Professional Mentor

I have not yet discovered a suitable mentor I could easily be in contact with, due to lack of contacts with outside designers. However I do understand my mentor should be a senior designer that not only can guide me through the industry and teach me the first skills I need but can a role model of the position i hope to be in in a few years time. 
The Sign making Designer i interviewed for my professional practice work Carol Lewis, has been helpful towards be. She provides me with information and alerts me on any job opportunity and sites that would be suitable for me. 

Liberty: Rory Dobner

Rory Dobner is an artist working with illustration and creating unique home ware pieces. I came across his work while in London and immediately fell in love, his illustrations of characters are comical yet classic, forced to stand out. I like the way in which his works are black and white appearing simplistic but very detailed.

                            
                       

Trade Journal: Creative Review

Creative Review launched in 1980, is a magazine for the design industry inspires, simulates and informs people within design. The trade Journal covers all aspects from advertisements and typography to photography and illustration.
I first began looking into this journal for inspiration in my first year of BTEC Level 3 Design and ever since have felt it's effective and provokes inspiration for me to gain ideas from. Not only do I love the content within I feel the look and identity of the Creative Review is easily recognisable and shows off what simple design and layout is all about. 

Artist Two: Nobuhiro Nakanishi

Studying for both a B.A and M.A in Fine Art Sculpture in Japan Nobuhiro Nakanishi is a well recognised installation artist. He lives and works in Osaka, Japan.  His work has very intense meaning behind it, in the fact that he wants our bodies to explore spatial awareness and the flow of time. Nobuhiro mainly uses landscapes in his sculptures to achieve this.

Artist One: Karen Hanmer

Karen Hanmer is a Chicago based installation artist and book binder who’s work is based on using text and imagery alongside each other. The inspiration for her works comes from researching into cultural history and the history of science, allowing her work to represent the experience of looking through old photo albums or diaries of intimate memories. To create her pieces she combines the traditional book binding methods with computer software to improve her processes.

                                           

Guerrilla Advertising

Being a graphic designer, advertisment is a huge part of the design and what great influence can be taken from. I have come across the style of Guerilla advertising and find it fascinating the way it makes people perceive things. Guerrilla advertising was originally made for unconventional means using low cost materials to create the work such as: graffiti, flyer posting and stickers.The concept behind this advertising method is to shock people and twist the ideas of reality.

Stitch Work

Throughout my professional practice and projects I have had an ongoing interest with stitch work and embroidery. This past week I have focused on exploring this further researching into works of designers that use this process to create design. One designer which caught my eye was Ana Teresa Barboza, as her embroidered images have great depth and detail. The colour usage is vibrant allowing it to stand out again either simple drawings or plain backgrounds.