Georgia Griffiths

I began my project with looking into Alexander Calder's work. He uses wire to create 3D portraits as well as integrating wire and everyday objects such as buttons and broken plates. I also admired his use of composition, especially in the way that his wire portraits have been photographed, creating looming shadows of leering faces. Above is one of my own creations inspired by his work. I then decided to move on to making sculptures of faces in a new medium: clay. I really enjoyed working with clay as it is slow-drying, so gave me lots of time to play around with it, moulding and reshaping as I went along. The model of an old, bald man came about from my imagination. I then decided to paint him blue and integrate wire to represent his wild imagination or crazy thoughts and intelligence. Integrating wire in both clay models proved to be very effective as it gave them more depth and perspective, despite being quite abstract. This is effectively transforming the ev...

I enjoyed this project very much. I didn't have a good idea about what graphic design really involved before this project. The project title was 'In With The Old' and we were asked by the tutor to pick a retro object and create a poster to advertise it. I really enjoyed using traditional methods of graphic design rather than PhotoShop and Illustrator which is what I would usually have associated graphic design with before this project. Experimenting with colour, text and composition I found was really key in graphic design. Directing the eye of the viewer to the key features of the design was important, and could be helped by using shapes and symbols to guide the eye around the symbol. Overuse of colour was seen as too complicated and instead using two or three colours was the maximum ideal, to keep a theme and not to create too much chaos for the viewer. Overall, the graphic design project really brought me out of my comfort zone and g...