#7 Poster Designs - Blue Velvet Continued...
After my previous attempt at creating a digital illustration, I decided to start from scratch. I chose to create the shapes using a...
#6 Poster Ideas - Blue Velvet Continued...
After producing the sketch in my previous post, I felt the next step was to digitise and colour my illustration. I started by...
#5 Poster Ideas - Blue Velvet
After working on my quick thumbnail sketches, I decided to illustrate the idea, so I had a starting point. As I began drawing, I...
#4 Poster Ideas
I was considering as an initial experiment reworking some poster designs for a few Neo-Noir films. This was so I could start using the...
#3 Netflix Thumbnails - Research
I started research by simply seeing if there was a genre section for Film Noir available on Netflix. While logged into my account, I...
#2 Netflix Thumbnails
During a group tutorial, how posters and Netflix thumbnails are designed was brought up concerning my major project ideas. I decided to...
Conclusion
In what ways can subversion develop creativity in relation to practise? The use of subversive messages in creative practice doesn’t...
Adbusters
Over the past weeks, I have mentioned the Adbusters Media Foundation on more than one occasion. With the research I have conducted on...
Jamie Reid and Punk Graphics
When working on my presentation I realised I was yet to finish research on a practitioner that had previously been mentioned in a...
Wes Wilson and Bonnie MacLean
Wes Wilson is a psychedelic poster artist and is credited with launching an entire art movement. Wes found inspiration within in the...
The History of Psychedelic Design
When research subversive design I came across Psychedelic art. With inspiration for psychedelic design coming from art nouveau and...
Creativity: an illustration
To continue to adapt my practice I decided to think like a surrealist in a way. In the documentary below, which I have previously...
What is Creativity?
Oxford languages defines creativity as 'the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness'. For me, creativity...
Function Vs Form
As a designer, I always work on the function of a piece first and form follows. This seems to be what is expected of a graphic designer....
The Subversive Nature of Graphic Design
In an article on Prophetik Soul they seem to argue that graphic design, itself, is subversive in nature. Initially, I struggled to find...
The Guy Fawkes Mask
In a previous post named 'What is Subversion?' I mentioned Guy Fawkes and whether his activities were subversive. This is what made me...
Subversive Design
I wanted to collate all the subversive design research I have completed into one place. I looked at a couple of articles throughout the...
Subversion: A Poster
As mentioned in my previous post, I selected a few words that I felt best represented my initial understanding of subversion. From a...
Surrealism
One of the things I have looked yet but am yet to post is my research on surrealism. I conducted this research for another project but it...




















