Salem

This is a screen print to remember Salem. 

Salem was my Aunty's cat, who I knew for most of my life. 

She was an amazing cat and she will be sadly missed.

R.I.P Salem

Unconscious influences

The other day i bought a new dress (above), it was only afterwards that I realised it kind of reminded me of Cole & Son's Geometric Autumn 2011 Circus wallpaper (below).

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home? ...... Not really, I've been home for the last few weeks now and I'm kind of bored of being here. I actually miss London! At least I'm working a lot to consume my time and I have finally made a list of stuff that i need to do, which includes my dissertation..... fun

Train

Just wanted to share a print of a train I made using Quickoff and a photocopy.

CSM Pop up shop

If you are in London today, Thursday or Friday.
Come to Second Year BA Hons Graphic Design's Pop up shop
http://csmpopup.tumblr.com/
We are open:
Wednesday 8th shop open 12-9pm
Private view 6:30pm - midnight (DJ & Bar)
Thursday 9th shop open 12-7pm
Friday 10th shop open 12-7pm

at Camp London thecamplondon.com/
70-74 City Road, London
Nearest Tube: Old Street

Here is a picture of my "Challenge Yourself" Journals, which are sold at the pop up shop.
There are so many awesome products, go take a look!!

When I accidentally take good photos

Last week, I took some film to be developed and here are some of the photos:
 

"I never realise how much I like being home, unless I've been somewhere really different for a while."

Sorry for neglecting this blog for a while, but I'm back with lots to post.
At the moment, I'm back in Brighton for a few days because I wanted to get away from London for a bit, as well as even though I'm back during weekends, I'm usually at work, so I never really feel like I'm here. (Which is why I chose the quote from Juno as the title.)
So pretty much since September/October I've spent my life between Brighton, London and on trains. It's been pretty tiring at the times because I have to spend so much time on trains.
However there has always been one thing that I look out for on my journey, which is a bit of graffiti between Clapham Junction and East Croydon. I've never been able to take a photo of it until last Tuesday. Shame it's blurry :(



Otherwise since I've been back, I have managed to take some rolls of films to be processed, started abusing the printer at work for the product I'm making for the Pop up shop (more on this later) and treating my self to a pavlova from Bill's.

Sometimes when I'm alone, I wonder

....

Last week I spent a lot of time thinking.

Thinking about everything, past, present and future. 

Being haunted, yet hypnotized by my ghosts. 

Dreaming of the future and its possibilities.

Living the present or at least trying to. 

I ended up drawing (partially tracing) a self-portrait, something that I rarely do.

The grid as a 2nd language - revisited

I also revisited "The grid as a 2nd language." The changes, which i made to this booklet was the front cover and type used for the title, as well as the layout of the answer for the last question. 

The image, which i used for the cover was one that i took while sitting on a train, but I felt that it related to the interview and the booklet because of the motion of the shot. Also the type, which i used for the title was the same font I used for the running heads.
 

Alphabets and abstractions - revisited

Since there weren't too many changes to be made, I decided to revisit this piece and make the changes mentioned in the last post. Unfortunately I stuck the pages together badly, when i was trying to align the background of the spreads. Also I printed it out on a laser print, so the quality of it is better.

Alphabet and abstraction - Part 2

Part 2 of "Alphabet and abstraction" was to create a 32 page self cover book, which included an "abstracted" version of each letter of the alphabet. 

Our requirements were:

• work in Puffin Picture Book format - 222 x 181mm
• can be either potrait or landscape
• cover is full colour and the spreads alternate between colour and black only. 

For the alphabet, I decided to use the letters that I found in Part 1 or least letters, which were inspired by them. The cover (below) consisted of the negative space around the letters used for the background and the title in red. I decided on a black, white and red theme for this booklet.

Here are examples of the colour and black and white spreads in the booklet:





At the final crit, the booklet was described to be like a bowl of alphabet soup and you try to scoop out the letters.
However the things, which could be changed were:

• the background doesn't work as a spread
• the lines of the background are quite thick, so it fights with the main letter
• some of the more pristine letters could be bigger.
• remove the black outline of the letters on the colour pages

Alphabets and abstraction - Part 1

Before Christmas, I was briefed on Phil's brief - "Alphabet and abstraction."
The brief is split into two parts, Part 1 of the brief was to find, record and learn about lettering. It may sound simple, but with so many different styles of typography, it's hard to record everything. So my "scrapbook" of type consisted of walk and draws around Brighton, visits to the V&A and the British library, type from flyers, paperbags and any interesting type i could find.

Here are some examples:

What does Design & Interaction mean to you?

During the time we were doing our elective work, we were also given a brief on the side with the title of:

In this brief, we simply had to answer the question in groups of four.
The groups were decided at random through picking names out of a box. 
I ended up working with were Agostino, Woori and Kelli. 

The only specifications for the brief were:

• We weren't allowed to use computers.
• We had all exhibit in Studio 1, 2 & 3.

So after many moments of not knowing what to do, we ended up coming up with "the ambition tree."

The tree was inspired by The Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees in Hong Kong. However instead of throwing your wish onto the branches, we made leaves for everyone to write their ambitions on. By filling out these leaves and placing them on the trees, it helped it grow. Just like how we as students learn and grow.

Gilbert & George

At some point in the last couple of weeks, I went to see "The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George" at The White Cube. Personally I found the dirtier postcards more interesting. However I loved the use of the postcard format because i feel that it's underrated in some ways, especially when find really tacky ones. Then again this exhibition exploits the tackiness of some the postcards you get around London.
Below are a couple of pictures I found online that I found interesting:

Elective - Essay

Finally Electives are finally over with, since today was the essay hand in day. Yay!!
I decided to share with you all, how i presented my essay:
(Keep in mind it's A6 in size and the pages were taken from my moleskine) 



(If you are wondering why i hand wrote it all, it was a moment of madness. Don't worry I have a typed up version as well.)

Saatchi Gallery - December 2010

A few pieces from the Saatchi Gallery that i liked:

Tessa Farmer - Swarm 2004 
Mixed media 


Toby Ziegler - The Liberals (3rd Version) 2008
Cardboard, gesso and pins


Toby Ziegler - Designated for Leisure 2004
Oil on Scotch brite

Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work

At some point within the last month, i went with a friend to see Bridget Riley's exhibition at the National Gallery. Bridget Riley has been my friend Jess' favourite artist since she was little and since we were going ice skating in London. It made sense to take her.
The one piece which caught my attention was the installation. (Then again it takes up the whole wall.) The thing I liked about it was how all the circles interact with one another.

Composition with circles 7 - 2010

Wall drawing

Lastest obsession....

Every now and then, i will be obsessed by a film. Sometimes i will feel the need to share it.

My latest film obsession is Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I think the intro is awesome:

So this obsession started when I watched the trailer and thought to myself, 

"I need to watch this" O.O

When it was finally released to cinema in the UK, I was in Chicago and it had already been showing for a few weeks, so i was worried that i would miss it. After having to track down the nearest cinema that was showing it, I finally got to watch it. Yay!! (Yes, I am strange.)

You may be wondering why am i obsessed with this film? 

Well personally i think it's a funny film with awesome fight scenes, good music and it references various video games. (Here's my slightly geeky confession, I grew up playing various Nintendo consoles, a bit of Playstation and Sega, so these references make me happy. Like I said before I'm strange) Also i love how once Scott Pilgrim defeats an Evil Ex, he gets coins/ they turn into coins :D

It's been too long....

First of all, I'm terrible at blogging and I haven't posted anything on here recently. So I will probably end up posting multiple posts over the next week. They have just been sitting around being drafts. 

Secondly, it's been a while since I've had the chance to go to the beach. Considering I don't live that far, I think it's inexcusable. Here are a couple of photos from today:



Last but not least, i started a tumblr to share some of the many photos:
http://miss-pang.tumblr.com/