Digital Entrepreneurship.

I am currently studying a Design Entrepreneurship module, and it is absolutely fascinating. We had a truly inspiring talk from lecturer and entrepreneur Chris Murphy, who explained the whole entrepreneurship ethos to us, and the idea of making money whilst you sleep. He asked us why we were not making money from our [...]

Bicycle Film Festival ‘09 Trailer.

I adore this video, it is absolutely amazing, I was so excited when I first saw it. The Bicycle Film Festival ‘09 trailer was created by Marco Mucig. It is such an innovative and interesting way of presenting type, and presenting a title of an event. The layout [...]

Drawing Unlimited Workshop.

Last friday I attended the Drawing Unlimited Workshop in University, it was a workshop that started at 10am and continued until 1pm. It was organised by the Vis Com Illustration tutor Christine Blaney. It was open to 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Vis Com students along with some foundation students. Only two [...]

Inspiration.

At the entrance to our floor in university from the lift there is a huge chalkboard wall. Last year the third years branded the wall but over the past few months the chalk had been vandalised and crude graffiti added on to the surrounding chalkboard. It was an eyesore as soon as the [...]

Word and Image.

Our first university projects this year was a live project to create branding for a conference that is set to be held in the university later next year. The conference is called Displaying Word and Image, it is targeted to an audience of intellectuals probably late 20’s plus. This was the main obstacle [...]

I am obsessed.

Oops I had almost forgot about this one. This is another pinhole photograph that I took outside my studio at university. I exposed the paper for one minute as I thought the light coming from the glass ceiling was far too bright to leave it exposed for any longer. It took a [...]

Dot Project.

A few weeks ago, I along with 5 or 6 fellow classmates took part in an illustration workshop for the ‘Dot Project’. We were each given large pieces of paper and were asked to paint, doodle, draw dots in inks, markers, crayons, colouring pencils, in a multitude of colours using our opposite hands to writing. [...]

Morag Myerscough.

I am so excited, this wednesday night Morag Myerscough is giving a talk at my university, I am counting down the hours. I absolutely adore her work, she literally thinks outside the box and comes up with the most insane design solutions that are so appealing to the eye and mind. She has [...]

Pinhole part deux.

Leah , Winnie and I decided to delve deeper into the world of Pinhole Cameras. We made our own pinhole camera from an old poker chips tin (I will do a post soon showing our tin and how we made it) and we took it around the uni over a two hour period [...]

Folds.

Yesterday morning at University we were given a project with a hand in time of 5pm that evening and this was my outcome. We were given the task of using an A3 page and considering folds had to create a layout that would incorporate; a title, 5 words to describe the title and one [...]