Design Goods: Wishlist

Who needs a re-stock or expansion of design tools? I do!
1. Book: Tangible: High Touch Visuals
2. Book: Copywriting: Successful Writing for Design, Advertising and Marketing
3. Book: Fundamentals of Fashion Design
4. Uni Pin: Assorted Tips, Fine Line drawing pens
5. Art & Craft's Knife
6. Technical Pencil
7. Muji Acrylic Desk Top Storage Unit
8. Good Old Brown Craft Paper
9. A3 Size Cutting Mat

Design Goodies Haul

Friday night I met up with a couple of mates at Zizzi; just because! To my surprise, Brenda (also a creative) presented me with goodies 1 & 2, which she said were (very) belated birthday gifts. It was a very nice gesture =) . They're on my design book list, so you can only guess how excited I was, and I can't wait to get into them. Goodie 3 was also a gift I received at the actual time of my birthday from another friend. Read on to know my initial thoughts and where to buy them.

1. Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces by Willen, B & Strals, N (2009)

How-to, meets visual typeface candy, with relevant design history, theory and short sporadic exercises.

2. Typography Sketchbooks by Heller, S & Talarico, L (2012)

This book is a visual feast of all types (pun not intended) of typography and a look into sketchbooks from a broad range of graphic designers and type artists. If you're looking for type-spiration, then this book ticks that box.

3. Fifty Dresses That Changed The World by Design Museum (2009)

Starting from the 1915 Delphos pleated dress, ending at Hussein Chalayan's 2007 LED Dress, this book looks back at design history's most signature dresses. It showcases each dress and gives us a short summary on what made them so iconic. It's almost an A to Z of well known dresses & styles.

Will hopefully do another one of these more often!

Milk in a new light

...well packaging in a new light. Not sure who created this but whoever did was definitely onto something innovative by incorporating the typographics into the actual packaging. In terms of practicalities, I do wonder how tricky it would be to pour out the milk with all the different angles. I came across two other playful milk carton designs. Designed by Alexey Hattomonkey

Uni Graphic Design #1

So its the end of term one & I'm officially on my 4 week Christmas holiday, here are some pictures from some of the work we have done during our first term at university... Firstly here is one of the final pieces I made inspired by a fashion designer I love; Jean Charles De Castelbajac.

The rest of the pictures I took are of some of the final pieces that I really liked by other students on my course.

My Art & Design Exhibition

I've finally got time to be posting regularly; now time for a quick catch up. I said I would post pictures from my Foundation course Art & Design Exhibition so here they are: These images are of my fashion design and graphic design work, my theme was Colour Spectrum.

These illustrations & books took ages to create and put together, can you guess who the celebrity faces are near the top? Below are pictures I took of work from other students on my course:

Robotic Dresses and Sunshine!

 Easter holiday is over, it ended too quick but it was good while it lasted. So far UK weather (this year) has been awful, but this week has been amazing, sun shining , clear sky, not too hot; now that's what I'm talking about. Today after college I went to the Design Museum to view fashion designer Hussein Chalayan’s exhibition. In case you are not familiar with his designs - he is renowned for his innovative use of materials, and implementing new technology into his designs. Think robotic/transformer dresses (HA!). Personally I think his technologic clothing is amazing. Take a look at it in action yourself (video below).

I also took a nice walk down London Bridge, in which I saw former model making a new 's advert; was really random!

Hello and welcome to my new readers!

Where's Wally (Obama)?!

Random Illustration; visually impacting!