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For Practitioners this year, I really enjoyed ContainerPLUS when Nicola Carter came to Stockport College for a talk. They combine and collaborated with illustration, photography, set design, performance, and 3D elements. They have a few well-known clients, Topshop, Selfridges, Sony, MTV and Q Magazine. I found the talk interesting and fun and inspiring.
+++Make Me a Supermodel, installation working with the candidates for the Channel Five TV show+++

Nicola set up ContainerPLUS with Luise Vormitty in 2002/2003, they met studying at Camberwell University. They both finished Uni in 2002, their work was very different but both shared a good sense of humor. They had a joint project and had the exhibition at the Notting Hill Arts Club and they got nominated at Creative Review’s “Creative Futures 2003” from that they got commissions, editorials, book covers, and interior design. From that countainerPLUS grow and another lady jointed.
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Their style of work is elegant, simple, soft and very thought through. I looked at ContainerPlus last summer and ardor their work and I would to work in a company like them, they seem to reinvent themselves and explore techniques and develop new ideas and I do with the work I create. They seem to have a lot of compassion and care towards their work and looks like they all have fun working too. When I am working I have got to have fun, when I am not having fun, you can see that through your work.
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Paul Rand

This is Paul Rand "starting with a lousy photograph of Mencken, he magicaly produced a comic image that became a virtual logo for the writer" this niave silouet framing Mencken.

New Brief '7x7"

I am working with Jane and we have been team up by a creative writer from MMU Crew for the Manchester Literature festival at the Corner house in October. Our story is about and called 'A Conversation With Quetzalcoatl (The god Quetzalcoatl, is the Feathered Serpent or Precious Twin). We are going to research and go deeper into looking at Mexican Culture and Aztec Gods. Quetzalcoatl is the god intelligence and self-reflection, a patron of priests. Quetzalcoatl is a primordial god of creation- He is a good God and and he created the current world and the fifth sun, by using his own blood to give new life to bones. He is the giver of breath and the god of winds.

Quetzalcoatl symbols - Quetzal feathers and light shines off him. A Quetzal is a fruit eating bird, sacred bird of the ancient Mayas and Aztecs . Today the bird is found in part of the cloud forest from southern Mexico.

Aztec tombs

Aztec Totem.

This is an idea for one of the finished images. It's all been hand made and photographed. Me and Jane are happy with the outcome. All our props have been photographed and now we are playing around with the images.

We're interested at Pierre et Gilles Using photographs and adding other elements onto the image.

We are happy with the end result, we are gointo to refine the two images more over the summer. Changing the background- maybe paint it or make the background 3D to make the image join together and photograph it again, I had so much fun working with Jane and would like to work with Jane in 3rd year on a project or something.

We're not finished yet, end result will be in September with an animation too

Introducing

Saw this band on Saturday- pretty pretty good.
Check them out here

Hannah Havana

First of all, what a great name. Look at this work, which is full of wit, humour and play on words. It us interesting to see what applications it is used for. You can see from her portfolio that she has worked in contexts as varied as fashion, art installations, window displays, props and dance performance. She also works in a collective.

Foto-Grafik Project

The brief is to be inspiration from the many and varied examples.
First week we have to use an existing photograph, found photographs and change them. With this image- I cut into it and layered and the lines are from sewing into paper, used the photocopy and blew the the sew up.

For the second part of the brief, we have to produce two images and have a theme or subject matter image is totally open. With this image I have blown up bubbles and scan them into Photoshop using my own photograph. My next step is to screenprint onto photo's that I have used with a throw away camera.

This is what I am heading for, image below. The theme is '4 Precious Pictures.' The same method from above but made into a family album.

The method I used above: I screen printed the bubbles and shapes and scanned them into Photoshop.


Used the same method, This theme is called 'bubbles marks' With these pictures I am going make a photo album to make them look old and special.

This is my finished image above the theme is '4 Precious Things'

This theme is this image is called 'Wonder' I screen printed on top 4 pictures.

This image Theme is called 'The Follower'

Editorial two: 'What it Feels Like' o

I paper mashic the monkey head and took a photo, then Photoshop a man suit to the Monkey. Are breif was to make three Illustration , taking from little stories of panic and what it would feel like.

Swear words and replaced them with swords flying out.

I got two blocks of wood shaped into an elephant and a monster, then got them vacuum shaped into plastic and pop them into the freezer. I took a photo- very quickly of with the ice blocks on a light box.