Laura Sarawan

Laura Sarawan

These are leather brackets

A Necklace and Earring Set

Sarawan's use of altering the metal to get different finishes, and an absence of gem stones is what makes her work so unusual, its simplistic, but it works. She uses the technique of enamelling, so introduce colours to the metals and also sets out to achieve an aged, decayed look through partially revealing the enamelled surfaces.

Andrew Geoghegan

Andrew Geoghegan

Satellite Fire opal cocktail ring 

The best seller, Reveal

Mohawk pearl cocktail ring

You'd never guess that this Leeds based jewellery designer makes all his work from a small 10ft by 10 shed at the bottom of his parents garden. Geoghegan isn't classically trained, which is what makes his work so unusual, I like the usual settings and stones. 

Arthur Reinders Folmer

Arthur Reinders Folmer

This poster is getting at the fact that good typography is invisible much like a crystal goblet. I like the muted colours.

This 'font' has been made up of books using the curled pages to create the curves in the letters.

I really like work the is sarcastic of humorous, I think it gives the work an added level to it. 'Most of my work has some absurdity or sarcasm to it, since i believe humor is often missing from graphic design, and really helps in communication. this is especially true with posters.' Arthur Reinders Folmer [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.typographicposters.com/arthur-folmer/ [Accessed 21^st May 2013].

Daniel Fischbaeck

Daniel Fischbaeck

I like the graphic nature of this poster, the use of shapes is unusual. I also like the minimalistic nature of the poster which is complemented by the use of only two colours. 

I don't like this poster quite so much, although it has many of the same qualities as the first its not quite as cleanly arranged as the first one, some of the type isn't quite readable either.

Kiko Farkas

Kiko Farkas

Although Farkas uses lots of bright colours and this should mean his posters don't work, some how down to his skill he manages to make them work, in a style that is purely his own. ‘kiko is a member of agi - alliance graphique internationale, and co-founder of adg - association of graphic designers of brazil.’ Kiko Farkas [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.typographicposters.com/kiko-farkas/ [Accessed 21^st  May 2013].

Ernst Haeckel

Ernst Haeckel

Haeckel published over 100 detailed, beautifully intricate scientific illustrations of sea creatures and animals, some  of which you can see below. Haeckel didn't let the fact that he pursued a career in science stop him from fulfilling his artistic skills and dreams, but he was in fact able to utilise them instead.

Louise McNaught

Louise McNaught

 'McNaught is hoping to share with the viewer the awe that the natural world inspires within her. The antiquity of the map hinting at the traditional symbolism of the bird, yet the electric blue ink  bringing him into the here-and-now, glowing with energy and vitality.' 'Heavenly Bodies 2, Night Owl' (2013) [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.degreeart.com/painting/louise-mcnaught/heavenly-bodies-2-night-owl [Accessed 20th May 2013].

Studio Airport

Studio Airport

‘Studio airport is a young design-agency founded by vincent de boer, maurits wouters and bram broerse. The studio is based in the sparkling neighbourhood lombok (utrecht, the netherlands). Everyday we’re working on inspiring projects for our clients, our focus is to contrive and create strong ideas into exclusive designs. We start each assignment with an open vision to see how we can get to the essence of the message. Together with the client we make the goals concrete and make clear decisions. This way we can get to work in a productive way.’ Studio Aiport [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.typographicposters.com/studio-airport/ [Accessed 20th May 2013]. I like the clean look of the posters. The type looks hand drawn but is still readable. I dislike the way the black box at the bottom right corner is placed over the white box because it distorts the natural perspective.

Minimalist Film Poster Art

Minimalist Film Poster Art

There is a bit of a fad at the moment of people redoing movie posters but in a minimalist style. Looper itself is a really good film, so if you haven't seen it yet then buy the DVD. I think the imagery works well, it is clear and you automatically know what the film is about...time travel. The people in the hourglass give a very small hint of what happens in the film. The use of an 'O' as a clock face give also gives a simple nod to the notion of time travel as well. 

Aldona Juska

Aldona Juska

What caught my eye with this piece is the use of copper to form the daffodil petal, I'm not a big fan of sculpture, but I like that fact that this wasn't your everyday piece of sculpture. Aldona is Yorkshire born of Lithuanian descent and has spent most of her life either in Australia or America working as a librarian. However, living in Los Angeles she had opportunities to work with Mexican blacksmiths and discovered her passion for design and metal work. Upon returning to the UK she took a college course in creative metal art and started welding for herself in her studio in Edinburgh in 2002. The mainstay of her work is botanical art from single stems to large complex pieces combined together to produce candelabras. She has been invited to exhibit in several European cities most recently Munich and Florence.

Glitch Art Workshop

Glitch Art Workshop

One of the other first years, Brad, is running Glitch art workshops as part of his SDP. I attended on of these workshops, and found it pretty easy to pick up, particularly because Brad is good at explaining the various methods, which with a bit of help are fairly easy to someone who is used to computers. 

Here are a few examples of the work I created

This was done by making the picture into a .txt file then delete parts of the text to alter the picture and effectively 'break' the image. 

The rest are done by importing the image into audacity so it becomes an audio file which you can add effects to all or part of the image. You then save the audio file as a .png file so you can see what has happened to the image.

The above image is the most successful piece of glitch art I did, my images definitely improved towards the end of the workshop.