Brain Dettmer

I'm currently doing some research into different book arts and Brian Dettmer's work is brilliant: http://briandettmer.com/

Really useful advice!!!

Tips on how to be a successful freelancer from Jessica Hische: http://jessicahische.com/spendstoomuchtimeinternetting/?p=791

Rememberable adverts

This is the new advert by Red Bull. I think its really effective because its rememberable because of its humour.

Type faces

As part of a little project i've set myself to do with faces I decided I wanted to create interesting and unique faces to show how all people are different. I thought it would be fun to create some face imagery using only type. As you can see above the results are quite silly but fun and certainly unique. My aim now is to create a short animation to practise with the Adobe after effects software and to create an even more interesting result.

A few more developments

The latter three images are based on the theme of being trapped, enclosed and confined. I've just played around with wire, took photos of them and changed the colours using photoshop.

More colour developments

Below are some more colour variations of some of the photos I took of the disfigured/melted carrier bags.

This is the only one that I've tried using multiple photographs over the top of each other in layers so far but I'm planning to try a few others.

Reminds me of a blood cell

Plastic bag experiments

In my latest experiments I decided to rip up carrier bags and melt them in the oven. I then photographed the deformed plastic and the image below is one of these photographs. 

Below is my favourite development where I've played around with the colours in the photograph.

Urban Casualties

My latest project brief is where I had to add a second word to the theme "urban".  My second word is casualties which is based on the awful conditions that slummers that live in shanty towns have to put up with.

I watched the Comic Relief and Kevin McCloud programs on slums as a bit of research. Above are some screen shots from them. Below are some of my experiments so far:

I really like the last piece and want to take that further, I quite like the idea of creating something 3D like the pink abstract overview city. 

MWM Graphics

I came across Matt W Moore after setting one of his images as the background on my google chrome browser. I've also seen his work in a magazine article and on his website, http://mwmgraphics.com/index.html His work combines different shapes and colours to form patterns which looks really good.

"Best of Uran Art"

Pretty cool video on animated graffiti