JOE MITCHELL DESIGN

When developing and researching ideas surrounding Scandinavian Design I came across Systems new subscription which details the work of Virgil Abloh of OFF-WHITE, an American high fashion house that is bang on trend at the minute with consumer and pop culture.   OFF-WHITE is a fashion label founded by DJ and fashion designer Virgil Abloh in 2012, following his reappropriated art experiment, PYREX VISION. The current designs range from patchwork to graphic t-shirts, and all of them feature the company’s now trademark stripes, noticeably embossed on its back along with its name “WHITE.” As well as, being carried by various retailers worldwide, OFF-WHITE opened its first location and flagship store in Hong Kong. It was for his collaboration with IKEA by which has interested me in looking into him further.  Known for continually pushing the envelope and offering some of the world’s most concise, dynamic reports on a variety of hot topics, issue 10 of  System Magazine...

Workshop three of AfterEffects was about the hand, hand drawing and how we can use manual effects to enhance designs digitally. We were told to come to the lesson with three hand drawings of some form, each slightly different that would allow for us to layer the images and ultimately make them move over a 10-second sequence. We were also told to bring a background which would hold some form of context that would allow us to shape the composition in an exciting format. I decided to look into the work of Kris Trappeniers.  The stencil artist, Kris Trappeniers  from Belgium, creates fascinating portraits using only a scalpel and a single piece of paper. Initially, he establishes loose portraits on paper, and then he cuts each paper-cut by hand with an X-acto. Afterwards, he uses the spray to paint them.  The use of various line weights and the mixture of positive and negative space are the main elements of his art creating really vivacious images.  Fore...

I have developed further work surrounding my recent studio project Imminent Self. Working on feedback from tutors as well as looking at the direction I want to take my project, I am now developing previous work to hopefully come up with a concept idea.  Developing from Photography from before, I have now decided to look at the work of Deutsche & Japaner who create more ambiguous work based on personal items that relate well to imminent self. This inspired me to take more different photos, looking at ideas that would only be able to be associated with my friend Niamh.  I also looked more into this idea of VCR recordings and disposable cameras and how these relate to much to myself and my childhood; being one of the most personal ways we used to document celebrated events. This then inspired me to try to edit the pictures in this glitch and vintage manner by which would relate to this very personal way of documenting work. There is a real trend at the ...