Swava

I noticed this penguin book cover at the V&A, I found that it is very similar to the work I produced for the secret history brief we were given, [its pretty much the same idea!]

Swava Harasymowicz recently won the V&A book cover Award. the judges felt her image for the cover image for Eugene Onegin cleverly deals with the reader's aversion to seeing a fixed picture of a character, which they often prefer to themselves.

spot the difference ?

Ray Johnson

Ray Johnson died in 1995. He used mainly collage and is most famous for his work during the the pop art movement. He would sometimes cut up his old collages and use parts in his new work. He is known to have once said 'Chop art not Pop art'. Like other pop artists he liked to include images of famous icons such as Elvis Presley, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. Sometimes he would use cardboard, giving his work a 3D look.

During the final project my work has a collage look to it. Also I have been looking at practitioners who re use things (Adding the DIY feel to the work)

how to bo free

My final major project work will be based on this Book 'How To Be Free'. I'm really enjoying the book, which says a lot since I'm not much of a reader my self.

Tom Hodgkinson: the Author of the book dictates how to be free in the sense of not letting society take control of us. The book has a punk aesthetic as a lot of the book is about doing things our self, as the punk used to do in their lifestyle i.e cloths and music.

Here are some examples of chapters included in the book : Reject career and all its empty promises, Cast off your watch, Death to shopping, or fleeting the prison of consumer desire.

Il be selecting chapters from the book and making images associated with the message the chapter addresses

Chris Bourke

Chris Bourke is based in the UK and has independently run his skate shop for the last ten years. He specialises in lino printing and his lino prints feature on skateboards and T shirts.  He hand prints each design so no two pieces are the exact same. His inspirations are Tattoo art,religious art, politics and music. He enjoys skateboarding and reggaemusic.

He has featured in many books and magazines And produces graphics for Skateboarding companies such as A third foot, Death skateboards and Consolidated skateboards. He has also exhibited his art in showsinternationally.

Im a fan of printing and am really impressed by his lino prints. Its quite a different approach to the typical skater designs around which are mostly screen printed.

Ghostfest

So I went to this music thing called Ghostfest. Its a two day death metal festival held in a venue called Rio's in Leeds, Theres about 15 bands that play on both Saturday and Sunday. I was only there on the Saturday [last night!]

Unfortunately the afew of bands dropped out [annotations of an autopsy, who I originally went for!]

Anyway Here's two of tee shirts I bought and really liked the designs of.
Whitechapel and Martyr Defiled
[The blue one has way too much ink on]

Aude

Jessie Ford ^

I looked at Aude Van Ryn during my 'Under the bridge' brief.

I found looking at the layouts helped me a lot. I used these images in my Critical Studies presentation. the first image above inspired my park setting I produced for the brief.

The white boxes reminded me of a hopscotch.

another person I looked at and used in my presentation is Jessie Ford. Her work reminds me a lot of Aud Van Ryn [The figure and scenes are very similar] but she works mainly with print.

I used this image as it remind me of a park and as I was producing a park setting I needed inspiration on how other illustrators would put a park scene together. 

http://www.heartagency.com/html/aude_Frameset.html