I am looking at children animations/films that are going through doorways Alice in Wonderland, Mr Benn and Willy Wonker. With all the bizarre goings on while going through the door and seeing what on the other side, in the weird and wonderful imaginative world, and time traveling through a door. Also the dream world, where dreams are are happy then turn into a nightmare while looking through a key hole you can see whats happening and how it make you feel (emotions) Also looking through someone mind and their eyes on there thoughts and sences. I have been getting some ideas from Container Plus with the dark rooms with no windows, making you feel intense and scared. Also looking at Daft Punk vidoes- Da Funk for the edviroment. I found this mask on the internet and its so weired, I think they have taken a picture of there own head, used heated paper on fabric and stiched it together and looking making panda heads and cardboard wolf masks.Our theme is on Urban citys, looking through someones eyes in the edviroment we live in through a door. Graffiti is about everywhere, tagging, posters and stickers. From our group, two of them are going to New York and going to research on the edviroment, while two of us are going to research in Manchester/Stockport.
We have all enjoyed working in a group. It gives us an idea what it’s like in the real world, for working at a company or freelance and working together. We all have commutated well together, through emails and blogs. When the boys were in New York or if one of us was off, we keep us all updated. As are roles we have all got different design skills, they have worked out really well in the last two weeks with putting the exhibition together and have been surprising each other with are skills (in a good way).
We are all happy with the outcome with are Exhibition. Our instillation is titled “There’s Two Sides”. This came from the idea that there is 2 sides to every story and 2 sides to every door / doorway. We wanted you to experience this to engage with the piece and watching the second part of our instillation, which is in the box.
The mask is the main piece, it's shown more in the video.
Stages of our door: I have been layering the door with paint, graffiti, sandpaper, then glued posters and flyers on. A memeber of my group friend is going to tag the door and do more graffiti.
Mando Manderinhas a lovely stall on at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair at Spinningfeilds. She creates creatures, cushions, cards, embroidered Illustartions from screen prints, embroiderey and textiles.
I am working today on reception, and looking at a few websites and came across Julia Pott, an Illusrator artist and she as done a few animations, There so pretty and cute.
I draw a horse and a bag and scanned them into photoshop and creative a repeated pattern, then produced the pattern in Illustrator. I went for a theme from looking at Mulberry website, their trend, colours and next year their new collection is the theme fairgrounds.
While I have not seen your i-stop piece, I have heard about it and thought this would be right up your street. It is so theatrical and quirky. Misaki Kawai has many strings to her bow. She was born in Japan but works now in New York, she currently strives to make work which keeps the innocent, honest integrity of adolescent playfulness, but on a more grand and sophisticated level. Here is video link of an interview with her.
HomeGrown: The Story of UK Hip Hop is the first major exhibition to chronicle, in depth, the development of the UK Hip Hop scene. 15th oct to March 2010
I am to produce a pattern/design for Mulberrys flagship London store in Illustrator, it will be applied to the store walls, vinyl cut as a window display (4h x 12w) and to be made into a huge carpet for the store. The design for each should feature the same elements and colour way. I am to not to use texture and look more on line, shape and partterns. Mulberry is a luxuery brand in the uk, they range from bags, wallets, womens and mens clothing, travel accessories and home furnishing. There desgins have featured in Vogueand TalterMulberry combine cool of the city and the countryside and upto date. The colours I am thinking of working with are mouse grey, burnt orange, dark rouge noir. Also I seen the 2010 collection for Mulberrys and the theme is fairgrounds.
This my pattern I produced it first in photoshop, I draw it and scaned it in and repeated the pattern, then produce it use it Illustrator - eek.
Toffee apples are a right treat at fairgrounds and I like the pattern of these apples and found little patterns of little carousel horses. Erica Wakerly is a contemporary interior designer, I really love her work. Patterns of snow fakes, peacocks and leaves.
I found a good website on world famous Illustration. This image is by Zoe More Offrrall meadi used: heavy pen and ink based, photography and screen printing. She is inspired in "everyday" architecture, objects, packaging, possessions and pop culture.
