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#8 Blue Velvet - 'Texture' Experiments

I presented the completed illustration in my previous post to be included potentially in a Blue Velvet poster redesign. I say...

#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...

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