Opening Ceremony

I worked in a group of four to create this stop motion film that celebrates the opening ceremony of your day.

Opening Ceremony from Hattie Jowitt on Vimeo.

We made the film using a Rostrum camera and put together the sequence in Final Cut Pro. The project was only a week long but it was important that we paid attention to detail in the animation with the objects and the background colours transition through sunrise. 

Show Me The Food

Exploring the current trend of photographing your food in a restaurant led me to experiment with how I could encourage this or give it more purpose. I made these napkins that have photography tips on them and details of a website that customers could upload their food photos to.

Sibling Outing

Yesterday I went into London with my brother and saw a few exhibitions that we've been meaning to go to, its also London Fashion Week and the London Design Festival at the moment so there is so much stuff going on.

First we went to a good classic, the National Portrait Gallery to see the Road to 2012 exhibition which is the largest photographic exhibition the NPG has put on. It features a range of photos from 1997, when London prepared for the bid, to 2012. The portraits celebrate the athletes and also the people behind the scenes of the games. 

The photos that stood out for me were the group portraits by Anderson & Low, the positioning of their subjects was perfect.

We did a bit of people watching outside LFW which was a bit surreal.

We then spent the afternoon at the V&A. The Heatherwick Studio exhibition is great, so many good ideas! At the start of the exhibition you turn a handle to roll out your own METRE LONG leaflet from a spiralling contraption. 

To round up our day we went to a talk by Wallpaper Magazine & Noma Bar at the V&A, all about the series of 8 covers that Noma Bar designed for Wallpaper's April 2012 Global Design issue. It was really interesting to hear about the working process that goes on to create the final cover, and with Noma's covers the execution of the idea from sketches to it being painted on walls and then photographed correctly so the perspective worked as a 2D image. 

The kings of print team up!

I LOVE the work of Shane McAdams, his synthetic landscapes and ball point pen paintings are vibrant works of art. I was really excited to hear that Matthew Williamson teamed up with him to create his Spring Summer '13 prints, the results are beautiful...

www.shanemcadams.com

www.matthewwilliamson.com

Summer Internship

For the past 9 weeks I have been the Design Intern at Granta Publications, working with the in-house design team across Granta Magazine, Granta Books and Portobello Books. I had the chance to work on a range of tasks including book cover layouts, photographing books for the website, bound-proofs, a press release, picture research and invitation design..

The last project I worked on were event calendars for the new issue of Granta Magazine, Medicine, and they have been emailed out to the subscribers. I was given a rough sketch of a medicine cabinet by the artistic director and from that I made these in Adobe Illustrator...

I learnt so many technical skills and it was great to see how the magazine comes together with its website, twitter and events for each quarterly issue.

Granta Magazine 

Granta Books 

Portobello Books

James Hastie

Some very intricate cutting and sticking is going on in these images by James Hastie. They look like photographs but are in fact collages, he said the project "is about finding, and indeed making; lines, horizons, blocks of colour and symmetry that do not exist in front of me."

Article available at www.itsnicethat.com/articles/james-hastie

Project Process

To give an insight into my working process I made a Project Process book to accompany my printed portfolio..

Imbalance

My lastest project was a self initiated project in which I explored the imbalance of women's clothing sizes between shops using typography. I gathered sizes from twenty high street shops and worked out the averages of each and then used this information to manipulate the type to show the difference between the same sizes.