Pears.

My house has an orchard in the back garden, and there are several trees growing pears. They seem to grow upwards, even though they look like they should be growing downwards. I think they look interesting.

Birthday Cards.

It's my little sister's birthday today and was my friend Adele's birthday on Thursday so I had some fun with glitter and sequins making them birthday cards.

My sister just got my dad's old blackberry and she wants me to make her a case like mine has but I haven't gotten round to buying the case yet so i made a mock up one on a card for her. She loved it! (It took a bloody long time too! haha)

Adele's was very simple, just her name written in glitter and gems stuck on top.

The two cards together.

I loved doing this, it's been a while since I did any craft so hopefully I'll find some time soon to do more :)

Sneaky Show Find.

Whilst sorting through everything for the final show there was quite a lot of old work which we were told just to throw away (it was really hard to do this to other people's work (especially as some were in our class) but the work had just been sitting there for a year with no one claiming it)

I found this box (which absolutely stank by the way, sesame oil and olive oil do not make a good mix :P) I have no idea what it was for but in spite of that I liked the box and the way all the little bottles sat in the box together, so I decided to photograph it before promptly shutting the box and throwing it away, getting the god awful smell away from me :(

Final Show Setup.

So I spent most of the day yesterday at uni helping to set up the final show. It was me, Dan, Max and Luke basically doing manual labour and our tutor's dirty work.

We had to move every single stool and chair out of the studio (you can see them all in the last photo - there were A LOT of them!) then move all the tables against the walls. Each table had an MDF board cover so we had to take them all off and sort through which ones were in a usuable condition.

Once we'd done all that me and Max tidied the design store cupboard (literally filled with old portfolios, sleeves and job bags) while the others sorted through more sheets of wood in the corridors. Then finally we had to clear the other room we're using for our show, which had had several pigeons nesting in for the last few weeks so there was shit EVERYWHERE (we didn't have to clean that, they're getting cleaners in for that, but we had to work around it all :P)

But it's all clear now and ready to go and we made a good impression on our tutors seeing as no one else has been turning up to their sessions :)

Stamp Collecting.

Some more of my earlier work.

This project was about challenging people's opinions on an outdated hobby, in this case stamp collecting.

The final piece consists of three large posters, which would go up on billboards a week apart from each other. There is no text, but the image gets a little clearer each time.

Once the third is up the video would be released, explaining the posters and linking to a website to find out more.

The modern feel to the posters is in contrast to the archaic view of stamp collecting as a hobby.