Design Prachi

Whilst I was in Nottingham I borrowed a few design books for the university library. Preferably I would have picked up more but the weight as well as the eerie silence whilst flipping through them in the deathly quiet library put me off (it was more quiet than usual as there were a limit number of people, as you had to book a table to yourself or a computer space). The first book I picked up was 'Olle Eksell: Swedish Graphic Designer' which looks at Olle Eksell, a Swedish graphic designer. It mainly had images in it, but it was nice seeing a variety of work by one designer. I hadn't heard of him before I went to the library, but the front cover intrigued me and as I flipped through, the images were fun and I liked what I saw. And so to really start this post, here are a few photos that I thought were interesting: I like the use of color, balance and shape. And you could argue that that's important to all design/ illustration, and here it is used effectively? There's...

Inspired by this blog post on Sally Kent by Colossal, I attempted to make something similar to her work but with my lack of skills and patience it doesn't look the best. Looking at Kent's work she mainly focuses on fruits and seeds, and so I decided I wanted to make something that resembled a orange (or at least that's what my inspiration was from). At the beginning I took some photos of an orange, and sketched out what I could make? There were some things that were significantly different to my availability compared to Kents', for example she was using porcelain to make her sculptures whilst I was using air-dry clay. Mine were also smaller in size and had barely any planning, only driven by the want to use clay. When starting to make, I realised I wasn't even able to make the shape of the pods, let alone any intricate details. But I tried my best and this is what I ended up making: Only one of them is based of of the orange, and by the time I got to trying to ma...