So a lot has happened since my last post. I've been working fulltime at Urban-hardcore,I know! I went back to my mums in Exeter for a few days and then to Southend to visit the rest of the ugly bunch! It was pleasant! I have to admit I've spent most of this holiday alone in the big student house...its been depressing at times. Its a real eye-opener, this is the real world you work Christmas Eve you go home for Christmas and you're back boxing day! Life is tough......but thats life I suppose! I wouldn't have done it if I didn't enjoy my job so much, but I really want to hold onto this one.
It was such a relief when people started coming back from home...finally I had friends again!

My visits back to the see the famille have been educational as well as fun. I went to the V+A and saw an exhibition recommended by Ian called Decode. It was all about the latest developments in digital creativity and had plenty of interactive pieces-which is always a hit with me! Although at the start I didn't understand how a lot of it worked, I felt it may help me with the next project and it was interesting and enjoyable anyway.
I also saw an exhibition on illustrator as well, I know we have to look into illustrators for the next project, "Digital Realisation Techniques" so I thought why not?!
This exhibition wasn't digital illustrators, but I feel its still useful to know any sort of illustrator fashion, digital whatever!
Here were my findings....





All the illustators are students and are all inspired by completely different things.
Tom Burns did pieces inspired by the City with a great use of colour. His work has a sense of speed, but also lonliness. Lots of the illustrators worked on Giclee print on somerset paper. Burns was an overall winner of 2009.
Swava Harasymovicz did illustrations for penguin classics and worked in pencil, her work was published in the Guardian Weekend magazine - "Putting Down Daisy"
Lydia Wang is a st martins student who addressed issues such as socialist, realism and propaganda. Her piece was called "Everything turns to Gold".
Kristina Marie Hofmann is a Royal Arts student, inspired by the "Ice" Novel.
The work was really good, but different to photograph due to the glass they were behind!Oh well!

Before I go back to College I want to send some more emails for placements and try and get on top of crit and enterprise notes! All in an ideal world!!

Oh and I just hope this snow stops...its driving me crazy




Oh and because I was so pleased with the return of Vickie Wallace we decided to take a little trip to York, (we had never been,I'm sure thats against the law!), it was beautiful!
We went to Bettys...we went to the Minster and had a general mooch! Delicious!

That's all for now....
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