Website Update!

I finally updated my website! (Because it has to be in tomorrow...shh)

http://jadewall.co.uk/

Eventually I'll have time for a full redesign...maybe

Little White Lies

So since my entry didn't get short-listed for the D and DA student awards(   ):  )  I can finally post it on the internet without fear of violating their rules.

I chose to design the Little White Lies magazine cover for the illustration brief since its the sort of thing I'd love to do in the future. You got to pick from a list of films including Black Swan, Tinker Taylor and Drive, and much as I wanted to stare at Gosling's face for a week, I just had to choose Abram's Super 8, if only for the fantastic hour long train wreck scene.So, so good.

Its such an amazing film, like a combination between ET and the Goonies, with explosions and the classic Spielberg big eyed monster at the end. I can't recommend it enough.

Here's the cover I finally decided on. I really like the texture and style from the digital collage and I'm pretty proud of my first proper attempt at this kind of technique.

 Multiply you are a beautiful thing.

 Saying that ,while I love this piece (for once), it really doesn't embody the feel of the film. It needs to be darker, more mysterious and maybe more creepy. Less white space as usual and less pussy footing around with colour!

Went through quite a few goes before I was happy with it.

You can see some of the primary work in my semester 2 portfolio.

It point blank refuses to embed but I promise it's beautiful when it does. Ahh Issuu...

Collections.

 A recent project documenting a collection of telephones.

I think I'm going to keep working on this, I'm not at all convinced in the presentation.

At uni this week we were let loose in some of the workshops in the building to do a series of reportage drawings. While I'm not that happy with the quality and quantity of work I produced I really like how the final edits came out. 

I'm feeling more and more confident with using the mac's to produce final pieces with every project! :)

Anyone else think I have a bit of an orange obsession?

                                                             Issu portfolio.

Possession and the Law

An editorial piece for the Observer (not live) about satanism and the occult in South Africa.

We were asked to create work that handled the matter with subtlety and sensitivity while fully addressing both the subject of the occult and also the policing of it.

I went through quite a few versions and ideas for this piece, but I'm quite happy with the final.

One day brief - Mash up

My three posters chopped up with scissors and teeth and mashed back together and recoloured in photoshop.

One Day Brief - Posters

To keep us all fresh and to make sure we come into uni pretty much everyday forever our tutors have begun to set one day briefs starting at 9.30am and finishing at 5pm at random. Today we were asked to design four posters for a music and arts event in London with a given set of typefaces, pictures and rules. Other than the utter panic it was really good fun!

What a Mint Patronum!

These are a couple of pieces that I did over new year as birthday presents to my flatmates. Finn loves Harry as much as I do and Zach is a mint.

Hopefully they will look 'mint' in frames! Pretty chuffed and had a lot of fun :)