Ellie Game // BA Graphic Design @ Kingston

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FMP

‘Class’

We decided to focus on manners and etiquette as indicators of social class and wanted to play around with and subvert ideas surrounding this. We asked 6 diners to eat at a formally set table, giving each of them a different set of dining ‘etiquette’. Rules included throwing chips, drawing pictures with ketchup and dropping cutlery.

With Luke Seymour

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I-Spy - 1 week brief.

In pairs we were given a design company to research and investigate and to design a webpage for. The essence of the brief was to use the design of the pages to reflect the work/ethos/personality of the given company. We were given Studio Frith and wanted the design to show the quiet, honest, and organic nature of the company. We also wanted to reflect the studios location, in the heart of London, opposite busy Borough Market, and did this by locating the studio on each page through arrows to nearby attractions.

With Megan Welstead

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Closed.

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Looking at Andrews book collection for inspiration for the book making brief. These were some of my favourite examples, makes me want to draw and make.

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Playing around for our visual thinking film, testing flours and powders on camera.

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Photos I took during the research and development phase of fade to black. The brief was to design a double page spread on a classic film. Our film was the graduate, and we decided to focus of the use of water as a repeated motif.

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Kingston First Years Instagram 👏🏻👏🏻 @babesatkingston

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Photos from the self initiated crit. I showed my marathon film and set up some of the props that I created. Because I was filming in my flat corridor, I wanted to do as much as possible to give the film a cohesive look so I chose a blue colour scheme and used that across the water bottles, clothes I wore, balloons etc. I think this definitely made the aesthetic of the final film better.

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Idea of the week 1/12/14 Package something that's never been packaged. A roll up rainbow for bad days

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Photos from the making and research period of the moving image brief.

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Research sheets from self initiated 2 week 1. I decided to focus on laziness as my area of research, and eventually on my own laziness.

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Idea of the week 2/3/15 PIRACY I focused on the story of Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates. I illustrated the number of days they were captured using the Jolly Roger on a calendar

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Interactive Brief, for which we were given the word 'closed' as a starting point. We decided to focus on the idea of humans having closing time. People seem to try and do too much too often, sacrificing sleep and time to relax. We created a jumper that would monitor the time, amount of physical activity the wearer had undertaken, and the amount of words spoken. These indicators would trigger when the wearer should return home to bed or to relax. The jumper would slowly start to extend, covering the face, legs or hands, according to the activity measured, indicating that its 'closing time'.

With Barney Fagan, Ellen Moore and Danny Alvis-Cole

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Moving image brief. Each group was given a foreign word, the brief was to produce a 10 second animation explaining that word. We were only allowed to use the word printed on paper and a photocopier to enlarge/copy it. From this we had to shoot 120 frames.

With Ross Norman, Emily Godfrey and AoifeLouise McEvoy

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More pages from my self initiated research sketchbook.

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A selection of pages from my self initiated research sketchbook.

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Self Initiated Outcome

Crit 16/1/15

Work I produced for our self initiated crit, as an outcome to the research period. I researched red hair and surrounding topics. The thing I found out that I felt was most interesting was the fact that the worlds largest sperm bank has had to turn away redhead donors because the demand for their sperm was too low. I decided I wanted to subvert this and turn ginger sperm into a premium product. I thought about how it would be packaged and created a company identity for a service offering bespoke sperm selections from redhead men. This included the packaging the sperm would be delivered in, and a selection of 'colour charts', allowing the user to select their preferences from a range of variables.

I'd like to develop this further in the future, perhaps creating a luxury catalogue of redhead men and developing a web page to compliment the work i've created so far.