The Winter King – Arduino Installation Project
Arduino is an ‘open-source electronics board’ that you can program to create electronics/ installations/ environments and more. In order to experiment with this interesting and crucial tool, as a group of three, we have created a project built on the foundations of an Arduino circuit, whilst fueling the ideas and inspirations from the Canary Wharf Winter Lights display. Every year this mesmerising festival…
Instagram Video Campaign
Introduction For this project we had to create six 4 second videos which would be posted on Instagram to advertise our course ‘Creative and Cultural Industries’ i.e. ‘CCI’. The videos had to represent the course in its best form, using a theme to express its core values. The visuals needed to be vibrant, engaging and pleasing to…
Surrealism, Bauhaus, New Objectivity
Movements stem from situations and changes in history. In the 1920s – 30s, movements such as Surrealism, Bauhaus and New Objectivity came into play as artists began to rebel and express themselves through new, and perhaps disturbing art work. Each movement holds a weight of sadness, and enlightened discovery with the use of colours and shapes. This time…
MUGSHOTS – Elvis Presley
MUGSHOTS – Elvis Presley The brief was to organize a photoshoot based on the scene from a given mugshot of a celebrity. We had to initially create a logo based on the situation from the arrest, and then prepare a photoshoot also based on the scene of the arrest. For this project, my partner and…
iPhone 7 – Futurism Advert
The brief was to create a phone advert inspired by a movement from the early 20th century. To begin the project, I researched into different art styles from that time, such as cubism, futurism, expressionism etc. When researching for different artists, Gino Severini grasped my attention with the piece Sea Dancer 1913. The colours and…
Studio Exercise – Magritte
The Therapist (1937) 2 – My immediate opinion 1 – A traveller who is hiding his inner loneliness 2 – An old man escaping his working life and discovering a place of paradise 3 – A man bringing his baggage and solitude on holiday 3 – Objects I see in the painting: Straw hat, orange…
Everything is a Remix
Inspired by Gus Powell and Van Gogh The ‘Everything is a Remix’ poster combines two different artist techniques together to create something new from something old. For this project I chose photographer Gus Powell and painter Van Gogh to be my inspirations. After selecting various images and photos from books ‘Van Gogh and Nature’ and ‘The Company of Strangers’ I began to brainstorm…
Remixing Barbara Kruger
To experiment the theme of remixing, we used Barbara Krugers work to create our own video ‘remixes’. As a group, we chose three different photos by the artist and removed the original words from her work and added three self chosen quotes. Then we published our work on Instagram with further mediums such as GIFs…
The Invasion of Kingston
As a small project, we were instructed to choose three 8 bit invaders (inspired by the artist ‘Invader’) and put them around the town of Kingston. As a group we initially chose three 8 bit images and discussed which materials we wanted to use to paint the shapes on. We chose to create stencils of…
Leadbydonkeys
Discovering the Led by Donkeys group has been an eye opener in regards to the topic of campaigning. The group is made up of four men who publish past statements on billboards by Brexit supporting politicians. These statements show the lack of action to their promises, and the lies they have declared as true. I…
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