The Act of Doing

So got up very early this morning to get myself up to kings cross and do my installation. Here are the pictures complete with very disappointing grammatical error. I'll say more later but have to rush off to football now.

Fairy Tale

As promised a while ago, the story that is in the book that i made (see below) for the fairy tale project that I completed a month or so ago.

Power to the Pedestrian

Here are some pictures from the project I'm working on at the moment. Its based in the kings cross area of north London. I was looking into giving more freedom of movement to pedestrians who are the biggest users of this space. I made a lot of maps of the the most common paths that people walked through the space and then planned to put this as a crossing as well as signage and ramps for people with cases on their way to kings cross. Hopefully have the real thing soon. Just got to make it first...

Dartmoor

Just back from Dartmoor, with a greater understanding of the word 'tor', a sense of the England from stories and a deep seated mistrust of the merchant navy. Actually not true but it is beautiful down there. I can't get enough of the misty bleak moors that force you to feel a least a little bit of melancholy. So heres to lakes appearing from behind a veil of mist, stumbling upon little village squares with pubs and people driving land rovers that actually need them. Oh and wearing welly boots...

Sketchtravel

After the interview on thursday I photographed the book that the whole project is about. This is it as well as one of the illustrations within (go to the website to see all of them and learn more about the project). In short it is a book that travels the world being illustrated by top illustrators and is then sold for charity.

Quentin Blake

Yesterday I met Quentin Blake. We were filming for Sketchtravel so it was Catherine interviewing him, Sylvain came to deliver the sketchbook and I was filming and photographing. He was absolutely as lovely and easy to get on with as you would hope, as well as being funny. The filming went well and I even got a few nice pictures of him. Images of the sketchbook and links will follow soon.

Smiths Magazine

Smiths magazine came out today. It was our first effort and certainly not perfect but a promising start I think. The structure of having 25 designers and contributors (a co-op style set up effectively) didn't really work perhaps so we'll try something new next time. Anyway, we're all learning and apart from the loss of the uncoated paper that we wanted it sort of works.

Fairy Tale

The book that I made (see below) was a fairy tale writen using information that I gathered from my research. The idea was to change the idea of Marriage as a holy grail in fairy tales and instead put a more realistic spin on its role in life and the effort need for a successful marriage.

Barcelona

A group of men with unexpected dogs. They were sat around in Barcelona, before the older guy went and sat all lone on this ball with his two dogs. Oh, and some sunflowers that I saw early one morning in the countryside.

Spanish Town Life

Some pictures from my trip in Spain at the end of September. These are from some of the small townson the north coast on the famous pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostel.

My Final Project

Working late into last night I finished this piece in response to my marriage project. I wrote a fairy tale from the surveys I conducted at an old peoples home and then went on to make an interactive book system.

Mas De Clemany

Here is a website that I took all the photos for that has just gone live. See all the other photos on my flikr account to the right.

www.mas-clemany.fr

My Summer Project

This website was the main project that I worked on during the summer, both the design and the images that make up the content. Take a look and remember to manipulate the images when you get there, you can see in full 360 view in all directions.


www.aveyron360.com

Stamp out Racism

A painting for Vincent to say thanks for the last three months. Marmite was a hot topic in the land of cusine. A country where food racism is rife and needs to be address in clear and understandable terms to change the mindset of the populace. Otherwise the prejudice will live on. Maybe they are right though, maybe it isn't exactaly haute cusine...

Channel Crossing

Just found a couple of photos on my computer from when I was coming over to France on the ferry. Nervous about what lay in store for me and already missing Martha. That was all nearly three months ago now though, the only thing that hasn't changed is missing Martha.

Second time at Puech Maynarde

I completed a second sejour at the horse ranch in north Aveyron called Puech Maynarde last week. This time I was photographing and also following the TV crew who were making documentary for French television. Again a really interesting time and I hope some good pictures and video. All the photos from this trip are available HERE on my flickr portfolio for this summer.

www.flickr.com/puechmaynarde

Still Water

Water from a fountain in Avignon. Lovely little neat droplets that it makes, it looks much messier in real life, but frozen they are perfect.

Sur le pont d'Avignon

Photos from a trip to Avignon (not to be confused with Aveyron where I live) this weekend. The bridge in the last photo is the pont d'avignon, a very famous bridge in France. Those of you who remember Joes song from last year might recal the line: "sur le pont d'avignon..."

Design a Postcard

My summer project was to design 4 postcards covering 4 topics. The idea was to explore designers and creative people that could influence you and also to explore graphically the postcard. I looked into collectability and trying to put a greater narrative and collectability into postcards in an age of mobile phones and facebook. My postcards (or is that postwoods) were posted in Aveyron and are currently winging their way to England I hope.