The 3Cubed brief was to investigate a confined space of about 3m x 3m x3m and portray your investigation as a creative response. I chose to create an audio representation of a my view when stood in one place. I took a series of 11 360 degree panoramic photographs in various different locations, from beaches, cities and completely flat countryside. I then took the average colours from the images and converted the R, G and B values into audio.
For the animated alphabet brief, we were asked to invent, film and animate a animated alphabet. It had to be completely original and hand rendered. After effects or similar software could only be used to edit the footage and merge it together.
I used coins to create my alphabet, covering them in tipex and hand writing each letter onto both sides. The choice of tipex was due to a series of tests i did beforehand, showing that things such as paint, vinyl or spray paint reduce the coins spinning time in half, whereas tipex only slowed the coins by 0.04 of a second on average.
I used 1p coins for small letters, 2p coins for caps and 5p coins for punctuation and numbers.
We also had to create a sound for the animation, for which i recorded the coins sliding down a piece of cardboard. I sped the recording up by 2000x and reversed it to give the odd fluttery effect.
West Lindsey District Council Advertised for a graphic designer to put together some ideas for window stickers to be displayed in participating cafe's showing that they are breastfeeding friendly. this is a new campaign to try and encourage more mothers to breastfeed, as most feel uncomfortable doing it in public.
Vicki Slinger from WLDC responded to me quickly informing me that my designs hadn't been chosen, however they were very interested and will be in contact in the future.
Create a sign posting system that successfully navigates from A to B. Traditional means are signposts, sat nav's or maps. The idea of this brief was to invent a new and interesting, yet functional method of getting a person
from point A to point B.
I developed a handheld unit, that could be given to a person within a large or complicated building such as a hospital. The idea would be to replace the coloured line system that you see featured in hospitals. The user would find the first unit next to reception where the unit is given, and from there they could get from point A to point B, or C or D or as many as required. the wall mounted units display each destination and will be found in specific locations around the building. This means a user can go from any point in the building to any other point in the building easily.
I was approached by the online company Eyelashesdirect.com who asked me to take a series of photos of some models wearing their eyelashes for some large backdrops to be used on their stand at the International Clothes Show at the NEC in Birmingham.
Since then they have asked me to take individual product shots for their catalogue and currently i am working with them to design a set of new boxes and shots of their new stands that will be distributed to shops for sales over the counter.