Rachel McDowell

Foundation Student

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Contemporary furniture is my thing

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Holy ideas

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Mock up of a stool that can be converted into a circular table

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Potential designs for breakout furniture

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I was inspired by the first image, I designed and created an individual concept to then make a mock up

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Graphic design is great for expressing your creative side and going crazy with the photocopier

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Letter design: exploring different styles and methods to find which one is the most aesthetically pleasing, I really enjoyed drawing and introducing collage into my letters

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Graphic design

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Final ideas and product

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Looking at problems in society, how can they be solved by a product?

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Colourful and crazy brainstorms

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Product design brief

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My experience of uni so far. Fun and messy

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Some pictures from my fine art workshop

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Bill Woodrow is one of the artists I have looked at, he is an English artist. He tends to use found materials in dumps, wastes lands and scarp yards. He uses these found objects to create his work of art. He keeps his materials identifiable. By using everyday objects he resembles another object by altering the one he found. His work is surrealistic that's what I like the most his work is very usual.

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David Hockney is a British artist, he is very famous for his iPad drawings, printmaking and photo collages. David became the first public prominence, his interests are imagery drawn from the urban environment. He also does large body's of work from his iPad, they are my favourite as they are very vibrant and abstract.

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Ross Bleckner is an artist from New York. Ross's paintings are visually dramatic. His paintings are very abstract but they contain recognisable symbols. His paintings are influenced by life tragedies such as the AIDS crisis. "The idea that something beautiful like a cell can be mutated into something treacherous" His work evokes emotion and recognition and allows people to be apart of his work that have shared the same experience. Ross's paintings tend to have more than one interoperation, he paints in such a way, that his work can be distinguished in numerous different ways.