Ditto Press

James Unsworth by James Unsworth

I hastily stated i would throw a hissy fit if i didn't get on the Okido project, until i saw the ditto press project! So excited for this. After looking threw their gallery of work it seems like this will be perfect for me, or for what i want to learn anyway... really looking forward to learn a new printing process as well. Risograph? I'd never heard of it before, but by the looks of it its a very rewarding form of printing. Should be good. 

collage?

These collages have been taking forever. I have about 30 that i like with 5 days to do 60 more...

I think i might cheat on the rest and make them really basic. I really want to exhibit them so some how some way i have to make up the numbers. Any suggestions?

wow wow wow

I physically gasped as an unexpected link took me on to Leif Podhajsky's website. Full of psychedelic album covers and artwork, taking you in to completely different realms. I don't know how to describe his work without sounding pretentious. Look for yourselves...

Im sitting in my tiny freezing cold room and suddenly feel so excited, i don't really know what it is, there's something about his work that just makes me feel so inspired. I think its the fact that he's combined these different elements that i really love. In really basic terms he seems to create the surreal and fantastical with elements of collage and designed all around a great soundtrack ( a lot of his work is album artwork). This is what i want!

He co-runs the design studio 'And' in melbourne, maybe i could do my placement in australia? Amazing...

Best Coast.

Lovely band, lovely artwork.

Although..

I am majorly excited about the next projects.
I must must must have the illustration project, please wake up on time!

I'm not going to lie, i think there is potential of me throwing a tantrum if i end up having to do web design...not that there's anything wrong with web design.

writers block?

I suppose you can't call what i have writers block, maybe creative block? or just general mind block. I haven't been blogging about my project because i don't feel like i have anything good to say about it. It's really frustrating because in general if i try at something i tend to be at least alright at it.. but this just isn't seeming to connect. I think part of it is the fact that computers seem to hate me, i've had at least 3 instances over the past couple of weeks where i've deleted all my work. I'm really really trying to master indesign, and just design in general. And it isn't through lack of trying!

 I think maybe this project just hasn't done it for me. I'm feeling like a bit of a failure at the moment.

But i will master this!

Sean Hillen.

I've slowly but surely been completing my 100 collages, to help me on my way i looked for some inspiration and stumbled across one artist i particualry liked for his composition and satirical humor....Sean Hillen.

The Great Cliffs of Collage Green, Dublin, IRELANTIS

The Great Wave of Temple Bar, Dublin, IRELANTIS

stop motion animation

typo.

We looked at different elements of the letter and different fonts.

My pornstar name...

I saw this EP lying on my friends floor and fell in love with the artwork...

It's done by a brighton based illustrator called Tom Mountford. I really love his style and the fantastical feel to his work. I also adore the band, Sons of Noel and Adrian, check them out if you don't know them, you won't be disappointed.  

out and about.

Out and about in Shoreditch. We went to some cool little galleries with Paul including Kemistry gallery, The White Cube, and we had a look round the YCN and the KK outlet.

Our first stop was to see 'Gastrotypographicalassemblage: The Designs of Lou Dorfsman' at the Kemistry gallery...

The exhibition was focused around his 40ft three-dimensional mural he designed for the CBS cafeteria in New York. The design was based around a printer's type tray and contained all the foods on the menu of the cafeteria. Kemistry gallery held a reproduction of the mural made from the enlargement of a 10 x 8 negative taken on the day the wall was unveiled in 1965.

The KK outlet had a really nice exhibition on called 'The Human Printer.'

The human printer draws on the influences of Georges Seurat and pointillism to create images portraying contemporary life. However rather than using digital printing techniques the output is all generated by hand, creating unique outcomes each time it prints.

The YCN currently are working on the new Becks campaign...

Good afternoon out!

Flickr.

I thought i'd put a link to my flickr up here so you can peruse some of my illustrations at your own will.

 www.flickr.com/photos/hollyhooper

collagecollagecollage.

 

I like to collage.
I really like some of the results from the collaging workshop with Darren. I think they are partly successful because i used the financial times with all my pieces so they all had a running colour theme between them, making them work well as a set..... also the use of white space.
I'm excited to do a 100 more....firstly i need to start collecting the financial times.

I just found out that juniper is a berry....

cropping madness.

My first workshop of the course was a day of cropping images from newspapers..... i'm not going to lie, i went in to it rather apprehensive... However one member of my class did point out my work as a piece that he particularly liked, so i must have been doing something right?

We had to crop images in different ways, for example 'crop to define' and 'a discrete crop'. We also had to create sequences, 'subject to subject' 'movement to movement' etc. I chose to look at subject to subject, i also chose to do 'non-sequitor'. I quite like the outcome from the sequencing task, i think this is mainly because i like how all the images had a distinct colour palette that worked really well together, rather than what they were actually intended to be.

I can completely see how this has relevance to graphic design and that cropping does play a vital part in how successful your imagery is. I think i probably just needed to have more fun with it, instead i was  holding back because i'd gone into with doubts. I think i need to find my inner child and let it have fun with glue and scissors.

hello.

The first week of uni is over. It's been a long week of trying to make friends and not get lost in the subway on the way to LCC, I'm not sure if i've quite managed to get either of those things figured out yet. However at the same time i was having my first Design for Graphic Communication lectures. A lot of information, a lot of cutting and sticking and a lot of questioning strangers around Elephant and Castle (something i'd generally not advise). I think this is going to be good, but we'll just have to wait and see.