Cliché/Traffic presents

Cliché De-Mystifies Urban Underground Art

Cliché in association with Traffic presents "A showcase of Boxes, Prints, Posters and A zine."

Featuring : {ths} / Aditya / Alia / Altamash / Amrit / Archan / Arezu / Arisu / Avi / Bastard Project / Bhavya / BrownMonkeys / Caio / Cima / Daniel / Dhanya / Diya / Elmaee / James / Lina / Neena / Noel / Payal / Rami / Renata / Rita / Rob / Sangeeta / Sarah / Shaxeb / Vivek (project organiser and participant)

Event: TRAFFIC
Starts: 12 Jun 2008 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

The gallery is converted into an ambient zine including one-off prints and installations – the gallery will literally be transformed into a live version of the zine. Limited edition bespoke boxes commissioned by local designers will be on sale – each containing the back copies of Cliché.



The posters Vivek and myself have been working on will be present at the exhibition.

For more information on the event please visit www.ViaTraffic.org.

Movement becomes static...

The concept of movement being captured and translated as a static image is quite mind provoking and very surreal.

Although my nephew (art director of the day!) was jumping i still managed to keep the camera in focus. I am thrilled with the outcome - it is so much sharper than i anticipated.



Original:



Manipulation: desaturation/colour selection
1 of 2 entries for this months Whitehaven Snappers competition.

Self-Promo

My long awaited self-promotion badges and stickers arrived today in pristine condition.

Sticker: 'Sarah France stuck this here.'
Badge: 'Sarah France gave me this.'

Displayed below are the badges:





OUCH

Macro

I thoroughly enjoy photography, although i'm very much an amateur, i do try to use graphic design as a reference and source of inspiration when it comes to composition.

Silly Daises



Chive Flower



Water Droplets

To Update

Over the past week i have been busy with freelance collaborations, which i am thoroughly enjoying!

The Creative Cumbria team, myself included, are looking forward to the first Moleskine exchange on the 31st May. Some of the first entries have already been uploaded to the blog and are really worth a look!

I have also submitted my entry for Oddinary (image in earlier post), by which the closing date was today.

I will be adding a new post of current projects very soon...

Dubai Exhibition Project II

This is my second entry for the exhibition collaboration piece with Vivek.

My inspiration was drawn from gambling chips, playing games of chance for money.

Vector for A1 poster:

"If you're broke, then you buy it."

Select for larger image, best viewed large:



Now it is over to Vivek, to add his illustrative touch to the work.

An Oddinary Exhibition

Currently creating work for a project called Oddinary.

Oddinary is about recognizing the quirky elements in each of us that define our individual creative styles.

The exhibition will celebrate the limitless possibilities of creativity, through a gallery of ordinary boxes made Oddinary, via customization by like-minded individuals.

To join the project exhibition, visit An Oddinary Exhibition on Facebook.

* To be featured in our book, the deadline for submission is 28 May 2008
* To be featured in the exhibition, the deadline for submission is 15 june 2008

You can download the box template here and exercise your creativity.

The Exhibition Details
Venue: Alliance Francaise de Singapour (Newton)
27-28th June 2008

My first entry:



Tiny boxes made from transparencies, printed, built then photographed.

Visit the FARM Website for more information on An ‘Oddinary’ Exhibition and a link to the venue itself.

"Icons of Graphic Design"

Publication by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic.

Yesterday i received confirmation from Mirko Ilic Corp. a New York-based graphic studio, to say that my work has been published in their new edition of "Icons of Graphic Design." It is an honor to have my work selected by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilic, both whom i admire greatly. I am lost for words and amazed to be within a publication which showcases the talents of the designers, past and present, i hold in high regard, from Toulouse-Lautrec, Milton Glaser, Peter Saville to Michel Gondry.

A big thank you to all who made this possible.

"Icons of Graphic Design presents a unique history of design, documenting over a century of creative brilliance...Showcasing the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas perpetuate themselves over time, one great concept inspiring the next."
Thames & Hudson



* New Edition
* ISBN 0500287295
* ISBN-13 978-0500287293
* 967 illustrations, 764 in colour,
* First published 2008
* Published by Thames & Hudson

[BUY HERE]

Post Updated: 18th May '08

Project Image Featured under Swirls & Curls:
Colour Your Future / Advertising Campaign 2007

Resumé & Testimonials

My updated Resumé with additional Testimonials - Preview:

waste-not, want-not

This is my interpretation of recycling grass cuttings, by rendering typography!

Kerning the Lawn

Lomography Take-2!

After having little look with my first lomography reel, i am please that my 2nd reel has actually came out with some relatively well balanced exposures. Learning from past experiences, not much lighting means under-exposure even if the built in flash is on, i ensured that all my new snaps were taken in full natural daylight.

Slowly i am becoming more confident, judging the subject and it's distance. Although i admit, when it comes to the Lomography Fisheye 2 camera i have a lot to learn!

Enthused



...and Sky

House Industry

Christian Sisson, a co Graphic Design enthusiast mailed me over a fantastic link today for House Industry. For those of you with font fetishes this website is well work bookmarking!

For a free catalog & free downloads.



Big thank you to Christian.

Dubai Exhibition Project

A collaboration project with Vivek.

Photographic experimentation for the first A1 poster design:

"Hallucination is just a visual dyslexia."
Vivek

The initial concept, to play with the ideas of perception via visual representation. Adding the notion of surgical illness to the concept of visual dyslexia and adding a multi-dimensional impact incorporating many levels of visual communication. By adding the clip to the design as a three dimensional letter form only adds to the drama of the piece and will enable lots of visual play. The next step is to illustrate around the 'a' of the 'hallucination.'



UPDATED 14th May '08: The above exploration has been featured on the amazing Ventilate, a website which discovers and showcases all the latest innovative visuals and conceptual projects.

"Sarah France is doing some cool stuff with Design & Typography. Pay a visit to her blog, she’s really nice!"
Jason Doherty

A big thank you to Jason.

UPDATED 16th May '08: The full typographic treatment, exp. 1.

This is the more structured style (select image for larger view).



Tonally, hallucination could do with being darker to take your eye to the beginning of the quote. I may suggest to Vivek to add more subtle graphics to also enhance this. All in all, i feel it has the desired effect and works well with the 3 Dimensional A of the clip. This design has now been submitted to Vivek, it will be fascinating to see how he applies the finishing touches to this collaboration.

Neon

Although i adore black and white, i find the appeal of neon colours invigorating. So fresh and modernistic, i aim to explore this further through photographic methods and hope to progress into some typographic work.

3d Illusion

Still learning along the way, the website design is coming on. By producing my showcase it has enabled me to distinguish a style using typographical hierarchy and a clean visual presentation, this approach allows the work to speak for itself.

Still working on a header for the website, i have created my first successful piece of 3D work through line art alone. I am not sure at the moment as to whether the initial concept of a 'reflecting' header will work, but the experimentation is all worth while and of course as to whether the design idea is too distracting.

Visual Illusion

Experimentation for my new website header.

I would like the graphic and headline, 'a reflection of self,' to visual appear as if it is moving in a sense of reflection - subtly - without using technology but a strong researched structure giving the impression of 'magic eye.'

Below are pieces of experimentation. Currently researching works by Bridget Riley.

Select image for more visual impact:



Another experiment, are the lines sloping?



Trial with type:

Extreme Machines...

Watching a documentary on Extreme Machines inspired this piece. Will Robots one day take over the world? For now i think not...but technology has gone as far as them mimicing our movements and balance. The Honda ASIMO humanoid robot is the most outstanding functional piece of engineering, technology has evolved from 6 Robotic legs to the human equivalent of 2...so on that note, i am not a robot!



For the world wide moleskine exchange project.