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I am me … what shall I be? Part 2.2

tjtrewin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:16:07 +0000

FINISHED!!! Finally

Finishing this has made me very happy, firstly because I prefer working in 2D, and am actually better at making 3D things on screen rather than with white card. Secondly, it now means I can finally rest

I’ve been working non stop without proper break (niggling in the mind reminding me there’s work to be finished). Shame it’s only about a two week break before the onslaught of work begins again, rather than the near-two-months break that others have had.

This camera is based (albeit very roughly) on my Canon EOS 50D. I thought it would be a bit easier to make something and have a reference to work from in front of me.

As you can see my initial attempts were quite hilarious, the first was to find out a way of constructing a camera out of paper, the second was to figure out more accurate dimensions and drawings, and the final was, well – the final.

I’m glad to have finished and am pleased with the results as I did find the construction very difficult with fiddly tabs and hard-to-reach places. Oh and also trying not to get mucky sticky gluey hands on white card was very challenging.

Bring on year two.

I am me… what shall I be? Part 2.1

tjtrewin — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:38:03 +0000

Hand rendered poster. DONE.

I wanted the typography to reflect its meaning, so for “zoom out” I made it so that if you wanted to see the entire word you would have to ‘zoom out’ to see it. The same with “focus”, in order to see it clearly you would need to ‘focus’ your camera lens.

Next up: making a 3D camera out of white card.

Inspiration: DC Shoes: Ken Block’s Megamercial

tjtrewin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:18:00 +0000

I don’t care if it’s irrelevant to the blog! It’s too damn awesome!
Watch fullscreen full HD.

Inspiration: 3D Paper Typography

tjtrewin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:15:05 +0000

Damn…. and I thought I had patience!

Inspiration:

tjtrewin — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:35:10 +0000

Reblogged from: http://christianjakob.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/earth-art/

Inspiration: Stop Motion Letterpress

tjtrewin — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:36:34 +0000

via FontFeed.com

Inspiration: Determination

tjtrewin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:24:34 +0000

I actually came across this video on Dave Higgs’ blog over at http://david-higgs.tumblr.com/. It’s not the type of thing I’ve seen before or am used to seeing, but worth a watch nonetheless.

Work hard & keep working I guess.

I am me … what shall I be? (part one)

tjtrewin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:52:23 +0000

For the second year of FdA Graphic Design, I was set a summer project entitled “I am me … what shall I be?”. This intriguing brief asked thirteen random personality questions and asked to answer them in a ‘creative format’ to be sent by post. Questions included random ones such as “What would your name be if you were a Red Indian?” to interesting ones like “A word you didn’t know the meaning of until now” but also more personal ones like “A smell that reminds you of home”.

I chose to do my answers as illustrated Russian Matryoshka dolls. I arranged the questions and answers so that the more personal the questions get, the smaller the dolls get. This replicates the Russian dolls and means that the most personal and guarded answers are concealed within and hidden at the centre. It also makes it more enjoyable for whoever is interacting with this piece as they read the boring bits first and it gradually gets more interesting. I used alternate folding to recreate the sense of opening Matryoshka dolls, as I couldn’t create 3D ones to fit into an envelope.

front with sleeve

alternating folds and decreasing doll size inside

group shot of all thirteen of the dolls

For full writeup and extra images visit my website.

tjtrewin.co.uk

You can now find me on Google+

tjtrewin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:12:04 +0000

Just to let you know that you can find me on Google+, I stopped using Facebook long ago. If you need an invite pop me an email!

That is all, for now.

Inspiration: Motivation

tjtrewin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:09:36 +0000