The hard work over the past four years paid off! I got my results and I have been awarded a First Class! I am very happy and looking forward to graduation and seeing everyone! x

Degree show work...

My typographic 'installation' exhibition piece - combining elements from my larger 'language' brief showing the links between and origins of everyday words and phrases. Showing variations in accent, pronunciation and dialect. This piece experiments with taking typography off the printed page, using typographical hierarchy to differentiate between words and phrases and make an impact with words.

Exhibition building...

I spent all last week putting my exhibition piece together - it took me A LOT longer than I imagined but I'm really pleased with the final outcome - will post photos of the finished piece soon!

In Book!!!!!

A couple of weeks ago Kathryn and I were told by D&AD that our LBi work had been awarded 'in book' at the 2010 student awards. We had to keep it quiet but it has now gone live on their website along with some other great entrants...check out all the work here.

Its a great achievement for us both and a nice way to finish our last competition brief at university!

Up and running!

I've been working on my website for what seems like forever after numerous problems with a lot of technical information that really baffles me , BUT I finally have something up and running - I still have more to add over the next couple of weeks but I can now refer people to my website!

www.isobelstockhill.com

Why not associates...

Ive been thinking about and designing my exhibition piece over the last couple of weeks and I am currently working on the design. Taking elements of this terms work to move off the printed page and take my typographic designs to a much larger scale. The degree show is a great chance for me to show that I can work at a larger scale still with typography so I am pushing myself to try and do this!

Looking for research reference and inspiration I was told about Why Not Associates they produce some great large scale typographic work. They are a british graphic design company who "turn their passion for design into commercial success for clients in business, government and the public sector."

They work in many different media on many types of projects, including corporate identity, digital design,motion graphics and television commercial direction, editorial design, environmental design, publishing, and public art.

They work closely alongside Gordon Young, a visual artist who creates art for public spaces. They have collaborated together on a number of concepts that specifically involve typography.

This piece for Crawley Library is one of my favourite pieces - using typographic tree columns to become focal design points in the library - working the type into the environment rather than it becoming an added printed piece somewhere. The words used link to the environment as they are the library users favourite books, places and memories - the work becomes site specific to locations within the library.

Some really great inspiring typographic work!

a little update...

Its been a busy few weeks finishing journal and cracking on with my current projects. Here's a few snaps of my work so far...

My major project this term has been an experimental brief working with typography and language so I have a number of final outcomes as a result of my experimentation.

- from hello to goodbye -

An all typography reversible concertina book showing the link in words from hello to goodbye. Open the book one way to see hello which then meets with goodbye in the centre and flips the direction of the words and colour of the type.

- York.sha -

my finished yorkshire poster - re-printed

- Self promotion -

I've designed and had my business cards printed - I wanted them to be bright and eye-catching but quite a simple design. I created a logo for myself based around an 'i' and hopefully these promote me as a versatile graphic designer as I purposely designed the cards to not be specific to any one design discipline.

There are 3 different cards all using the same design but with a variation of 3 bright colours. The reverse uses a neutral colour so as not to compete.

- Mapping words -

Investigating the links between words - showing how we can take parts of one word to make another, adding or removing individual letters to create new words or make variations of others. Using the cut-out letters to represent how we make new words and how words meaning and pronunciation can change over time and with new generations.

I've blogged about this piece before but have been working on it more over the past week or so. I have nowre-photographed the piece adding more letters and changing the layout - any comments are welcome!

As a further addition to the brief I am now working on the final part - looking at typography with conversations and how people naturally speak. I am currently working on this to be designed as a newspaper style layout and will upload the finished spreads soon!