BRIEF 4: Intern Magazine Workshop

This blog post is for the Intern Magazine Workshop with Alec Dudson

We got to choose what groups we were in, I went with Anthony, Grace, Sophie and Laura. I hadn't worked with any before and I was really interested to see how this would go. I was feeling really positive about it however. 

Alec gave us a sheet. We had to come up with an idea for a zine/ indie magazine, using Alec's sheet to success. What we came up with was a monthly Children's short story books to help teach them about various different subjects each month, through the use of puzzles, rhymes and stories. 

For the magazine's name we made spider diagram to come to a solution, using words that are great to roll of the tongue along with words that sound fitting.

The word we decided on was Lightbulb, the connection between it and ideas made to much sense and it sounds great as a word. It's family friendly. 

For each month we want to have a different theme featured, so as a proposal for the presentation, we came up with a list of different themes that would possibly interest our audience. Space was going to be the very first issue due to it's relevancy to the current happenings with the satellite landing on the asteroid and the Mars Rover robot.

The visuals created for this brief came from a artist off Nobrow, we wanted to go with this look because although it's also child friendly it should be also something that adults should could enjoy when reading or exploring the magazine with their child. 

http://nobrow.net/shop/space-race/?

Anthony created the double page spread mock up for the presentation and created the one below – we all worked really well as a team and I'm really happy with the outcome that we had. It was a great honour to have Alec Dudson enjoy the proposal that we had created for the magazine. I think he may have like ours the most. Maybe.

Intern Magazine Brief

Scott Pilgrim: Winning Entry

My entry for the Hyde Park Picture house won! – I can't believe it, even though I wasn't in it for the prize, I'm glad as an drawing end to the year I achieved getting poster I produced printed for an event! :-) 

Brief 1 - Annona Patterns Inspiration

I want patterns to be a major part of my project, from looking at images of Rome in particular. I saw just how widespread mosaic patterns where throughout the Roman Empire. I thought they would be only common to certain regions but these geometric patterns where everywhere. 

I even found the same ones in holiday photos from when I was younger at Ephesus in Turkey. 

However this was originally a ancient greek city it was lived in by Romans during it's life time. 

 A lot of mosaic makers where Greeks. This is evident in the style similarities and used of borders. It makes sense they would have a huge influence considering they where so close to each other. But that's not all:

"Most recorded names of Roman mosaic workers are Greek, suggesting they dominated high quality work across the empire; no doubt most ordinary craftsmen were slaves."

The below images are from the book 'Italian pavements patterns in space':

The images here are from an assortment of different books on Roman art and history: