Photography project on gender

Here is a link to a sight where i will be posting most of my photography to keep it all neat and tidy the first album i have posted is from a project were i wanted to explore gender issue so was given a fantastic opportunity to photograph some great performers in Belfast

Here is the link to the online album


http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa475/amywineglass/Sunday%20night%20in%20Union%20street/?albumview=slideshow

Contemporary Souvenir

We were asked to work on a project that the tourist board were developing called the Contemporary Souvenir, we could do what ever we wanted but the name had to remain i decided to work on a logo turning the c and the s into a symbol of Ireland the shamrock but trying to give it a modern minimal feel so it could be used on a wide range of products

I then went on to work on a concept for one of the possible souvenirs i thought that a range of limited edition traditional irish linen could be developed by local artist perhaps even as a yearly project for the art college. The linens would feature contemporary prints and would be function from scarves to linen book covers etc so would be both traditional because of the fabric but functional. My idea was that each edition would come from a particular county an the print would be influenced by famous landmarks in this area. The example i have sketch up are an Antrim edition featuring the Giant causeways imagery, i have used my Textiles artists name on these tag designs and mocked up a possible print.

Above are some ideas of how the tags would look each one will have a tag of the county with information on it as well as a layering of tags with information on the artist the the idea behind the print etc

First drafts for veet for men

These were the first ideas for poster for my veet project were i tried to use the wolf man as my poster boy i decided to take the project in a slightly different direction and make it slightly more sophisticated while still in keeping with the humour but here's a look at two poster drafts

Veet . . . FOR MEN?!

so we were given a branding project were we had to take a product which the general public had a particular view of and our job was to change that view, so inspired by my cyclist roommates i went for veet as men these days have a need for hair removal be it for cosmetic reasons or indeed for sporting issues. But when the cycling season came around my roommates were forced to use this 

not very manly at all to have to buy bright pink packaging really and after researching i discovered that veet do have a veet for men but its the "for men" part i have an issue with its basically veet for women but blue and "for men" stuck on it with very little effort i think for the product to work it has to be a completely different image for men and to appeal to men. 

So I decided to redesign the packaging looking at brands like Bulldog and soap and glory which are popular grooming products for me. I thought humour was the best approach to this so i went with the slogan 'Good riddance to bad hair' the bottle were made black with different silhouetted bad hairstyles on each bottle ranging from cousin it to the mullet, the outer box however was matte black with the new 'veet man' logo printed on in gloss so that it is distinct enough on the shelves to catch the shoppers eye but not too flash as to shout from the shopping basket "I'M HAIR REMOVER" so here are the new bottles and a poster design for the new Veet man

New logo

Packaging design

Hair parodies

Veet poster

Poster

The start of wineglass design

As part of the same project for the poster we also had to make up an imaginary company to brand our work with after playing around with my name i found very little inspiring me with it so i decided to be a little bit silly as i think that's where some of the best ideas come from so i decided to use my twitter name which is a joke in itself and went with Wineglass Design, and personified this with a little wineglass character to. I plan to work on animating the logo soon as after playing around with it, it has grown on me so i think that's how I'm going to brand my work for now so here it is, Wineglass Design...

And to show how the logo may work in the world of design here are some exampel of it on use on a webpage and the bottom image is of the branded poster tube for the Quote poster.

"The nature of space reflects what it wants to be"

This was a uni project in which we had to pick a quote and design a poster to that quote I chose the quote "the nature of space reflects what it wants to be" I wanted to experiment with the use of negative space and be quite clever with it so I research Noma Bars work and tried my best to create something that communicated my message clearly. I have gone with the slightly controversial subject of religion here after debating whether like Noma to use a well known figure to manipulate into an I mage I went on to work on a symbol of religion (after a few failed attempts at caricaturing the pope) and I wanted to play on the idea of the book being used as a method of control so I have incorporated rosary bead to make the book into a retro Nintendo controller thus the nature of the space of these two objects in the person hands reflects what it wants to be, a controller.

I experimented a bit with color and couldnt decided on one as they all worked quite well so i opted for the grey as i wanted to give it a slightly sinister feel 

And i also debating making the piece using photography but in the end went with the cartoon version but i did get this pretty nice image

Kevin Van Aelst

While taking a stroll around the blogs for inspiration i found this great designer Kevin Van Aelst, his work is really inspiring me to get my camera out and start experimenting with ordinary objects and their endless possibilities!

His commissioned work is largely centered around social issues and health and i really like how he manages to create a bold striking image and the meaning is very clear and often quite humorous.

This is his website

http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/art.html