Paper Installations!

My new favourite things!

Came across these deadly paper installations, first by Paper Donut, the second by Lenancker Romain via weheart.co.uk and the third by Le Creative Sweatshop, via designyoutrust.com. They're so much fun and so colourful. They have a great sense of freedom and creativity, love them!

I am not an artist

Had fun doing this little gif today for I am not an artist. It popped up on design you trust during the week so I filed it away to do at the weekend! It's curated by Soon in Tokyo, I think it's a really cool idea, like a digital version of contributing a patch to a quilt, wonder how long it'll run for?

It was done in photoshop cs4, which has a very handy animation feature. Feel like I did something productive with my Saturday now, which from the outset seemed like it was doomed to a be a hangover write-off!

Self-Indulgence!

This is a very self-indulgent post, but then that's what I guess this blog is about!

I love doing colour palettes for projects, they just give me so much satisfaction and I love looking at them for some reason (I know - NERD!). So on that note, here's one I did today for a NAIRTL marketing animation.

Lovely colours, lovely squares, satisfaction!

Visualising ELVIN

I’ve been working today on visualising the ELVIN social networking platform, the different interactions and the different tools etc that will hopefully pair learners and learners as well as learners and content. We have a skype meeting tomorrow with all partners so hopefully these will go a long way in making sure everyone knows what we’re talking about!

There’s a lot to work out but visualising the process really helps!

Here’s an example of one of the diagrams.

Pastel Portrait

Love Pastels.

This is done in oil & chalk pastels, can never make up my mind which I like more!

Steven Meisel Vogue Shots 2008

Steven Meisel seems to be popping up in my twitter feed at the moment (here and here). Reminded me of my favourite photo shoot of his for Italian Vogue (above), deadly stuff! I love the flat perspective/tapestry look of them. See more of that shoot here.


edit**** Even more Steven Meisel in my twitter! He's great.

BCO Asteroid Chaser

In DEIS we’re involved in serious games research. We designed, prototyped and piloted a game last year in partnership with the Blackrock Castle Observatory. More about it on my website here. We’re now modifying that game based on the pilot results and further feedback from the astronomers at Blackrock. My role involves designing all the graphic elements of the game and producing cut-scene and in-game animations in flash, which basically means drawing and animating spaceships and meteorites, nice one!

This storyboard panel was produced using illustrator, photoshop and poser3d. I used a nice and very simple comic book effect on the figure and the neon effect in illustrator also came in handy!