Sophie Austen | A piece of my mind...

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Movie star style.

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:18:22 -0500

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Movie star style.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:27:10 -0500

Merry Christmas everybody!

ntujuice: A lovely Screenprint sent over by Crispin Finn,...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:20:50 -0500

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 :)

ITV rebrand

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:09:00 -0500

ITV rebrand: I haven’t seen this on TV yet so I can’t judge it completely, but I think...

Print stereotyping

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:05:59 -0400

Print stereotyping: Some really interesting information about print stereotyping including a short...

Mark Oliver: Litterbugs

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:24:00 -0400

Mark Oliver: Litterbugs: Some beautiful creations made out of what are often seen as useless...

Such an inspiring video embodying the simplicity in the objects...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:32:42 -0400

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

printeresting: danielmichaelclark: ‘Digging’, animated drypoint...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:35:59 -0400

printeresting:

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)

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:37:13 -0400

As a little girl. (Taken with Instagram)

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

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 19:28:47 -0400

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

So very true.

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:15:23 -0400

So very true.

Love love love London. I had a sneaky trip back to sunny,...

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:07:00 -0400

A great bus shelter ad in Old Street

Nova comic book store

Kemistry Gallery

Boxpark, Shoreditch

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...

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:03:00 -0400

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...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:12:00 -0400

Hand screen printed label

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...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:32:21 -0400

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

A very inspirational and reassuring talk from John Cleese on...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:27:55 -0400

A very inspirational and reassuring talk from John Cleese on creativity. It seems indecisiveness CAN be a gift to some extent!

One by one/Feed your imagination This was another group project...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:00:00 -0400

One by one/Feed your imagination

This was another group project at the end of our first year where we were given several themes to make any form of animation based upon, but could be as loosely connected as you like. As a group we chose to go with the ‘one by one’ topic in which ours was loosely based on it by making our stop-motion animation a string of events. I found this project really fun and although there was no real purpose to it we found that it could be used as an advertisement for a creative/educational purpose, in which Apple seemed to fit pretty well.

Switch on to switch off This was my very first film and group...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:53:00 -0400

Switch on to switch off

This was my very first film and group project of any kind, completed within my first year at University on my course. We were given several world topics/issues that were fairly current and relevant to us and from that we had to create a short film/advertisement to help put that issue or message across. This was our outcome to help raise awareness and show how easy and important it is to turn your appliances off where possible in relation to the Earth Hour/Big Switch Off campaigns, by showing how if you don’t, it can play on your conscience. I hope you enjoy!

Some more photographs from New York. There are just so many I...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:18:00 -0400

Walking along Brooklyn Bridge

Inside MoMa

Pentagram Design Studio

Views from atop of the Rock

NY is equally stunning, day and night

Saying goodbye in Times Square

And then from the YMCA, so long!

Some more photographs from New York. There are just so many I took to choose from, but hopefully this will give at least a bit of a snapshot of what it’d be like to be there, although nowhere near as incredible of course! I’ll definitely be back there soon to have another even bigger bite of the Big Apple…

New York, New York! Well, as I have mentioned, I went to New...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:00:00 -0400

Some amazing architecture

Smoked salmon & cream cheese beigel

Up the Empire State Building

Stunning views

Buildings as far the eyes can see...

New York, New York!

Well, as I have mentioned, I went to New York very recently for 5 days with the graphic design course with my university. I have been before around 4 years ago, but this time we were pretty much free to do what we wanted to do and go where we wanted to go as well as have 1 or 2 design studio visits whilst we were out there. I was lucky enough to go to both of the ones that I wanted to go to, Interbrand and Pentagram. It was so inspiring to see the environments that they work in there as well as the incredible location of being in New York, both along 5th Avenue. We were shown their work and we were able to ask questions if we wanted to, which made the trip even more worthwhile. Being a little older now and as a design student, I definitely noticed more and appreciated New York for what it was, the glamorous and not so glamorous compared to last time, just taking in the atmosphere and finding myself looking up constantly thinking how incredible the architecture was, with the sights, sounds and smells a fest for the senses. We went to MoMa, which was definitely something I wanted to do whilst out there, which had a great mix of some classic artwork which was brilliant to see up close as well as some modern less well-known works that I was unaware of. Unfortunately, not being 21 whilst there, I couldn’t experience the true New York at night, but that didn’t matter as walking around during the day and seeing as many things as possible was very tiring as there is a LOT of ground to cover, with a few trips on the Subway and cab rides too, but it’s all part of the experience..Plus of course some shopping too!