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So this is what the exhibit looked liked. I was luck as I had three walls to play around with, most of the other students only had one cardboard structure to pin their work to.

I was even interviewed at one point This is Peter, the cameraman. You can also see the my travel prints, which I’m currently selling on my site, suctioned to the window.

Thank you Robert for the photos!

Attention all Sydney-siders - the UTS Graduate Design Exhibition is tonight!

I’ve toiled long and stressed hard this past week to set up my display (you will be amazed how many adhesives don’t stick to brick walls), so please please drop by and say hi My stand is next to the glass in front. I’ll be loitering around, trying to net freelance jobs.

My major project is due tomorrow and I’m quite proud that I’m burning the last CD and ready to go to bed at such a healthy time.

To complement the final body of work, I’ve designed a bit of exhibition emphemera. Namely a logo, a booklet, a website (which I will share with everyone after the exhibition) and an e-invite.

Please come and see the show! Bring friends and foe, for snacks and bubbly will be provided

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And as a mini-celebration of the completion of a six year design degree, I want to share this little video clip. It’s a bit dated, but will hopefully serve to remind us what design should never be.

In the last few weeks I’ve been working steadily on Skin, and am now producing the final photographs that will go into the series.

I’m a bit hesitant in blogging about those as I want to show them as part of a whole, not in bits and pieces. But I am happy to share all the ephemera that comes with having an exhibition.

At this point I’m planning to design a DL flyer, a business card, and a website to go hand-in-hand with this project.

I spent the better half of yesterday tweaking the logo. The typeface I started with is Monotype Corsiva, as it was the only one I had that was script and had ball terminals. And a nice ‘k’ - you’ll be surprised how many bad ‘k’s are out there.

I wanted something really organic and elegant, simple not fancy, but not overly feminie either. For this purpose Monotype Corsiva is still too thick and blocky, but it was a good place to start. Below, the gray is the original typeface, and the red outline indicates my changes.

And this is the final product!

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I did a bit of typeface research before I started working on the logo, on the off-chance that I would find sometime nice that I could afford.

That didn’t work out, but I did find a good article on ball-terminal typefaces from Typographica that I thought I’ll share.

Here are some of my favourites.

Cabernet

Coquette

Miller

Farnham

I photographed David last weekend. Went into the shoot with an assistant (read: sister) and storyboards. This shoot really taught to stick tighter to my storyboard, or at least get the required shots first before ad-libbing. While I like these, they don’t for quite so well into the grand scheme of the project.

I’ve been meaning to post these up for a while now, but just keep, well, forgetting.

This is a series that I did for the final assessment task of my Photography 3 class. The brief was very loose - take photos with a person or people in them.

I was interested in using fast shutter speeds to create photographs of motion suspended. I wanted a sense of surrealism, of capturing a seemingly banal moment - but with a quirk. I was aiming for photographs that revealed something new on second glance. I feel I’ve achieved this with a few in the series, but not all. I’ll let you decide.

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Inspiration came in the form of Rosemary Laing (recommended by my tutor Karen Mork) and Philippe Halsman.

Laing’s photograph of a bride jumping over the blue mountains is breathtaking. This is part of her Flight Research series.

Flight Research #5

Halsman was a photographer for Life in the 40s and 50s, and is the father of ‘jumpology‘. He believed that in a jump, the subject cannot control their facial muscles, hence revealing a ‘truer’ expression. He’s surreal photo of Salvador Dali leaping is a work of genius, I have never seen (and doubt I will ever see) anything quite like it.

Dali Atomicus

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This is Float.

Float #46

Float #23

Float #106

Float #72

Float #124

Float #151

Dan, who is also working on his major project, came up with a great marketing campaign for zoos. He conducted a viral exercise at Martin Place, the centre of Sydney’s CBD.

He found some crazy volunteers, decorated them, then set them loose amongst unsuspecting suits during lunch. There were some funny reactions, some of which I managed to catch.

Rest of the photos can be found here.

I’ve reached an exciting time in my major project - I’m actually starting to produce the final product. Whoopee!

This is Dane, who you’ve met before. She’s one of my final subjects and this shoot was held in her amazing bedroom. I’m happy with these photos, but I can see where I can do better.

Rest of the photos are here.

Here are some more photos from the session I had with my gramps.

It’s funny how the light can change within a half hour, and give photographs completely different meanings. I’m trying to decide which one I like better, the warm golden tones or the more severe bluer one.

I love photographing my grandfather.

I don’t know if it’s our relationship, or how completely comfortable he is in front of the camera, but every time I have a session with him, something magic happens.

I’m in the process of scanning the rest of the roll, but thought I’ll share a peek first as I’m pretty damn happy with this image. Gramps suffers from dementia, which makes this image is all the more poignant for me.