Georgia Davies

My little sister has just received an unconditional offer from The University of Brighton to study Graphic Design. This is such a hard course to get on to and I am just so proud. She is so talented and I know she will do well. Well done Georgia you make me smile :)

I wish
















I was looking through old pictures for a new project and saw my beautiful mpls bike. I wish I could go for a ride, until I can it will be my desktop picture :)

Close up Images

Exam Project



For my exam project I chose to celebrate 350 years of The Royal Society. I wanted to explore the creativity behind discovery and decided upon a puzzle format. The pieces all tesselate and fit together in many different ways alluding to the trial and error methods of science. There are also 5 unique pieces which have qualities directly related to a certain discovery by a specific fellow of The Royal Society, for example one piece changes colour when rubbed showing James Joules' discovery that movement generates heat. This piece of design enables the viewer to see science differently, science becomes innovative and exciting. It also pushes the viewer to try things for themsleves. I am really pleased but I would like to work in the finish of the 5 unique pieces, not being a 3d designer they aren't to as high a standard as I would like. Overall it was a huge project and I really pushed myself to try something new so am happy :)

Feels Good

For the last few days my desk top as looked like this...


Now it looks like this... :) Exam Project finally over.

Working








a few pics from the designs im working on for my exam project! so much to do! feedback would be great...

Apfel







Yesterday we went to interview Apfel, a practice for everyday life. This is a really beautiful studio in East London which has even more beautiful work. Kirsty and Emma gave us a really great interview, it was very honest and really inspirational. They expressed how they felt design education was essential and that its the people you meet in education who are invaluable to you. Like I said they have a really beautiful portfolio so check it out, it would be a dream if I could be working there or interning there soon after graduating, I simply loved it.

The Royal Society







When doing a project you can usually only get so much from the internet, then after that its much more beneficial to actually go and visit the place. I emailed the Royal Society and they said I could come down and see the exhibition, I also got to meet Chris the Graphic Designer for the Society and Rupert from the Library. I even got my own name badge which I wasn't expecting! It was really great Rupert even gave me a tour of the whole building which is beautiful. I got to see where all the meetings take place as well as their amazing collection of portraits of all the fellows I even got a sneak peak of the archive room containing so many artifacts. Talking to Chris was really interesting designing for such an academic place can definitely be a hard task but it looked like an interesting one, once we got talking about the society and design I realised I actually knew a lot about the Royal Society which felt great. He also was excited about my hands on approach to celebrating the 350 years anniversary. He said it was something they struggled with - letting the public know about who they are in an innovative way that doesn't make them seem like stiff academics, as they are actually some of the most creative people in the world. He asked that I keep him updated with what I create, so we will see... It was just a great trip and well worth a visit, its so important to do primary research for a project and speak to the people who you are designing for, makes it all a lot more exciting.

Sunday Market







These are just a few of the amazing things I bought at the Sunday Market, I only spent £19 but I got, a type book, a mini aeroplane and box, a microscope game, a lovely old stamp, 2 lovely bags, a gorgeous free lemon yellow jumper, a navy red and white silk scarf and a free dinosaur toy, so good :)

Finally

I am currently in the middle of my exam project, I have the hard task of celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society, the academy of Science in the UK. It is a mammoth task but I am making good progress after two weeks of lots of researching and experimenting my idea is coming together.






The approach I have taken is in a puzzle format. When the world began it contained all the pieces we could ever discover, a basic set of blocks that the Royal Society then built upon to create what we know today as ‘modern science’. Some of the puzzle pieces also have inherent qualities that relate to some of the great achievements of the royal Society including the discovery of Gravity, and Bayes Theorem of probability. These pieces push people to do something for themself to find the answer. Furthermore the puzzle pieces are of a nature that means they can be built up in many different ways alluding to the trail and error and constant experiments of the fellows of the Royal Society. Eventually however for those who like to know the answers the pieces make a triangle that then mirrors the graphic logos I have created, based upon the shorthand ‘therefore’ sign.

London










So I am now over a week into my exam project, actually by friday its exactly 2 weeks till hand in! Anyway I was feeling really excited by my project but needed some inspiration so I decided to go to London for the day by myself and I had a great day going to a total of 6 museums of which 5 I had never been to before, they included, the Huntarian museum which was beautiful full of exciting things in jars including a human face. Then I went to the Grant museum of zoology at the UCL campus as well as an egyptian museum there, then to the Welcome Collection which had an interesting exhibition on Identity, then the British museum and lastly Pollocks Toy museum, all such little gems. Then a trip to Magma books and London Graphics before I met a friend for dinner and went to a great pizza place and bar, it was a great day for doing new things in areas I thought I knew really well, and I think I now have my idea, yay.