Making your Mark

The second project I am considering over the next week is focused on mark making. How marks are made, what process occurred to put them there, what affect it has had on its surroundings...
Using footprint as an example, I want to look at how an incidental mark can illustrate a place and how I could use this process as a design technique or tool.

Walking through uni, I noticed there are heaps of scars and marks on the walls from previous décor/careless maneuvering. I have absolutely no idea where I'm going to go with this, but they were almost like memory marks, a record of what had been there before.

Maybe I will make a photo album out of them. How sweet.

What is 'Ugly'?

I DON'T BLOODY KNOW.
I'm trying to dissect what is standardly considered beautiful to create something ugly.
I am finding it a lot more difficult than I thought. My original concept was to take something I consider beautiful and change an aspect of it (eg the material/shape) to transform it into something beautiful.
As a sort of model of this idea, I have been looking at squares as the ultimate beauty. They are symmetrical. They are perfect. They are structured.
So by slight distortion can a square become ugly?

The outcome has ended up almost as a comment on beauty, or at least our perception of it.
Considering beauty from the Cleopatra complex.
To be honest, I don't think she was all that.

Past

Collage; The Art of Those Who Can't Draw That Good.

Devon is a Place on Earth

Thought I would share a couple of pics from my summer in Devon.

I feel these select few completely capture the essence. Eau de Devon.

Time Out

I know this isn't amazing design work, I NEVER SAID IT WAS.

But it is going to be in Timeout magazine.

So there.

I haven't just been frollicking through fields and eating pasties back in Devon you know.

Carriage of Curiosity...

And here are the final photos from the Hendricks event I designed for, with Bompas & Parr.

It all looks pretty amazing, makes all the scalpel blisters seem worthwhile.

There's more victorian clip-art than you can shake a stick at, but I do love the Hendricks brand identity. I thoroughly enjoyed this project, this style of design is one I can very much see myself doing in future.

Or at least hope to.

Also, Frazzles are AWESOME.

Frazzled

I have an archive of re-designed Frazzle packets.