Acid Rain Posters
These are my first posters for my Environment final major project response. I’m looking to create awareness of the effects of acid rain through simple, clean designs. Im using the compound symbol for Sulphuric Acid (the main element of acid rain) H2SO3 as the main focal point of the posters, with a small fact relating to the image behind underneath.
I now intend to burn these posters using actual Sulphuric Acid to see the effect it gives. I’ll post the outcome later.
Himalaya Poster
I’ve now moved on to making posters for my new clothing brand Himalaya. Due to the tagline being ‘embodiment of downtown culture’ i decided there would be nothing more appropriate as a background then downtown New York itself. Hope you like.
Himalaya
Series of flyers for a new brand i will be developing over the next three weeks named ‘Himalaya’. The brand is a skate clothing brand heavily influenced by the likes of Supreme, Stussy and HUF. Hope you like!
Toast Propaganda
A touched up piece of work for my portfolio. As a response to a particularly run down area of Southend I plastered the area with Toast. This idea came to me after finding an old toaster and bread rolls scattered in strange places within my given area. I think its strange yet interesting..
Two-Part Business Cards
Re-made an old design of mine for another portfolio request. Concept business cards that come in two parts with a cave which creates a hole in the center of the card.
Work in progress.
A5 size visualatisation of the quote ‘Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves’. My first task was to basically work out what on earth that means - to me personally it translates to basically ‘what comes around, goes around’. In the design i tried to display this through the bars of coloured gradient in that colours are going one way, then the colours are coming back around the other way.
My Current Design Project
Brief: To respond to our given area of Southend.
Idea: My area was run-down, and not very pleasent. On my first few walks around the area I discovered two rehabs and a lot of dodgey looking people. After much experimentation with other ideas, I came to the conclusion of working with the drug idea. I created Cocaine ‘wraps’ out of lottery tickets (the chosen paper of dealers, free and readily availble). Wraps are used by dealers to contain Cocaine in certain quantities and to basically stop themselves from having powder filled pockets. Because of the amount of rehabs and therefore drug abusers in my area I presumed they’d know a wrap on the floor when they saw one, so i thought it would be clever to use wraps to create a guerilla ad-campaign for talk to Frank. I made lottery ticket wraps like a real dealer would, but then printed facts and statements on the inside of them with a small FRANK logo and number. I like the idea of a drug abuser picking it up, not beleiving their luck to of stumbled across a wrap, but then to be confronted by a fact or warning about their habit. Thats why I used the slogan ‘is it your lucky day?’ relating to the lottery ticket, but also the potentially lucky, yet unlucky find of Cocaine wraps. I left my wraps in strategic places like near the stairs to the rehab, to tempt people into picking them up. Hope you like!
Another response to my public art brief.
After exploring my assigned area in Southend more I began to realise quite how run down the area was. The area has its own rehab and seems to be filled with down-and-outs and and low lives. The area seems very poor and isn’t the nicest/safest of places to be in. I decided to respond to my area using a very, very minimalist/simplistic poster simply reading ‘THIS IS THE ONLY CLEAN THING AROUND HERE.’ This relates to how generally dirty the area is, but also it being the only non-drug taking and therefore ‘clean’ thing/person in the area. Also, it relates to the clean design/simplicity/minimalism of the poster. I placed the photos on interesting and dirty backgrounds and photographed them. Hope you like.
Toast poster campaign. This is my first work towards my current ‘public art brief. Everyone on my Foundation course has been given a certain area of the town our college is in, Southend-On-Sea to work within and base our art on. First of all we had to ‘explore’ our areas taking one hundred photos as we walked around, we also had to pick up anything we found particularly interesting or anything that we thought linked or related to our areas. My area seems to be the Compton of Southend. Run-down, full of drug dealers and dodgey looking men, its not particularly nice. Me being me, I went bin rummaging. I found an old toaster, and a bag of rolls. Obviously, this links to Toast. Inspired by ‘The Toasters’ street art project (where three graffiti artists have stenciled toasters on to different walls, gararges etc around London) I went on my own Toast poster campaign around particularly rundown areas of my ‘zone’. These are my first two outcomes. They’re meant to show displacement (in terms of the fact that its a bit odd to see toast on a poster put everywhere around a run down area, similarly to ‘The Toasters’ street art) but also a link between my found items and the area showing how run-down it is etc. Hope you like!
Current Art & Design Project:
Photographing how people interact/react with a ring sitting on a poster saying ‘Do not pick up’. I left the print on the floor in my local town centre and secretly photographed people walking past looking at the poster and trying to take it etc. It was very interesting how some people didn’t even notice it, some people even kicking what looks like a very authentic, expensive ring without even realising that it was there, and how other people stopped and stared at it for ages, as if they were trying to morally justify taking it. After a number of people stopping and staring a man run up and took the ring, sadly I didn’t capture the moment but this is a photo of one passer-by having a look.
