Bit o' Graff

My brother, recently, has gotten REALLY into graffiti art and his enthusiasm has some what rubbed off on me. I love how it has stopped being a grubby mark on a dirty underpass and is now a beautiful piece of urban art to be admired. I think there are even classes based entirely on the practice of the graffiti at UWE and these are some of the pieces I found on the induction at UWE's Bower Ashton campus.

This last one is my absolute fave and I now have it as my desktop background! To think that someone can be that prolific and talented and accurate with something as fluid and unpredictable as a spray paint can.... makes me swell with admiration!

This is a link to my brothers Tumblr account where he has stored a lot of his own work but also a lot of other artists works and videos showing constructions of their artwork.

http://vibrantshapes.tumblr.com/

Communist Fabric Anyone??

So my dad is always sending me awsome links to things that he thinks I would find interesting and this CERTAINLY caught my eye! (and not just cause I would totally make a shirt out of some of the fabrics!!! >.<

It's this site which deals in anything retro and interesting and this post is about Soviet Fabric from the 1920s -1930s. Some of the prints are actually really inspiring and it's interesting to see how textiles and fashion was used in political propaganda.

I especially love this last one! But there are much more so take a look at the site and even have a nose beyond this post because the site is actually very interesting!

http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/09/soviet-fabrics-1920s-1930s/

Thinking outside the box

So this is a blog that I have been asked to create to show what interests me within my chosen field of fashion design. This blog will not only encompass my weird and wonderful hobbies but also things that interest me in my degree in Creative Practices at UWE and Filton WISE Campus in Bristol.

So just a quick post about things that I found today that have used the creative practices of Fashion, Photography and Graphic Design. This is a just a couple of the photos that I took during my lesson this morning and I was trying to think out of my little fashion box but I will probably get a little more fashion obbsessive as the days go on!

This poster uses all 3 I think. THe fashion has been designed for these too to make them look sexy, hot, young and intimate to try and convey to the audience a feeling of what the mood of the film will be. The photographer has singled these two vcharacters out so you know they are the main characters and also that they have a strong, isolated connection. The text here too is written as a neon sign, much like a night club which sets the mood again as sexy, close, hot and you instantly are playing scenes out in your mind....... Still, won't be the same without Kevin Bacon!

 Okay, this picture is terrible but as you can see this car has some stencils on it. This graphic on the side of the car instantly makes you make assumptions about who it is who drives this car. Same as if the car had go faster stripes on it of flaming skulls!!

 Here logo (graphic) design plays a big part in distribution and recognition of the product. Everyone know that this is the sign for British Heart Foundation, regardless if they see the text. It evokes a certain, giving nature in people.

Someone has designed this for ease of use and made it plain and simple but still aesthetically pleasing. It's so difficult to think outside the box with regards to other creative practices!!!

Someone has designed this sign with easy understanding in mind but also has presented it in these, 'clinical' colours of black and white to look 'no nonsense' and severe, purely to dissuade anyone from committing a crime on site.

 This photograph also incorporates fashion and is giving the impression that no matter what your walk of life, there is a course for it. It's shows people of all abilities and shows an equality among students, an un-judging community rather than a strict establishment.

 A beautiful pic of Melody (and I know she is gunna hate me for this picture!!!) whose Fashion shows her personality but also gives people preconceptions about her hobbies and her aspirations. 

RIGHT! Hope that wasn't too tedious for you!!! I have a tendancy to ramble on about my thoughts and also this is to try and help ME understand better the ways in which Creative Practices can be applied!

Xxx