Design. er?

2010-09-25T17:06:00.000-07:00

And the lovely little shop we will be holding it in. This place used to be a traditional letterpress printers up until less then a year ago so there couldn't be a more poetic place to hold our exhibition. I should stress that it isn't just us exhibiting there- there will be around 10 designers and illustrators on show in total.

2010-09-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

To launch P.S Graphic design studios we will be holding an exhibition from the 16th of October. Exhibitions are surprisingly expensive so partly to raise money for printing and opening night booze and partly just because it's very fun we will be holding a club night, all proceeds to 'From Bloomsbury to Bennington' graphic design and illustration exhibition.

2010-06-11T13:37:00.000-07:00

and a close up of my stand

2010-06-11T13:23:00.000-07:00

A snap shot of our degree show. To see all the work in more detail go to www.pittvillegraphics.co.uk
Thank you to Dan Hirst who i stole these photographs from!

Darling I think it's about time we did some oragami

2010-06-09T07:56:00.000-07:00

2010-05-30T04:51:00.000-07:00

ok so degree show is over. what a fantastic night, every one looked amazing and the work wasn't half bad either!
Really excited now to get stuck into P.S with Hanna (check out her blog, link on the right).
Hopefully will get some more photos of the degree show up but for now check out my talented class mates work... http://pittvillegraphics.co.uk/

Token Gestures

2010-05-30T04:14:00.000-07:00

It’s nice to be nice but now a days we are all so busy that some times we little reminder how rewarding nice little gestures are.

I initially designed a pocket sized booklet of compliment tokens to hand out to people with the idea that they are transferable so that once you give one out you start a chain reaction. I then went on to make a booklet of smiles as a smile is so contagious.

These tokens can be given to people you know or strangers as an ice breaker or even an anonymous gesture.

Make up makes you manly!

2010-05-30T04:01:00.000-07:00

Make up for men. Each piece of packaging has a non gender specific face which is turned into a man by the relevent make up applicator. The place the make up is applied is highlighted with the colour of the make up to make it easy to navigate in a shop. When put in a point of sale they look like a little army.

Natural Navigation

2010-05-30T03:54:00.001-07:00

It is not often that we get lost now a days what with sat nav and i phones but would you know what to look for if you were lost with out any tools? no, neither would i. so i designed a little pocket sized 'map' that would be a quick reference guide to natural way finding both in day and night.
I hope to take this further by using this guide to investigating into natural way finding in an urban environment. More to follow...

Time Wasting

2010-05-30T03:37:00.000-07:00

This piece is a collection of the best drawings of clocks and watches over a year. I decided to turn them into a colouring in book so that people could design their own watch and would be observing the beauty in the design of time pieces. The book is printed onto thick paper so that you can use felt tip pens with out ruining the pictures on the other side and is binded by stitching to give it a longer life. Dedicated to my Grandad Ken who had a life long fascination with time pieces and there mechanisms, one of the few people who could fix any watch you gave him.

2010-05-26T10:43:00.000-07:00

Having just done a make up project my self, this makes me jealous!

2010-05-25T15:22:00.000-07:00

now i want these, but how do you decide which ear is worth 8 points and which is worth 1?

Stample

2010-05-25T13:39:00.000-07:00

Ok so it's been a while. apoligies. but i've been a busy little bee. exibition is on friday and here's a little taster, one of my pieces a postal version of the board game Scrabble.

2010-02-24T11:53:00.000-08:00

"instead of a dial, a spiral and instead of hands, a ball"
AWESOME.
www.aspiralclocks.com

2010-02-23T08:52:00.000-08:00

This is how my anti- internet campaign looks finished. The idea is that you take two weeks offline and reconnect with the world around you.
To do this you order your new free lap top from a website which is a small moleskine sized book. Each page has a different web site which you might find hard to live without and when you fold out the keyboard it offers you a real life equivalent with space to keep note of what you have been up too. There are also 15 blank pages to keep a journal over the 2 weeks.
I have kept the book very simple with a lot of white space and low transparency images and text so that you can scribble all over it and make it your own. I also developed banners to wrap around products in shops to advertise the campaign and remind people that these real life alternatives still exist.

The End Is Nigh!

2010-02-23T08:17:00.000-08:00

I want one of these!

2010-01-15T04:37:00.001-08:00

£70 from Urban Outfitters... tempting?

A closer look

2010-01-13T08:02:00.000-08:00

I am developing labels to put around dictionary's, cd's, journal's and letter writing sets, to name just a few, that will compare each object to it's online equivalent and remind people that these things still exist and are in the real world. This is how I will advertise an internet detox with more information online- after all the internet is without doubt the best way to communicate with the world!

Work in progress

2010-01-13T07:53:00.000-08:00

This is the start of my anti- internet campaign. We now live in a world where we can do everything online. We don't have to go to the supermarket, the bank, the library, HMV, we don't even have to talk to our friends any more if we don't want to. Because of this we have less of a sense of community in our local areas, shops are closing down in our local high streets and we have hundreds of acquaintances and very few friends. I want to encourage people to re- connect with the world around them again. The internet is great, it has it's benefits but what's wrong with living in the real world?

2009-11-23T02:47:00.000-08:00

Watches, watches, watches!

2009-11-23T02:33:00.000-08:00

Some other lovely pictures came out of the shoot so here is a few of us larking around! Thanks to Mr Cameron Jack for being our photographer for the evening!

Christmas is coming!

2009-11-23T02:32:00.001-08:00

Our third Fear Of Butterflies night is coming up, here is the poster- such a strange photo shoot but once we got into the festive spirit we were well away.

The first Fear Of Butterflies night!

2009-10-03T04:32:00.001-07:00

Here is the poster for the first Fear Of Butterflies night. The first night was a great success and the word is starting to spread.

2009-09-11T05:02:00.000-07:00

The finished flyer designs and how they look printed. We are starting this with a very low budget so the flyers have initially been printed on paper in the university library. I'm looking forward to watching Fear Of Butterflies grow.

Pens in Trees

2009-09-11T04:31:00.000-07:00

If pens grew in bunches on trees and trees had paper leaves then I could grow all the pens that I want and draw on all the trees.

2009-09-11T03:50:00.000-07:00

Some initial sketch book pages for Fear Of Butterflies.

Fear Of Butterflies is starting as a club night on the 28th September but we hope to move into other areas in music, art and design. We are looking to decorate the night club with hand made decorations and find lots of lovely freshers to produce art work for flyers and a zine, dj at future Fear Of Butterflies nights and make gifts for art fairs held at the university campus.

Print making

2009-09-04T07:02:00.001-07:00

These prints were for a group project, 'If Domestos did a shaving kit this is what it would look like'. Although it doesn't look particularly Domestos we were playing with the idea of how a mustache can hold plenty of germs and encouraging people to have a clean shave.

I absolutely love these purely as screen printed images.

Night Club Flyers

2009-09-04T06:49:00.000-07:00

Some flyers I have designed in the past for Dakota night club in Cheltenham.