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Last night was as blurry as these lights. We finally got our exhibition up, hence the celebrations that followed…

My attempt at a self-portrait with the photofit kit.Creep-tastic.

An attempt at a self-portrait using the Jacques Penry photofit kit

Today I have had my hands on a Jacques Penry Photofit kit from the 1970s, which I’m using for the sake of a project at college. It’s the most amazing artifact that catalogues hundreds of individual facial components so that you can mix and match them and create any number of facial constructions.

Blue Sky, Ireland.

Development Work, Drawing Elective. Drawings and photos from the V&A Sculpture Galleries.

A new post on my book blog about this great Graphic Design number.

I reunited myself with some of my old work last night when putting together a quick PDF portfolio. It was nice going back over my photographs and design work for Barrie, a branding project I did at college (and revisited after graduating). At college I knew how much I had wanted to achieve with the project but wasn’t able to manage, and the redesign I later did always reminds me of my drive to improve. I’ll have to get my designs reprinted nicely and take some proper photos of them to share.
Barrie, 2010.

V&A drawings

Drawings from the V&A.On my second visit I took print outs of the my photos so that I could use them to draw on top of. The drawings are “blind” so I wasn’t looking at the paper whilst drawing the sculptures. I love how the sculptures are themselves an impression of the original face, whilst my drawings of that impression becomes a further step away from the original source. It’s like a Chinese whispers effect in the drawing where each stage sees the image degrade more and more.

Another drawing from the V&A, only slightly tweaked… well fine it’s been made red but whatever.

The V&A, London

I’m tidying up my photo archives on my harddrive and came across this photo series from Portobello beach, Edinburgh 2010. Good memories.