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.

A New Website





Here is new site, with new logo, a home page where the image changes every time you refresh, a menu bar which scrolls and highlights, as well as the ability to enlarge the images so you can see them even better. I am really happy with the new site it works so much better, there will also be new work feeding onto it in the next couple months as i get closer to graduating so enjoy and let me know what you think thank you.

I love ....

The Natural History Museum











I am not sure what it is about them but I find all natural history museum fascinating. I could spend hours and hours exploring them especially the Taxidermy animals and dinosaurs. They are just so beautiful representing so many different species from all over the world some that are even now extinct. I have attempted to go to every museum of the sort in every country i have been to and here are a few pictures. Also some scans from an amazing book documenting the history of the Natural History Museum London.

Sun- Day





Today was a real sunday as the sun was shining really brightly. It was good to get out of the house and gather my thoughts and enjoy the cold air on my face and the warm sun on my back, lovely.

Amazing Books















I have had a stressful yet great week of research. My final Exam project has begun and I am attempting to create something to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society. It is an amazing brief and so I have already produced a lot of research and I now also have my idea and a nice idea for a logo too but I still have no real format to my idea but fingers crossed by just jumping into some work il get somewhere... but while researching look at the beautiful books I found. I am the very proud owner of all these books especially envisioning information by Edward Tufte. he is an amazing man who has created a simply beautiful book its my favourite! I also love the odd signs book, there is definitely a project in that book... and then also some more lovely diagrams from some old books I have, so nice, enjoy.

Alice














































I just wanted to blog about my great friend Alice and she is really amazing at what she does, and every print she does is more complicated and more gorgeous than the last and I cant wait to see more :)

Birthday










I have had a really great birthday, which inlcuded a lovely lunch with my parents, a visit from a friend from home, a dance party and then a night of bowling and games! It was so much fun and I also got some great presents including a lovely 'm' necklace, and a dinosaur balloon, what more could a 22 year old girl want. Thank you to everyone.

Lovely Post





I have had the best weekend for gifts and one was sent from post from my very talented friend Adina She does Print, Paper Book at MCAD and has sent me this huge A0 or maybe bigger print of fish heads, its a huge wood cut print and its a shame the photos just dont do it justice but I hope you enjoy it and thank you Adina.