Flip Animation Festival Article

Another FEED mag article...this time work related.

Vantage records

Hip Hop/Dance/Indie 12" album covers for my record label Vantage Records...

FMP: Collage work...

Some more collage work for my fmp. I am trying to pull out important symbols in my work - here the sewing needle which comes up again and again in fairytales, often as a threat of death, and the mushroom which are eaten out of curiosity in Alice in Wonderland and have been an enduring feature of folklore. I have experimented with pulling the colour out of parts of the collage and accentuating the red lips of the women which i think works really well.

FEED mag article on poster design from the 1960s

This is a personal inspiration for me in my design work and i have tried to combine my own illustration with a clean layout to put a twist on the usual style.

FMP: Collage work...

I need to work into these but its a start. The themes behind these are China's one child policy (pulling narrative from The Little Matchgirl) and the persecution of women as witches (pulling narrative from The Mermaid).

Facet Magazine

This is my magazine Facet which i designed in response to a brief to design my dream magazine in my perfect style.

Elephant Magazine

I bought the brand new design magazine Elephant this month just in time for our magazine brief. I have decided to examine this magazine in my essay. Elephant has a strong typographic language with each article introduced uniquely with a different typographic design. Design and art direction is provided by Matt Willey of Studio8, a London agency who have also provided guest art direction and design for Futu and editorial design for international arts magazine Map.

FMP thoughts

Some sketchbook doodling in process...combining illustration, handdrawn type, found imagery and interesting bits of paper/textiles that i come across.

FMP thoughts

I would like my FMP work to have a sculptural quality which would extend collage work into 3D paper sculptures and introduce pop up elements to a book.

Work from Robert Sabuda & Grady Mcferrin:

FMP inspiration: Guillermo del Toro

I am a big fan of Guillermo del Toro's films and I am interested in how his films deal indirectly with horrific real life stories (such as the Spanish Civil War and the fascist dictatorship of Franco) through a coded fairytale. Guillermo del Toro is interested at looking at the world through the eyes of a child. Even though his films have crazy monsters in them, the actual monsters in the stories are humans.

For my FMP I am interested in using this juxtaposition of imagined creatures with real life monsters, and imagined realities with horrific things that are going on in the real world through using current news stories and images.

"There are fairy tales that are created to instill fear in children, and there are fairy tales that are created to instill hope and magic in children. I like those. I like the anarchic ones. I like the crazy ones. And, I think that all of them have a huge quotient of darkness because the one thing that alchemy understands, and fairy tale lore understands, is that you need the vile matter for magic to flourish." Guillermo del Toro

Curiouser and curiouser...my initial FMP idea

Ever since i was little i have been fascinated by fairytales and fantasy. My favourite books included Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis and Hans Anderson's fairy tales. I still love the escapism into a whole other world reading such stories creates and i am interested in how these artificial and elaborate tales can teach children the fundamentals of life and to also stretch the imagination. I would like my Final Major Project to address our ability to still believe in magic, myth or fantasy once we have grown into an adult and become consumed in every day life. Everything in life is fast and cheap, people seek the shortest route to something, people are cynical about everything...so where is there space left for daydreaming and appreciating the naivety of being a child again.

"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Images i am taking inspiration from...

Arthur Rackham:

Kerstin Kartscher:

Ernesto Caivano:

Final poster with inspiration

Muller Brockman:

Moholy-Nagy:

Final Animation

Final animation in sight

Still got some work to do to get it perfectly synced with the audio (!), want to add in some hand rendered type using text from the short piece i have written about the hybrid and more stuff to add in generally. Other than that am pretty pleased with it so far!

Sketchbook work and ideas for hand rendered type