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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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28/11/2010 · 2:42 pm

Snow in November!?

Since Wednesday I had been hearing about places around England which had snow and wondering if/when Lincoln would get frosted. It was 12.27am yesterday when I looked out of the window and it had snowed!

This is crazy! Snow in November? It was too exciting to miss so I just HAD to go outside with my flatmate and her boyfriend.

Later in the afternoon I made the risky trek up Steep Hill to the Cathedral with Aled and Bobbins…

Hello again, Hogwarts of Lincoln. Beautiful!

I think the snow might be here for a while – it’s sunny but freezing outside! Snow is lovely and christmassy (There shouldn’t be any mention of the C word until December really…) but in all honesty, I will probably be fed up by tomorrow as it’s quite a walk to Thomas Parker House even when theres no danger of slipping over!

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27/11/2010 · 10:10 am

City Types Typology… At Any Time

After talking to Tim last week, I decided that I wanted to reshoot my images.
I wanted something that I could find a lot of, could shoot in the same style and that was different to what everyone else was doing.

I came up with 2 ideas: Road surface text and Yellow signs. I decided to take Aled out on our weekly Cafe Nero sketching trip Tuesday and go with both ideas, which I could then decide on later.

I found that it was a lot easier to find Yellow signs – they are EVERYWHERE in Lincoln and also a lot safer to photograph (as they’re not in the middle of the road so I won’t get ran over photographing them)! I actually started to find them quite interesting – originally the same sign but all different through weathering etc! Yeah, I know what you’re thinking – ‘They’re just yellow signs, what’s the big deal? You are mad” but you should know what I’m like by now haha…

As we worked our way up steep hill, the signs changed from Pedestrian Zone to Restricted Zone.

I thought both signs to had some nice varieties of weathering, however the Pedestrian Zone signs were found in the town centre of Lincoln and displayed high from the ground on posts or walls. As I am only 5’3″ they’re quite a height above me so it made it difficult for me to keep the angles consistent. The Restricted Zone signs were in the Cathedral quarter and more at eye level so better for me to photograph.

I ran the new idea past Tim in yesterday’s lesson and he said he liked it but that Brian probably wouldn’t – just can’t please everyone, hey? But anyway, I like it and think that it actually fits in quite well with the text we have been given for the content, with it even mentioning Restricted Zones: “from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones .” So that is just perfect! :)

I also started some test layouts on InDesign just to refresh my memory seeing as I haven’t used it for a while…

So the plan is to find a layout that works well with the pictures and then I am going to need to edit the text down because there is quite a lot of it! Overall, I am enjoying this project… my favourite so far! :)

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26/11/2010 · 9:56 pm

Hogwarts of Lincoln

So, it’s been such a busy week and I’ve been really under the weather too which hasn’t helped :(

Some might know about my love for Harry Potter, so no surprise that I saw it Sunday :) Come Tuesday, I thought I was actually at Hogwarts! Let me explain…

Tuesday has become sketching project/Cafe Nero afternoon day. Last week we had to draw people we wouldn’t usually observe and I expressed my new found love for sketching. Well this week the love is still going strong! We took a walk up the Steep Hill (I was taking pictures for City Typology Project along the way) and found ourselves at Lincoln’s Cathedral. Bobbins managed to get us in for free (any Lincoln University Student can get in for free) and we had a wander around. He loves grand historical buildings (about the same level of excitement I get to with Harry Potter) so as you can imagine, he was very smiley.

We wandered around and I found this really lovely typographical drawing on a prayer noticeboard near to Gilbert Pots (couldn’t find the artist name though, sadly):

Bobbins did want to show us the Chapter House where apparently some of the Da Vinci Code was filmed (Oh, I walked past THE Magna Carta! Blimey!) but there was a service in progress so we sat in the Cloister courtyard. It’s absolutely beautiful there – like something out of Harry Potter! I will definitely be going back to take photos and the best part is that we have our Graduation ceremony at the Cathedral! Eeek! Graduating at Hogwarts? I can’t wait! Haha
Anyway, freezing our fingers off (it’s pretty much impossible to draw with gloves on) we got down to the sketching…

(Photo courtesy of Bobbins)

To get some feeling back into our fingers we headed to Cafe Nero…

I think I’m developing a style now, and I quite like it… What do you think??

This is my favourite sketch I’ve done so far, although I did end up with a headache from the Sharpie fumes!

P.s. Exactly one month today I will be 21 – arrrgh scary!

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19/11/2010 · 1:21 am

City Types Typology – Images

I mentioned a couple of posts ago that one of the next projects would involve city typology photography.

I ventured out into Lincoln, photographing every piece of signage/typographic anything and everything. 100 odd photos later and I had a good mix of typographic examples – road signs, street names, bins, road markings, instructions, logos. I have uploaded most of them to my student flickr if you fancy a peek?

So we had to choose our 10 best shots and print them off at A4 size to present to the class…

… I’m confused. I did it wrong?

I was under the impression the brief said ‘test your observational skills in recording examples of letterforms in a typical city/urban environment’.
Truthfully, I was under the impression that  typology was a collection of type – I was half right! It’s a collection of images of the same type of object, photographed in the same way (angle, size, colour).

My images are a collection of city type, just not as obvious compared to if I had printed off 10 images of street signs. I was praised for my consistency in composition and good sense of focus (Well done Aled) and I know I have a typology somewhere in my contact sheets (check flickr where I have 6 contact sheets of some of the different types). I did think about re-shooting my photos but I know I have got enough to piece a typology together!

Just incase you wondered, here are my fave 3 pics:

Which are your fave?? If any…?

But anyway, the project was revealed to be….. Magazine Design!
I like Magazine Design :)  I have been looking at Eye Magazine and Creative review for some layout inspiration.

We have to create an article consisting of 3 double page spreads using our images and some text which is yet to be received. I like the sound of this :)

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