Somerset House – Pick Me Up

From my last visit to Pick me up exhibition in Somerset house I left the place feeling so inspired. Pick me up is an exhibition that selects the work of 13 international up and coming illustrators and graphic artists who have graduated or set up their own studio within the last three years.

What I loved the most was the typographical work. It’s one of many reasons why I decided to go, after reading about this exhibition in Creative Review. I am very fascinated about type and distortion.

 

 

 

 

 

On my way around the exhibition I was pleased to find that the artist I featured in my Grafik Takeover Magazine George Douglas had his work in the exhibition. George Douglas is based in Edinburgh currently on his final year at Edinburgh University. His work is collage based and he loves playing with found images from magazines.

The evolution of my burning question.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Sketching to scanning to print making.

It’s been a long journey, but the question still remains. Am I convincing?

To make the question even more interesting I have decided to explore my burning question using different print methods. So we was given a brief at week 3 to produce a poster design that best expresses my burning question. Firstly I wanted my question to be hard to read which relates to the question itself. I explored different printing materials because I felt it would help me understand the question and perhaps answer it eventually. Paper, texture, ink, colour choices.. It became fun to produce these posters. In fact it gave me a greater chance of understanding the question and hopefully get some answers. At times it felt as if i was answering my burning question. By that i mean, how far can I push this idea. Am I happy with it? Shall I try something new? Shall I screen print it? Or shall I spray paint it? What colour to use? What paper texture and so on..