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The Crystal updates
Hi!
The Crystal has finally opened about two weeks ago and I’ve gone down to photograph my illustration work. Here some snippets to have a peek. The red part of the exhibition wall structure is supposed to be a led light that moves like fire. You can enter the structure to read good stuff about technology and how it has improved our lives in urban areas..
End of Eindhoven
Had to leave my internship without completely finishing the project I was working on. Have to go back for the Dutch Design Week!
The last two or so months…
Hi all, here’s the final update…
My year away was wonderful. I feel re-energised and can’t wait to be back at LCC, which is very, very, very soon. I’m sad that it’s over: it was hard to pick up the pace of it, and now that I have mastered the limbo of freelancing, interning, competitions, dissertation writing and personal projects, I have to stop it all to dedicate myself fully to university. To anyone who’s reading this who might be considering the same or about to embark on your year out, do not despair, it takes practice but it all be worth it in the end. Looking back at January, straight back in cold old London after three months in Brazil, I saw very little hope of doing anything productive during this year: failed interviews and already booked up agencies, a couple of freelance jobs with clients that were so painful that I thought they were made up by friends as a joke. With time, patience, lots and lots (and I mean unreal amounts) of hard work and dedication, it all came together. It all came beautifully together!
Over the last couple of months I’ve been struggling to keep up with everything: I learnt a lot about many things this year, but I still haven’t mastered the art of saying no to interesting projects or to well-paid bad ones. So I dragged myself in a loop of work where I wasn’t able to manage the amount of stuff I had to do: I’m now slowly getting out of it. Slowly. (I’m not sure exactly how, but I met all deadlines.) It was the most rewarding time of the year, and I loved every single minute of it, even when I’m on my 21st coffee because I’ve been working straight for 36 hours and can barely tell the difference between magenta and cyan.
So what have I been up to?
I printed and bound a lovely book for the wonderful Kim Walker.
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The animations I did at Provokateur for Regal Egg Cups went online on The Sabotage Times website.
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I volunteered at the Paralympic Games.
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I started a project for a fashion brand which the client decided to abandon mid-way, so all I can show you is a bunch of colour swatches.
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I worked with Nuno Santos, for his company Savant, to make up one of the best branding projects I’ve been involved with to date! The image shows the contact sheet of our final PDF presentation as the project is not live yet.
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My shop and notebooks got featured on Creative Boom, which I was absolutely stoked about!
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I applied and got accepted to be part of HTC x Capture Collective collaboration, snapping pictures with a phone that will get exhibited in London later on! (Mainly thanks to my phone-photography blog,here)
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I started learning Chinese at SOAS, which I’ll be doing weekly until June.
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I collaborated with Isobel Williams to present a proposal to hold a stall in Pick Me Up 2013.
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I did lots of little freelance to pay the bills. And attended a bunch of conferences/talks.
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Made and sold more notebooks, which you can check out here if you haven’t already.
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And I’m now finishing the poster announcing the DPS talks in December, down in letterpress.
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I took two weeks to dedicate to the dissertation and research for the self-initiated project, which are now starting to take shape.
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And I managed to squeeze two weeks of sunny holidays in the between!
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Marta
Belated Update.
Blogging is one thing that I really need to be accustomed to but never seems to do so, i’m usually more updated with twitter.
So if anyone is on twitter, follow me @phoenixmayor
These past few weeks have been busy with the imminent arrival of 3rd year. *Insert Anxious Face*.
But at the same time I have been doing some things extra on the side for myself.
1 of which is teaming up with some friends I met at Ogilvy & Y&R London for International Peace day.
Leong & Tadas (Ogilvy Creatives) flew in designer Aaron Fein to help kickstart a vision for embassies to replace all Flags into white specifically for Peace day.
We then campaigned by walking & waving the flags around embassies in London.
I’m also working for Social Media Week for the whole of this week. Its a worldwide event that explores the social, cultural and economic impact of social media.
Its also great for Networking.
Got to work at Hubs such as Facebook & Google which is exciting.
I even won a phone! :).
Not that i’ll use it, but its always good to have an extra gift to give.
As for me DPS has been a great eye-opener, now, there’s just graduating left to do.
So for now, Ciao.
-Alistair
TYPO London
See you there
Sine
Last post
Hi there,
I haven’t done a very good job at updating the blog with frequency.
However, I have done something that is a compilation of motion work done in 2011/12.
I have made my website look a bit more pro and user friendly.
http://www.naiaborio.com/
I had a great time working for film and animation production studios in Brazil and LA. I’ve learnt a lot of new techniques, met a lot of influential people and even got myself some freelance jobs since getting back to England.
DPS IS GREAT \o/
Looking forward to seeing you all again for our most stressful and enjoyable final year in LCC.
Lisa’s last DPS post
Well, it’s our debriefing this week so I guess this is the last update we have to make!
Today I had a meeting with Hilary and Victoria of Celebrate My Library. I’m very excited about taking part in their workshops with children over the next year, and will be doing my first live illustration session in Surrey with Hilary next Thursday.
In the meantime I’ve almost finished my summer project/comic that I’m doing for MA student Aaliya Sheriff’s project. I’ve been posting it page by page daily on my blog, which you can view here.
The design of the cover may well change when Aaliya’s got more of an idea about her branding, but this is what I’ve got for hand in next Tuesday!
So, I guess this is me signing out for the year. It’s been a great time to discover what I’m capable of, not only in terms of what art and design skills I have but in terms of getting jobs, making contacts, putting the hours in and impressing my employers and clients. I’m far more confident in my CV now, and I’m even more confident in my ability to knuckle down with uni projects in my final year. All in all I’m glad I chose to take this sandwich year.
I guess I’ll see you all on Thursday morning, goodbye for now!
On going project for the National Breastfeeding Awareness Week in 2013
My current project is related to “Breast-feeding awareness Week”. I have worked as a breast-feeding peer supporter for almost 4 years. I have seen a lot of campaigns and they mostly show a baby on the advert. I wanted to use a tree that represents mothers audience will visualize fruits as breasts. It is a conceptual illustration that reminds people that organic aspect of breastfeeding opposite manufactured formula milk product. The film is still in progress…
New Zelande
Two months in a 1984 Toyota in three shaky minutes.
more pictures here http://rstgnc.com/2012/09/rois-du-petrole/
DPSLCC 11/12 