Dexter - blood spatter inspiration.

Recently I have been watching the TV show "Dexter". This show is about a man named Dexter Morgan who works as a blood spatter pattern analyst during the day but at night he's the one creating his own blood spatter patterns as he is a secret serial killer.

It sounds rather weird but when I am watching the show I find myself being inspired by all the blood spatter patterns so I thought I would put it on my blog as its related to my designs.

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Montage.

Inspired by Neasden control centre I have decided to try out doing some of my own montage compositions.

These designs could potentially be a start to my wall art/ mural/ wallpaper.

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Professional Development

For my Professional Development module I have created quite a few different business cards.
Here are the fronts of some of them :

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Contemporary wall art and murals.

I have been thinking a lot about my final major project and what I want all of my final products to be so I have come to the conclusion that at my show I would like to have :

• 3 helmets 
• 3 painted leather jackets.
• wall paper/ wall art/ wall murals
• selection of small badges.
• vinyl stickers.

I will probably change my mind at some point though!

Here are some contemporary wall murals that I am inspired by:

http://www.muralswallpaper.co.uk

Painted Leather.

I have decided that for my final major project I am not only going to be doing designs for helmets but I will also be painting designs onto leather jackets, fitting in with the grunge biker theme.

I am going to have to try very hard when painting as I haven't painted for a very long time as my preferred method of designing is drawing.

Here is a website of painted leather products that has inspired me and some images from this website below : http://www.paintedleatherjackets.com/

Monoprinting - Tracey Emin

I really like monoprinting, how a design instantly has texture once the ink has dried.

I have decided to try out some monoprinting as i want to create new textures for my designs

Here are some mono-prints by well know artist Tracey Emin.

http://www.emininternational.com/

Black and white designs.

Inspired by Miwa Matreyek I have created some designs that are black and white.

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I have added a little blue bird to one of my "Tree head" designs and I quite like that little splash of colour however it also looks nice just black and white.

Colour Palette inspiration - Ford fiesta.

I saw the new Ford fiesta advert and was really inspired by all the beautiful vibrant colours on a background of black. I particularly liked the shades of purple and blue as they really stood out to me and I think this may influence my designs.

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New Designs...

Here are a few of my new designs combining organs and machinery together.

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Miwa Matreyek.

I am very inspired by the animated short films that animator, designer, and multi media artist Miwa Matreyek creates. I love the vibrancy of the colours on the black backgrounds and also how everything flows together, like a good design.I also really like just the simple black and white parts of the animation too.

http://www.semihemisphere.com/about.html

http://www.arthood.com/blogs/1364/37/now-festival-2010-redcat-alexandro-segade-hana-van-der-kolk-miwa-matreyek

"Matreyek is interested in how animation transforms when it is combined with body and space (and vice-versa) and takes on a more physical and present quality, while body and space take on a more fantastical quality. 

www.notcot.org

On one hand, Matreyek's performance can be viewed as a cinematic experience taking place on a screen. On the other hand, what is seen on the screen is a collapsed product of multiple layers of animation, objects and body, rhythmically unfolding. Her work exists in a juxtaposition of illusion and non-illusion." 

www.artjerk.net

Neasden control centre.

I have come across "Neasden control centre", a London studio by illustrator Stephen smith and I find his work very inspiring!
Have a look at the website http://neasdencontrolcentre.com/