Illustration Contextual Work

Personal Typography Work

Visual Communication Typography

Typography contextual research.

Glass Steps Paint Timelapse

I needed to use different textures other than wood, and Mike Canning suggested I try glass so I could see what's happening underneath all these abstract patterns. So I made a small set of glass steps (with thanks to Art Mad and their off cuts of frames) and poured a lot of paint over them. Each step makes the paint mix a bit more, creating more and more abstract patterns.

Tabletop Maze Timelapse

This was kind of a fluke experiment. I asked the lads in the material store for a load of off cuts they were going to throw out and I'd planned to glue them together in a random way.. but it must've been all my years of lego building when I was a kid coming back to me because I found places to stick them all together to make this maze. I poured blue, red, green and yellow on 4 different parts of the maze and they all joined at the final slope leading down to the base, where it left some cool patterns. It then dripped onto the floor to make another pattern. 

Paint fountain 2

 

This was my second attempt at a paint fountain. This time I used more paint on a smaller scale fountain and let the paint flow naturally instead of controlling it myself.

Paint Fountain

I went back to paint and I designed a sculpture based on a chocolate fountain, then poured layers of paint over the top tier and let it flow down. Then after I'd used all the paint I had, Benny and I tilted the fountain to control where the paint was flowing. This is an idea that was influenced by Bernard Frize. The idea of pouring the paint like this is based on an video I saw on youtube by Holton Rower. His was similar but I feel that letting it drip creates different, and in my opinion, more interesting visuals. Background music : Vitalic - Trahison

City Flow

This is a video I put together from a lot of recordings of traffic. This was the basis for my project. I wanted to show how people have set up systems to control the flow of everyday life, whether its traffic or pedestrians. I set up a camera on the top floor of the Absolute Hotel, to get a top down view of the city so I could get a better view of what patterns the traffic created. Then I set up a tripod in my car to get an in car view of the patterns. I went through lots of different objects that control motion; Traffic lights, roundabouts, one way streets and even a Garda checkpoint! If there's any definition of controlling movement, it's the Guards.

The soundtrack is from a collection of sounds I recorded from walking and driving through the city. Then I worked on them using sound editing software to create a track based on the stop start rhythm of the flow of city.

You Don't Have To Go To College

Timelapse video of the entrance to Limerick School of Art and Design in the morning. Because my project is on control of movement I wanted to broaden the scale of it from just working in the studio with paint and wax. This video demonstrates how college controls our movements, getting us out of bed and into college for a specific time. However, this video was shot an hour after we were scheduled to arrive at college, so this video also shows how art students have the freedom to bend the rules a little.

Tube Maze Timelapse

I wanted to create a series of pipes that would allow me to pour different colour liquids into it at different points and let them split and meet up, like the paint drip video. I had some bad attempts at making clear pipes with rolled up acetate (They exploded at the seams and gave the walls a new coat of paint) During a tutorial, my tutor Liz Spillane told me about clear tubing out in B&Q. You can buy connectors too, so that was perfect for my pipe maze idea.

I used the helpful lads in the materials store to make my frame.. I was going to place the tubes against a sheet of mdf and pin them in place but I decided an open frame would be better as you could see the colours moving through the pipes more clearly.

I used syringes (and the help of Mr. Finnerty) to push the paint into the tubes. They mixed at each point, so red and yellow mixed, green and yellow mixed, then both mixtures carried on until the bottom where they were spat out onto a sheet of paper.

Melting Crayons Through Paper Bowl

After melting crayons down the corrugated cardboard, I went out and bought a roll of better quality cardboard. It came in a rolled up strip and it accidently fell into a bowl shape. That was when I got the idea to melt the crayons through the gaps in the cardboard and hoped I would get a cool multicoloured circle of wax underneath. I built a make-shift stand for the bowl out of broken bits of wood and the frame of a rubbish bin and taped it all together. I thought the best part would be the wax left on the ground but it turned out the best part was the marks that were left behind on the carboard after I rolled it out.

Melting Crayons Timelapse

Melting crayons down corrugated cardboard. I had lots of leftover corrugated cardboard from the paint drip obstructions so I tried using the grooves to control the flow of paint down them. Before I started, I watched a video on YouTube of people melting crayons and it gave a cool effect so I thought I'd use wax crayons instead of paint. The effect turned out better than I expected.. the waxes mixed colours then rolled down in their ordered lines and then hardened when they were out of the heat of the hairdryer.