Chris Workman & Co Ltd

Since I have been back in Guernsey I have been working for my dad, he is an architectural technologist, so my job includes doing surveys and drawing up plans. I am also redesigning his branding. 

Here is a sample.

The Townhouse - staff t-shirt design

I have recently started working part-time at a popular bar in Guernsey called The Townhouse. It is well known for it's good variety of DJ's and music that creates a brilliant atmosphere. When discussing staff attire I offered to design them some motifs to be embroidered onto shirts for the staff. The bar are celebrating their 1st Birthday next week where the shirts will make their debut.

Cress Type

Our cress type for The Libre Culture Manifesto project has been receiving a lot of interest as it features as a show piece in the Kingston Degree Show Exhibition, including the Creative Review blog. 

Worth holding on to?

In preparation for the exhibition in Shoreditch on Tuesday a couple of us painted the exterior wall of the Village Underground with the title of the show.

From left to right: Jon Barnett, Me, Sophie Mounty and Gilly

Kingston Degree Show 2010

So the time came for my peers and I to present our third year work in an exhibition format, last week was our final exhibition. For me, it was an interesting challenge to present my work in a different way.

Below are the two pieces I chose to present.

Did you hear ... 

Experimental typography that explored the relation between whispered gossip and the spread of dandelion seeds when blown.

Cambridge Road Studios is a proposal for a building that will have a glass wall on one side to create an open and light space with in the dark and closed environment of the estate that it is situated on. The concept aims at dissolving some of the barriers of the area and creating a warm and friendly venue for activities, meetings and events. Design for this project includes identity promotional work and building concept.

The Kingston show went by in a flash, but we get to do it all again for the show in Shoreditch, it'll give us a chance to show our work in another different environment. Please come along! 

The Libre Culture Manifesto

The website is up and running with a couple of the moving image pieces. Go play

Also my collaborator Silje Rodvik, chose to present our cress type as an exhibition piece for the Kingston University Degree Show and it got mentioned on Johnson Banks 'thought for the week' blog.

The Libre Culture Manifesto

My friend Silje and I have been working on finding a new way to present and spread the Libre Culture Manifesto, written by David Berry and Giles Moss. The manifesto outlines their belief that in order to stimulate creativity and develop new ideas you need other peoples ideas to work with and build on, it is about the freedom of creativity and how the copyright of todays society severely disrupts that natural way of working.

To make this manifesto easier to digest and spread to others we wanted to be creative with words to maintain interest. We have chosen key words or phases for the paragraphs to work with.

Here are some of the workings and test we have done.

Apologies for my absents

I have been neglecting my blog in recent months, mainly due to the fact I have been finishing my degree! So after last weeks final deadline I am able to devote more time to presenting some of the projects I have been working on. Stay tuned!

St. Valentine's Day Gift

Since my boyfriend and I can't be together this Valentine's Day, I decided spending time together at a later date was more important then any material gifts (although the chocolates he brought me were very much appreciated), so I made him a voucher gift set to go to the Everyman Cinema in Hampsted next time he is in London.

The set included four mock cinema tickets; two that explained the cinema's assets, which include twin seats and a full bar that can be served at your seat before the film. Also adding to the package were some photos of the venue, a home made popcorn box and a packet of microwave popcorn as a taster!