Now that the H.Dip is over, i'm working for the summer with Keyquests.com, a tourism service comprising of a website and an app. We've LOADS to do and my role as lead designer is really varied, a lot of print and web design, some illustration, and a lot of wireframing and conceptualising software. We're hoping to launch in August, looking forward to seeing the hard work come to fruition and to seeing how people respond to it.
Rain Room at the Barbican, 2012 from rAndom International on Vimeo.
Wow! This looks amazing. A new installation from Random International which involves creating a constant rain shower in a room (amazing enough on it's own!) that uses sensors to detect motion and thus avoid the interactors getting wet! It's currently at MoMA after making it's debut at the Barbican in London. Maybe because i'm Irish and it rains here all the time, but the idea of controlling the rain just blows my mind!
I recently finished work illustrating a maths book for educate.ie. It's my first time illustrating a book and i'm really looking forward to seeing the finished product in print!
The book is for first year maths students. I've featured a few of the illustrations here.
Just came across this Good Wives and Warriors animation through Computer Arts. Their illustrative style fits perfectly into a psychedelic trance-y type animation. Can't wait to see more of this from them!
Here they are chatting about their process, I love what they do, it seems like a stream-of-consciousness, i'd love to hear about how they go about planning for these large scale paintings. Do they plan? Or do they just go with whatever comes out?
You can see more of their work on their website, I blogged about them last year as well.
Last week we had our first photoshop session as part of our New Media module. This week was our final afternoon of it, good fun all round! This is my second final image - I think! I'm always tempted to keep messing with them, but we just have so much other stuff to do that I don't have time!
It's a collage of photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway, at a gig and of loads of graffiti and some Gaudi glass in Barcelona.
This afternoon as part of our series of lectures and workshops in New Media we created few photoshop images. Here's the first of mine, I need to finalise another one next week. It's a combination of a photograph of my eye and a photograph that I took on the Conor Pass. I was initially drawn to the photo because of the really strong dark triangle in the foreground of the image. It happened accidentally but made the composition of the photograph stronger and more interesting. Trying to hold myself back from too many miscellaneous Photoshop effects and filters as I was doing it! I'd forgotten how much fun photoshop is. It was really nice hearing other people's reactions to it as well when they hadn't been exposed to it before, they were all blown away by what you can do.
I'm currently starting a textile project with one of my first year groups. Serendipitously, amazing blog its nice that featured the amazing felt collages of Jacopo Rosati back in December when I was thinking about the project. The work is amazing, and so much fun. I know my first years will love it and hopefully it will really inspire them to get some of their own fabric collages going.
I emailed Jacopo for information on how he makes the collages. He's such a nice man! He emailed me back almost immediately with a link to a video of his process (featured below). Can't wait to see what work the pupils produce, i'll let Jacopo know how they get on!
