fish

siamese fish inspired by the moving screensaver on my phone . i love fishes facial expressions.

Aimee Rabbit

Today I have been working on a logo for Aimee Rabbit, a business for upcycling and making keepsake items out of old baby clothes. I'm really excited and can't wait to see her business grow! 

Business Cards

Well i'm ashamed to say I haven't blogged in a while. I moved away from London when I finished university and have been trying to get my feet back on the ground since moving away from the bubble I was in. I'm currently working two jobs to try and support myself, living with my boyfriend, trying to start a business, i'm a busy bee at the moment!

 Anyway this week I decided to send myself on a business course for four days and have learnt about all the delights of self employment. It was actually really interesting and has made me more motivated than ever. 

 I hope to have a website up and running by the end of april so keep a look out! I also designed myself a little temporary business card until I get my website address. Let me know what you think xoxo

Illustrated Menu

here is my illustrated menu for orangemabel. The title is the font i designed. 

Location Project- Rose tinted Glasses.

 I decided to do my location project on the current place I live since I moved to Londn from university. I lived in Manor Park for a year and now have lived in Forest Gate for just over a year. Whilst researching online my local area I found these lovely things because have to say about my new town.

"Manor Park. A s**thole that is so wretched, it even makes Forest Gate seem charming."


"The place abounds with shambling losers, wastes, the aged and the dumb – and broken-english speaking refugees and dodgers of every race, colour and creed. A hovel and a ghetto at the same time. Failure hangs over the place so heavily you can taste it. Everyone else tastes it too, judging by the big gobbets of phlegm you can see gobbed out on the pavement every ten paces – the different colours inside of it are something to look, I suppose: street art."

"Pound shops and take-aways are what there are plenty of – they almost outnumber the benefit-scroungers that populated the dump."




Baring in mind I moved from a small Roman town where i'm used to knowing everybody who walks past me on the street, it's safe to say i've had to adapt a little bit to this environment. Anyway i have always been one to make the best of a bad situation, my rent is cheap and it gave me inspiration for this project.

 

Here are some photographs you can see of my local area. The first three are typical East London, I cant walk more than 50 metres without seeing mattresses on the floor. The flats/tower blocks are absolutly filled with people, foreign families in fact most houses are. The trainers hanging on the power lines mean you can buy crack here and most peoples houses are overgrown and completely filthy. I decided to edit the pictures for more of a pretty summer vibe, they're still the same photos but with just different colours.

For my final print I decided to do a Photocopy transfer of different houses on my road so its a long print of my street. I then put a white van at the end. A white van for me personally symbolises, well... a dodgy person? I then screen printed over my photocopy transfer some illustrations i did to brighten the whole picture up. Theres kids holding balloons. I have turned the pedophile van into an ice cream van and drawn some cute woodland creatures to brighten up gloomy Forest Gate. Although I spent a while on the illustrations I actually prefer the original one without the illustrations. The grey gloomy feeling it gives ad the way the van is at the end on the right is very abrupt and creepy.

yummy!

Here are my decorative OrangeMabel doily's. I started off by rubbing them with paint and then using the Photo Litho technique which is my new favourite printing technique. I used my biscuits illustration I designed which you can see here.

I wanted to use stereotypically english biscuits. For the orange mabel brand, something a bit old fashioned, something you grew up with to give that home comforts feel which is the same feel as OrangeMabel tearooms. I drew them in fineliner with posca pens but tried to keep to the same cute, fun drawing style. I think it makes a nice repetitive pattern. I also vectorised it on adobe illustrator to be used as a giftwrap.

Work Experience

On Monday 4^th March 2013 I went to Thumbprint Editions, Camberwell to do work experience for four days. Thumbprint Editions Limited is one of Britain’s leading Fine Art printmaking studios. They do prints for very high end clients such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. While I was there I got to help work on prints for customers such as Mark Quinn and Gillian Carnegie. I had quite small responsibilities like mixing paint, taking prints down and putting prints out to dry but it was really interesting for me to be in a working printmaking environment. Very different from the studio I use at university. The working printmaking environment is very tense and there is a lot of pressure because the customers are paying a lot of money for those prints and they can choose to reject them and not pay for them if they don’t think they’re good enough. Everything’s a lot more large scale and there is so much more pressure for perfection as it isn’t your work it’s somebody else’s, somebody famous! I’m very grateful for the people at Thumbprint Editions for having me I found the whole experience really helpful.