Flyer for Light Box Exhibition

This was yesterday's job, 4 hours of flyer design. Is that fast? I'm not sure, but i'm really pleased the the outcome. I nipped around cutting textures and shapes out of magazines, looking at other flyers for inspiration, scanned the best texture and the best shapes in, used a photograph of our painted pistachio shells, in a triangle formation (which links brilliantly to the content of the exhibition) 5,000 being printed right now, and will be looking at you from tables in various Bristol locations soon

Sketchbook Scans: Collage

Fantastic new studio and a successful Light Box means that life is good. Here's some stuff I've been making in my sketchbook recently.

Now I have some big space and a fortnight long holiday, I plan to make some big things, get out of the sketchbook and onto the floor.

Here's the collage stuff. I can't get enough. I have some beautiful origami paper from Muji which supplies the vibrancy.

Lomography 10 Golden Rules

Just made this, a poster of Lomography's 10 Golden rules to use in the Light Box shop for the Appreciation of Beauty workshop, where participants get to use Lomo Cameras (Fish Eye, Mini Diana and Actionshop Flash) to take photographs. I aways knew of the 10 golden rules, but making this here poster just refreshed it all for me, feeling very inspired!

Thomas Forsyth's drawing tops

Thomas Forsyth is a genius AND a nice man. He creates these:

A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle, represents many of the core ideas behind my current work. It is recognisable, un-intimidating, and invites people to interact with objects that can lead to unpredictable results, or an emergent property. Simply through indulging in the enjoyable process of spinning the top a bi-product is created. Where the pen marks the surface, a beautiful map of the experience and events that have occurred is produced. I am able to draw, but I am not particularly talented at it and yet found that, through the interaction with these objects, I have created drawings that I am more proud of than any I have done before.

Have a look at his video here which gives instruction on how to make your own drawing top using very simple materials. I want to use drawing tops in my art workshops for Light Box: The Happiness Project.

Here's my trial using a DIY drawing top:

Light Box film prep

Light Box: posters for film

Working on a short promotional film for Light Box. These posters will be held up in a Bob Dylan manner for the intro of the film

A sorry from me

Sorry

I am so busy with Light Box that I haven't been in the studio, nor making stuff for a while now. Soon I will be making more though. But for now, please do have a look at the Light Box website and here;s some images of the things being made during the workshops

http://www.wearelightbox.co.uk

Little colored bits

Making posters for Light Box today. made these to scan and use as part of the background. Here's the finished poster!So much work has been done today!

Barfoot and Duggan mega-meeting

Yesterday's monthly Barfoot and Duggan meeting was incredibly productive. We spent ages thinking of the name for our empire - what is referred to as the 'Central Arts Project' It's so hard to think of a good business/charity name, without sounding too children presenter/life course/ironic/apprentice. We read through the dictionary, thought about alliteration, rhyming, syllables, looked at lyrics, the best film titles, band names - all as inspiration. And still we did not come up with the final name!However, We did design our Logo, which looks great. And now it's time to look for more funding options, and to design the website.We also made a little trip to Harvey Nichols where we took some photographs of us in very expensive designer clothes. Here we are wearing £1300. This picture is on our new business cards.