martynwoolley

Tuesday 22 September 2009

New start

I have set up new blogs, all accessible through the links on my profile page. Here's the link for the new blog.

http://m-woolley0811.blogspot.com/

Tuesday 15 September 2009

White T's Print research

I'm a fan of white t-shirts which have print's on them.

Monday 14 September 2009

I also started looking into the 'soundsystem' culture where a found more images which really caught my eye. I have a massive interest in this music anyway but have never really looked in to the visual side of it. I think this could start to influence my work, i really like the b and white photo's as there grainy and give of a ruff/muffled/fuzzy/warm look which is very similar to the sound of the music represented.

I saw a interview with loefah on the net talking about his new label 'Swap 81' . Swamp was the operation that the metropolitan police in forced to be able to stop and search anyone and arrest of suspicion . This is how he Brixton riots started, any way i found it quite interesting. I started to look at photo's of the riot's in the 1980's, the photo's show so much and bring out the real emotion of what was going on at the time. I think these photo's could work really well as prints.

Check out a film called 'babylon' as well it was on film 4 during the summer again about a group of young lads who owned a sound system in west london and had to put up with the crap that the thatcherete 80's had.

I was'nt born when this was happening but would of been interested to see what it was like, it just made me think that it could end up like this again with the number of job cut backs and lack of employment out there at the moment etc.

PSS e-flyer's

Also learnt to use dream weaver a bit.... (never again) I never knew web/internet stuff involved so much coding. Its definitely made me want to pursue my design career in print.

http://www.paper-scissor-stone.co.uk/eflyers/2009/09/09/

http://www.paper-scissor-stone.co.uk/eflyers/2009/09/10/

PSS A6 flyers

Shop flyer Front and back.

POP UP shop flyer front and back.

PSS work placement

Over the last period of the summer i was contacted by Steve at Paper Scissor Stone store for a work placement i applied for. Its been good working there i've learnt to work faster than usual and also that crit's and brief's are essential to produce work im happy with. I've been re-sizing and tidying up photo's aswell as changing the website up a bit for the new season of clothing. I have also been helping out with the 'POP UP' Shop which will be situated opposite the uni steps and next to the banks. I designed a few flyers and some tote bags. I struggled with concepts but felt comftable designing, which is why i think feed back and briefs are a must.