Studio Brief 01 - General pride imagery

Leeds

Has its own logo of an Owl as symbolism for their pride event.

• Including this within the design is something to consider
• I did not know this symbolism was for their pride - suggests it is either new or is rather unknown for
• Part of the design could be to bring more attention to that

Durham

• The fist symbolism is often seen within the gay community and imagery surrounding it
• Often communities have to protest for their rights - fist represents standing up, unity and empowerment 

London

• London pride uses iconic imagery of the capital city to represent the gay community
• Something that could be considered for Leeds

Summary

• All use the colours of the rainbow or pride flag
• imagery is simplistic and often quite structured
• Give off a serious tone of voice, yet this is juxtaposition with the colours

Here is some further imagery either based around the LGBTQ community or colourful design that follows a similar theme through colour and illustration.

Nest - Moon photography - New idea and development

31.03.17

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02.04.17

05.04.17

07.04.17

10.04.17

These are the selected shots I will be using in the final piece.

For these shots I typically used the camera settings of ISO: 200 - 800.

This ranged as the more the moon showed the brighter the photograph. 

Due to the Nest deadline being pushed back to the 31st this gave me a further opportunity to finish the shots as I realised I would need further time to complete the cycle.

However, after realising I began taking the shots on the 13.03.17 during the full moon period this meant I will too have to finish my last shot at a similar time the month after. This takes me way over the deadline, so I had a conversation with the editor-in-chief about my situation with my submission piece and they said it was fine as long as I send it over the easter period. So this means I can continue my piece.

Thirsty Planet - Evaluation

Studio Brief 02 - The dark side of social media - presentation and notes

Nest - Digital Art - Final submission

Another World

Inspired by some of my favourite alien films and their super creepy, usual and unexplored worlds - I created my own mini digital landscape that explores an unknown realm in a far away galaxy.

Nest - Digital Art - Final outcomes

Nest - Digital Art - Progress

uneven circles

created a black to white pixel gradient to help with the shading of the circles that will represent the sky and rigid vision of the planet's/star's light source.

Decided it would be a much more interesting technique to make the shading very obvious

realised I needed to add more structure after the planet/star each circle has a distance of 122mm.

Nest - Moon photography - Final Resolution

Many Moons

The focus of this piece was to follow the lunar cycle (29.5 days) and experience a photographic journey of the many shapes and forms that are interpreted from Earth's perspective of the moon. From my bedroom window, these observations were captured using my DSLR, resulting in a detailed exploration of a Full Moon to the Waxing Gibbous Moon.

Nest - Digital art inspiration

These pieces I've chosen for my main inspiration for my digital art piece are really bright, abstract and expressive. 

Studio Brief 02 - Anti-Social Media campaign by Slavomeir

http://www.trueactivist.com/this-anti-social-media-campaign-displays-ugly-truths-about-technology-addiction/

Thirsty Planet - Social media

They're social media is one of their weakest attributes. There is hardly any social media activity and in today's age its a really important factor to have an online presence.

The lack of social media presence within the company is

particulary alarming. Social media is an excellent way of broadcasting their brand and helping create awareness of who they are, what they do and why they do it.

Sponsors and company collaborations are really imporant when

advertising a brand and this could be shown through social media, such as, Instagram - showcasing a #Hashtag, competitions that

involve the audience, aesthetically pleasing imagery, involvement

with student societies etc... These are really engaging factors that

are drastically missing from the company’s branding.

Having a social media presence is a vital aspect of a successful 

company today and by shedding light on these topics to the 

company will hopefully see them improve their social media activity.

Snapchat

I helped Alice take photos with my DSLR camera for the snapchat filter. We kept the shot simple and true to the "selfie" even though it was me taking the shots. We tried a few different facial expressions so various filters could be explored.

A couple of Alice's snapchat filter designs:

Nest - Moon photography - Final piece inspiration

After getting my first three moon shots I started to think about how I will display my images and what I want to create with them. Using Pinterest I researched into some unusual ways of how I could showcase the piece.

This piece really stood out for me, the alignments are super accurate which makes it crisp and aesthetically pleasing. This is definitely a technique I could use to display my moons. However, the I so far have not got a photo of the moon for each day so my lunar cycle will be a lot more shorter. This piece has also made me realise that I need to decide on which phases I will be displaying - it might be the case of getting as many photos as I can and then picking out a selected array of moons that match and feel cohesive.

The way in which the moon colours reflect the amber/orange flares of the city lights below works really well.  The colour palettes between the moon and the cityscape match, which creates a sort of mirror/reflection vision that is also rather subtle.

I think maybe editing in some colour to the moons might be interesting and to maybe incorporate so landscape/city/night time photography to lay underneath the moons might be a really interesting prospect.

From looking at the way in which some photographers and artists display their moon work I decided just to line my current moon photographs up together to get a perspective on which alignment or display/structure could work best. I will probably continue to experiment with this as I continue to take photos and research into other possibilities of a design outcome. 

                                              

Similar to the coloured moon photography, this uses a similar design strategy of layering on colour. However, in this case its Nebular, which are vast clouds of particles and compounds formed in deep space. A lot of these photos are taken by Nasa. I constantly follow their feeds on Instagram and Twitter and they display a lot of high-tech photography from their hubble telescopes etc...

However, this is not achievable, so instead I could possibly create some water colour painting or some gradient digital art to layer onto of the moons.

Taking it one step further, screen printing my moon designs could be a possibility. Especially with a metallic silver ink to contrast with a grey/black to represent the craters.