This weeks catch up

Backtracking this past week...

Sunday 8th

Went for a derive around East London, starting at Columbia Road flower market. Stumbled across a wonderful paper craft shop in which the window display was a mammoth roll of paper which had been delicately cut out to create a almost paper doily like image.

Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th

Both studio days- IMI and Typo.

Taking some emotions of how we felt on our derives of the past week, we developed typographic A0 pieces on Tuesday's studio day. My chosen words were Fake, Collision and Stumbled. I went with the collision, eventually becoming collide which eventually became a wall of newsprint ideas.....

which then became A0 at Service point. This has definitely set me off into the correct direction for the rest of the project. The initial ideas were done in the studio using hand-drawn techniques and a seemingly never ending credit value on the photocopier. From these, I was then able to work on Illustrator to create the final piece (left).

For Interactive Moving Image I've been working on the Make Sound Visible brief. It has been quite interesting as  I start to research the effect of silence, and obviously that has led me to John Cage's 4'33 piece. I've just been playing with the idea of people reacting to sound or in this case, noise. Unfortunately, there's problems uploading the videos atm but I hope to create a whole alphabet of people drawing the letters whilst exposed to sudden loud bursts of noise. The results so far have been better than I could have initially expected. 

After moving image on Monday, waited around for a talk by Anne Odling-Smee as part of the 'Changing Face of Letterpress' presentations at LCC. She spoke about her work and a book she had produced about the use of craft in Graphic design. An eye-opener, although I enjoy working better by hand anyway.

This morning we were introduced to work by silversmith, Rod Kelly. he spoke about his techniques and his clients- the most impressive perhaps being asked to design the back of a £2 coin in 2006. A nice variation to the PPD lectures. And for the rest of today, I have spent more time editing the Make sound visible final piece- the final film is done and safely on a DVD. Being my first time using Final Cut Pro, it's fair to say that I am fairly proud of what I have achieved......although, I do definitely need to familiarize myself with it a lottt more.