So this morning i received an email and it went like this …
Dear Katie Shingles,
Thank you very much for your participation to the “I
♥ Europe” poster competition. We have received 1703
projects. The 12 best projects will now be selected
by our jurors, the results will be published within
2 or 3 weeks. Please visit our website again to
discover the finalists and vote for your preferred
projects.
Good luck!
The EURESIN poster competition team
http://www.designeurope2010.eu/
i will post up the finalists so look out for that in january!
So when i got home from work last thursday i came home to find our christmas tree already up and a duck in our kitchen.
A duck?
Yes a duck!
Its was a photo shoot for one of my housemates new design company, ‘THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT’. He has joined together with friends to combine their creative skills and ultimately created their own business.
Heres the result…
Also check out their blog for a video of the shoot
So after a few small changes i’ve made a decision that this will be my final poster design for my submission in january. However there is still time for change so any constructive comments are welcome.
This weekend some friends i made at camp over the summer visited and we decided to go to london for the day. Although i have been a few times i got to visit Buckingham Palace for the first time which looked lovely on one of the first days the sun has shined since the beginning of November! But most of all i loved the christmas lights and window displays. After seeing the Coca Cola advert far too early i can now say ‘its christmas!’
lights down Oxford Street based on this years christmas movie ‘A Christmas Carol’
So after much development, this weekend i sent my final design for the ‘I Love Europe’ poster competition. I am quite happy with it although i have yet to receive feed back from it so constructive comments are welcome! Although the deadline for the competition has now passed i still have time until my final end of semester deadline to make any small alterations.
With future projects i will try to show the development so that you can see my work progress to form there final pieces.
I started with the word ‘maps’ that i was given and told to use it to produce a poster for ‘I love Europe’ day. After reading the small print within the competition i later found out i was not aloud to use maps on the poster. To get around this i looked into signs and symbols connected to maps. Focusing on the ‘You are here’ symbol i came up with a poster that was a combination of this and the EU flag. I then developed it to produce this.
I developed it into stamps of the european languages to link with the theme i may follow when i start to work on my final major project that i will start after the new year. The theme being connecting people.
i remember, when i was young, i received a typewriter for christmas.
i loved it!
but for some stupid reason i gave it away, just like other childhood toys i thought i would never use again.
i’ve wanted another for a while but even more so since my visit to america in summer 2009 when i received lots of lovely typewritten letters from a special someone.
there’s something quite exciting about receiving a letter especially since the birth of facebook.
and now that i have made new friends all over the world i would love to spread that joy and continue writting…
now on my quest for finding the perfect typewriter, considering my love for Cath Kinston and all things from the 50’s, i came across this beautiful machine…
{Mary and Max} is unique. A claymation animation by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), it tells the simple story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City. It is very much a triumph of emotion, insight, and eccentricity—a complete delight.Animation’s ability to capture the intricate complexity of life has never been on display in as absorbing fashion as with the storytelling of this Australian filmmaker, who truly makes you forget what you are watching. The originality of the voices in this ever-spinning kaleidoscope of innocence and idiosyncrasy comes straight from an incredibly rich imagination and complete artistic vision. This desire for acceptance and love amid the pain of existence is masterfully narrated by Barry Humphries and fleshed out by the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette.This film that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, trust, copulating dogs, sexual and religious differences, agoraphobia, and more, and is rooted in a very personal relationship, is proof of why we go to the movies and a truly exceptional portrait of compassion and love. CAST
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Humphries, Eric Bana
‘Artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Where once designers might
have produced a set of postcards to promote themselves or simply for fun, demand for individual design has led to an explosion of quirky, covetable products for sale via the Internet. Self-initiated projects, such as T-shirts or button designs, are fast becoming businesses in themselves. This book showcases more than 500 of the coolest and most exciting graphic products by over 90 practitioners from around the world, including: books, magazines and zines; toys, posters, prints and canvases; fonts and typographic 3D products; clothing and accessories.’
Wally Olins sets out the ground rules for branding success in the 21st century, explaining why understanding the links between business, brand and consumer has never been more vital for commercial success, and reflecting the recent enormous changes in the branding world.
I’ve recently used this book for my critical paper and found it extremely useful, so much so that i think i’ll invest in a copy and recommend you do to.
