3D street art

Edgar Mueller is a 3d street artist from Germany. He travels all over the world creating his 3d street art, and it is amazing. The first time I saw his 3d water fall I thought it was real and the more you stare at it the more you get lost into the picture. I think all his work is amazing and I have so much respect for the guy! Here's some examples of his work but to see more go to http://www.metanamorph.com/ 

                                            

Knitted village

I saw this in the paper today and thought it is really nice! It's a knitted replica of the village Mersham, near Ashford. It took 23years and 40 woman to make it, well done guys!! 

Contact with Music

Yesterday I emailed Anthony at Music to ask to go and visit him with my portfolio. He got back to me straight away and I'm set to visit him on the 19th of this month.

Fake I.D workshop

The other day Fake I.D came into college to do a workshop with us. We had to get into pairs so I was with Vicky, then we got given a picture and had to create a script to record which related to the image but not in the way that everyone would first see it. This was the script me and Vicky did, I'll try and get the picture up soon but to hear them recorded goto www.wefakeid.com they should be up soon.

Flea's

I found this on the design by Jack blog, however all it says is it's a Front Line floor poster in a shopping center in Indonesia, so i don't know who designed it I'm afraid but who ever did, well done! I think this is absolutely fantastic, so clever and witty! This is defiantly a ' I Wish i thought of that' piece of design.

True North

True North are a graphic design studio based in Manchester, they have some really good work, however they haven't got their website fully up and running yet they just have a holding page. So I can't find out that much about them and their work process, however they have some work on their holding page so check it out at ... http://www.thisistruenorth.co.uk/ and just watch this space for when they get the website up and running.

Fake I.D

Fake I.D is a independent graphic design practice founded in 1999 by Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees. They initiate collaborations between artists, brands and institutions, and work with companies to expand the cultural dimensions of their communications. Yvan and Joshua both met after finishing their college courses and deciding that they did not want to pursue a career in their subject studied. They both went into fine art and that is where their career together started. Fake I.d are different from the usual graphic design companies, they initiate culture into their designs and make them more thought provoking, not as obvious as the other brands. Yvan and Josh have been doing work shops with different colleges' and Universities all over, we had the pleasure of having them in college to do a work shop with us. The work shop was really good, it took us right out of our comfort zone and had us experimenting with sound rather than images to create a reaction. The work we did should be on their website shortly, so to see the work of Fake I.D and learn more about them, and to see the work they did with us go to .. http://www.wefakeid.com/

Portfolio

Recently at college we have had to make portfolio's for ourselves and go to visit graphic design agencies with them. I decided to make a book for my portfolio, I am still working on some project to put in it but so far this is what I have got in it. I have taken screen grabs from my PDF of my portfolio so you'll have to imagine that the pages are back to back and I've taken out the blank pages and the descriptions so basically this is just the work that my portfolio contains.

One day brief - Environment

We got set a one day brief to go out into the environment to the location we picked out of a hat, and sit there until we rote 600-1000 words on what is happening and the surrounding, without editing it. I picked the multistory car park and this is what i wrote...

Multistory car park in Stockport, aprox. 13.40pm on a Tuesday afternoon. 

The weather is fairly bright the clouds are hiding the sun at the moment though and there Is a slight breeze. People still have sun glasses on though. A lady walks past with a Woolworths bag, kind of strange seeing as thought Woolworths has closed down. Can here children coming up the stairs, a little girl with her mother in a school uniform getting told to be quiet by her mum, she has stopped making noises, they get into the car, a silver Vauxhall starts the engine drives off. A plane flies over the top of me, very loud, Manchester airport is near so it’s low down, wonder where they have been? where they coming from? who’s on the plane?. Blue ford drives around the car park, Why is it blue? passes about fifty spaces but drives to the very end out of my sight. Can hear a slight clanging noise when the wind picks up. Old lady walks past me, no bags funny coloured shoes on. Birds are flying about. Can hear a squeaking noise. The parking space lines have nearly worn off some are worse than others. Floor is tarmac with little holes in it, there is bird poo near my foot. Another plane goes by. A man comes out from the stairs, chequered shirt on, glasses nearly bald but has grey hair, well what’s left of it, his pockets jingled with change. Silver Yaris is reversing out of the space, is a woman, can tell, she goes back in think she’s parking up. She walks to the back of her car to check she is in the lines! Ha! There are lamppost dotted about the car park, have green metal barriers around the bottom of them, I think that’s so the don’t fall over when people crash into them. A woman appears from the stairs carrying a big box with her car keys in her mouth, puts box in car, locks car, and walks back down the stairs. Man walks past with shades on a fag sticking out his mouth, he is fairly old got no hair, walks back past the other way! Two old ladies walk past chatting, both dresses very nicely with suit like jackets on, look respectable, been to M&S. Silver Peugeot parks up, first time. Wind has died down a bit. Purple KA passes by, parks as near to the pay machine as possible, lazy woman. Can hear traffic from the main road near by. Fag man appears again without the fag give a ticket to the Peugeot lady then walks back to the stairs and goes down them this time. There is a pavement around the edge of the car park, supposed to have yellow paint on the edge but has nearly all rubbed off. Why doesn’t any one re-paint it? Lady with red jacket and dark curly hair gets out a sports car, goes to pay machine. Old lady at the other side of car park, lots of bags, walking slowly, looks like she is struggling. Red jacket lady comes back puts ticket in her car, walks to the stairs. Winds picked up, quite chilly. Know what the clanging noise is, it’s a wire banging against the lamppost. Another plane. Car alarm is going off, plane drowns the sound. Oldish couple come from the stairs been to M&S the man is holding his car keys they are gangling about. Lady comes from stairs eating Gregg’s pasty, can’t smell it but looks nice. Old lady gets into a red Yaris opposite me, spend a bit of time sorting herself out, finally puts her seat belt on, starts the car, looks over this way! Drives out of the space, drives off. A leaf on the floor goes past me gets blown by the wind. Old hunch back man passes me his hood on his coat gets blown up onto his head, he carry’s on walking, don’t know if he knows. There is a big mwtal cage in the middle of the car park with some kind of machinery in it, what is it? what is it for? why is it there? Why do people have to pay to use the car park? what good does anyone get out of that? £1.50!! Ticket warden comes out fromt he stairs, i haven’t got a ticket! He walks the other way first, phew! Best get a ticket! How to ticket wardens sleep at night? Why do they wear yellow? A woman and her little boy come from the stairs, the little boy is holding his mums hand, how cute. Why do all the old people goto M&S, is it because they are the only people who can afford it, on their pensions? M&S have nice food! Mmm. who decided to put a car park on the roof of a building? why doesn’t all the weight from the cars collapse the roof?

Thank you picture - One day brief

Today we were set a one day brief based on Daniel Eatock's 'Thank you pictures'.

A thank you picture is basically any of the following ;  incident, alignment, coincidence, viewpoint, temporary situation and other small things that often go unnoticed.

So based on this we had to go out into the environment and collect a thank you picture. Here's what i came back with... 

A poorly pipe...

Keep clear ...

Missed ...