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.

Keep Working








Had a good day today, my design for my project i talked about before is coming along quite well, got some great feedback today from our tutors so i can push it even further! Also is another project I have been working on on the side along with an illustrator, for a charity called Community Support Its a great organisation aiming to teach children skills and trades so that they can pass them on to the younger children. This is a fold down leaflet to get people wanting to donate. Lastly had a great evening in the pub with great friends and our great tutors Chris Big and Martin Anderson, I think at Brighton we are really lucky and no matter how hard Im finding this year Im enjoying the challenge even more.

Advice

"I think what we’ve found here that yeah we’ve got things to do, we’ve got interviews to transcribe, blogs to write, essays to research, things to design and websites to update, but we’re here, in a city, it’s about balancing the two. I think that’s been a really valuable thing. I think if you can balance your work, your life, and your interests, you’re going to be successful at what you do because you’re going to be enjoying your life. You can’t think I’m going to work solidly for a week and then have a week off, life doesn’t work like that, you’ve just got to take every day as it comes." - Millie

Sometimes you say things that are really true and its not until someone points them out to you that you realise at times you should really listen to your own advice.

Now







I am currently working on a project called 'Boundaries' It has definitely been a slow starter I am now entering my 3rd week out of 3 on the project and am loving it but it hasn't been like this until now! As the brief is so open I wanted to tailor it to something that I was really interested in and my initial thought was looking at us, as people and how we can physically break boundaries within our won bodies. I then spent the last two weeks researching all about amazing feats people have achieved from women lifting cars off of children to a man climbing the dangerous North face or 'Murder Wall' of the Eiger mountain in just over 2 hours and then the traditional Ama translated meaning 'Sea Women' off the East Coast of Japan who can dive up to 100 feet and hold their breath for 3-4 minutes at a time to fish for pearls. I could go on as there is then Usain Bolt who broke the 100m and 200m world records in the same year, or the 17 year old boy who circumnavigated round the world alone, but you get the idea. I have now picked 6 of these remarkable stories to create a physical journal which will fold and change to mirror the activities it visualises and describes. I am excited but its definitely proving harder then I though, but i like a good challenge enjoy the pics of my work in progress ....