Botanic Gardens Dublin

This a Photography project in DIT last September, most of them I used macro and narrow depth of field..

Photographs taken in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin,

Here are the rest of the photos in a slideshow

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Physical vs Digital Design

Here is the latest project in class, we had to compare Physical vs Digital Design.

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The first screen is a project we did a collage with paper cut outs,  we had to scan it (big square on the left) and recreate it digitally on Photoshop, create a storyboard and an animation gif ( the rest of the squares on the right)

From collage as starting point I created the second screen, where you can se some examples of collage through the times, the one on the left,  “a trip to Chinatown ” poster from 1899 by the Beggarstaff Brothers, who were knows for their new technique COLLAGE.

The picture in the middle is a poster film ” the man with the movie camera” from 1929, where also collage was used.

The  picture on the right is a poster by Makoto Saito in 1999 which despite modern technology he also used collage.

On the third screen, I reference the “Retro Digital”, and how  specially in the 1980′s but also used nowadays, was a trend that took as a source of inspiration the Russian constructivism and the Bauhaus school.

On the left a poster from the Bauhaus 1923, in the middle a poster by Paula Scher 1979, and finally on the right album covers by Franz Ferdinand 2004-2005, they used Russian constructivism as the source for the album covers and also their videos.

Finally the fourth screen which I called pure Digital, shows works that could only be done digitally or maybe someone with infinite patience to put together something similar.

On the left film poster for requiem for a dream 2000 and New York times magazine cover by Lisa Strausfeld 2009.

Shoot it DIT

I just started college BA in Visual Communication and the first assignment or project to break the ice was this photographic competition.

We had to take a photograph of the entire team at the entrance of each venue of a list that we were given, we had to have fun and be creative.

The venues were : The Hugh Lane, Chapters Bookstore, Evans Art supplies, Twisted Pepper cafe, Gallery of Photography, National Photographic Archive, Irish Film Institute, Chester Beatty Library, The Science Gallery.

the rest of the groups projects here http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard

Here are the results of my team : Fiona, Anna, Eithne, and Cristina.

This year should be about having fun.

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Citystickers

I recently took part in a competition by Moo.com called #CitySticker

We had to find a cool place to display our ministickers and send them a photo of the sticker.

Here are my entries,

The frog sticker disappeared the next day. 

Good news !!!

They just informed me that I WON, €140 euros in Moo.com products, so I can’t wait to print more postcards, wedding invitations , cards and stickers.

Happy days!!

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Sing as loud as you can

There is a t-shirt design competition to win VIP tickets for Oxegen this is my entry.

Please vote for my design here in this link

SING AS LOUD AS YOU CAN    Entry link

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We are made of Everything

I made this collage many years ago for one of the several portfolios I submitted to enter the National College of Art and Design.

The theme was hands: analysing fingerprints, skin, cells, bones, DNA, making a visual trip or zooming in from what we see to a more deeper view.

Researching about my subject I remember I  came across this photograph of an eggshell from a microscope .

Check also this website if you like to look at things really close.

The more you look , the more you see.

Pseudo-fractals

 

Playing around with one of the drawings I came up with this,

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dj Delmo

I’ve been working on this project for quite some time and finally I can show it.

This is album cover is for Roman, I wanted to combine  two passions he has, travel and music.

Roman gave me total freedom to create the cover, I wanted to create a minimalistic image of a DJ playing somewhere exotic,  the photograph for the background I used is in Ushuaia, Argentina, but it could be anywhere like Thailand one of those full moon parties.

Minimalism like Groove Armada‘s album Vertigo, and Yuko Shimizu an awesome Illustrator whose work inspire me to draw everyday.

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Party animal

Looking back at memory lane , here are few animals we met while traveling around the world.

http://blogs.bootsnall.com/JamesM/

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Hot Press Cover Competition

 

I am taking part in the Hot Press cover competition

Even if I don’t win, I had the time of my life making it .. but it will be really cool if I make it ..

The cover is the visual story of a young artist that is thinking about emigration due to the recession and the ongoing brain drain.
There is the dilemma of flying away in search of a better future somewhere else or staying in Ireland waiting for things to improve.
The animals are metaphors, the birds in the background representing the young people that have already left.
The cat symbolizes independence and is looking at the suitcase and is ready to leave, after all all artists have to travel if they really want to make it.

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