Project 2: Stairway to Helvetica

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Project 1: Hello, my name is

Project 9: Haymakers

I choose to make art inspired by the massive and beautiful tree outside the building where I live. The colors in the sky changed during the night and by the different days. My camera didn't always manage to capture the right colors, but to me it doesn't matter, they still look beautiful.

My final result. I added color to the drawing every night depending on what color the sky was at that time. 

Project 8: Goalscorer

My future is like a jigsaw puzzle. Some pieces might be easy to find and fit together. While other pieces are hard to find and some pieces might go missing. So the final result can change, but it can also stick to the original idea. Who knows what the next 30 years will bring?  

On the left: The stencils I made for the puzzle pieces, on the right: the stencil I used for making the box

Some of my sketches. My first idea was to make a pop-up book, but I changed it to a jigsaw puzzle. 

No puzzle is complete without a box

Project 7: 100 new uses for a brick

I was inspired by the movie "up". My original idea was to draw a person with 100 thinking bubbles, but I changed it to 100 balloons lifting a brick. 

Close-up of some of the balloons 

Close-up of some of the balloons 

Close-up of some of the balloons 

The poster before adding the shading

The finished poster with shading

Project 6: C4 live brief

A different mask

The idea behind the film:

There are many different types of masks and we use them to change our appearance; to enhance it or to make it worse, to hide what we really are or feel or to become someone we are not. The meaning behind a mask can be both literary and metaphorical and in the film both are used to show how a person can hide behind a fake face or mask. We live in a world with big diversities; were some people struggle to get food on the table and others strive to live the perfect happy life. Striving to live a perfect life can make us superficial and hide our true selves. We take on a mask to create a fake facade were we disguise our true feelings and emotions and pretend that our life is flawless.  Showing how a mask can be used differently as a costume or a façade in someone’s life is what I want to communicate through my film.

The storyline:

Short footage of different people taking on their masks: there is no talking, only music:

- Circus clown putting on face paint 

- A model getting her makeup done before a photo-shoot

- A girl putting on her masquerade mask

- A man putting on his Santa mask

- Kids putting on their Halloween masks

and finally:

- a normal person who looks depressed taking on a “happy smile” mask before walking out the door on his/her way to work.  

The music in the background could be like a merry-go-round tune with increasing intensity until the footage of the last person, when the music stops. 

Project 7: A0 kimono

For our 7th project we had to design a very different looking kimono from the traditional one. I made several tiny sketches and eventually chose to make a lung kimono. I wanted to make something completely different from anyone else's, so thats why I ended up with that idea. At first I wanted to make only the lungs, but added some organs as well to make the in design a realistic size. I then changed my mind and made the lungs with a skeleton in an ex-ray style. I spent a lot of time creating the final design in Illustrator, but I was really happy with the outcome.

Some of my ideas

The second design; including organs

My final design made in Illustrator