Happy Birthday!!

It seems to be everyones birthdays this summer... lots of parties, but also lots of presents and cards to organise!

I made these cards from scrap paper, ribbon, textured tissue, found images, and old jewelry. I really like collage and love the work of Anahata Katkin, so look to her collages when im stuck for ideas.

Freelance Job

I have been earning some extra cash this week creating posters for 2 new student nights in my home town... its about time Farnham got a bit lively! Im hoping this will lead to some more work with the many many pubs in town...

Gardening Festival

This Saturday I volunteered some of my time to help out with the gardening festival at Farnham Maltings - a fantastic centre for art, crafts and theatre. The festival included talks on flower arranging, garden design, local growing initiatives, a photography exhibition, an allotment competition and an out door exhibition of Falmouth University students work which was commissioned by the National Trust.

I helped out with the children's workshops where they could decorate their own garden lantern and make their own cress pot, which was delightful! I also supervised the schools 'garden in a biscuit tin' competition (ages 4-9), and as you can see from some of the entries below, they definitely used their imaginations!

Interview @Antidote

On the 17th June I took a trip up to London for an interview at Antidote (Soho) after applying for a graphics internship which I saw advertised on YCN. I really love their work as it is very varied but always conceptual and exciting! I was unsuccessful in securing a placement there, but found the interview itself quite a valuable experience. They were really friendly and were helpful in giving me constructive feedback about my work. I was also pretty happy with being one of only ten candidates who got an interview out of 200! :-)

Speaking of entrepreneurs!

At the beginning of this year my friend Cat set up her own business selling these beautiful dresses she made from indian silk scarves, and shes doing incredibly well! This summer she has been featured in Company and M8, and is out in Ibiza right now selling them at the hippy market. Check her out at www.catrionarose.com

supermarketsarah

Whilst doing my daily summer job hunting on gum tree today, I came across an advert for a PA for 'supermarketsarah'. Intrigued, I had a nose at her website and its very interesting! She collects items from random sales/carboots then photographs them and posts them on this 1 page website where people can buy them.  She also has a stall at Portobello market where she sells her stuff...

A very simple, but clever idea, I find entrepreneurial people like this very inspiring! 

Visit to Purple Circle

12th June 09 (me in the flowery shirt!)

For our final project of the year we collaborated with purple circle to do the NCHA annual report brief (below) and as part of this we had the opportunity to visit them and present our final outcome. It was a really valuable experience and I received some very positive feedback. They liked the visual metaphors that I used and commented that it was a very realistic outcome in consideration of costs and suitability. I was also complemented on my typography which I found encouraging as it is something which I have become quite of conscious of this year.

Shed loads of ideas

I took this picture when I was in Cornwall a couple of weeks ago down by the beach of Harlyn Bay and contributed it to Purple Circle's shed loads of ideas website to celebrate their 18th birthday. 

I used poladroid to convert my digital photograph into a polaroid image. It is a fantastic new application that coverts your JPEG images to polaroids at 400dpi actual size. It uses a filter to create a colour cast, vignette and blur - it is a great way to fake the effects of a polaroid & even gives you the texture of the paper!