Ruby Craner-Buckley

BA (Hons) Graphic Design Student

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BA (Hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Vector drawn letter U, with underwater embellishments

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The Green Machine Publication

After a visit to the Special Collections Politics Archive at Bristol University we worked in a group to produce this publication. Our aim was to reinvent the public's…

BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Video of our final Green Machine Publication 

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BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Poster designed to be pasted up on adverts to remind the public that studies have proven adverts to be subliminally influential.

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1 Second a Day for 21 days

I filmed a second of my day every day for 21 days over Christmas and New Year. Before starting the project I decided to say a different pre-planned word each day.…

BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Check out my Vimeo page!

https://vimeo.com/rubycranerbuckley

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A fine liner drawing of Bramble given to my Mum as a birthday present. Contact me by email for commissions to draw your pets!

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BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Curated by class members, our work was selected, gathered and displayed in an end of term exhibition named: The Title of This Show Doesn’t Matter.  Both my still life photograph and my cardboard model were chosen to be shown.

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BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Composing a still life using objects appropriate to represent the upper class.

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BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - Cardboard model of the Grape and Grind on Gloucester Road, Bristol.

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BA(hons) Graphic Design 1st Year - A physical word. To produce this I made a cast and filled it with water. This was then placed in the freezer and taken out a couple hours later. After a coupe of minutes of melting, this was the end result.

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Amsterdam was full of inspirational art, scenery and architecture.

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A holiday in Barcelona meant that I couldn't leave without seeing Gaudi’s crazy and amazing masterpieces.

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Foundation - preparing my space for the end of year show. I reused the stencil to paint a massive poster onto the wall and floor, had my poster pasting video on a loop and had posters for people to take away and paste where they wanted.

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Foundation - The result of over night rain on the installation. Surprisingly I was pleased that this piece only lived for a brief time as it was in keeping with the posters and stickers that similarly have brief existences.

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Foundation - The finished icing sugar stencil installation that took a day to complete, drummed up a lot of attention and was best viewed from the overlooking 3 story staircase.

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Foundation - I went on to paste my posters and stickers over the city of Bristol. I revisited the location of one of my old posters and stuck a new one on top, I feel this is symbolic of how much the project has grown and developed. Whilst doing this I enlisted help to paste and film the whole process.

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Foundation - I sent off for stickers that depicted the 1st World Problems logo

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Foundation - I then redesigned and screen printed new posters, adding the logo, tag line and link to the Instagram page