Saturday, October 20, 2007

Graphic Design

Added a few of my graphic design pieces, including logo designs, poster and record covers.
I created these last year as a part of my Graphic Design A-Level, using a variety of artists and designers as inspiration as well as exploring textures and collage with my own photography and papers. I enjoy using my own photographs in my works, as well as painting, scrunching, dying and printing on papers to create texture and interesting background - especially scanned into Photoshop and layered on top of each other.
I feel this creates a natural hand-made look, with the sleek computer edited finish on top.
As I progress through my Illustration degree, I want to use these techniques again, and have been working on creating interesting papers to draw apon, or simply to scan and layer an existing image onto, which I feel will help me create a more distinctive "style" thats recognisable and interesting.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Testing... Testing...

Is this thing on?

Hey there. I'm just seeing if this works - I'm trying to create a small blog on here for news and updates on my work and thoughts, and to help track my progress as part of a university requirement.
I'm trying to create a reflective area where I can record my ideas and thoughts, as well as keep track of my critiques, references and inspirations. How will I be exploring my degree? What am I learning? Am I closer to achieving my goal to be part of the industry? Are my works relevant and successful, and what skills am I learning as I go?

Right now I don't have alot to say - Kaos is on a bit of a hiatus as I'm bogged down with Illustration projects right now, and I have a few pieces of graphic design works I am keen to add to my portfolio as soon as I can, as at the moment there is little to no evidence of my graphic design A-Level here!

Best wishes,
Rebecca