Progression

My plan for the end of this college year is to go into full time work. During theses last 3 years at college I feel I have gathered enough information and skills to finally move on and start my career. There are many places of interest for me in and around Whitstable such as photo and art galleries, vintage shops and small boutiques. For the next year I plan to stay at home with my family whilst I gather up enough money to get out and start my life with my other half. In the future I would be very happy if I managed to secure myself a career as a photographer, journalist, artist or graphic designer of some sort.  I have a huge passion for making and creating art whether it’s a poster, picture or a pillow I would love to design something. I also love writing and my ideal job would be a photographer/journalist for a newspaper, magazine or website.

New Vintage Type Poster

These are a couple of Vintage Type Posters i have created for the book, "New Vintage Type" by Steven Heller & Gail Anderson. I created these posters using a programme called illustrator and then placed in my background image. The font's i have used in these posters were all found on Dafont.com.

Helvetica Type Posters

Here are my Helvetica typeface based posters. Using short words from the titles of the books we are to research into in this type project have have created type based posters using the Helvetica font. The first poster is for the book 'thinking with type' i'm really pleased with the way this one came out because i love the negative space where the P meets the E it creates a kind of knife shape. The second poster is for the book 'watching words move' so i have positioned the letters over the page as is they are moving.

Typography posters for Trajan

Here are my poster designs for the typeface Trajan which was created by Carol Twomby. This typeface has been used as the title for Titanic, Lemony Snickets a series of unfortunate events, Interview with a vampire, Assassins Creed and many of John Grishams paperbacks.

Olympic stamps

Here are some of my Olympic stamp designs inspired by Stefan Sagmeister. i created all of these stamp designs by drawing up each piece individually on tracing paper. First i drew up the athlete and then i added the mosaic like body tiles. I then scanned this onto the mac and using illustrator i made them both into a live paint and coloured them in. I then added in the queens head, value and border.

The Beretun

I have been asked to complete a side project of creating a sign that the Beretun Restaurant in Canterbury College can use. The guidelines i was given were to create a food/ drink object that people will recognize made purely out of type. These are a few thumbnails i came up with to help me decide what idea to go with.

and here is my final outcome created on illustrator.

Personal Statement

Personal Statement – Emma Lambert

My name is Emma Lambert and I am applying for the Graphic Design Course. I would like to be given the opportunity to study this course at University because I have recently finished my BTEC National Diploma in Graphic Design and I’m interested in furthering my education in this subject. Some key aspects of the course I like are Photoshop manipulation and design using Illustrator and poster and web design.

In secondary school I was part of the girls netball team, and was also in many dance classes up until I was 12. Growing up I learned to play guitar and piano although I don’t play anymore. In school I learned to speak a small amount of French, which later turned out to be quite useful on holiday.  I studied IT in school and was awarded with a C grade for GCSE. Now in my graphic course I am using the Macs for a lot of my work and the programmes I find myself using the most are Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign and Microsoft word.

I am often asked to arrange most of my friends’ parties because I have very good organization skills. Also in my current course I am often given the opportunity to work in groups for small side projects. I feel I am very good at time keeping and I am very self motivated, I like to set myself small goals to get my work complete. I currently go to college 3 days a week and work the other 2-week days. I never had any brothers and sisters to take care of growing up but this forced me to mature quickly and create relationships with my parents.

For my work experience, I was placed with a photography company called picturethis in Canterbury where I was able to view professional photography and what kind of image manipulation goes on in a professional business. I currently work for a small local charity in Canterbury called HiKent, which helps people who are deaf or suffer from a hearing loss. Through working at Hi Kent I have taken my level 1 BSL sign language course. I work there 8 hours a day in the 2 days of the week I’m not at college.

Previously to studying Graphic Design, I had also taken a fine art First Diploma course at Canterbury College, which had helped me, choose which industry within art I wanted to focus on. After a year on my fine art course studying Ceramics, sculpture, painting, Printing, Drawing and Computer based art, I had come away with a Distinction* and a more detailed idea of what I wanted to do.

My career plans are to work within the graphic design industry either as a Magazine designer, Photographer or Illustrator. In my spare time, I enjoy taking photographs, drawing, listening to music, going to gigs, and meeting up with my friends.  I would also very much like the opportunity to be a journalist and photographer in the future. I have a huge passion for English and I would love to portray my opinions. Photography is a major hobby of mine and I think I would be nice to turn that into a job if possible.

Life drawing

Today i experienced my first life drawing lesson and it was very hard! one thing i really struggled with was hands and feet. The medium i was using was black and white chalk and it was a bit to thick for me to draw something small like fingers and i found myself struggling with the proportions as well.

London 2012 Olympic Posters

 Here is one of Otl Aicher's Olympic posters for Munchen 1972, Using his style i was asked to create my own poster designs for our London 2012 Olympics next year.

 Here is one of my poster designs for basket ball. To create this first i opened up my image in photoshop and turn it into a greyscale image and then to a cmykimage. I then created my own gradient, for this image i used pink yellow and blue. I then posterized my image which got rid of all of the half tone colours. I then used gradient map and applied my new gradient i had made. After i had my photograph at the right colours i opened it up on indesign and moved the image into place cropping it to where i think looked best for a poster. I then added in the Olympic logo and rings which i drew up in illustrator. The olympic font i found on a website called dafont.com and i wrote the name of the sport in the top left hand corner

 Here is another poster design i made for basketball, this time i changed the gradient to orange, yellow and purple.

Here is my poster design for the Olympic sport table tennis. The gradient i chose for this one was blue, green and yellow. I am very pleased with all of my Olympic posters and it was fun learning how to create it in the style of Otl Aicher.

Concrete Circus

Concrete Circus aired on channel 4 last night and while im not very much into skateboarding, bmxing or free running myself i found it a very entertaining documentary.

The show brought together the 4 best sportsmen from each urban sport. which i gather was based on the amount of youtube hits they had. Each sportsman had to choose a director and in two weeks come up with the most entertaining short film.

While the talent in these videos was incredible i was more impressed with the directors contribution. Each director had a completely different take on how to make the film and you could really see alot of there personality come through in there work.

If you want to watch the finnished short films you can watch them Here

Whtstable Regatta

 

 

On the 13th and 14th August the whitstable regatta came back to tankerton slopes. So along with my boyfriend and a few best mates i went down to check out the festivaties. There were fair ground rides, spitfire planes, stalls selling food, jewellery, dvds, furniture and at the end of the day there was fireworks. It was a much better turn out than the previous years and the weather managed to hold up untill it got dark. I came away with a few sci-fi dvds and a huge bruse on my back from one of the rides :D

Card Swallowed?

Brick Lane

On Friday 1^st July I went on a college trip to Brick lane to visit the D&AD gallery where they were having a New Blood exhibition. Here I was able to view work from different universities and see what the art students were coming up with.  It was nice to view work from people more my age and who were also currently studying a course similar to mine. Whilst there I took some pictures of my classmates and some of the work that was on show and picked up a bunch of business cards and university booklets, These gave me a bunch of ideas of what sort of thing I should be making to promote myself as a graphic designer, artist, photographer, whatever I want to be.

After an hour or so of looking around the D&AD we were given a few hours to go and explore London, so naturally I went to the shops. Rough Trade was just around the corner and was full of graffiti and art, you could see where bands had come in and tagged the walls. There was also a black and white photo booth where everyone had stuck photos of themselves up on the walls. It was awesome and nothing like the music shops you get round Kent.  Everywhere you looked outside there was graffiti, which gave me some good opportunities to take some pictures.

Once we were done scouting the area for graffiti we moved onto old Spitalfields market where there was a huge variety of stands hosting Vintage clothing, band merchandise, Jewellery, Dvds, Antique furniture, food anything you fancy. One of the stalls I spoke to they had designed their clothes themselves. They had drawn up sketches and had them printed onto t-shirts and were very impressive. I came out with a few Beatles pieces and a few bags.

Overall it was a really nice day out, it was good to see a new area of London I hadn’t seen before, and get a peek into what new artists are coming up with. Definitely somewhere I will be visiting again if not for the art then definitely for the shopping.