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19/02/2011 · 8:24 pm

Keen on Zine

I am sooooo keen on the latest Visual Expression project to make a zine – my fave project so far!

For those of you who don’t know what a zine is, it’s a handmade, mini magazine which has a small print run of usually 500 or less.  They are usually quirky, controversial and very experimental so the complete opposite to the Magazine project (for which I received some quite good feedback in a critique on Friday afternoon – grade to be continued!) I had for the Graphic Design module before christmas!

I first became aware of zines back in 2010 when Llymlrs, a Graphic Design student whose fashion blog I follow, made one… never thought I would have the time to make one so having it set as a project is just perfect!

I don’t do enough quirky design; I find my design style to be very clean and neat but I actually really do like messy, weird design! I’m hoping that my choice of the smoking culture community (the subject of the zine is a community which we had to choose and research over the christmas holidays) will allow for a lot of weird, dirty and wonderful experimentation!

I have sooooo many ideas already – ahhhh sooooo excited about this project it’s unreal! Oh and another great thing about this project is that we have to blog our progress! Zine + Blog + Tasha = LOVE

This post is actually REALLY late in the project – the deadline is actually this Thurs (24th)! Oops! Been having too much fun! :)

Here are some photos of my typographic illustrations which are forming the basis of my zine…

All laid out on the kitchen table – 9 A3 pages = 36  A5 illustrations!

Watch this space for more… and the chance to buy one maybe? :)

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15/02/2011 · 11:37 pm

J’adore… Marian Bantjes

With it being Valentine’s day yesterday and all, I thought it was about time to post about Marian’s work seeing as I’ve had this drafted since before christmas(which is quite weird considering the subject)!

Whether you are loved up or anti-valentines, theres no denying that these laser cut, used Christmas cards from 2010 are beautiful!

Marian asked her friends to send her used christmas cards and 500 cards later….

… she had a lot of hearts!

I think that Marian does Valentines really well…

2011

2008 (below)

2007 (below)

2006 (below)

2005 (below)

Each year is so different and quirky – the sign of a true idea blessed woman!

I love so much of Marian’s work! Here is just a snippet of things I drool over on her website…

Wedding Invitation

Branding for Sak’s Fifth Avenue Campaign

Magazine Cover for Walrus Magazine… WOW! Look at the detail…

There’s actually too much of her work for me to post here – this post would go on forever! For more amazing work go to her website and drool yourself!

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05/02/2011 · 11:00 am

Boom Boom Sketch

Yesterday we got all sketchy in class with some old format technology! Old Macs, Typewriters, Cameras, Floppy Disks, Stereos… the list goes on! Armed with lots of pens, pencils and paints we flexed our creative muscles:

As an 80′s child (for 6 days) I decided to take the Neon approach for my stereo…

Then in groups of 3 we produced a big drawing, starting from the same point but in each of our own different drawing styles. On my team….

…. Amy, Bobbins and Myself.

And the finished piece….

Dirty drum and bass (Amy) control centre (Bobbins) and 80s electro (Me)!

You can see some of my classmates working  here at the new course site!

No idea what this new project is heading towards but it will be interesting…

Oh also got feedback for my Magazine Design yesterday – 63! :) I did some sums and my average for Semester A is 62! That’s a 2:1 so I’m pretty happy with that, YAY!

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04/02/2011 · 7:58 pm

Break Your Socks – Anti Valentines @ Kind

Last night I went to Lincoln’s Kind Bar for an Anti-Valentines evening of Screen Printing, Illustration and music held by Break Your Socks.

It was a really chilled, cool evening with a great creative atmosphere! I would definitely recommend it to anyone who can get to Lincoln – it’s a monthly thing – wahey! I will see you at the next one for sure, but first check out my images from last night:

On sale were Anti-Valentines cards, badges and Zines (which is relevant to a current project that I haven’t got around to blogging about yet!)

Helen, Dani, Amber & I with our Anti-Valentines edition Zines!

Illustration students doing amazing work live on the night!

And my good friend screen printing. How I have missed you…

Voila! Freshly printed bag, right before my eyes! They also printed on t-shirts too…

And if you didn’t like the messy printing, you could always just admire Kind’s wall of record sleeves!

What a great night! Who’s up for going next month then??

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02/09/2010 · 8:31 pm

J’adore… OSC, Reading

OSC, Reading?

Let me explain… Oakford Social Club, Reading.

As many of you will know, last week/weekend was Reading Festival 2010! I have been to Reading Festival for 3 consecutive years now, but this year I did wonder if I was at Glastonbury instead – the mud was pretty bad!

Apparently I should have expected it to be muddy, ‘it’s all part of a festival’, but 2008 and 2009 were dry, sunny and lovely! Nevermind! Anyway I went to Reading the Wednesday (early bird ticket) and it rained basically all day and continued until Thursday evening so that’s the reason why it was so muddy! When the bands started Friday it perked up – a burst of sun!!!! and then the weather managed to hold up for the rest of the weekend luckily! However by this time my hair was a complete state from getting wet – it gets curly/frizzy! I looked a total mess when I met Kids In Glass Houses at the NME Signing tent with my friends Nadia and Sanna…

Ray Ban Crew (Mine are Primark of course)!

Sorry, I am kind of losing the point of this post!

OSC. Oakford Social Club.

What a wonderful place! Not only because they serve a great fry up when you’re fed up of noodles OR because they have a chaise lounge in the toilet!!!!, but because it has a great atmosphere and nice branding!
The place is quite heavily influenced by music, playing host to many gigs (including performances from the likes of… Adele, Everything Everything, Florence and the Machine, Friendly Fires, Hadouken and Jack Penate!) and more importantly art. There are flyers on the walls arranged randomly/nicely…

(Are they arranged nicely or am I just really in love with this place? haha)

…and a beautiful typographic menu!!

Luckily the guys (Khaleel, Katie and Jason) know I am a bit of a type geek and weren’t phased by me taking photos of the menu…

I love the whole branding of this place! I wanted to take one of the menus home… but I controlled myself! I have found a pdf version on their website anyway, so you can feast your eyes on it close up too!

I love the quirky-ness of this place… :)

This wall here is made up of what seemed to be photocopied illustrations just collaged ontop of each other (I had a good feel) and I love the photoframes!

On Sundays they have an ‘Art Market’. We didn’t know this, so when we walked in with the place full of canvases we was a bit puzzled. Basically they provide canvases and invite people to draw some art.  This is for charity; you can buy any of the canvases and you just pay what you think it’s worth! So you can buy your own or let it be displayed, in the hope someone else might buy it or buy one of the other canvases. There is no min or max value, so it just depends on how generous you are feeling really! 

Myself, Katie and Jason are creative types (Khaleel wasn’t allowed to contribute haha) so this was up our street! Katie started our canvas off with flowers and it just carried on from there…

Above is me attempting to draw!

And this is the finished article. A joint effort! I wonder if anyone will buy it…. who knows, it might be worth something when we are famous? haha

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