Final Poster

I eventually stuck with this is my final piece Its simple and not necessarily easy to read but I feel it engages viewers and tempts them to take on board its message. I tried amalgamating it with various other images and textures only to find they detracted from the pieces 'purity'. I felt it worked best as a stand alone image. Thats that. MEGABOOM! 

Poster Ideas and Development

Just looking at some poster designs. Getting it done man.

I wanted to use the texture from my sculpture as a background as through sheer dumb look it happened to be made of 101 individual pieces. You know what 101 minus 1 equals... 100 which happens to be the number of years GF Smith paper is celebrating, thats some twilight zone s**t. 

Also considered writing the whole thing in 3D text made from the pages of John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'. The number 1 in this piece is actually made from the 100th page of that book BOOOOM!

Paper Poster Experiments

Just experimenting with paper and type looking for ways to incorporate them into a nice effective poster that will be super freakin' awesome.

Initial Idea

Initial idea was to pile a load of old books and sculpt out the text using a scalpel. Not dissimilar to the work of Brian Dettmer. (More of Brian's work can be seen back in Februarys posts)

Ok so i got my books. Wrote up some text (Courier New) and set out on my way.

This in practice is freakin impossible. Massive respect to Dettmer for doing what he does but i could not do it fo' real. Would have taken at least 2 billion solid man hours.  

This is a real crappy version of how it may have looked lolz. Don't even have the patience to make a half decent photoshop version. GOOD!

Lloyd Stas

Just thought id chuck up a bit more Lloyd Stas stuff.

Posters

Just been looking at posters ain't it. 

This last one is by Lloyd Stas, he tends to recreate movie posters in his own simplistic style that really depicts the key aspects of the movie. His Edgar Wright recreations are pure liquid wonderment!

GF Smith Paper

Got to make a poster celebrating the 100th anniversary of GF smith paper. Obviously the best way to start would be to do a little research into the company.

GF Smith make paper of course. Papers of all sorts sizes weights blah blah.

The designs they use a simple sleek and super cool. Lets go GF Smith PAPER DESIGN!

In Situ photo.

This was just my favourite photo of the bunch thought id chuck it in.

This is how i would intend my sculpture to be seen. hanging from the ceiling like a group of stalactites. SMART!

Sculpture Photos

This is just a selection of some of the photos i took of my sculpture. x

Created a Monster

I took all of the triangles into the studio to build so that they could be photographed on the same day in the hope that any overnight collapses wouldn't reoccur. SMART!

The inner workings of the sculpture.

Because im so smart i decided to build an even bigger and better version of the sculpture i had initially built, this was not a good idea. Lead to stressful structural bull crap build that kept falling apart... sucks.

Eventually got something together, quick get it freakin' photographed.

Bad day at the office

I am currently freaking out. RAGE!

This is how my sculpture looked the previous night. I took a little celebratory photo in commemoration of its completion. : )

This is how my sculpture looked the morning after. The stick on the masking tape had degraded causing it to collapse. GOOOOD (sarcasm) 

Offcuts and Dangly things

My final sculpture uses a series of paper triangles attached together to create a larger forms, this is just my playing with offcuts to see if I could create any interesting designs.

These offcuts created a nice kind of dangly thing the name off which escapes me right now.

DANGLY THING!

Natural Forms as an Influence - Stalagmites and Stalactites

I was told that my idea for my final sculpture was reminiscent of stalagmites and stalactites so i decided to take a look at them.

These rockformations take shape over thousands of years of water droplets leaving tiny mineral deposits which eventually build up into these impressive monoliths.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is probably the master when it comes to using nature as an art form. Whilst paper will be my medium I have used natural forms as my primary research and would therefore be a fool not to note Goldsworthy's work. It goes without saying that his work is inspiring and the influence of nature is blates obvious, I can only try to emulate this in my work.