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Photographs Over Time.

Just a personal sample from my photographs over time.

Year Three. Creating My Personal Manifesto. 'Postcard Portfolio'

The Brief: A personal portfolio of your works presented in an appropriate way to your style and design.

This assignment was extremely useful as it allowed me to come to terms with the best possible way to display my work, in the most professional yet personal manner. I have a bit of an obsession with postcards - I collect them and I find inspiration from a lot of them for my assignments. Can you not tell?


So for this assignment I thought it was the most logical idea to present my portfolio in a postcard format.

Year Three. Creating My Personal Manifesto. 'The Type Factory'

The Brief: Using typography as the main concept create a series of promotional graphics; including a logo, identity strategy, and uniform theme throughout your work for the new upcoming museum - The Type Factory.

General Concept: The Type Factory would be developed within the Surry Hills area. The main concept behind the displayed designs is the experience of the Type Factory, being targeted towards the developing designer community. This design is ambiguous and engaging, using a simple colour palate and an illustrated logo. I wish to engage the onlooker and to intrigue them to look further into the meaning of the logo and the museum.

I have used a simple motif for the logo - which has been abstracted from two shorthand 'and' symbols and stretched to form this logo. In today's society it is difficult to engage an audience. Therefore throughout a series of differently designed dynamic logos the onlooker can be shown the changing face of the museum.

The ongoing pattern of the logos arranged together on the front page of the coffee table booklet - is a visual metaphor describing the evolving world of type as it is constantly changing and forming into new designs. The Type Factory is one of a kind within Australia, and I have also considered this within my design process. Using unique layouts and different images, this revolutionary factory can be up to date with the current design trends and standards.

The last two images combined together create a business card designed for the museum.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Magazine Layout Design' - SasQuatch Vol. 1

Ah yes - another project full of Greta. She honestly is rather a glorious character for agreeing to be in 99 percent of my projects. (Lucky she isn't to bad on the eye!)

'It was that god damn Sasquatch!' (Why wouldn't you choose this name for your magazine? It just jumps out at you!)

This assignment was one of those works that just fell into place. Yes I did spend countless hours on my Mac - fiddling around and changing things, but to me these original photographs worked out so well!

The brief for this assignment was to create a magazine based on a particular community - my magazine was the fashion community. I used the opacity tool quite a bit in this assignment to create a uniform colour palette of washed out colours. The first set of images in the back and the front of SasQuatch, I used the minimalism as my main concept throughout SasQuatch. Personally I think in order to draw the attention of the onlooker's eye you must use bold images with as little text as possible. So many magazines today are packed with bold fonts and large brightly coloured images - which all end up looking the same. Using a simple font Letter Gothic Std (the love of my life) and a large image in my humble opinion is glorious!

I have created the 'Contents' page of Sasquatch using old images I found in my mother's old photo albums. Photographs from the seventies are splendid - I love their special quality and the browns and yellows! The background image is a splattered painting I found in my room from years ago.

The next section of the magazine, the article layout, were images that were compulsory for the brief that we had to include within our layout. The blurb was also compulsory to use. My 'Doodle Me' font was also used for the first article.

The last set of images is the mock-up of the original Contents page. This also includes the spine that would be used if the magazine was made. The photographs are just images that I took that I didn't include in the magazine yet- but that I enjoy.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Experimental Book' Pt Three

These previous images are the booklet. The last image conveys the final form of the booklet (in which I created to look like a coffin.) The booklet was more of a series of images and collages, as opposed to written information. The main concept behind the booklet was to allow the onlooker to experience their own personal journey when looking throughout the booklet. The series of images were created from both Photoshop and Illustrator. I used rubbings from the the graves, original photographs, magazine cuttings, scanned images that I had created, and again photographs of my sister Greta.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Experimental Book' Pt Two

The above images are my poster designs, to which I designed to be placed within Stanton Library. I decided to host a awareness campaign, which allowed local people within the area to come to terms with the importance of the rest park and the people buried there. The event was called 'Memories By Moonlight' which would be a event held at dusk in the actual park. The posters would be situated throughout Stanton Library, primarily near the Historical Centre. The second poster would be situated on bus stops around the North Sydney council area, which would further expose the event.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Experimental Book' Pt One

Project Brief: Experimental Book - 'Using a community as your inspiration, create a booklet and series of posters, expressing the importance of this community, and their practices and traditions. Also include found material and typography within your assignment.'

Brief Response: This design brief was one of my favourites. I decided to concentrate on the 'dead community' and based my assignment on St Thomas Rest Park in Cammeray (a loved area of mine in Sydney). It is a bit odd, but I have always had a huge fascination with graveyards. I can literally spend hours there. Choosing a community that I was extremely excited and inspired by allowed me to produce a project to my best ability. The three images above are the initial result of my experimentation. I did a large amount of collaging throughout this assignment; creating motifs and objects that I was able to use within my final assignment.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Monsters Inc' Pt Two

'Monsters Inc' Continued..

The main concept of the design is to portray how something so old and dirty can be something so fascinating. This design will be a symbol for all the particular places around Sydney that are regarded as a place to avoid. This series of creatures and cartoon like designs is a visual metaphor of how something so old, ugly and revolting can be transformed into an interesting and intriguing place.
The third design displays another repeat patterning system, which I have created using a heat press machine. The model-like figure has been transformed into a monsteresque creature. This again reiterates the main concept of design, creating something ordinary and disregarded into something interesting with unusual characteristics. The simple applique of red sequins onto the eyes added an element of colour throughout the design. The colour red was very dominant within this selected site, so using this colour was appropriate as it also draws the onlookers eye towards the design. The last design was created via the use of applique and leather was applied to the canvas, which was then overstitched with black mesh, which then was overstitched with a paper motif of a monster like creature. The repeat patterning was used to create the importance of characterisation. The main concept of this design was to personify the site and bring it to life.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Monsters Inc' Pt One

Project Brief: Urban Patterning. TEXTILE DESIGN

"This project requires you to select a specific site in 2010 (Post Code for Surry HIlls) and use this site as a reference for your project. You will develop a range of textile designs from and for this site. You will consider how this range could be designed to be sympathetic to this site and marketed as an innovative textile for this site. Patterns, repeats, individual or one-off designs for exteriors, interiors, spaces, walls, windows, floors or indoor and outdoor furniture. These textile designs should be experimental, conceptual, innovative, contemporary, and convey your interpretation of what 'urban patterning' could be."

Project Brief Response:
Profile and Site Analysis:

The particular place this series of textile designs will be situated is on the right hand side of a building, down a smelly, dirty alley way of Surry HIlls - near Taylor Square. This large four storey block of units consists of an old rusting external piping system on a large dirty brick wall. The small lane, the building is parallel to, is dirty and uninviting. On my initial visit to this site - about six different garbage bins were out, sitting in the open right next to the front door.
My proposed textile design, in relation to this site is to create a series of wall hangings that can complement the surroundings of this site. The idea of using rubbish and dirty motifs can further reiterate the surrounds, and transform this dirty place into an interesting site. The first design - The Monsters repeat (silk screen printing) was created using rubbish as motifs throughout the design, particularly things that would be found in the garbage. The cigarettes (created using machine sewing, lettroset and applique) - conveys the form of a cigarette butt, which I had noticed around the site. The idea of this usually assumed dirty object can be transformed into something aesthetically interesting.

Year Two. Exhausting the Brief. 'Doodle Me'

Brief : Design a Font, using MEDIA in today's society as your inspiration.

This designed font demonstrates the idea of 'media' being communicated via the use of graffiti and defacing an existing form. Throughout the use of a simple mechanical font I have created a different characteristic for each letter within the alphabet. These letters have been shaped into something more interesting then the already existing font - OCR A Extended. The existing font portrays a straight, formal and mechanical message, whilst characterising it with my own design has made this font completely opposite from its original purpose. This font is similar to the method of graffiti, involving making a wall or alley way something more interesting and characterised by the person's abilities.

Back to The Beginning - Personal Collective Design Image 3

I had a tad obsession with flowers in my first year of uni, can you not tell? This graphic I created - has been a particular favorite of mine throughout my years at uni. I have used it many a time as a mock-up logo within my designs. It has been created via the selection of inspirational images within my personal collection. it incorporates Twiggy with an Andy Warhol flower in the background. I have adapted and altered the images via the use of posterization, thresholding, hue and saturation, and brightness and colour on both Photoshop and Illustrator.

Back to The Beginning - Personal Collective Design Image 2

This design was created on Illustrator and Photoshop, which is a part of my personal collective design portfolio. This image having no brief or concept was an experimental process. This image has been created from an orginal photograph, and an image of a flower (the blue background flower) from the net. The tools used to create this design was the threshold tool on Photoshop, and the magic wand tool to select the desired parts used within this graphic. The model is my sister (Greta), who shall feature in many more graphics to come!

Back to the Beginning - Personal Collective Design Image 1

This image - created on Photoshop, was one of the first experiments I made using my technique gained from my first few tutorials, in my first year. This picture and the following are all part of my 'experiments portfolio' that I created during the first semester in my first year. It is basically overlaying two layers, and using the opacity tool to allow the background image to come through to the front of the graphic. There was no brief for this assignment - as it is a part of my personal design collection.