Letterpress

So I finally bought some ink to try the letterpress stamp!

Letterpress and embroidery

A friend bought me a small rubber letterpress stamp from Portobello market a few weeks ago. The flowing curves and patterns intertwining with the typeface inspired me to produce my own design. I created small illustrations and then planned out the design on fabric and recreated it using thread to add colour.

I love sew by hand, probably because I'm not great at it but I find it therapeutic.

Brighton

A day trip to Brighton! A day out in Brighton and I decided to visit Brighton Art Gallery and Museum. There was an instillation of Yinka Shonibare’s work which explores immigration and culture (a topic I am interested in). I also visited the very extravagant pavilion. Its eastern inspired architecture (along with the warm weather that day) almost made me feel like I was far away from the UK.

Party Animals!

One of my favourite screen prints from my playful printmaking project; Party animals.
This is Sebastian the bear sipping on a cocktail, screen printed on some lovely floral fabric.

Journal pages

First year of university complete! We were told to keep a journal throughout the year which is to be filled with everything and anything. Here are some of the pages from my journal. I thought this was a really lovely project for first year as you were forced to record your journey at university visually, some really lovely memories inside mine!

 

Cake Pop Tags

I was asked to quickly created the design for the small tags that would be used to label the cake pops on the day. Working with both the client’s requirements, the cake pop tags needed to pink or silver and must include a flower.

As the decoration on the cake pops, cupcakes and main wedding cake included  roses I thought it would only be appropriate to draw a simple rose design. Here is a picture I recieved of the final product:

Upcycle - Final Major Project for Foundation Course

I just completed my FMP (final major project) this week and the exhibition is still up! I decided to make a booklet that encourages upcycling and also made a poster design. The contents of the booklet was placed on a display board and photographed. I then added the text digitally. I created the typography for the cover design and poster. This is a small section of the cover design.

I produced the design on Illustrator, printed a stencil and screen printed on to fabric reusing old and used pigments to create this unusual effect (to suit the content of the booklet).

Here is a picture of my exhibition and the booklets that I made.