State of Play

STATE OF PLAY RULE!!!!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/05/inks-paintball-meets-pinball-in-a-new-videogame-from-state-of-play/

Ok so this happened: Amazing Pin Ball Art / Game: INKS



"Turning tactile into gaming"

A beautiful and really creative idea for a game. Each frame a piece of art in iteself created by the player and pinball machine.

and this.... Paper engineered video game: Lumino City




Process / video game assembly pics:

Notes
For obvious reasons I love this concept - its made completely out of paper. Not only that - it is a fully functioning video game.....made out of paper! Like HOW? Now i want to know how to do this!

So the plan may be to get up and actually contact this group of extremely talented developers - who like me seem to think outside of the box when it comes to artwork and gaming / production. This is interactivity on a whole new level and the results are of the highest quality - right up my street.

I would love to create my own animation in this way after having a few goes at it over the previous 2 years on this course. I did attempt a fully functioning paper-cut layered GIF in first year and nearly lost my mind trying to figure out how to get everything right. This process however seems to be a little different. The model appears to be the base for the video game, and then the characters / avatars are animated on top of this - using both physical prop techniques and digital overlays. This combination could be the way forward when approaching a possible animated project for 3rd year. All props, models and paper-engineering hand cut and illustrated of course :) Also the larger the model - the more scope for variables and the ability to achieve intricacy within the work seems easier. Bigger is better in this case.

OUIL502 PPP Final Presentation

Video Embed within the presentation (slide 10):
IRA GLASS - THE GAP


THE GAP by Ira Glass from Daniel Sax on Vimeo.


Self Evaluation
I had real trouble thinking about the best way to come across visually in this presentation, whilst still being reflective of the year so far and myself as a practitioner. If I had a style and a consistent way of working to reflect myself and my practice, then I would apply this to the presentation, but lets face it - every piece of work I have ever done for every single module on this course over the last 2 years has been vastly different from the last. If I was to try and create a series/set of images for example, one image to appear on each slide and clearly linking in style and aesthetic to all the others - it would not be reflective of my year or practice as a creative / illustrator.

I have no one set style and I am not sure I ever will - which still worries me to this day despite attempting to capitalise on this, promoting my ethos of "no style is my style".

I wanted to include images of my work throughout the year on each slide mainly to keep my audience in mind. I am presenting to an audience who have no idea about me and my practice and what I have achieved so far whilst being on this course and throughout level 5, therefore found it silly to not have visual examples linking to what I am talking about in my presentation. In my head visual examples should work hand in hand with what I am saying and convey my ideas and journey-hopefully strengthening the overall message and conveying me as a practitioner. The slides are not bombarding in terms of imagery, just a select few pieces as visual reference and I feel overall this works well. My journey has been vast and varied, therefore my presentation and imagery/aesthetic reflects this.

This final PPP presentation is an extremely personal one to me, as this year has been such a difficult, exciting, stressful and impactive journey - one that I will continue to learn from for the rest of my life - this is no joke.
On the day of the presentation, I may just have to bring in cake - in the hope of distracting everyone / sweetening the blow of what has the potential to be one of the most nerve-racking experiences I have ever undergone, especially at this moment in my life when I am dealing with many personal, mental and physical issues surrounding clinical depression & anxiety.

Creative Presence

Life's a Pitch - Lemon Collective

JOOOSBOX!

JOOOSBOX
Promotional Pack and self-branded products / material
- to be sent out to all contacts within the industry (relevant practitioners, art directors, design agencies, relevant businesses and galleries when hoping to exhibit work)


Concept
- a play on the americanised word and product "juicebox" 
- a fun concept for a promotional pack, getting my creative branding material out to agencies and making my mark whilst hopefully having a memorable impact on the recipient whilst acting as a high quality almost gift like item. Everyone likes receiving a gift in the posts - why should this be any different in its appeal?

Aims:
Should have a professional aesthetic, whilst conveying my interests as a practitioner
Should be a convenient way of "packaging" my products
Should be brand specific and yet versatile in terms of what the recipient can use it for (storage of personal items, stationary etc.) - The box itself becomes a product, therefore must look appealing
Should have clear links / work as part of a set - within my creative presence and other self-branded products


Final promotional pack - digital process
- Format, layout and mockups (external box design)





Final Box/Promo Pack:





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• Reminder of examples of contents thats could appear within the box itself ready for mailout.

Badges
Keyrings
creative CV
Covering letter / letter head
Business cards
Magnets
stencils
stickers

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Collection of my final mock ups and brand specific products - to go within my Jooosbox promo pack:

• Creative CV, within envelope addressed to the recipient
• 5 x business cards (for recipient and friends / company)
• Stickers
• Key ring
• magnets & badges (which are still usable as lino-cut stamps by the recipient should they wish to. If used - has the potential to showcase and promote who I am, by getting the recipient involved in representing my practice)
• selection of 3 "artwork" snapshots / postcards - showcasing some of my portfolio pieces on a smaller scale - little mementos for the recipient. (10 x 10 cropped snapshots, brand details on the back)

Box contents - Final Products:

Creative CV (with covering letter)
 within envelope addressed to recipient

Creative CV continued on reverse

Business cards - Selection of 5/6 (3 white, 3 Grey)

Sticker selection:

Selection of Stickers

Key rings / Magnets / Badges / Stamps

Lino-Cut Magnets & Badges
- can be used by recipient as stamps

Example of print making
with my promo magnets / badges  

Portfolio postcards selection
- snapshots of my creative work, brand / websites / contact details



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Evaluation

I feel i have thought about the promotion side to my self-branding in great depth and this shows in the range of products I would like to use as a mail out in order to promote myself and my practice.

I feel taking my branding one step further and creating my own "JOOOSBOX" promo-back helps to collate all my items into a nice and hopefully well received body of material, that a key recipient in the design industry would be happy to receive.

Ideas for the future:

As well as an idea of incorporating my brand identity into my proposed promotional packs for the aim of mailing out a collection of material to various agencies, art directors, companies and directors etc I have a few further ideas of where I can take this concept.

• Name of an exhibition / exhibit / collection / set of new work
• Name of my own personal studio / studio space, should I ever be successful enough in my endeavours as a creative
• Name of an interactive exhibit: People enter through a box - essentially stepping "outside of the box" -(a take on my ethos which appears on business cards and creative CV) - into another world filled with my creative endeavours on show.

Creative CV

Similar to my process for my logo, I was able to refer back to some of my best work from the year and capitalise on this by creating a header/footer for my creative CV. I hope to also be able to use these resolutions across my other creative presence elements, such as business cards, mailout/promo-pack as well as my online presence.

My starting point began buy trauling through previoius work I have created this year. At this stage I did not feel in necessarry to create new artwork, simply because I see my creative presence as a refelction of myself and practice - at the stage it is currently at. To me it makes sense to use / maniplulate / strengthen previous pieces of work and incorporate this into my aesthetic - staying true to the personal journey undergone within my practice to date.

Possible artwork to use:



These 2 large A2 size linocut pieces from OUIL504 have been seen as some of best work, and have had a lot of interest from, well, just about everyone. They encompass a lot of what interests me as a practitioner, therefore felt relevant and necessary to have these at the fore-front of my promotional material. I dont want it to all be about "lino", however the homage to nature, detail and creativity i feel is clear throughout these pieces also. 

I dont think anyone realised the sheer scale of the work I was trying to acomplish for this module with these 2 A2 lino cut pieces taking a total of 2 months to complete, daily cutting taking upwards for 15 hours per day. I had no fingers left at the time and was unable to draw with my right hand for many weeks afterwards - I have arthritis so the swelling in my knuckles became unbrarable at times. Despite this I persisted and grew to love the process, developing a relationship with lino-cut that I have not had with any other method of creating work.

This relationship it what I want to promote in my creative resence. I am a hard worker and enjoy craftsmanship, so much so that I am dedicated to completing the job - no matter the time and effeort. I am yet to undertake something that I havent beaten and accomplished in the end.

Chosen piece and why: 'Baucis'

• In depth area of detail towards the bottom of this image
• Intricate line work and depths - links to my area of interest: Nature
• Colour vibrant but can be manipulated digitally
• Hoping it will create interesting artwork, with the possibility to have enough variety for use across a broad range of promotional material.

Process in pics:

Final Creative CV:

Having a go at a Logo

First things first I have discovered i completely suck at hand rendered type. The second thing is it is proving extremely difficult to come with a nice looking hand rendered group of "ooo"s appearing in my brand identity / name "jooos". Practice should make perfect right - well in my case i just seemed to get worse.

Hand rendered type - play:

Best letter so far:
I feel these are the most successful so far.  was trying to go for something a little more fluid, but everything just came out unreadable and because my brand name is already quite unusual - I wanted the letters to be easy to read whilst still encompassing a personal quality.



After having an absolute dire time with the letters, I moved on to searching for my logo. This has been floating around in my head for quite some time so luckily I kind of knew where I was wanting to go with it. Being a lover of nature as well as analogue/traditional print-making techniques (such as lino), earlier in the year `i took a snap shot of an inked up lino-cut stamp of one of my favourite and most interesting organisms: a mushroom.




There was just something about this image that really stood out to me. It was just meant to be a process shot for another module (OUIL503), however the shape of the mushroom and vibrance o the colour really caught my eye and thought that manipulating this in some way would work really well as my brand logo.

I tried to clean up the image and separate the stamp from the background but everything just became super fiddly. In the end I decided to just select the red colour, remove everything else and what I was left with was a lovely clean "lino-cut print" style symbol.



This on its own wasn't really enough for me. I am realising that within my own practice, I have never focused on one specialism and didn't want my logo to just reflect linocut as a process. This could confuse my audience and so I decided to make it a little more "me" and wacky.

I have been recently including a lot more photography in my practice, using images as a basis for further work. I like to capture textures, patterns and detailed shots of things I can use in creative work later on, therefore stumbled across one of my reference images of some bubbles.

The original bubble image:

  

The edited bubble image (for instagram at the time):




What I really like here is the spectrum of light passing through the wet medium and the amount of depth visible, something I am increasing trying to include in my won visual creative work, alongside colour theory. This image soon became the fill for my logo, as well as my full brand identity name / letter head / title.


Logo: Digital Play

The Finals:




I am actually pleasantly surprised by the sucess of this image considering I kind of feel I have pulled it out of nowhere. I feel it reflects the more diverse, unique and interesting side of my practice and i look forward to manipulating these brand images further whilst applying them throughout my creative presence and examples of visual identity for this module.

Colour: Further Play & Variety:

Creative Promotional Packaging Design: Research

Vital research into:

• Creative Promotional Packaging Design
• Creative Self Branding

Pinterest board:

Creative letter Head Design: Research

http://www.designcrawl.com/examples-creative-letterhead-design/




Pinterest Board - Further Research:

Creative Business Card Design - Research

http://digitalsynopsis.com/design/32-creative-unique-business-card-inspiration/

aesthetic & usability: want it to reflect what about my practice, personality, area of specialism, associations, key areas of interest

Really interested in layout, format, craft and paper-engineering - how can I incorporate this into my self-promotion and business card in order to memorable?
Can simplicity and good use of colour/pattern/"snapshot of own work" be enough to be memorable?

• Embossed lettering / details
• paper fold /interactive element to the card
• cleaver use of colour / pattern
• stock - sturdy / durable
• paper / plastic / vellum / perspex
• needs to still fit within a "wallet" however does not need to stick to conventional rectangle shape
• could the business card act as a sticker? stencil? paper cut representation of my work?

Further inspiration:








Layout info:

OUIL502 Presentation Notes

PPP Final Presentation Notes (following submission briefing)

(notes from Katie)

No print outs, it's all on your blog

Submission of work on Monday 11-1pm, this must include your deliverable PowerPoint presentation in a PDF format. 

Check that it works on the macs in the studios before you submit. 

SB1 - document all of your responses to relevant practitioners and your research into the area you're intersected in 

SB2 - life's a pitch 

SB3 - your creative presence, tumblr/Wordpress/Instagram, your "visual identity". 

LAST POSTS TO YOUR BLOG 

PDF of your deliverable presentation (also any notes/script should be posted to blog)  - this is the last to be posted

Then 

Creative Presence 

Lifes a pitch 

All developmental work 

ON MEMORY STICK 

PDF of blog 

PDF version of your deliverable prez

Creative Presence (presentation boards I assume!) 

Life's A pitch (the presentation that you did as a group but as a PDF) 

Your delivered presentation is the self evaluation for this module so there is no need to write one. 

Presentation boards are now going to be the norm and that's what they're expecting to see from us from now on because it's a way of professionalising ourselves apparently 

What Fred wants to see in presentations - areas of your interest, content and context, the discipline area(s) you're interested in. Personal development - what has worked, what hasn't, what do you want to achieve in level 6/ after third year, what are your ambitions - to work for a company or freelance? Do you enjoy long briefs or short briefs or both? 

What has your workload been like? 

Have you put yourself in pressure? 

Time management?

How did you operate? Did it go right/wrong? 

How you're going to progress from student to professional(- plans over summer?) 

Your presentation group is C, so you'll be sat through first years presentations at 9:30 on the Tuesday (I think, double check this) and presenting at 9:30 on the Friday morning (just check again on Estudio because he said he was gonna make some changes in the next two days possibly and to email him if you couldn't do the times). 

There's a debriefing at 1:30 on Monday with Fred about the timetable for next few weeks! 

After the summer briefing on the 31st may there will be your first cop group tutorials where you find out your tutor for it.

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My notes and ideas moving forward:

Slides

≈ Opening slide: title/name? or just a pattern slide backdrop saying “hi”? unnecessary? check last years layout/presentation structure! see last years works/aggys?

• intro - who am i

• 501 work & thoughts (+ve / -ve) favourite things/comments on module?

• 502 work & thoughts (+ve / -ve) favourite things/comments on module? (lemon collective, key research / findings? zine) embed animated video and photos from lemon

• 503 work & thoughts (+ve / -ve) favourite things/comments on module?

• 504 work & thoughts (+ve / -ve) favourite things/comments on module?

• 505 work & thoughts(+ve / -ve) favourite things/comments on module?

• my creative presence (joos box?)
• 
  
• my online presence (jooscoo, joos?)

• Favourite moments from the year?

         notes: CMV, getting my work into though bubble, winning secret 7

• hardest struggles: health / time management / dealing with the stresses surrounding my practice and confidence / ability

• Key thinks I’ve learnt? 

         notes: new approaches, what I’ve learnt from my practice this year over all. 

         Illustration with impact, substance, message and stance - spread awareness and 

         educate as well as look pretty. still no specific style - bothers me less yet continues to 

         be hard for considering every module and every brief so far I have approached in a 

         completely new way new media etc. time consuming but well rounded practitioner and 

         learning the most that I can whilst here

         ^^^collage of all new media I have tried: lino, clay 3d, 3d model (john lewis?), digital 

         rorschach/secret 7, airbrush & stencilling, lens work (secret 7), marbling, illustrated 

         paper cut (usually use block pre-coloured card-decided to paint and cut (illustration 

         friday-dragon),  interactive - educational art - cop survey book + concept

         - varied approach as always to my work 

        ^^^^ JUST PICS (talk more in individual slides for that specific module)

• key things I want to attempt / tackle / focus on / capitalise on moving forward into level 6 and beyond into independent practice? area I want to go into / specialise? freelance or agency? what am i ready for? ambitions? 
• ^^^ COMBINE with or separate post for “key areas of interest / content / context “the discipline area(s) you're interested in” ALL of them goddamn it! 
• SUMMER PLANS (set up more concise online presence, attend various exhibitions and talks on key world issues. Get in touch with practitioners and put the word out there - open for commissions. Conservation work - Greece - samlethraki. Festival artwork) 

• final thoughts

• Ira Glass Video

≈ Final slide: “thanks for listening”.

CHECKLIST:

What Fred wants to see in presentations 

- areas of your interest, content and context, 

- the discipline area(s) you're interested in. 

- Personal development - what has worked, what hasn't, 

- what do you want to achieve in level 6/ after third year, 

- what are your ambitions - to work for a company or freelance? 

- Do you enjoy long briefs or short briefs or both? 

- What has your workload been like? 

- Have you put yourself in pressure? 

- Time management?

- How did you operate? Did it go right/wrong? 

- How you're going to progress from student to professional(- plans over summer?)