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)

FMP

(see research if you'd like to know a little more about what my final major project is based on)

This is some imagery Iv produced for 'cast off your watch'
I had a little trouble getting the message across, which is basically preaching not wearing watches as we as constantly dictated by time.

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

Louise Vormittag

Louise Vormittag is part of a group of designers called 'Container plus' they are a team of three and combine illustration with set design. She studied illustration and originally wanted to go it alone, she was a mature student but was lucky enough to find a friend who worked in the same way. When she graduated her and Nicola decided to collaborate. through practice they developed a way in which they could work in sync with each other really well. She says one of the reasons they work together so well is because they have the same level of commitment.

Over time they had become more interested in photography and set design. Their work was evolving from the line drawings they started out with. for example one their first commissions the selfriges shop window design. One of the reasons they was changing their work is so it would be more difficult to imitate their individual style. Their team over time grew from two to five, they took on two photographers and a set designer. They worked together for a year but then discovered things wernt working out. the chemistry wasn't right between the five of them and eventually the two photographers left the group. leaving two illustrators and a set designer. She explained how on big commission they hire assistants to help out with the work for example (cutting out shapes from paper) 

They have a huge list of impressive clients including Top Shop, MTV, SONY, diesel and Blossom Hill

cocktail

Here's my work for the calender wev been working on for the Beaufort wind scale brief. We got to work with Andy martin which was great and all the images seemed to work in sync with each other despite all our different working styles.

Anyway I got the month of July so I decided to theme it on holidays, the idea is that umbrella is being brown inside out by the wind. As the wind was 6 on the scale which means umbrellas are hard to handle.

what should we eat?

Here's my image for one of the half pages of the Eureka brief. 

I chose to produce the image on the article 'what should we eat?' 

I started to think about things we shouldn't eat [things that are not even food]

I went on to cut out shapes, then came up with the concept of the bird.

Once shrunk down I was really impressed with the cut out shapes and how well they worked in the composition. 

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.