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New Blood!

Last week(ish) I was lucky enough to attend D&DA's annual New Blood exhibition and had a great time with some amazing and exciting outcomes and lots of really wonderful feedback and interesting constructive criticism.
It was super cool.

As well as getting to talk with some industry people I got to meet some of the crazy talented illustrators and designers who were exhibiting.
We were positioned opposite Falmouth uni so I pretty much fell in love with ALL of their stuff. So many beautiful books! Amongst my favourites were:

Ella Bailey's beautiful style and characters:

Juliet Harris' illustration for Philip Pullmans 'The firework maker's daughter.'
I love the limited pallet and dreamlike feel, couldn't stop wandering over and staring at it.

I also got the chance to talk to Falmouths Martha Anne who created these illustrations based on the Karma Sutra and is a genuinely lovely person. (And has great colour style!)

And with Jonny Clapham, who's weirdly wonderful and unique illustrations are well worth a gander. 

not to mention his hilarious messed up videos: 

7 Tips for Creative Graduates from Jonny Clapham on Vimeo.

I have it on good authority that some of the guys off my course are collaborating with him to produce a zine and I can not wait!

My other picks include this ingenious bike 'accessory' by Joe Waterfield to promote a charity bike ride:

(Look at the clouuds!)

Cedi Cycles - The Iron Curtain from Joe Waterfield on Vimeo.

And finally my favourite book of the show 'My Dads better than your Dad' by Claire Paul. This thing had me grinning from ear to ear by the time I finished it. Great little story and who doesn't like cute mustachioed cacti? (huhu mustachioed...)

Asides from all the great memories, fun times and lessons learnt what I'm going to remember most is something an incredibly drunk man told us in a club in shoreditch. He asked us if we'd won and we told him that we hadn't entered anything to which he replied 'You're here at new blood. You made it. You won!' 
I was four pints in so it probably sounded like inspired drunken poetry but that and the fantastic hipster dance off were what I remembered in the morning and it still makes me smile. 

I have to stop ending my blog posts on gooey feelings. ugh.

also! I ran out of business cards but the replacements seemed to go down well. Ever the professional.

Finn H. Drude is the Business.

My good friend and comrade in the visual arts, Finn H. Drude is going out into the world of film and sheep soon! (he'll be moving to Wales) and he wanted some business cards. 

So Ta-Dah! (thats about it.)

 

also today I was about 1mm off a trip to A&E after reshaping my index finger. Ouch.

Actually this is the card I wanted to make. Bratwurst cutie!

GROW! Seed Packaging.

Hello!

These happy chaps are a range of seed packets designed to fold out and grow! 

They'd be sold to children in newsagents like Pokemon cards as an alternative to sweets and as a little gardening projects to encourage environmental awareness.

Basically there'd be some sort of compact soil within the character and then you just add water, let it grow and then plant the whole thing in the garden or a big pot!

Suspiciously carroty looking cress...

Degree show posters.

So I'm stilll working on my seed packaging. The major designs are there I just need to work out how to print the origami, say hello to indesign my new bestie.

The tutors spotted me working on these fellows and then decided to art direct me on another final show poster. So fun and productive but aggh I want to finish this brief now please.

 Take note of the little man pooping in pink...my tutors thought he was a blast...yeah.

They also picked one of my one day posters to develop for the show. Unfortunately they didn't like the title 'Umlaut (spelt in umlauts)' or Hergestellt and suggested WUNDERBAR!

Which makes me think or bras and drinking...

C-Art - Contemporary Vision 20 X 20

Last week the local museum in Carlisle, Tullie House, visited the studio to commission some programs and posters for a lecture centered around a current exhibition from C-Art, featuring the art of Cumbrian artists and craftspeople. 

C-Art supports and connects artists working and living in Cumbria, hosting open studios gallery openings and special events.

Contemporary Vision 20 X 20.

Thursday 7th February.

I really loved working on this brief even if I didn't enjoy cutting and folding 200 copies of it. The colours reflect those used by C-Art and while the logo is slightly cliché and massively overused the idea of 20 X 20 vision makes it effective and it looks super pretty on photos so there! :)

Contemporary Vision 20 X 20, development.

Little idea for the branding of a lecture at Tullie House museum. 

All they want is a program but I'm having fun branding it all anyway!

Underpass of Oneness.

Nothing says friendship, excellence and respect better that kids in onesies building a town right? ...right?

The city council is running a competition to redesign the underpass to the main high school in town and I decided to go for fun and simple (the wall is horrible and pebble-dashed so I reckon anything of great detail will be lost). I had a really good time drawing and designing these characters and I really hope that it gets somewhere. I'd love to get the chance to collaborate with some of the guys to paint a huage wall!

ONESIE PARTY! 

I got an owl onesie for christmas! 

:)

Swallow Hill

Identity and Branding for Swallow Hill Vineyards in South Africa.

   

The clients were extreamly open in their briefing, wanting only the inclusion of the swallow that sits amongst the vines so I just decided to run with it and have lots of fun!