Experimentation

I started experimenting with faces (decaying faces) due to a quote in one of Rilkes elegies where he speaks about humans eventually decaying. I wanted to play around with different mediums so i used collage as a way to peel it back and have a drawing underneath, Rilkes elegies speak of feeling imperfect and yearning …

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Grids and Type

We had a workshop with Alastair where he showed us how to alter our margins and Columns, using grids to lay out our text effectively. We were given a task to arrange certain information that we got from Alastair  into a poster for our studio.  I found this workshop really helpful for our chapter layouts, …

Rainer Rilke – Duino Elegies

Born- 4th of December 1875 in Prague Austria Rainer Rilke was and is widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets. He began writing the book Duino elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis at Duino Castle. The poems, 859 lines long in total and dedicated …

Working with typography

I started to play around with text and language. When I walked down Brick Lane I heard so many different languages being spoken, and after doing the research there is so many different cultures living together down Brick Lane. The idea of writing the same message in all the different languages we can to bring …

Researching into food

When walking down brick lane you can’t help but notice how many restraints and food markets there are. Pizza, pasta, bagels, curry, Chinese so many different types! So I decided to list down as many restaurants as I could as see what they were all selling like a survey, majority were definitely Bangladeshi restraunts but …

Camille walala

Camille Walala is a 21st century artist who has a very unique and individual style. Her artwork is very graphic and eye catching and she has started to stray from small pieces to huge building scale designs that have been showcased all over the world. She has a zebra crossing in London that really shows …

Photography

We had a photography induction today, we have had some already from previous years but this lesson we were instructed on how to work with light and dark shadows and using white balance on the cameras. We had some really good outcomes and it made me think more into using photography for my current project 

Lazer cutting induction

We had a lazer cutting induction last week and were shown what materials we can cut and how we do it by the teacher. Today we went back in for our lazer cutting slots and cut out our designs that we had brought in. Me and noah had a nice simple design that he had …

WORK READY 2

Our work ready 2 project is called Boundaries and we have to design different themed crossings to be installed down Brick Lane. Brick lane might as well be a landmark of London but very few know where they are going to get there. And once they are there there are so many distractions people arent …

Initial Sketches

Ive started sketching simple ideas, pretty much using the main words in the text literally and drawing them as they are. Such as - 'columns, beehive, castle and spirits' After showing these sketches to my tutor they said they were a bit too literal and that i should think of other ways to picture the …