Unseen (Fashion Photography + Colour Correction)

Candid Fashion Photography - Holly Ginolfi

Some candid fashion photography, showcasing a friends market for a dress.

Cults - The Navel Gazers

Project regarding cults. We were told to start a new cult based around anything we wanted. We discovered belly button fluff creates new breeds of bacteria. We started a cult which championed collecting and storing your own belly button fluff.

Deceive

I decided to take images of dictators and terrorists, people which are looked at with fear and despair. i decided to give them extra special dose of fabulous.

Bellmer Girls

More candids from my Lynch X Bellmer project, looking at the destructive nature of fame and based around disrupted perversions of femininity, sex and self obsession. The project still remains one of my favourites from the course.

SPONGE DAY: How much is a piece of art REALLY worth?

Here's the link the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JQwl1tuMyV8

This was a group project undertaken with college, we were tasked with trying to make a piece of worthless art appear valuable. We did this by trying to make people believe that a piece of street art was intact worth millions. We went off the idea that a small group of people later gathers a crowd. As there were eight of us, two decided to try and "sell" the piece of art work, while one person filmed and the rest of us posed as interested bystanders.

5 Minute Page - An Introduction

So one thing that I've never even actually addressed. Why the hell did I call this thing Design Blueprint? Two reasons. Firstly; pretty much every witty, remotely decent url I had was taken. Lastly I thought the word Blueprint is a pretty relevant one given the circumstances; because for the next three years, me and millions of other young people around the world are going to start putting together the foundations for the rest of our lives. This is the tool I'm going to use to make sure I don't cock it up. It's a way to document every piece of work or vague idea I muster up on a permanent platform, and a way to put my voice onto the internet.

When I was creating my Building Blocks post (a lift of people who have influenced me in one way or another) I didn't really want to make a list fixated purely on graphic designers; I felt like it would have been sort of (excuse me for sounding a bit poncy) but insincere. I wanted this to be a personal thing, where I can talk about my creative influences honestly, which is why I've discussed photographers, film directors, pop stars, art directors etc. I was being deadly serious when I said America's Next Top Models opening credits where the reason I became interested in design. And once your hooked, you REALLY are hooked. We're surrounded by design every - single - day, it just felt so natural to look at a billboard or a magazine cover and start criticising the layout or font; I discovered a bunch of leaflets my grandparents saved from a trip to New York; advertising a bunch of bars and jazz clubs and instead of asking them anything related to trip I started bashing the horrendously tacky use of Century Gothic, and  to make Century Gothic look ugly is quite a hard thing to do.

It's been such a weird experience. And quite frankly I'm not sure if I'm any good at it in the grand stratosphere of the Blogging Universe, but I've really enjoyed thinking of new ways to get my work out onto the internet, to promote myself as an artist, document experiences and to have a place where I can express new found ideas. It will most definitely be something I'll continue to develop, as well as something I can use for a point of reference for projects in the future. It's like you've bought a piece of the internet real state, and you're free to furnish it how you wish.

My name is Samuel. I'm 19, Welsh, I'm studying Graphic Design at Kingston University and I want to become an art director. Thank you for reading.