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.

Amsterdam

Last week I went on a course trip to Amsterdam, we spent 6 days in the city visiting design studios and exploring the city. I've never been before and was amazed at how design-orientated the city is, there is so much to see!

Photobooth scanner camera

Finy, Me, Grace and Gem.

Taken by Chris' scanner-camera at our Tourist exhibition private view last week. Somehow he's turned his scanner/printer into an instant camera and he set up a photo booth area at the exhibition which went down very well, you can see more photos from the scanner-camera on his website here.

Photographing Tourist Maps

Today George and I photographed our maps that we made for the Tourist exhibition. It was great to use the studio at uni to get a simple set of photos showing what the map is and how it works.

These are the post cards that people could take at the exhibition..

Thank you for being our model Finy!

Pick Me Up 3

This week its the third Pick Me Up at Somerset house, I went today and it was just as good as the last two, probably better actually.. There were so many prints I wanted that my student account just can't deal with, but it was ok because you're allowed to take photos inside so I got loads of photos of things I liked.

My favourite work was definitely Kristjana S Williams'... I LOVE this map!

Tourist Exhibition

Our show at the Gallery on the Corner in Battersea finished yesterday, it was a great show and we had a very well-attended private view!

Everyone's work in the show was based around the title, 'Tourist' but could be any format. I worked with George Newton to create this scratchable map of London and a set of scratchable London Tube postcards..

The map had 'X's marked on it where people scratched to reveal non-touristy places that tourists visiting London would use to gain more of an insight into what the city is actually like from a locals point of view.

It was a great to have a piece of work in the exhibition that people could interact with, people kept on scratching away at the map and when I went to pick it up yesterday from the gallery there wasn't much silver left at all which was great.