Overall I found this module really helpful in organising, separating and collecting all of the things I see around me that inspire me. Using Blogger allows me to actually write a bit about my own opinions on what I like etc rather than just 'liking' it like I do on Instagram and other social media sites everyday.
This blog made me want to do more research into the brands and the heads of the companies etc. It gave me the motivation and starting point to go and find out for myself what it interests me.
The module was also extremely useful in introducing us to the professional realms of the illustration practice. John was so helpful and really inspirational; he taught me that it is crucial to get your name out there as many times as possible and not to let a no response scare you. He also taught us that new and innovative ways of creative a professional presence such as delivering your CV on a milk bottle, grabs the attention of potential employers and sticks in their brains a lot more. His advice was really motivational and I hope to carry on this work and email other practitioners, visiting them if possible, throughout summer and Level 6.
The Life's a Pitch project was really good in helping me to investigate into the professional legalities of starting a company and providing a service in the creative industries. Also really good to work as part of a team and allowed us all to focus on specific parts and then convey them to each other. The presentation was really helpful to practice public speaking however I think we could have definitely improved on it if we had practiced together much more. I think we were all quite nervous so more practice would have helped us out a lot. This is something I have kept in mind for the presentation at the end of this module as I want to rehearse it so I am comfortable in knowing the speech/general topics I am covering.
Finally my promotional pack and online presence was a great way to end and sum up the years work on this module. I really enjoyed working on this as I found it really exciting to see my work in a more professional and interactive setting. I plan to keep these social media sites up to date throughout summer and level 6 and to explore different ways I can portray my work visually to interact and attract the attention of the audiences the most.
I also plan to send off parts of my promotional pack and products to influential people who I aspire to as I think this is a great way to connect and grab their attention instead of just sending an email alone. It would be great to get some advice and tips. I also want to collaborate with a few creative people I know back home over summer and see what we can create by working together with our different skills. This module has really helped me to see the links between all the different creative industries and the vast potential for collaboration and entwined projects; such as the TAG zine brief I worked on.
Monday 18 May 2015
Sunday 17 May 2015
OUIL502: Mood Boards
I used to make mood boards all the time for artwork and projects, and if not I would use my sketchbook as a scrap book like a mood board for different inspirations. However as I have got further into art education I have stopped doing this as much. After creating a few this year I definitely want to embrace making mood boards to a high standard for pieces of work. I find this really helps my creative practice as it stops you from just following one route. With a board in front of you it allows you to combine all elements or pick and choose, resulting in a really unique piece of work that can link to all of these influences... so will hopefully turn out in the right tone that you intended when you set out.
OUIL502: Rookie and Tavi Gevinson
I love Rookie and the whole vibe of the work it posts and the content it talks about. I really like how a lot of the staff behind it are quite young but that is probably why it is so current... run by teenagers for teenagers. I find it really inspiring both visually and contextually and it's really cool to see what one young girl blogging can create!
How they describe themselves... Rookie is a website for teenage girls. With monthly-themed content, we update three times every weekday, and once a day on weekends.
Rookie is an American online magazine for teenage girls created by fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson. Rookie publishes art and writing from a wide variety of contributors, including journalists, celebrities, and the magazine's readers. The subject matter ranges from pop culture and fashion to adolescent social issues and feminism.[2] Rookie's content is divided into monthly "issues", each built around a theme. It updates five days a week, three times a day: roughly just after school, at dinnertime, and "when it’s really late and you should be writing a paper but are Facebook stalking instead."
The history behind the formation of Rookie...
The Staff...
Allegra Lockstadt was born in Canada, grew up in Kentucky, and now lives in Minneapolis. She works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer while maintaining a personal fine-arts practice on the side. She will probably always love horses, coffee, and cakes.
http://www.allegralockstadt.com/
Allyssa Yohana is an NYC-based artist originally from New Orleans. She’s a lover of pups, pizza, and makin’ art with her buddies.
Alyson Zetta Williams is going about life (16 years of it so far) in southern California, making art, editing a zine, listening to Best Coast, watching her Daria DVD, and eating her vegetables (with hummus, of course).
http://www.gohszineclub.com/
https://instagram.com/alysonzw
Amber Humphrey is freelance burrito-eater, entertainment writer, and ’90s pop culture devotee from the Bay Area. A prolific doodler, Amber spends her evenings drawing intense crayon portraits of Bill Pullman. She blogs about the olden days at nostomanic.blogspot.com.
http://nostomanic.blogspot.co.uk/
Amy Rose Spiegel is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her main interests are the Replacements, Super Mario, and Roland Barthes. You can reach her on Twitter @amyrosary or at her website.
http://amyrosespiegel.com/
Ana Hinojosa is a scrawny illustrator who never seems to keep her sketchbook at home. She enjoys all forms of comics, sour candies, spooky things, and anything pink and super cute. You can find her making all sorts of art on her blog, The Skinny Artist. And you can get in touch with her at anahinojosa3@yahoo.com.
http://theskinnyartist.tumblr.com/
Anaheed Alani edits Rookie articles from her luxurious New York City abode.
Ananda Gervais has lived in London for every one of her 16 years on earth. Her favorite things are books, Superman, and math, and in her spare time she loves to write, take pictures, and make videos.
Anna Fitzpatrick is a Toronto-based writer/bookseller/expert sleeper. Her contributions have appeared in WORN Fashion Journal, The Hairpin, and Shameless Magazine. Get in touch with her at annaclaire.fitzpatrick@gmail.com.
Anna McConnell writes and farms and travels. Contact her at moosethehuman@gmail.com.
Too See the rest of the huge team follow this link to the Rookie Website:
http://www.rookiemag.com/us/staff/
As part of my personal and professional practice I am starting to contact other illustrators and professionals so I am so happy about this list of names, bios and contact details! It is also great to be able to see their different blogs and how they capitalize on an internet presence to showcase their artwork and the context behind it.
How they describe themselves... Rookie is a website for teenage girls. With monthly-themed content, we update three times every weekday, and once a day on weekends.
Rookie is an American online magazine for teenage girls created by fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson. Rookie publishes art and writing from a wide variety of contributors, including journalists, celebrities, and the magazine's readers. The subject matter ranges from pop culture and fashion to adolescent social issues and feminism.[2] Rookie's content is divided into monthly "issues", each built around a theme. It updates five days a week, three times a day: roughly just after school, at dinnertime, and "when it’s really late and you should be writing a paper but are Facebook stalking instead."
The history behind the formation of Rookie...
In November 2010, Gevinson announced on her blog, Style Rookie, that she would be launching a new magazine with Jane Pratt, founding editor of Sassy. Though Sassy had ceased publication in 1996, the year Gevinson was born, the fashion blogger had on several previous occasions expressed her admiration for the defunct indie teen magazine and lamented the fact that her generation did not have a Sassy heir to call its own.
Negotiations began between Pratt, Gevinson, and Say Media, the internet publisher behind Pratt's women's lifestyle site xoJane. This American Life host Ira Glass acted as a consultant to Gevinson and her manager and father, Steve, during the negotiations. Eventually, Pratt withdrew from official involvement in the venture, enabling Gevinson to maintain ownership. Pratt remains credited on the Rookie contributors' page as the magazine's "fairy godmother".
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| Some of my work from OUIL505 Applied Illustration Module. I focussed this piece on Tavi Gevinson as an inspirational modern woman. |
Rookie launched in September 2011, with Gevinson serving as editor-in-chief, former New York Times Magazine fact-checker Anaheed Alani serving as editorial director and story editor.
The Staff...
Allegra Lockstadt was born in Canada, grew up in Kentucky, and now lives in Minneapolis. She works as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer while maintaining a personal fine-arts practice on the side. She will probably always love horses, coffee, and cakes.
http://www.allegralockstadt.com/
Allyssa Yohana is an NYC-based artist originally from New Orleans. She’s a lover of pups, pizza, and makin’ art with her buddies.
Alyson Zetta Williams is going about life (16 years of it so far) in southern California, making art, editing a zine, listening to Best Coast, watching her Daria DVD, and eating her vegetables (with hummus, of course).
http://www.gohszineclub.com/
https://instagram.com/alysonzw
Amber Humphrey is freelance burrito-eater, entertainment writer, and ’90s pop culture devotee from the Bay Area. A prolific doodler, Amber spends her evenings drawing intense crayon portraits of Bill Pullman. She blogs about the olden days at nostomanic.blogspot.com.
http://nostomanic.blogspot.co.uk/
Amy Rose Spiegel is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her main interests are the Replacements, Super Mario, and Roland Barthes. You can reach her on Twitter @amyrosary or at her website.
http://amyrosespiegel.com/
Ana Hinojosa is a scrawny illustrator who never seems to keep her sketchbook at home. She enjoys all forms of comics, sour candies, spooky things, and anything pink and super cute. You can find her making all sorts of art on her blog, The Skinny Artist. And you can get in touch with her at anahinojosa3@yahoo.com.
http://theskinnyartist.tumblr.com/
Anaheed Alani edits Rookie articles from her luxurious New York City abode.
Ananda Gervais has lived in London for every one of her 16 years on earth. Her favorite things are books, Superman, and math, and in her spare time she loves to write, take pictures, and make videos.
Anna Fitzpatrick is a Toronto-based writer/bookseller/expert sleeper. Her contributions have appeared in WORN Fashion Journal, The Hairpin, and Shameless Magazine. Get in touch with her at annaclaire.fitzpatrick@gmail.com.
Anna McConnell writes and farms and travels. Contact her at moosethehuman@gmail.com.
Too See the rest of the huge team follow this link to the Rookie Website:
http://www.rookiemag.com/us/staff/
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| Some of my work from OUIL505 Applied Illustration Module. I focussed this piece on Tavi Gevinson as an inspirational modern woman. |
As part of my personal and professional practice I am starting to contact other illustrators and professionals so I am so happy about this list of names, bios and contact details! It is also great to be able to see their different blogs and how they capitalize on an internet presence to showcase their artwork and the context behind it.
OUIL502: Female Revolutionaries
http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/10-female-revolutionaries-that-you-probably-didnt-learn-about-in-history-class/#.
We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons of women that have participated in revolutions throughout history, with many of them playing crucial roles. They may come from different points on the political spectrum, with some armed with weapons and some armed with nothing but a pen, but all fought hard for something that they believed in.
I definitely identify as a Feminist as I think anyone who wants equal human rights should do... so of course this article is really interesting to me as I know from personal experience I was never taught about any influential females apart from Queen Elizabeth in history lessons in education. It would be great to produce some art to celebrate and draw attention back to these brave women.
We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives to work towards burgeoning systems and ideologies. Despite misconceptions, there are tons of women that have participated in revolutions throughout history, with many of them playing crucial roles. They may come from different points on the political spectrum, with some armed with weapons and some armed with nothing but a pen, but all fought hard for something that they believed in.
I definitely identify as a Feminist as I think anyone who wants equal human rights should do... so of course this article is really interesting to me as I know from personal experience I was never taught about any influential females apart from Queen Elizabeth in history lessons in education. It would be great to produce some art to celebrate and draw attention back to these brave women.
OUIL502: Branding and Logo Image
Below is the link to the process of making my branding and logo image:
OUIL502: Online Presence
Link below to my ISSUU publication on the topic of Online Presence and how I have used social media to my advantage for my personal and professional needs!
TAG Zine Collaborative Project: Final Printed Publication
TAG Zine - Collaboration with Fashion Communication student Robyn Shaw
A bit about TAG:
Link to my photo post on tumblr of the finished publication:
A bit about TAG:
Link to my photo post on tumblr of the finished publication:
Wednesday 13 May 2015
Miss Vogue: Young Artists to Watch
Recently my friend Ruth was celebrated in Miss Vogue and I thought the article would be useful to include here. She is someone who always gives 100% and works so hard at everything she does, so it is fantastic that she is being recognised for her artwork. All of the other names listed are great people to keep an eye on and see how they create work and a creative/online presence. They also would be great to contact.
Follow the link below for the full article:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/miss-vogue/whats-up/2015/04/bbc-radio-3-young-artists
Follow the link below for the full article:
http://www.vogue.co.uk/miss-vogue/whats-up/2015/04/bbc-radio-3-young-artists
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