Mirror, mirror on the wall. Movie star style.

Merry Christmas everybody!

ntujuice:

A lovely Screenprint sent over by Crispin Finn, cheers guys!

Some beautiful pieces of design and illustration will be auctioned at the Hopkinson Gallery next Thursday 6th Dec opposite Nottingham train station, 7-9pm. Everyone is welcome to come along and invite anyone along who’d like to put a bid in, which would make some lovely xmas presents. Just have to decide which ones I want, I can’t get them all unfortunately! Plus Juice’s own merchandise will be on sale too! Check out the NTU Juice blog, FB and twitter pages, all the info is there :)

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I haven’t seen this on TV yet so I can’t judge it completely, but I think I like it. Definitely more modern and fresh compared to its previous branding with how it changes colour scheme depending on which topic the shows come under. It will be interesting to see if and how it moves too on screen. Speaking of this, I bought this book http://www.ireneontwerp.nl/identities/Dynamic-Identities-book/ very recently, I haven’t fully read it yet but it’s great, really interesting how it analyses how brands have recently started to be designed to evolve and change according to different situations and uses and how they live or adapt in different ways. I highly recommend it.

Some really interesting information about print stereotyping including a short film clip showing how they were made. I’m looking into this topic for my current university project.

Some beautiful creations made out of what are often seen as useless objects, bits and pieces and turned into something incredible.

Such an inspiring video embodying the simplicity in the objects and moments that bring people together, by Facebook.

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danielmichaelclark: ‘Digging’, animated drypoint (element for larger installation.)

A lovely drawn stop motion animation mimicking the aesthetic of Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion series.

As a little girl. (Taken with Instagram)

Happy 21st birthday to me! (Taken with Instagram)

So very true.

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Love love love London.

I had a sneaky trip back to sunny, scorching hot London for this Friday just gone, which was just pure joy. I was there for an interview for a potential design internship for a few weeks in the summer in the morning, which I felt went fairly well, but we will have to wait to hear for the outcome!

In the meantime, being finished by 10.30am I had the rest of the day to spend in London, or East London specifically. My first stop being London Graphic Centre around the corner to get a lovely discounted layout pad which is always useful! Strolling about from there I had realised I had unluckily just missed Clerkenwell Design week which had finished the day before but could still see the remains of what had been there with signs in shop windows etc. Stopping for some lunch from a Co-op I sat down outside in a bench area and watched the world gone by for a little while en route to Old Street where the tiny but lovely Kemistry Gallery is. There was an exhibition on just about to finish of lovely topical prints made about the London Olympic Games, and then onto the White Cube looking over Hoxton Square as a short stop too, and on the way coming across some lovely little shops and other galleries around. Then I made my way to Shoreditch to check out the Box Park pop up mall which was interesting and very buzzy with people dining on the top deck, and sunbathing around the open areas. Then wondering where else I could walk to nearby and towards the way back home I discovered I could walk to Liverpool Street in 5 minutes, so that’s exactly what I did! I am familiar with the Spitalfields markets around there which are great to go to especially on a Sunday for more vintage items, but there is something going on there pretty much every day. Reaching there I stumbled upon what must have been the end of a Jive club in the afternoon with many people gathering around enjoying the live music and dancing. And then strolling around the stalls is always interesting with many creative people around to talk to who make and sell their work and designs, also including clothes and miscellaneous items. There’s just never a dull moment in London. After that with some tired feet I had a sit down and read some magazines and leaflets that I had picked up walking around and enjoyed the sun in a central seating area with many others having the same idea. It was such a great atmosphere with everyone upbeat and coming together to enjoy the sun. After a long while I felt it my time to make my way home with a short walk to the station before rush hour began. All in all it was a very creative, productive and well deserved day off enjoying the sunshine while it lasts… I just have to get seriously back to work now for my end of year hand in on Thursday and then I have a wonderful summer ahead of me. I cannot wait! Look out for my work being uploaded on here soon once all my stresses are out of the way!

I’m really into the band, Metronomy at the moment. This video is from their previous album, ‘Nights Out’, and their songs from their new album ‘The English Riviera’ are just as great.  I find this video is very clever and funny, where all of their videos are very tongue-in-cheek. And their single, ‘The Bay’ has a very summery sound. Watch out for them, I just thought I’d share this with you all.

Peter Blake’s Alphabets

Here are some photos of this brilliant book that brings together all of Peter Blake’s alphabets he compiled throughout his life as a wonderful collection. There is a real mixture, some illustrative, some more obvious and some rather witty. One of my tutors from university, Douglas Wilson, well known within the publishing industry, worked with Peter Blake over months to put this book together, combined with Mel Gooding who put the text together.

We were also very lucky to have a guest lecture from Mel Gooding which was bizarre yet very insightful and intriguing. He talked about anything and everything to with typography and language, which I find very interesting generally and consequently inspired me to want to do more typographic work in the near future.

Please excuse my terrible photography, my camera screen was half broken at the time!

Being friendly definitely pays off! Coke Hug Me Machine (by 261171)