Virtual presence for Graphics- Fashion Victims

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we had to pick a theme given, between urban myths, vive la difference, and fashion victims, and make a real or virtual presence for it. i chose fashion victims as i have a huge interest in costume and textiles. the brief asked us to base it on our opinions and views, so i based mine on charity shops.
alot of people see charity shops as dirty and for old people, but i love them. i like being able to buy something very cheap and custimise it into something fashionable, i find it far more creative than buying from Topshop.
i used a font for the heading to look like sewn thread, and took inspiration from fashion blogs such as Facehunter and stylefinder's street style web pages. i used photographs i took of my own vintage and charity shop clothes, focusing on how you can get a designer-looking wardrobe from Oxfam at hardly any cost. I was very pleased with this project.

Re-package for Graphics

For this project we were given a topic, mine was 'Shorelines', to research and re-package somehow.
my initial thoughts with shorelines was of the coast, i never thought of abroad, always Britain, and traditional British seaside towns. I wondered what was typical of the seaside and postcards came to mind. I thought about how personal it feels recieving a postcard, and that someone has taken time to send it to you. I then thought about the kind of person i am, and what i'd like to recieve from someone. As our re-package had to be 16 pages i thought of some kind of puzzle, where the pieces are recieved individualy but you are given clues as to how they fit together.
i kept the rectangle shape of the postcards, but made each page as a cell, with a piece of the whole image on it, so when they're stacked in order (with the number on the back) it forms a whole image of a seaside town.
each sell is sent in its own envelope, all addressed to myself.
i called the project Wish You Were Here.

The Conversation

for our illustration brief 'The Conversation' we were told to focus on peripheral vision, and the things we hear when we're not meant to. like on public transport, or when you accidentally over hear someone elses conversation. watching people when they dont know youre doing it, or being followed yourself. use these ideas as a starting point and make 6 images worthy of your portfolio, but use your own natural style of working.
i chose to break mine down to 6 subjects, being watched and fear, being watched and protection, celebrity gossip, malicious gossip about yourself, funny overheard conversations and internal thought. i used collage and layering with text to create a complex image, representing our own thoughts and words. the original art is colour, but i chose to display it Black and white as after scanning the layers are flattened but you still get texture, and the black and white theme brings each piece together. Im very happy with this work, I feel it's one of my strongest of the year.

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For some reason it wont let me edit the post below the last haha. but these are the posters my group (me, jayde, carla and stacy) designed. it was for an exhibiton to show our font/quote posters. our group was called Scribbles and we used colours loyal to UEL, and the correct logos. we wanted it to look like it belonged at UEL, it was recognisable and rather than people dismiss it as a poster for a rubbish club, they'd think as it was for UEL it was almost compulsory for them to read it to see if it was important to them. I think they successfully combines each of our styles.

ASSEMBLAGE.

some pages from my diary of London when i was making the postcards. rather than be a strict diary i made it more into a scrap book and wrote notes and doodles over stuck-in images.

a few pages from my assemblage folder. i glued together 3 ringbinders and covered them in scraps of vintage material, night club flyers, gig tickets, receipts and broken things from my room, like headphones. i love collages and being able to add things as i go so it says alot about me. inside i have clear folders to store things in. a card i was given from a girl whos phone i found on the DLR and traced it back to her. she was so grateful and gave me a fiver. in the card she put ''i didnt think there were many honest people around anymore'' which was so nice to read. i believe in karma so that made me smile. i also have a Captain America comic i got from a comic store in LA when i met Stan Lee. ive used this project as a scrapbook of my life.

i collect envelopes addressed to me, because i get alot of stuff off amazon and ebay and like seeing peoples handwriting, or how they package things. its a bit wierd. but i had alot in my room so wondered how i could make them into something else im interested in. and as i enjoy making costumes i thought a Self-Addressed Dress would be quite fun. its held together with packing tape and staples, and its made with the same pattern as a proper dress, but is card.

Graphics round-up for assessment

We had a project to produce a photographic style for an events or gallery space, and have a corportate identity. Me, Carla and Stacey decided upon Westminster tube station, and it has a very industrial look and would work well as a nightclub, like Matter or Fabric. We took photos in the station of areas that represent our idea, and photoshopped in bar areas, drinks offers, and new signage. the club would be called The Westminster.
Our idea was that we could show the potential of a disused tube station to a backer and renovate the space into a contemporary nightclub.

A mock-up of how The Westminster would look with people in it.

we thought the areas at the back would work well as bars.

the two ideas boards we had for The Wesminster, they would be a proposal for a potential sponsor of our club. in it we say that we have two dancefloors, a kareoke area, VIP areas, and a live music area.

as myself (Eve) stacey and carla are in our group, we decided that Sec Promotions is a good title as it includes the first letters of our names and sounds quite good.

Below are the other 4 postcards from my series of Underground images. They represent feeling trapped and clastraphobic.

Below is the photograph i took in the style of Larry Burrows, a vietnam war photographer who was killed when his helecopter was shot down in Laos in 1971. He documented the real lives that go on during the war, of the soldiers and nurses and fellow journalists.

Burrows version is of a leutenant laying on his bunk, reading letters sent from his family back home. surrounding him are his essentials, backpacks and rugs and basic clothing. In my photo i've surrounded myself with complete non-essentials, clothes and bags and fashion magazines. I wanted the photos to be similar but different.

We were givin a famous quote and a font, my font was Akzidenz Grotesk, and my quote was from J. E. E. Dalberg-Acton.

''Power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely''

realist sans (meaning, without)-serif typeface released by the H. Bethold AG type foundry in 1896 with the title Accidenz- Grotesk. first sans serif to be widely used. it is derived from the font Didot. The Akzidenz-Grotesk family now has 14 varients. H. Berthold AG is one of the most successful typeface foundaries. Established in 1858 by Herman Berthold and based in Berlin. Akzidenz-Grotesk was used as a model for the font Neue Haas Grotesk, now named Helvecta.

I began thinking of images that quote connotes, like bent politicians and criminals. But also literal meanings of powerful, like a power drill. I didnt want to go directly with policemen or politicians because it seemed too obvious, but i liked the idea of involving corrupt law in the poster.

One of the most successful advertising campaigns ever, and a favourite of mine, are the Absolut Vodka posters where a single bottle has a 'personality' or character to it. Absolute Corruption would work, i thought, so to have cufflinks draped over the bottle neck to represent law would be clever. And i could have the quote written in the script writing the Absolut bottles have.

As you can see below, i used the font i was given to spell out ABSOLUTE CORRUPTION by writing the phrase over and over, but leaving a white space, so from afar you can read the quote through it.

Mid-way through the final piece, it was all black and white ink on mountboard.

This is the sketch I did of the final poster, when I was working out different ways to represent the quote.

An idea I wish i'd gone with is a contemporary take on such an old quote, the idea that power is wealth and fame, and the more famous and rich you get, the more sordid and dark you life becomes. A person who represents this idea nowadays is Amy Winehouse.

a scan from my sketchbook, you can see how the words and spaces show the word 'Absolute'. I had another idea of a hand writing a corrupt document, and the final sentence would be that same J.E.E Dalberg quote.