Bad type made...better

For our typography TOP last week we were asked to find two really hideous fonts and typeset them to make them beautiful. Don't know how well this worked, but I was quite pleased with my typesetting! I chose a piece I wrote for a review of a fashion exhibition a few years ago, I decided to use fonts that were a juxtaposition to the genre of the text - Graffiti! So off I went to the old Dafont website and discovered the typefaces Most Wazted by Magique Fonts and Typographic Onedalism by Mans Greback...wow...just wow.

Contextual studies: Laughter is contagious

Proof that laughter is contagious: http://www.wimp.com/laughtercontagious/

This is what we want to prove in our contextual studies presentation. After lots of discussion we came to the conclusion that people are inclined to laugh over specific points that they find funny for personal reasons when brought up in conversation. I specifically was repetitively made to laugh by a Fawlty Towers reference of how Sybal makes toast in the morning, despite the fact that I had seen the joke numerous times over the years.

Boombox

A new boombox illustration drawn for for my sister for a christmas hoody. My prints are now available on tote bags on society6:http://society6.com/sophiedevine/Owl-wN0_Bag

Contextual Studies : British Humour

With two Americans, a Brazilian, an Indian and two british members, british humour is something that our contextual studies group found interesting to discuss. There are many aspects of british humour that make it unique. It is often said that foreigners struggle to understand when we are being ironic and sarcastic, which is something I find comes to me naturally in everyday life, which is why this is the aspect of British humour that I want to investigate further. From my searching the internet and library catalogue I've discovered it's quite hard to find examples of people using sarcasm when it's something that comes quite naturally to us in everyday life, so lots of watching of comedies for me! So i leave you with something to illustrate the absurdity that British humour sometimes encompasses, the Knights who say "Ni!"

Nick Knight Type

Designs for 3 page spread of Nick Knights work, second exercise for Typography Territory of Practice

Runner!

Yesterday I worked on a runner for a short film set in a pub, it was a really interesting morning and I enjoyed making milk powder cocaine wraps and tea beer! I will hopefully be working on more shoots with the director Julie Bates in the future.

In the mind of Robert Crumb

For my second presentation of Robert Crumb I created a stop frame animation using illustrations on a whiteboard. I wanted to capture his obsession with women and sex in an illustrated form that can relate to his style. You can see the video at:

https://vimeo.com/52170136

I am going to develop this by experimenting with more drawings and sequences. I think it works more effectively when the drawings become less literal.