The Thoughtful Six

I was just reading 'What next?', a free booklet that comes with Creative Review this month.  It has an interesting article about the thoughtful six.  They are a group of 2nd year graphics students from Stockport College who took part in a new kind of placement scheme.  It involves a Manchester based studio, Thoughtful, moving into the college for 6 months to give the students a more comprehensive understanding of the business side of design.  It looks like a great idea and the students have had the opportunity to work on some awesome live projects, including teepay, which is an initiative of Howies.  (I will blog more about teepay soon!)

Anyway if you want to see more of what they have been up to click the link to read their blog. 

Lucky Things! 

Photos on Flickr

I recently added a few select photos from markets around London looking at the variety of type found in these contrasting environments.  Markets included are Brixton, Borough and Portobello.  

Highlights/Lowlights

A decorative typeface created with hair as an off shoot of typographic code project.  We wanted to explore how even an uncontrollable medium such as hair could follow rules to create a regimented article such as an alphabet.  

Below are some plans for an exhibition on the type work in a beautiful hair salon in Kingston, called Stone Hair

Science Project

As project last term some friends and I got given an area of physics to investigate and create some art to help explain it.  We had the THEORY OF RELATIVITY!!  Which took us at least 5 days to really understand, but I think/hope we got there.  And in answer to the brief we made this short mockumentary.  

Also working on this project was Lucia Davies and Dan Prettejohn (both featured in the video) and Gem Ro, Tugba Kop and Lisa Owen.  

ClippyKit

I was looking for a Christmas present for my sister last year and kept coming up short.  I wanted something practical for her but something that I could make personalise or be creative with because I think presents are better that way!  So I found this thing called ClippyKit, and this great A4 ring binder made with clear plastic pockets so you could fill them with whatever you wanted.  My sister is studying medicine (I'm very proud!) so I made some little doctors tools and brought some little letters to make it hers.  I wish I had a picture of it, I'll ask and see but in the meantime here's one from the ClippyKit website.  

'Out of this World' Flower Show

My Mum has a passion for flower arranging and it is an art that I find very interesting.  When I was back in Guernsey a couple of weekends ago I went to a display that she'd been working on.  Some of the design are so innovative, unfortunately my photographs don't do them justice, especially in the grand setting of a church.  Here are a few of the better ones.  

The Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank

P.S. It's my Mum's birthday today, so Happy Birthday to you, Mum! 

UH-OH!

I've never seen this screen display before and hope I never will again ... it can't be good!