My photos

This is an example of how i could arrange my photos. They are overlapping each other which partially conceals some of the photos. They are all pictures of things that i was curious of.

I then went onto photoshop and repeated it, as it is a random shape the repeat pattern isnt as obvious.

I have played around with ways in which i could arrange the photos and then mixed them up on photoshop by layering lots of different parts. I think that they are really successful and think that they would be very interesting on furnishings. On photoshop i have drapped it onto a wall and also a bag, both of which i think work quite well.

Adrian Brannan

Adrian Brannan is a photographer who looks at different ways to present his photos. The place that is being photographed is monitored over a long period of time, up to 2years.

The intention to is to show the vibrancy and life of a city. All of the photos are arranged and layered up by hand. The images are fairly large about 90cm x 60cm.

I like that you can still tell what the pictures are of but as they are jumpled it gives an extra texture to the piece. There is also the randomness of the photos as they are not layered up straight. I would like to do something like this but i would have to choose an area very carefully.

Lomography Exhibition

For my final project i wanted to use my lomography cameras to take pictures of objects that i was curious of. I will use a variety of different film cameras including a fisheye camera and a coloursplash camera. One of my ideas to present my work was to fill a whole wall in lots of colourful photos.

I then came across this exhibition that was held in London at trafalgar square. People from across the world were invited to send in their own lomography photos, in the end there were about 100,000 snapshots.

http://congress.lomography.com/

This website shows more about the exhibition and other photos of how much wall space was covered in photos. I think that this is very inspiring and i would like to create something similar to this which is visually very interesting.

Flocking, foling and flittering

In a workshop we learnt new techniques that can be used on wallpapers; flocking, foiling and flittering. Flocking could be done in two different ways, either with loose fibres or flocking paper. With both techniques the design has to be screen printed with a flock adhesive using a larger weave screen, this has to then be left to dry. With the flock paper you place your paper with the flocking facing down into the heat press for 20sec and once cooled it is peeled off. It is then possible to create the reverse by putting it back into the heat press. The other way is to use the flock applicator, where you use loose flock fibres and then they are attracted to the paper by a charge. This is then put in the heat press to hold the fibres in place.

Foiling. Again this involves using screen printing to apply the adhesive to the paper, then followed by the heat press. It can also be used with photocopies by placing the foil on top of the photocopy and put in the heat press, it then sticks to the black outlines. The reversed can be created by applying bondaweb and then ironing the foil on to the top.

Flittering is like glitter but it is much finer so can be pulled through a loose weave screen, but an easier way is to screen print with the the binder and when it is still wet add the glitter to it. This can then be shaken off, if it is applied thickly it should stick. By then putting it in the heat press for about 1minute it should keep the glitter in place.

Kitty craft fabrics

When looking for a starting point to the wallpaper project i browsed the internet and came across this company. It has several querky designs ranging from fairytale designs to vintage and retro designs.

I like the idea of having a small relatively simple design and then repeating it with slight changes. Or having several pictures along one theme and rotating them, but this will depend on the motif that i choose to use.

Beatriz Milhaze

Milhaze is a Brazilian artist that has quite a graphic nature to her artwork. Her work contains both geometric and organic motifs. Pieces are thought to be representational of the Brazil landscape beacuse of its saturated colours and vivid patterns.

She works in a very complicated and skillful way when considering the composition. Elements are painted onto plastic sheets, once dry they are carefully positioned and then glued into place.

'Guanabara' (left) has been commisioned to be in the Tate Modern restaurant in 2005 and also exhibited in London at the Gloucester Road tube station.

Wallpaper archives

The archives contains wallpapers and wall coverings from as early as the 17th century up until the present day. It began with simple patterns which were hand crafted on small sheets of paper, to 18th century luxurious embossed hangings, to well known designers like William Morris, Voysey and Crane of the late 19th century.

I found this section really interesting as you can see how technology and styles have evolved. Wallpaper designs began being hand printed and were quite simple, but as technology advanced so did the detail within the patterns and the use of machines to print the designs. Also the advances in paper has changed, now there is an 'endless' roll of paper, whereas originally the paper was a limited size.