lucy davidson / graphic design student, london

graphic design student london, uk

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Self initiated 2 portfolio photo shoot

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Eccentric portfolio photoshoot

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Gumfiate with Ollie George and Rosie Akroyd

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Binary codes for self initiated 2

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IDEA OF THE WEEK: Graphic design inventory to be filled with items such as ‘explicit photographs of nipples’ ‘200litres of tears’ etc

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ELECTIVE Graphic mapping based on the game ‘Connect’ by Ken Garland

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Self Initiated 1 crit outcome - needs redesigning to be more alluring and appealing

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Berlin buildings

Emil and the Detectives

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Word Up - Finished piece

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Robert Montgomery’s lit 3D type poetry

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Self Initiated 2 - What would a glass of water look like with an accent?

For this project, me and Will were exploring the theme of accents and initially wanted to visualise an accent. We then progressed on to giving an inanimate object an accent and chose a glass of water as the sentence ;glass of water’ is said differently depending on the region of origin. We recorded people with different accents saying ‘glass of water’ and merged the binary codes for those sound bites with the binary codes for an image of a glass of water to make the image glitch resulting in these images.

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Editorial / Part 3 

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Editorial / Part 2 - At this moment in time, this is the most developed piece we have come up with, the most time spent on this. We’ve chosen a serif font for the woman commentator as her tone is a little more gentle and we thought it fitting, sans serif for the abrupt, loud male. The yellow arrows follow where the players move in the match for the part of the commentary we selected. Initially we were going to have type size change for volume but decided to treat it in a more graphical way and the louder the commentators get as the match gets more exciting, the higher up the page they go, following a trajectory that coincides with the yellow arrows too. Yellow was chosen as it’s Australia’s colour, the team that won. We hand drew the arrows because after drawing them up in InDesign, we had a tutorial in which we all agreed our initial sketches were nicer, so redrew them and scanned them in. In the end, we’d like to silkscreen this but won’t be able to until at least next week so it won’t be done in time for the crit. This still isn’t the final product but we’re getting closer.

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Editorial / Part 2 - Some abandoned and unfinished ideas for part 2 of the editorial brief.

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Editorial / Part 1 - For this brief, we were assigned a sport in which we had to create a 3 part typographic series revolving around a commentary for said sport.

Part 1 - A professionally typeset transcription of the chosen commentary with title and citation.

Part 2 - A tabloid sized double page spread of the transcription or a part of focusing on maybe one area, i.e. the applause that represented the flow of the game.

Part 3 - What essentially is a fancy project log, but professionally typeset in the same way part 1 is,

We were given netball as our sport and chose the 1999 world championships final between New Zealand and Australia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6IfPknVKOs) and focused on the last couple of minutes where Australia won in the last few seconds because it’s actually a pretty exciting game where not much happens until the very end which we thought could be translated nicely on to a typographic spread.

We started by typing up exactly what is said in the commentary, there are three speakers on the video, represented by the three columns of text. Midway through the third commentator speaking, the second one interrupts which we’ve demonstrated by having the text interrupt each other but in separate columns. We used the title ‘Pack Of Thieves’ because when Australia win, the female commentator describes them as a pack of thieves for stealing the title from New Zealand at the last minute. The bottom right hand corner is a citation to the YouTube link.

This is still just a first draft, ready for a tutorial and then on to improve for the crit.

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Camille Walala - I spent the most-part of this weekend in the Shoreditch area and while on Great Eastern Street I noticed a building painted with geometric shapes and primary colours, two features of design I enjoy and have regularly used. I noted down the name on the building (Camilla Walala) and have just sat down to research her and I think I’ve fallen in love. She’s a textiles graduate who’s gotten in to painting mural on buildings all over the world, East London in particular. She also collaborates with fashion designers/stores to have her prints transferred in to clothes/furniture, etc. I actually just ordered the most expensive phone case of my life from her website, but worth it. Her patterns are really straight forward, 80s looking, basic shapes and great colours. They’re so pleasing to look at.

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Word Up - Settled on the idea to plasma cut my type out of steel, I decided fixing it to a chain would be best to efficiently hang it up when I go back to the space. This is just one word from the poem I intend to use, to scale. Each letter is about 16cm tall