V&A Create! Fashion Festival

I've started an internship last week! Fun beard things which would be irresponsible for me to divulge until the appropriate time. Odd that, considering a couple of weeks ago I mentioned out loud that I wanted to do a series/continuation of my 

beardy man, albeit stylistically as I can't really do etching as easily anymore. And this pretty much is. Labour intensive though, and done entirely on Illustrator rather than handmade but I can't wait to see what it looks like finished. 

Last night I also tidied up a graphic I designed for the upcoming fashion festival at the V&A which is happening on the 

8th of December. The brief, giving to me by the lovely Jazmine, was to make a teaser flyer along with another giving a breakdown of highlights of the confirmed programme to be sent out to interested parties. Really happy with how these came out (pastels pastels pastels) and make sure to come down if you're free! 

V&A CreateVoice Blog

A bit late, but I spent a fair few painful weeks (or the majority of late July and August...bloody coding) designing the blog for the museums youth forum . The section dedicated to CreateVoice and various other young peoples programmes on the website is incredibly difficult to navigate, with everything kind of thrown in one place leaving the viewer to decipher what they can. It's been mentioned by numerous people who turn up to meetings that they had no idea what the forum is about and what we do, so I wanted to communicate this as clearly and simply as possible. 

I wanted it to be clean, simple but with an eclectic touch so I used the logo I had designed previously as a starting point from which I built around the colour pallet and idea of using stand alone buttons or icons to navigate to specific areas of the site. As with blogger templates anyway, a click of the above logo sends you back to home where you can view posts written by members of the forum. I'm super pleased with how it's turned out! 

CreateLate...Graphics

I've spent the last 6 months organising a one night only event at the Victoria and Albert Museum that will take place next month - a collaboration between BA Graphic Design  third year students at Camberwell College of Arts and the museums' youth collective CreateVoice, with whom i've been working for the past couple of years. 

Here are some teaser photos (courtesy of Tracey Waller, posted on the BA Graphics Camberwell facebook page) of starting the process of hand-printing over 2000 flyers. 

The design of the CreateLate...Graphics event has been 
a collaboration between myself and Yasmin Lennon Chong

Woodtype

It won't let me put each up individually because the files are too big so this awful hasty assemblage will have to do for now.

Diary to do. Evaluation to do... but screen printing tomorrow!

So it's not all bad at all. I also might be helping with blue train/V&A invites and market stuffs. busy busy bee

V&A...again

I've been doing bits and bobs at the v&a for a few months now, helping out in workshops as well as designing an identity for their youth forum CreateVoice. Nothing that was a huge departure for me though; black outlined and hand rendered type but I had some lovely feedback from it which is encouraging. Now to start designing a postcard pack to woo a supermodel!

V&A

I've been doing bits and bobs at the V&A since early July and while taking part in a workshop one sunday (the 18th i think it was?) i noticed this AMAZING new feature in the tunnel just outside the arch entrance to the museum. Design by Troika and installed probably in the second week of July, "Pallidrome" is a kinetic sign with 3 individual pieces that continually revolve to deconstruct and reconstruct the infamous V&A logo. For the logo in motion:

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This was my entry for the image for the V&A website. i really like it and it's really similar to the chintzy cheeriness on i posted a little while ago from my sketchbook. I didn't win but i'm to do an identity for the CreateVoice scheme instead! pressure pressure pressure

Technology. Fail.

I just sent some stuff off to the V&A for an image competition for their website... literally everything that could go wrong did (no internet, broken scanner, mac going mental with the scanner and refusing to work) and i've ended up sending the stuff 40 minutes late and massive sizes.

could i possibly make a worse impression?

V&A Connecting the Collection

Our final work for the V&A promoting the museum to 16-24 year olds. To present to the marketing team on site at the Sackler Centre on the 12th. how exciting! Our idea was connecting the collection and linking objects from the permanent collection using 6' Degrees of Separation'. We did this by using continuous line drawings and connected text, further reinforced by flyers shaped like puzzle pieces. When fitted together the whole link is shown, details of

the objects are on the backs with room numbers and locations to

help guide the viewer around the museum to discover it for themselves.

I worked with the lovely Ferg, Rux and Angeli (who also deserves credits for the pictures).

i found some pictures of foundation work...

...that i took for my portfolio for camberwell last year

and i really really miss just making stuff. Literally doing something craft or textiles based to fit into pretty much every brief. I just want to do something really self indulgent.

It's probably due to the V&A project i'm doing now, staring at textiles on the website and looking though my pictures of THE-MOST-BEAUTIFUL toys at the Museum of Childhood. I want to steal them all.