I have always had the theory that, art and science have much more in common than people would know, let me explain, the structure and hierarchy are very similar you have specialists in the field you have novices, you have people who specialise in certain aspects yet lacking others, because you wouldn’t ask an Astrophysicist […]
Tattoo Life
Following my placement here I have become a tattoo artist apprentice and in recent events, I have quit my retail job of eight years to pursue an art career. This change has been predominantly positive, but it has its negatives, it is quite a feast or famine wage packet I get every week, as I […]
Hundred studio, Craig Norwood
During the first few weeks we had Craig Norwood from 100 studio come in to be a guest speaker, he offered an insight into what projects he has done himself independently with his travels to New York Dubai and Melbourne, It is very nice to hear from someone local what life is like, how art […]
Design.Studio
I first found Design.Studio when they had taken on a project to work with Tencent games, to help bolster their brand and continue their journey outside of China they had to create a whole new business image focused on finding the most creative independent talent that would appeal to the West, in order to create […]
Proxima Nova and Mark Simonson
A typeface that I had discovered during my final year was Proxima Nova, having found it during the lyric app project, it has slotted into my day-to-day design process. Released initially as Proxima Sans in 1994 which is now discontinued, featured a basic character set of three weights, Mark Simonson expanded the original into a […]