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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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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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30/11/2010 · 2:29 pm

J’adore… Design Monat Graz

This post has been planned for a while now… oops! Better late than never :)

Designmonat is a Design Festival in Graz, Austria

2009 was the first year and it had a beautiful Graphic style (not so much a fan of the 2010 version) by Christoph Almasy, Franz-Xaver Daublebsky and Isabella Thaller.


Cute little button badges <3

I love the clashing bright colours used. It gives a funky, fresh and young feel to the identity which is perfect because it’s a youngster in terms of Design festivals

Also, I’m quite a fan of geometric triangles so this whole triangle section look is appealing to me. They have really incorporated it into the design too, by making it quite interactive…

I love these cut-out details!!


Ahhhh they’re so pretty! (Haha technical)

For more beautiful pictures go to behance

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23/10/2010 · 10:19 am

Politicians are Lizards?

An odd post title, but I can explain…

We have been working on a Film Posters brief for 2 weeks now, having written a film precis to one of several strange scenarios:
Money has been replaced by kittens
Politicians are lizards in disguise
Karaoke is our national sport
Owners are controlled by their pets
Mobile phones and the internet fail catastrophically around the world simultaneously

I chose ‘Politicians are lizards in disguise’ and produced my film precis:
When a reporter hides in David Cameron’s laundry basket, they find more dirt than they bargained for; scales and a room service receipt for flies. Lizards disguised as Politicians?

After beefing my story up a bit (adding some details), came the hard work.  20 A3 pages of thumbnails. 20 A3 pages. 20 A3 pages! No matter how many times I say it, it doesn’t sound any better :( Anyway, even though it sounded impossible I did it! WOOP!

These are only 16 of 20, basically because this is how many I could fit onto the kitchen wall! All together I did 121 thumbnail sketch ideas over 20 pages; roughly 6.5 per page!


Aswell as the thumbnail sketches, we also had to pick 3 ideas and produce them as proposals. We displayed them in the lesson on the boards at TPH:

Mine are the 3 on the right… the Minister of Disguise posters (the others belong to Sunjay Morar, Amy-Leigh Sellers and Heather Scott).

I have chosen, with guidance from a group of course mates and tutor, to develop the bottom one further; the tie formed from type. I plan to try different typefaces, arrangements, hierarchy and colours as well as looking at overall composition of the poster – I need to add in actor/actress names and other film poster text/logos yet! I’m going to change the collar and lengthen the tie too to make it look more realistic. I’m looking forward to seeing the outcome of this project :) I have to produce the final poster at A2 size by next Friday, which is when I will have my review/assessment! Eeek!

On a brighter note, I forgot to show you my last teapot…

Think 70s light up disco floor, highlighters and a teapot :)

Also, I hit 11,000 views this morning! Eeek! Thanks guys, it was only 13 days ago I was aiming for 10,000 so that is actually amazing to get 1,000 views in 13 days!!!!

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22/10/2010 · 7:08 pm

The Helvetica Challenge

After finishing the summer project (name badge), I thought we had seen the last of making badge for a while…. not quite the case! In our Wednesday tutorial we were set The Helvetica Challenge.

I know Helvetica to be a bit of a Graphic Designer’s favourite – my friend Luis absolutely LOVES Helvetica! It has been cliche in recent years with branding and corporate identity featuring it as the main logo font – only the other week I posted a link to some of my course mates about Gap’s re-branding using Helvetica! The new logo has apparently been pulled due to public reaction, but really… who would use a Swiss typeface for an iconic American brand’s logo? Tsk! Nevermind…

Anyway, so we were set the Helvetica challenge – to create a tiny 25mm name badge using only Helvetica and 3 colours, not including black. Here are my outcomes:


I think the overall feeling was that it’s actually hard to make Helvetica look interesting. After a group discussion with Tim and my lovely course mates, I picked the top left hand corner design as it has different composition and proves that even though it is a small size, the text can still be effective and read.

…And there is the little guy made up (and again it was too small – I give up!), chilling out on my new diary! I’ve never had a diary before but I’m trying to get super organised, it’s a beautiful colour, it’s damask print and best of all; it was £1 – bargain!

Also that day, we were admiring some pretty cool luminous posters that have appeared around the TPH building so I decided to investigate the web link provided…

Turns out it belongs to a 3rd year student, Sophie Adams. Visit to understand and also take a look at her work here – her Bible for Designers is pretty cool.

I’m a bit behind on blogging due to being so busy, but I’m catching up this weekend :) Oh and talking of blogging, I’m enjoying discovering my course mates blogs! It’s nice to be able to see other people’s approaches and to put work to a name because I might see it in class but its quite anonymous! I have changed the way my blogroll works too – now I have an extra list of links to course mate’s blogs! Oh and whilst we’re on the subject of blogrolls, I now feature on the Level 1 course blog with a few others who have submitted their blog links! Oh, I do miss waffling on my blog :)

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