On Your Marks

Graduation is approaching and the Degree show seems like so long ago! 


On Your Marks had a brilliant opening night with plenty of interest! The place was packed within the first hour and the reaction to the show was great! It was a proud night for all of us D&ADers, seeing peoples reactions too our work was quite surreal, looking at their facial expressions towards the work and hearing peoples comments were on a whole encouraging! Our show was a great success which I will not forget! 


I had two A2 prints which were printed elsewhere and mounted onto foam board and three books in the publication room on a nice stand accompanied by gloves, it was nice to see my work properly on display rather than pinned to a wall above my workspace!!


The night gave us a chance to celebrate our challenging three years! We had nothing to do but mingle, drink and look at what we had all achieved. Catching up with tutors and seeing faces from the year above and also industry was a good feeling. I can't wait to see what next years degree show beholds, I wonder if it will be as much of a success as ours was!


To read a review and see more work from the show please visit the Creative Times website to get their opinion on the show! http://www.creativetimes.co.uk/articles/review-on-your-marks-2011-degree-show

Dan Stiles

Being highly inspired by the Bauhaus, I wrote my dissertation on how the individual style is still around today in many disciplines of design. Dan Stiles is one of the designers I looked at, focusing on his screen print poster designs. I love his minimal style and the restricted colour palate. Another inspiring aspect of his work is his use of pattern! Visit his website to see more examples of his poster designs! http://www.danstiles.com/ 

Sound & Vision

These are maps to represent The Avalanches-Frontier Psychiatrist. An insane song with alot of expression. Below is a representation of the feeling I get when listening to the song. I used my periodic table key where I have created a different colour for each word. Every time a word was said I put the correct colour in its place. I then multiplied my result, with the number of words in the song, to get this explosion of colour.