Dada poem and illustration

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we were told to cut out words, as many as we wanted then pick them out at random to create a dada poem, this is my poem.












From this poem we are to create an image, to almost translate it. My translation is the transition into adulthood, its a relevent theme to me at the moment also, but the word saint brought purity to mind, i.e. a child, and from there i realised a child is not bound by 'sad gravity' they are not even aware of it, they dream, idealise, and play unaware of the responsibility that will fall upon them, the strength they will need to leave that innocence behind.

This is my Poole icon made in illustrator. i found using illustrator really hard and struggled to make a simplistic icon, that was easily recognisable. i think this was the biggest success, although they do look like monks praying. Perhaps if i changed the angle of their heads they would look less like they were praying.

This is the first stage of my editorial illustration, during this week i intend to edit it in various different ways. i plan to use water colour to fill it in and also use pattern, from signature pool pottery designs. the era of Poole pottery that i have focused on is the transition from the 50's to the 60's as the company was regenerated, a new designer took over and revamped the company. ill keep you updated on its progress.

illustrator

this is what happens when you tell students to have a go and play on illustrator.

Letter Press

Is probably my favorite form of expression, as far as typography goes.I had never used letter press before, yet i did attempt to make my own at a-level and they were quite successful although my hands were ripped to shreds from carving letters out of wood. The effect that you get from then though is so unique, something that you could never create on photoshop or illustrator. A lot of these skills are vanishing and being replaced by technology. My opinion is that their just lazy, would much prefer to sit in front of a laptop that to get out their and experience artistic forms hands on. When using a technique such a letter press, the letters speak to you, from picking letters and inks and things going wrong you create something truly unique and imperfect.

type with tape

Today we were given the brief for type and tape. Sally reviled an immense amount of tape and let us loose around the uni, it was a great day as everyone come up with something different and the brief was so free that we could have done anything. I get the feeling that this first year will be very expressive much like this brief, but by the second year i think it'll change completely. sad really because im enjoying the freedom.

We like the hooligan student we are wondered around uni defacing everything we saw with a tag of what it was, in our new typeface.

quotes,

I recently caught the blogging bug and decided to create another, hhttp://thingswhatsmartpeoplesay.blogspot.com/ and it's really inspireing me. i find that words are more inspiring than paintings or designs, one word can spark so many different connotations and feelings. especially since i've been at aucb, we have weekly lectures on text an image and its suddenly starting to sink in, were subjected to adverts all throughout the day and when you really stop and concider them you see so much more i feel like my eyes have been opened and my subconcious awakened.

One of my favorite quotes from my other blog is one from my tutor Sally i have already posted it on here once, "your work reflects the boundaries of your creative thinking." she just squashed it into a normal sentance and for most it vasnished as most information does, but it struck me. stopped me in my tracks, i have to be original, different, stop people in their tracks much like that quote did for me.