Jade Navan Caitlin

Nick sent an email around asking for us to bring in bread in for his workshop. We were then asked to create typography using the loaf we had brought with us.  I decided to then take the project further by using sugar.  Sugar from Jade Holmes on Vimeo .

Using three different typographys as reference were were asked create stencils using elements of the letters. When creating a relief from the stencil the piece would look abstract. Due to corrupt files the orginail work from the workshop was lost so I created more stencils using: Adabi MT condensed Extra Bold Didot  Cooper black. Improvising to use sprat cans as I do not own a roller. The class was based on using one colour I began to layer my designs to see what sort of designs I would be able to create when layering the colours.  The two outcomes below are the ones I believe to be the most successful. 

This class was one which meant we were doing a lot of physical work. We were asked to pick a piece of paper out of a hat and then create a stencil which would explain to the audience what your word was with explanation. I received the word 'worker' although at first I thought of workers in fields which where physically demanding the stereotype is not something I wanted to settle with. I draw a fist holding a hammer and pencil. We then had to select another piece of paper. This time it was a sentence and we were tasked with creating a typographical stencil to overlay onto our previous image 'Gonna bring you down'  The outcome is below 

Using the resources available we were asked to create posters, with simplicity in mind. Designers such as Anthony Burrill, Experimental Jetset and Hort create striking posters with the use of typography and simple colours. We where tasked to create posters from fortune cookies. A fortune cookie is a small biscuit containing a slip of  piece of  paper , or a "fortune", on which is an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. I opened my to read 'Find the silly in the serious'  After lesson I decided to play around with the piece on Indesign  and Illustration to see what else I could do with it.  We were then asked to create a poster using lyrics from 'This must be the place' given to us in groups: Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me round I feel numb - born with a weak heart  I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it the better  Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky  When I got...

Nick gave us photographs from our student ID's and asked as to deconstruct them and create a abstract piece. I then illustrated this art work.

For our first workshop we had to create a Zine from the notes we made during the talk from the start of the lesson. The slide show gave us information on what Self Publishing is, the pros and cons, as well as how it has evolved over time. We were asks to expand in the context and iterate our ideas, the structure of the zine needed to be content specific From here we had to work in teams and take elements from our own work merging it with others to produce another piece.