Business card for an osteopath

300 words on today

Eliane Glaser - 

Spoke of how the big corporations and the government (‘elites’ as she puts it) are displaying apparent vulnerability in such a way that we do not notice what their true agendas are.

The government is making cuts to education and in other public sector bodies. Glaser argues that the money it is trying to save in this way already exists in the hands of 0.1% of Britain’s population – the richest people.

I felt her examples were quite one sided – very ‘left wing’ with not much holistic overview.

Later during the group talk there was a general agreement that her arguments were one sided. She gave an impression that she had not informed us of different aspects regarding the subjects she had brought up.

She made me wonder how much of a culprit to this phenomenon am I. This is because I realised that until she made these comments I was seriously convinced that both elites mentioned previously are indeed losing their power.

Evan Davis-

Started off by proclaiming that Britain’s greatest contribution to the world is the factory. Davis’s talk focused around the attempt to understand and explain how developed countries make their money.

Despite the UK’s apparent lack of imported goods it is still considered as one of the world’s strongest economies. The lifestyle it’s citizens (especially Londoners) is very high, so how is this high level maintained?

His argument is that after a while, affluent countries discover that they don’t have to physically make all that they design (‘outsource’ mentality). The physical production is the moved to other countries (Japan in the past, now China) whilst the intellectual property remains ‘in-house’ to become the affluent country’s export.

Davis pointed out that amongst other services, higher education is one of the UK’s most successful export.

His argument was very well structured, this was made particularly apparent in comparison to the first speaker’s.

Something serious happened

The gesture of writing

As a part of my research for my brief which revolves around the subject of writing I decided to translate the printed version of the brief into Hebrew.
The idea to do this comes largely from Vilém Flusser’s essay ‘The Gesture of Writing'.
In it, Flusser remarks that by translating any piece of writing the meaning of it changes fundamentally.

Missing lady

I would like to see the wheelchair that can go down that staircase

Fake pigeon

New flyer for Spark Inside

This flyer is the brain child of Jo Hannah Moss, it is destined to be distributed amongst young people in prisons.

Wild rice

Good use if space curtesy of Transport For London

I see a lot of great design work. This is how i feel.

Some iPhone backgrounds

Got a new phone - couldn't help it...

'Spark Insider' blog cards

I have been working with Jo Moss on promotional cards for "Spark Inside's" new blog.

Spark Inside is a charity which we both volunteer for, they offer free one-to-one life coaching for young people in custody.

A homeless person gone missing

What will some people do to stay relevant

Online portfolio for my first year at uni

Click here to visit

Feet - Made using #procreate

First time using my new stylus pen with 'Procreate'

I love it!

Appropriate

As a part of a brief called 'Design Bible' - to quote from the brief : 'Your final piece: should be a visual explanation of your chosen belief/motif/maxim/aphorism/rule/commandment/principles of design.'

After a day's workshop we each had to chose a motif that will be the base for our design. I chose the notion that 'Sexy is not appropriate' which, after I decided was not comfortable to work by, boiled down to 'Appropriate'.

The recent passing of a friend made me conscious of death while working on this project, and with that in mind I began contemplating when is death appropriate.

We all must deal with death and it is notoriously undiscriminating.

Greeting card for engagement

We had friends over visiting from Israel this week. To our surprise that involved a marriage proposal (She said yes), and thus a need for a card was created.

Photos taken around Hampstead Heath.

Warning! Especially determined individuals may come flying out of the depths!

North Acton station

What type(face) of city is this?

Here is a result of 2 week long research originating from a 1916 poster showing the original type used by London Underground.

Today at the final crit I showed this double sided poster.

Front

Back

I am immensely pleased with this work despite the fact that the text on the front was deemed 'unresolved' by the tutor.
This is the first time I worked seriously with a grid and I will forever keep using it!

The back side of the poster contains a phrase from Emma Clarke's Spoof comments for the tube. Clarke is the genuine announcements voice for several of the Underground's lines.
Emma has kindly allowed me to use this for my project - to hear her spoof tube comments please visit www.emmaclarke.com.

The bibliography for the text can also be found on the back.

Left: Original Johnston Sans Poster at the V&A Right: early pre-grid plan for the poster

RISE Youth

A Flyer for RISE Youth -
This is a program that helps young offenders rehabilitate through free life coaching.

Chimera WIP

I'm teamed up with the lovely Henrike Dreier for this project.

The aim is to create a teaser for the ebook version of 'Greek Myths' by Robert graves.

Two mythical beasts are represented in our short animation; the Harpy and Cottus.

Whereas the Harpy is represented as a flying hybrid true to her original description, we have made a decision to have the environment composed out of Cottus's many arms.

Here is a initial concept piece

Love me tender

A part of a project about how we label and value each other

Logo for a hatchery

This is for a new hatchery in Albania

And the rejected designs:

Colours Materials Finishes logo competition

Choose a colour or texture and finish with a bang (!).

My soldier memories

The brief asked that we identify something in our culture which is unique. I based this work on my 3 year service in the Israeli army. Even though I am not the only one in our course who served in their countries' armed forces, I found myself almost unique in that I consider it to have been a necessary experience.

I used shoe polish instead of ink and sewed the characters onto the paper with olive green thread.

Saint Martins showcasing a living office work tamagotchi in the atrium.

I hope they feed her...

blow heater upgrade!

Culture swap work in progress

work based on my cultural experience of serving in the Israeli army

NMC more work in progress

So I ditched the hand (deemed ugly after Friday's tutorial) for this image and stayed with the urban motif.

I don't know what the specifications are for fonts and logo placement but i'm trying to figure out a possible layout that works in small scale as well.

You can say that the dinosaur is the classical (or ancient) element mixed in with the contemporary street view.

Another idea more collagey:

not sure about this one...