Izzy Kertland

2011-01-25T14:05:00.000Z

A card I made for Ham, from a 1970's National Geographic.

GET ON IT.

2011-01-24T16:04:00.001Z

I will get on this blog business.

Welcome to the year 2011...

Theresa Reilly-Cooper.

2010-07-23T16:10:00.001+01:00

Beautfiul new illustrator Theresa Reilly-Cooper's work is a joy to look at. Her fashion illustrations depict clothing and people in an usual way through a traditional medium. Love love love.

Also check out her work on the brilliant New Blood Art website, a showcase of recent graduates work.

New Kit.

2010-07-22T22:25:00.001+01:00

So it was my 21st Birthday back in June, and I got me some beautiful new kit!

First up A DianaF+ camera limited edition CYMK. O the beauty. I can't wait to start experimenting, have to wait till pay day to buy the 120 film for it.

And, O yes. A FREAKIN PG-5 GOCCO! Proof that writing this blog can only lead to good things as the person in question spotted a previous post and fulfilled my wish! Oh la la.

Above is my Gocco, and the first prints I attempted. I made it quite difficult for myself by designing my first print as a two colour set-up. I began by working over a photograph of gummy shapes in illustrator, making one layer black and one white. So, I had to create 2 different screens (one black,one white) and then try and match them up after I had inked them. Which proved to be a very difficult task. OK image, wish it had turned out better, may try again. Going to buy some florescent inks, think that would look ace.

Hipstamatic.

2010-07-22T21:49:00.003+01:00

A collection of photography using my IPhone along with an app called Hipstamatic. Hipstamatic uses different films,flashes and lenses to create the impression of various old style cameras. I do feel like a bit of a cheat using this application as it does take any skill out of the process of creating stylistic photographs. Has been nice to play around with, and has defiantly encouraged me to track down some analogue cameras to experiment further with.

2010-03-01T23:15:00.007Z

Below are 2 worksheets I created for a teaching Type project me and Will collaborated on.

My two typographic terms I had to explain in a creative way were "Old Style Numerals" and "Point."

The idea we developed came out of a hate for charity street workers. Their pushiness and over zealous happiness really grinds at my scrooge like spirit. So, instead of just teaching 1 person about Type we decided to bring it to the masses, charity worker style.

We designed a "Type Pack" to hand out, that included 4 worksheets on our various Type words, with badges and stickers too. The thought behind this being that if people received something beautifully designed (Above) they may want to get involved. We also set up a blog for people to feed back their thoughts on the project and to upload their worksheet attempts. Take a peek at

www.teachtype.blogspot.com

Phew.

2010-01-25T16:46:00.005Z

Work from my "cities project" at Uni. We built a city out of found junk in the studio, which we then went on to photograph. These images are created by putting my photographs onto acetate, painted with white acrylic (to give the illusion of snow) and nice lighting.

2010-01-25T10:43:00.004Z

Some photographs of postcards I created for a 60 second film project i'm working on.

2010-01-12T00:35:00.009Z

NY.

Sorry it's taken me so long to upload these photos. Here is my Xmas.

Hope yours was as beautiful.

2009-12-15T00:06:00.004Z

Thanks Ham.

2009-12-15T00:03:00.000Z

Somebody please buy me one of these bad boys.