document as many different tastes that you can’This one was more tricky because taste is a sense which is usually described through speech.An obvious method to document this would be to record the sounds somebody makes whilst eating, but from this we got the idea to photograph some ones expression when they are eating different foods. Focusing on the mouth only we captured a variety of mouth positions. Looking at it you instantly wonder what they have just eaten, or why they made that face. We were going to overlay the images and adjust the transparency but the idea didn’t work we placed them on top of each other in a line.

BiographyThe three main points taken from the brief were:-Choose methods of research that are unfamiliar-Turn things on their head to find alternatives-Point of madnessMy approach was to completely turn the brief on its head and make work from not researching the person at all. Using Google in a backwards way and utilising its ‘did you mean’ function.

Instead of going straight for the web search and using the maps, news and video search as well as wikipedia. At first the idea was to layer all the drawings together on tracing paper so I illustrated the news story in the shape of the map. However an outcome wasn’t necessary and too restricting so I just went with it. When it came to the video and wikipedia drawings I still stuck to pen on tracing paper but changed the form.

Taking stills from every second of the video I began layering the drawings on my scanner with different layouts so each one tells a different story. Linking into my Independent Practice I Limited myself to pen and paper with only slight changes on Photoshop to get rid of shadows from scanning. I wanted to see what I could create manually and think the results are a lot more interesting as they aren’t perfect.Abbie Hoffmans biography taken from wikipedia and re-written using every 4th word. I could have easily typed it out but I traced the original text from wikipedia, linking into my independent practice, the process being as important as the outcome plus it looks better than a typed up document.

Lab.The First workshop was by Zoe Sinclair, who is one half of ‘The Girls’. Her talk was very honest, which was nice to hear for once although quite scary. She explained the highs and the lows and how testing working collaboratively can be, as well as how good it can be. You could tell immediately that she was very passionate and driven about her work.The workshop was about portraits. We had to get into groups and create a portrait using photography to show our personalities and qualities as a group. I was with my friends Rhea, Abi and Gemma. We began thinking about how we are alike/what signifies us as a group like, silliness, funny faces… but settled on our boyish nature. None of us are particularly girly in our everyday dress sense and we are always joking about being lads. So we took it to the extreme and became men for the day. Using our own clothes we creates our male persona.The best photo from the day happened to be the first. We all chose our positions on the wall and sat in ‘male’ posture. I feel its the best photo because there is nothing going on in the background, someone said it would be hard to date because there are no cars/people/ and our clothes aren’t a big giveaway. We are all looking directly at the camera, not in poses (pouting like most girls do) but naturally (a tad more manly than usual of course).

Having gone back into uni still dressed as men it was quite odd to see the reaction . Not as many people as we thought actually double took or realised what was going on and it was the people back at uni that knew us that had the biggest reactions to seeing us.Originally contemplating whether to do the workshop I am so glad I did because it was really fun. It was an opportunity for us to work together as a group which we hadn’t done before. Only having done a bit of basic photography before it was an opportunity to think about styling and position when shooting the photos. After the crit we went to a rugby stand to shoot some more photos. However they didn’t look as striking as the very first ones we took, but it was another chance to try something different. I also feel like I got a lot out of it, from overcoming shyness to creating some really interesting work which we are able to carry on.

Roderick MillsThe workshop was drawing based, using different source material to tell a story with the drawing you are creating. Given a list of words to choose from the one I worked from the most was Hybridization.Using tracing paper I was really interested in the images of skeletons and scary childrens dolls so used this as the basis of my work. Creating drawings by joining 2 images together.I found a lot of the drawings I was doing were quite odd, almost disturbing which is very different from the work I normally produce. It was nice to see how an illustrator woks in industry and how he would fit his interests into the briefs he’s given.

Le Gun - Robert RubbishThe focus of the workshop was creating exquisite corpses. Firstly by playing consequences, then turning these into bigger drawings in small groups. Finally we created a large group drawing. During the workshop I was working with some first years and it was a nice opportunity to collaborate with people we didn’t know. It was interesting to see that as the workshop went on everyone became more relaxed and so the drawings became a lot more free and everyone was less worried about what they were doing. This is something I am going to remember as I often have times when I’m stuck and almost try so hard to draw something that I can’t. The idea of just drawing whatever comes to your head unconsciously could be useful. The large collaborative drawing we did at the end was the most exciting bit for me. Moving round and seeing what other people had done and then changing it or using it and not being uncomfortable about drawing on someone else work was really cool.

Studio Practice This semester I have begun to explore a variety of new methods within my work. The briefs we have been given have given me the opportunity to explore new things. The shooting stars brief allowed me to work in video which was some-thing that I haven’t looked into before. It also made me push myself further, and showed my perseverance when learning to use a new programme. The biogra-phy brief we were given made me think about my research methods that I usually use and to think twice about I how I go about researching in the future. Using a different approach to researching can often to lead to better outcome when it comes to presenting your research. Having never done a live brief before Pa-perCo was a great opportunity to experience taking part in a live brief. Being able to present to our client and get feedback from them really pushed our work for-wards. I am glad we got to work in pairs as I don’t think I would have been able to produce as good an outcome in the time we had if I was working aloneI feel that this semester we have had a lot of long winded crits with the same groups of people. We have been talk at a lot and haven’t had much of an oppor-tunity to work together. Doing the ‘Blind date’ style crit was a lot more beneficial than always having big group critiques. We were able to get feedback of a lot of people, and it became more conversational and relaxed so people weren’t afraid to just say what they thought, and what ideas they had. Also the exhibition we did in the last week was a real success. Although not everybody in our class partici-pated, there was the right amount of people so everyone had enough space to work and there was a real sense of collaboration. I feel like we should be coming in most days during the week to work in a similar atmosphere. Having a studio space which is ours and we can leave stuff up and talk to each other would be amazing. Although I had a slight idea of what I was going to when I came in, I gained a lot more from it by talking to peoples and finding out their opinions. It was a relaxed atmosphere and everyone was working but stepping back to see what everyone else had done and because of that the crit we had at the end was a lot more relaxed and more people got involved.

Throughout the semester I have worked a lot more on my Independent prac-tice than studio work. I feel as though I found it hard to relate my practice to the studio work and so have completed the brief but haven’t been able to take them further. Most of the days when we have all been in as a class it has just been for another crit and we haven’t spent much time working alongside each other and so there hasn’t been that natural conversation. Starting next semester with the 24 hour day and 2 weeks of LAB will hopefully get us into the ‘art school’ studio state of mind so more people do feel that it is worth-while to be coming in and working in a creative environment.

Lora Nevill1006700Graphic Design Yr2Interrogation EGRD 2010

Lino print created using the theme of ‘Lost’ as part of a book Tom Hagarty is making to showcase analogue printing over digital. When starting independent practice I didn’t know what I was doing or what I wanted to do and after reading this quote it reassured me that there was nothing wrong with being lost, and that eventually I will find my way.It first started as a drawing, after being interested in frames that people use in tattoos and then turned into a linocut, adding the woods in the background to give it more depth. The print works really well and I want to explore lino a lot more in second semester.

Independent practice

After not knowing where to start with my work I began writing down everything that I am interested in and want to explore. The majority of it being old ephemera and print process. I began to realise that the way I work is very process based. I gain more from hand drawing something over doing it in Photoshop. Also I like to use old technology such as film cameras and typewriters. My proposal turned into more of a manifesto, convincing everyone old is best.For my work this year I don’t want to focus on an outcome. I want unexpected things to occur, and to just go with whatever happens. In the past I have been limited by thinking of an outcome too early and I wanted to do the opposite. To begin with it was pretty scary. I didn’t know where to start. I was thinking too much and not doing enough. In the end I started with making stuff for Handmade and Bound and this got me going.Also watching the film objectified was really

interesting. There were some really good points about design, ‘good design is as little design as possible’. For example the film camera was a rectangle because of how the film works and where the lens needs to be etc. The film determined its shape. However the majority of digital cameras are copies of the film version with no need to be. They have the same design but there is no need for it to be like that. After using a typewriter I wanted to explore the shapes it created. As it is running out of ink the letters don’t always completely come out and this became really clear when I enlarged a bit of it on the photocopier. The shapes where really interesting and it didn’t look like letters at all. I cutout the shapes and tried placing stuff behind them. I really want to further this by experimenting with light behind it and creating shadows using the shapes.

Handmade and BoundLLLLL is a zine containing illustrations and col-lages using ephemera. It was based on my Independent Practice Manifesto and contained images I produced, illustrating redundant tech-nology. Using a typewriter I hand typed the manifesto, along with a bit of text to go on each page referring to design and technology. After figuring out how to do double sided printing, put-ting the zine together was quite easy as I had already produced the images, the pages just had to have type added. Using the typewriter on each one added a personal and handmade touch to each of the zines and put into practice the points in the zine about nothing that worth-while ever being easy.

After creating several illustrations and seeing some letterpress prints a couple of third years had done I wanted to combine the two. Letterpress being a redundant technique it fitted in well with what I was experimenting with. Whilst in the print room I played around with overlaying and over printing to see what kind of results I would get. Using paper out of the random paper drawer to see if I accidently discovered something whilst I was working and I think a couple of the prints on found paper were really successful. The layering of prints also worked well.I want to further my development of this using a different typeface as I think the all caps and sans serif font doesn’t fit with what I am saying, and want to see how it would look done differently.

Recently finding a Film camera in a charity shop I have been trying to use it instead of my digital camera. In the film objectified there was also a lot about sustainability and the sentence ‘everything ends up in landfill’ really made me question and look at some of the things we have but don’t need. The shelf life of most technology is about 11 months so surely if it is only being used for that amount of time it should be 100% recyclable. Things in the past were made to last and you had one and it did you for life whereas now we don’t need anything new but its the fashion to buy the latest phone. I started to think why don’t people use what they have instead of going and buying a new one. Older objects were built to last, and still work whereas a newer one will no doubt break as soon as the guarantee runs out. I am learning by trial and error and haven’t got the settings perfect but I still like the results and the process of waiting to get it developed it so much better than digital. I also experimented with double exposures, some worked, some didn’t but practice makes perfect.

ExhibitionAn opportunity to display our Independent practice work. I used it as an opportunity to create more work. As my work is about redundant technology I wanted to get others opinions on it. Taking my typewriter into uni I set it up so people had the opportunity to type something and then pin it on the wall. It became an installation that was collaborative. Originally I used a uni table which ruined the look of my installation so I set about making my own out of a piece of pin board. Bending it round into a circle and tying the ends together it eventually gave way and snapped into a teardrop shape. I prefer this shape as I positioned it so the curve leads you into the wall and draws you to interact with it. It was a good incite into peoples opinions and way to discover how people would interact with the typewriter. It was interesting to see how many people didn’t actually know how to use it, and to see how someone who had never used one before, Overall it was a success and I really liked the final outcome. Not knowing how I was going to work out I gained a lot more insight than I expected.

Internship

Over Summer I applied and was lucky enough to get an internship at Outline Editions, a print based gallery in Soho. The job required me to help set up the gallery in the couple of days before the opening of Anthony Burrills show ‘Clear your head’. As well as this I worked at the bar during the private view and was asked to assist during several of the workshops Anthony was putting on.As soon as I arrived on the first day I got put straight in the middle of the set up, helping Anthony to hang several of his prints. It was really interesting and eye opening to see how much has to be done to make sure everything is perfect and that the private view runs smoothly. It was also amazing to be able to meet Anthony as I am a fan of his work. A lot of what I was doing was running errands, waiting in queues at the post office and buying supplies in cass art, but its what I expected. It was a good opportunity to see the setting up of a show and how frantic it can be: taking one of Anthony’s framed prints on the tube on my way from the framers was on of most stressful journeys ever, making sure it didn’t get damaged. But it was a great insight into how it all works.After Anthony’s show, Jess and Camilla who run the gallery asked me to stay on as an intern and work a couple of times a week in the run up to their next show. I got to go to Klaus Happaniemi’s studio and had a chat with him whilst he was signing some new prints I had just picked up and worked alongside Noma Bar in the run up to his show as well as meeting several other artists who show work in the gallery. In the run up to Noma Bar’s show I helped frame the work,

I also helped out at the private view and workshops where I was more involved. He was using his machine to create cutouts which people the bought and I had to mount, get them signed and package them in a very packed gallery. It was one of the most intense and stressful things I have ever done as I was concentrating so hard to make sure I did them right, after all people were paying for them. Having to run off outside to spray mount or get Noma to sign a cutout whilst impatient people were having to wait was manic. Working at outline Editions has made me realise running a gallery isn’t particularly

something I would like to do but it has giving me an insight into what goes into setting up an exhibition for future reference: and also the relationship between the artist and the gallery that sells the work. It was a really great experience and has pushed my confidence because I was constantly having to meet and negotiate with, framers, printers and artists and I think I made a good impression because they still contact me if they need extra help.

Independent Practice

Throughout my Independent Practice last year I was always focusing on what the outcome of my work would be. I was often restricted because I always had an outcome in my head and didn’t experiment with things. This year I don’t have any form of outcome in mind at all. My aim is to try new things out, experiment and produce loads of work. When deciding what to focus on it became clear that my interests lie in the old; objects with a history, ephemera and print making. Much of which is redundant in todays digital society. When looking into redundant technology I came across a quote by Nicholas Sparks ‘nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy’.This sums up how I work. My work is very process based. I prefer to redo a drawing by hand 10 times than edit out the mistakes on Photoshop as you can learn so much from the mistakes you make and often they lead to more ideas. Also watching the film ‘Objectified’ gave me an insight into obsolescence in society today and the sustainability of the products we make today. The shelf life of most objects today is about 11 months and so they should be 100% recyclable . Throughout this semester I have begun to experiment with old techniques and work based around redundant technologies. It took a long time for the thought process to occur and I spent a lot of the beginnings of the semester trying to work out what exactly I want to do. Now I am in the middle of my experimentations. This semester has given me an opportunity to think more about what it is I am interested in and what sort of work I want to produce. I feel as though I am getting my own style of work whilst still spanning across a lot of techniques and processes. I really enjoyed the exhibition we put on, it was a great opportunity to do an installation and research how people felt and interacted with a piece of redundant technology. Going in with a vague idea of what I wanted to do meant that I was able to pull it off really well and it was a success. It also got me to think about future exhibitions or installations and how they are presented. The space surrounding what you are presenting is as important as the work itself and after making my own table instead of using one I found really made it clear to see. It began to look like a finished installation and worked a lot better than it did before with a regular table.Overall I have enjoyed the semester and am excited for next semester as I have more time to experiment having done all the thinking this term. I have stuck to my original plan of not thinking of an outcome and I feel all my work this semester has lead on from another, and each thing I’ve done has created more ideas for more work.

LAB

During the week there was 5 talks which were all really good in very different ways. I went to all 5 talks and participated in three of the workshops. The week started with a talk form Zoe Sinclair who is one half of ‘The Girls’. She spoke really honestly about working collaboratively and how she went from uni to a career. Zoe was very passionate about her work and it was quite daunting but a nice change to hear a true account of the ups and downs in her career. During the workshop in the afternoon we had to create a group portrait which described us a group. We played on our boyish nature by dressing up as men. It was quite liberating to dress as a man and because we were in a group we were all less conscious of what people thought about us. We got really good results from the day and it has given us something which we can go back to and produce more work. Mary Ikoniadou who is a contributor to making do’ gave a talk about de sing authorship. It was nice to listen to someone talk about how the content of a publication is as important as the publication itself, and process over outcome which is what I am looking into in my Independent practice. Roderick Mills came in to talk about his practice as an illustrator. He was very passionate about his work and I noticed he used the word ‘obsessed’ a lot during he talk. From his talk I began to realise how involved he gets in his work, and how much drawing practice you need to do to make it as an illustrator. His workshop was exciting because it allowed me to draw in a way that I hadn’t before creating images using a wider range of source material. Hellicar and Lewis had a very positive approach to everything and gave a really interesting and inspiring talk. Robert Rubbish from Le Gun was probably the most exciting workshop. Being a fan of Le Guns work it was interesting to get an insight into how the magazine was built and how they work so well collaboratively. The workshop was an opportunity to work alongside some of the first years and collaboratively create drawings together. Overall the week was really inspiring and I gained a lot of insight into the industry and what I would like to pursue after uni.

Exhibitions:Handmade and Bound - St BridesMind Over Matter: Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways - Kemistry GalleryMuseum of Everything - SelfridgesAnthony Burrill - Clear your head everyday - Outline EditionsNoma Bar - Cut it out - Outline Editions

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