Change is Important.

Change is essential sometimes to expedite success,  Throughout my process making the postcard series, I encountered a problem as my peers said my message was not clear enough and it doesn't convey a message. To tackle this I had to utilise change to create understanding between the message and the audience. Firstly my idea was to create a photorealistic poster very close to the original, but with a twist using the imagery of the bulb to convey...

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Wacom - for a creative world.

Throughout creating the project, I began to use a Wacom tablet for easier and quicker workflow, assigning the buttons to right click and undo to help reach my shortcuts easily making maintaining workflow without having to switch between keyboard and tablet constantly. This helped me to work much quicker as well as using the tablet as a mouse as it allowed me to move to areas much quicker and work with my assets with ease. The graphics tablets...

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5 Minute Neon Lights.

The mood-board is an essential part of my research development because the mood-board takes all of my research and brings it together in one place, as well as any ideas that I have generated through the way through colour pallets, typography, imagery and existing work. My mood-board uses contains artist research for Dina Goldstein, research for Thomas Edison's bulb and the history of lightbulbs as well as linking together surreal and the photorealistic...

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Louise Wallace - Is getting old, getting old?

Louise Wallace is an illustrator from Chorlton, working with traditional and digital media creating commissioned portraits, working on editorial and personal gallery projects. Throughout the talk Louise explained her work and how she gets inspiration from the world and how she uses existing work and her daily life to inspire herself to produce new things. Louise’s process usually goes from Taking photographs or sketching > Importing them into...

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© Copyright. Can I copy that?

Copyright laws, We've all heard of them and we've all used the symbol. To the point we've all wanted to copyright things we've made or think we've "invented." Well copyright laws are actually laws that protect us from other people copying our work or using it as their own or claiming its theirs. The law states anything you produce yourself is your property such as a photograph, or artwork, or music, but it does mean that it needs to be an original piece and not a picture or stolen version of somebody else's work. for example. A photographer's...

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Primary Research - Sparking Some Light.

Dina Goldstien; A photographer and photojournalist, born in Israel, 1969. Emigrated to Canada in 1976 to study art history and photography at Langara College. Once her career started she started to focus on documentary work, photography and photojournalism working editorial jobs and commissioned work for magazines and advertising agencies. Her first series of images at a public exhibition were a series of black and white portraits of people living...

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Lightbulb - They're brighter than they seem.

Lightbulbs! We're surrounded by lightbulbs, LCD, LED, Coloured, Incandescent, White light, UVlight, we are overwhelmed by them. There's days we spend using house lights, days we use tiny bright light bulbs in our telecommunications devices to create flashes of light to take "Selfies", we have a whole day dedicated to buying a million lights and covering your houses in them wrapping them around yourself round and round head to toes until there's...

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