Amber's "Secret Santa"

We got set this brief some time ago now, however we could start it anytime we wanted. Taking the concept of "secret santa" like you do at school or work, where you spend a silly amount of money on something serious, or spend a stupid amount on something silly or... the variations go on.

Being a Graphic Design student, it would make a great deal of sense to create something rather than spend money on something, (being a student also means you are skint half the time) so Amber had a brief made so we could choose a person's name at random from a mixture of wrapped parcels. We then had to design a Christmas card for the persons name we got, and this is the first page in my sketchbook.

De Youff Dem

I took this photo in Leeds market one morning when shopping for some fruit and a bike pump.

It just goes to show that generic stereotyping can be programmed into use by an early age, but instead of having Nazis to brainwash the youth, it is influential, quite similar to Freud, or Fromm Theory.

This image was in a way, not too dissimilar to the photographers Jack Hulme, or Weegee, as both were trying to encapsulate everyday life in exciting or interesting ways.

Festive funtimes

Referring to the pictures i took , the group picked out elements that they thought had been essentuated regarding the subject matter in the images.

Using these topics as a starting point, FESTIVE, and FOOD, i went home and played in my kitchen, and fondled my appliances that are associated with food preservation or processing.

Research.....HATS?

We got set a new brief that was to take photos regarding texture, place

I can be dancier than you!

This video is really simple, but looks absolutely amazing, i love the stop frame animation, 

and the use of fellow students to make this, not only achieved by Jack Hyde's animation skills,

but thanks to 2 of his friends contributing to the illustration side of things, also a mentally good band

and good song.

Figures in speech

Classic example of good clean word association, a metonym refers to objective or subjective visuals making us respond in accordance, for example; crown - royalty, thumbs up - ok, bottle - drink or even cushion - comfy. I will use burberry as a modern day example, demonstrating its powerful presence in our common conceptions of the "chav"

Awwww... aint they stupid? For more hilarious chav parodies, check out www.fat-pie.com and watch devvo if you havnt, many happy times watching the antics.

Synecdochically speaking

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, examples like "sword" with "steel", "thief" with "pickpocket" or even "hit" with "fist" or in this case "Pig" for the police.