Matt Forsythe
- Grew up in London
- "Fun Factory" working on Adventure Time
- Works with Penn (who made The Marvellous Adventures of Flapjack)
- eatpoo forum - where artists critiqued your work

- 2002 travel blog
   - Ojingogo comic (influenced by living in Korea)
   - Jinchalo book; Andy Rostano got in touch about Adventure Time for a test after seeing this.

- Producd Good monsters
   - Asked to move to LA

Adventure Time is a story board written show. Came from Flapjack and Spongebob. This means that the writers also make the visuals.

- Kent Osbourne, Penn Ward, Somvilay, Nick Jennings

- After storyboards are finished (which takes about 5 weeks) an animatic is created.

- Breakdown meetings to work out animation sections usually take about 5 hours.

- 150-300 designs for each episode. The Regular Show only has about 40 designs.

- Redesigned Jake for season 5

- All designs are sent over to Korea to be animated for final episode

Cameron Stewart
- Storyboard artist on Men In Black
   - Worked in LA
   - Scriptboard written show (the script is written before the visuals are created, so the visuals are created to work with the written script)

- San Diego comicon
- Got work drawing for Scooby Doo
- Worked on Cat Woman

- Sea Guy Comic
  -  3 part series

- The Other Side Comic
   - Vietnam war
   - Travelled around meeting war veterans for inspiration for the book

- The Manhattan Guardian

- Batman & Robin
   - English version; The Knight & The Squire
   - Every panel leads onto the next to create an animated flow.

- Batman Incorporation
   - English Girl's School
   - Teachers based on Madonna and Katy Perry

- Sin Titulo
   - Personal graphic novel
   - Worked on Sundays on the comic
   - Stripped down aesthetic and limited colour palette
   - Always same 8 panels in the same layout
   - Influenced by David Lynch and Haruki Anokami

- BPRD Hell on Earth
   - Different aesthetic. Realistic but rough

- Fight Club 2 artist
   - Took a chapter from the novel and adapted into comic as proof of concept for the job
   - Temporarily moved to Portland
   - Set 10 years after original story
   - 10 issue series

Babs Tarr
- Painter when joining Art School
- Majored in illustration
- Moved to San Francisco
   - 2011 game artist
   - Zombie cowboy game
   - Game was never finished as start up closed

- Sailor Moon, anime influences

- Hasbro jobs
   - Toy designs

Bat Girl
- Relatable to current youth
- Cameron works on layouts and Babs adds detail to them and makes them more Batgirly with fashion and hairstyles

11.10.14

(picture I took of the entrance to the lecture theatre)

Neubau Vienna (1989-1995)
 - Influenced by and worked with the Letraset Catalogue (1991)

Neubau moved to Berlin (2001)
 - Created Neubau Welt (2005) : an illustration catalogue.


Neubau Modul 2039 Grids & Patterns (2005-2007)
 - After publishing the second book, they held an exhibition called Neubauism



Neubauism (2008)
 - Exhibition in Berlin.
 - Gauze walls were suspended with a projector showing images of their grids and patterns through gauze to create further patterns.



Neubau Forst (2009-2014)
 - 20 designers, 60 months, 39,000+ hours.
 - 684 Trees & Tree Modules.


The Making of Neubau Forst:

How do you pick a tree in a city full of trees?
 - They created a grid system out of each letter of NEUBAU and used the anchor points as a GPS location finder for each tree across Berlin.


Neubau Tree ABC was created by Marius Hanf.
 - An instruction manual for creating Neubau Forst

Photos of the trees were made up of more than 20 photos merged together.
 - Took 7 months to take photos of some of the trees
 - Some trees that were photographed had been cut down on the next visit

How do you vectorise trees?
 - image, grid, expand, mask (test), outline, inline
 - Could take up to 3 months to create a single tree vector!

Joseph Beuys - 7000 trees project.
 - Helped Neubau access the information that they needed for each tree, for example the species of the tree that they used.


Typeface used in the publication is one that has been produced by Stefan Gandl called Neubau International
 - based on Akzidenz Grotesk.

At the end we were encouraged to ask questions in order to win a free book for best question.
I asked: Do you plan to produce further tree catalogues or do you have different plans for the future?

To which they responded:
No more trees, we've had enough of trees!

I didn't win, unfortunately.

I received the following email from Dapper Signs (a signpainting studio in Bristol who I'm interested in getting in contact with for possible work experience) on a workshop in November. I'm really interested in attending, as it will help further my practice, however getting to Bristol on the train plus the £200 workshop fee is a bit unachievable.

I have emailed them back to ask about their future workshops and what concession prices they offer. Am currently waiting on a reply...

Dapper Signs lettering workshop View this email in your browser

Dapper Signs  Introduction to Brush Lettering workshop Hello we are getting in touch because you or people you know may be interested in our two-day, Introduction to Brush Lettering workshop we are running. The workshop will help you get to grips with the tools and techniques to begin painting beautiful letters. Based in the Dapper Signs workshop in Easton, Bristol, you will have one-to-one guidance from start to finish. From learning the basics of how to paint block and casual alphabets, to completing your very own sign that you can take home with you. Formed in 2009, Dapper Signs is a small sign company based in Bristol specialising in 100% hand-painted signs. Dates: Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd Nov Time: 10am - 5pm Materials: All materials provided Price: £200, includes lunch and refreshments (concessions available) Booking info: please contact info@dappersigns.co.uk  Please forward this on to anyone you think might be interested. Thanking you in advance. Cooper and Katie HAND.BRUSH.PAINT

- Don't channel yourself, expand your horizons.

On your blogs:
- Write about studios, interests, anything that informs you even if it's not related to Graphic Design
- Exhibitions, talks, etc
- Be objective
- Tone of voice should reflect you as a person
- Draw from your blog posts. What do you get out of it?

- When contacting studios, make your emails reflect your personality
- 8-10 pieces in portfolio. You have to love every piece!
- If you don't like your briefs, change them. Work on stuff that you enjoy.

I absolutely loved the Barbara Kruger exhibition, especially the typographic room. It was really exciting to be able to surround yourself in Kruger's typography and actually see some of her work in real life. I think it's interesting how she doesn't associate herself with Graphic Design yet the majority of her work focuses on how typography can be impactive and how you can use it to communicate a certain message.

I think I loved that room the most literally because of the scale of the work and the fact that all the walls and the floor were covered in typography. I definitely want to attempt working at a large scale at some point within my design work. I don't think I could work at such a large scale just yet, but I am definitely interested in trying to paint or draw some typography at mural size or something - this might be something that I do when I graduate rather than during term time at uni, as I know it would take a while to do.

I've been in contact with Martin Lewis since 1st year and actually went down to visit him before in Shoreditch, but decided that I would pay him another visit this year whilst I was in the area.

Unfortunately I completely forgot to take any photos of his studio whilst I was there! But here are some pics I found online...

Although I already knew that I wasn't really looking to work in a studio that produces work like at Lewis Design, I always find visiting Martin and talking to him really inspiring and useful. He's a really honest and understanding creative and constantly offers constructive criticism and feedback on work that I'm producing. I definitely think that he's worth keeping in contact with throughout my career, as he's got 25 years of experience behind him which makes him very influential and someone to look up to!

Whilst at Martin's studio this time, I noticed that not much had changed since the last time I had visited. Martin was as keen as always to see what I had been up to and had plenty of ideas and feedback to give me in regards to my studies and professionalism.

Going back to the Lewis Design studio confirmed that I'm not very interested in working within such a commercial studio, but has definitely made me consider working in Shoreditch or somewhere similar as being in such a creative area is so inspiring and makes me feel really positive.

The reason we decided to go into Shoreditch was because of the High Fives & Good Times exhibition that we knew was going on at the time. I quite liked the fact that when we arrived, the sign hadn't been finished on the outside so I spoke to the guy who was painting the sign who actually told me he was filling in for the actual sign writer who designed the sign and gave me his contact details so that I could contact Pincel Signs for my dissertation.



www.lakwena.com
I absolutely adored this mural piece by Lakwena in Shoreditch. It was a commissioned piece for Nike for an upcoming art festival showcasing all female work and live artists etc to raise money for a charity. I love all the colours and the typography that Lakwena uses in her piece. Also, after having a look on her website too, I have fallen in love with most of her other work! Good find!


We paid a trip to YCN whilst we were in the area and had a look at everything that they had on sale. We also chatted to one of their employees about the awards and stuff which was really interesting.

I had a good time in Shoreditch - it's always such an inspirational place to visit because of all the creatives in the area and all of the murals dotted about. I also really like the fact that the murals are constantly changing and that you can go back a few months later and something you saw before will be replaced with something new, which keeps the area looking up to date and fresh. I think that Shoreditch would be a good place to work in, due to the fact that you'll be surrounded by so many creatives, even though it does feel very "hipster" when you're there.

The exhibition that we went to was interesting. I really liked the work that was on show and had a look at a few publications too for inspiration. I quite like the fact that there's always something going on in the area so you can usually just pop into an exhibition or two whilst you're in Shoreditch to keep yourself inspired.

I was really pleased with my final outcomes for the self branding brief, as I felt as though they were a lot more professional than last year, and that I produced more work and focussed a bit more than I did last year.

It was interesting to see how my self promotional designs have changed over the year, and I know that next year I will be branding myself completely differently as my interests within design seem to be constantly changing and growing!

Although the branding didn't really reflect my craft skills as much as I would have hoped, I am still happy with the end result. I think that in the future I will need to manage my time a bit better, so that I can produce something really out of the box and unique, for example working with glass business cards like I originally had hoped!