SSL WORK EXPERIENCE : Research

Jemma, Leanne and myself have been at SSL International this week and we are working on a World Environment Day brief, which is to celebrate SSL's progress and make employees more aware of how they can be more environmentally responsible in the workplace and at home. The brief is actually quite good, it is a subject that should be taken more seriously so I have enjoyed working on it.

There are four designers and two environmentalists working on the brief, so its been great to work as a team and produce come good work. We have two weeks to produce posters, information pack, badges, activities to promote the WED day on the 5th June 2010.

The first week there I have been working on research, ideas and designs for our first pitch which we had on Friday, it has been great to be in the work environment (not too mention the free lunch and expenses paid for!!!) which has made it all too real that we are finishing in literally weeks...As a team we all have brought different ideas to the table to produce some nice designs and ideas that they actually like.

Here is some of the research I did for the brief:

SOUTH NIGHT CLUB, MANCHESTER

Over the Easter weekend, my sister came home from Sweden and tradition is that we all go to the nightclub 'South' on the Saturday night. Clint Boon DJ's there and it is an awesome night reminiscing with good...brilliant, old school indie music where I was the youngest person there!!

The music is ace, the atmosphere is even better but it was the toilets that interested me!! The info graphics on the walls represent an Otl Aicher imitation of people in the nightclub and then leaving. Really cool, I especially love the 'puking guy', it definitely was how most people felt as they left!!!

Code Computer Love Blogging!

http://blog.codecomputerlove.com/2010/03/30/panic-at-noiselab/

I invited Wini Tse (Creative Director) from Code Computer Love to come and see our exhibition. And he did!! He also wrote on Code's blog about us, a great read!

'PANIC' Preview Night - Tuesday 30th March

The Launch Night for our exhibition was last night and it was a huge success!
We didn't know how many people to expect and Alessandra and myself were slightly dubious as to how the night would go. It went better than expected and we were totally surprised as to how many people came (good job we order more alcohol!).

We want to thank all the people who helped out and supported us throughout the whole process, I couldn't have done it without Alessandra who has been my other half throughout the planning and organising of the exhibition. I have truly had the best time, it has been an incredible experience for us all and one that I won't forget.

The exhibition is on till Saturday the 3rd so all welcome!
Also see our updated blog: http://panicnoiselab.blogspot.com/

Thanks everyone!

'PANIC' Exhibition Installation

The exhibition installation day was Monday 29th. It was a long, but productive day and it took us just over 6 hours to clean the space, arrange work, put the work up and finally have some fun.

The members of 'Team PANIC' were crucial to helping Alessandra and me out, and we were very pleased with the turn out. It was a great day and although it was time consuming we were very happy with the end result...well done everyone!

Here is an insight into how the day went!!

PANIC, PANIC, PANIC...My final piece

The Collection of Time

My response is reflective of the daily journeys to and from university, these documentations are recorded in the train tickets that I have purchased since starting third year in September 2009.
As time and date is our only structure that documents daily life, when you remove it, how does
it affect that particular moment or journey?

My interpretation describes a feeling of panic - as the days of university life are quickly coming to an end and the feeling of desperation is ever present.

CLICK HERE FOR MY WEBSITE

I have been taking Chris Jackson's Web lessons this term and although I haven't really pursued it until now, it has been the push I needed in order to end uni with some form of web design.

It has took my all weekend and endless calls to Sarah but I seem to have got it to a stage I am happy with, I want to do more but unfortunately my skills are lacking!! As I have used my website on my business cards for the NoiseLab exhibition I needed to take it further.

So here is it:

http://www.helenbutterworth.com/

Enjoy!

NOISELAB 'PANIC' - We are on their website!

As the looming exhibition is near, we have finally been put on the NoiseLab website which is a very...very exciting!!

Take a look at: http://noiselab.co.uk/

NoiseLab - NEW SCHOOL EXHIBITION

The space utilised in the second exhibition at NoiseLab - New School, is far better (personal opinion) and really uses all the space.
The New School exhibition is also from The Manchester Art School, with students from Fine Art, Print exhibiting. They have fully used the space and it was really good to see how our work will fit in, rather exciting actually as I eyed up what they had done!

The exhibition work was also equally good and it connected with the space as some pieces used the ceiling and floor, (something which our exhibition probably wont) and it had obviously been well curated and each piece flowed nicely with the next in suit.

NOISELAB 'PANIC' - DESIGN

I could potentially have a motion piece to compliment the poster showing the blast of dates but at this late stage I seriously do not have time!!

I have also been thinking that because the piece is arrangeable I can literally more the dates to create different shapes, the elevation depth created will allow people to look close up to see the under layers and height created.

NOISELAB 'PANIC' - MY CONCEPT/DESIGN

Whilst preparing and planning for the exhibition, I have also been working on my own work! Having very little time, I feel like I have spent as much time as I can and as I already had an idea it has progressively developed over the two weeks.

My concept has stemmed from a thought that overwhelmed me recently. As I moved back home last year I have (for no reason at all) collected each train ticket that I have been on. Each ticket documents that particular journey, price, date and month. My collection has reached a total of 170 train tickets!

For me, moving back home was not an issue, more so saving myself a serious amount of cash. These daily journeys that I have had, have documented my final year, slowly creeping away before. Like an emotional boundary one is crossing, it is significant to realise that we will never be making these journeys again so one must enjoy it now.

When you think of time/dates they are the foundation of our daily structure and without them our world would become a chaos of madness and unpredictability = "Panic".
I wanted to use the tickets but change their natural state to become something else. I decided to remove the dates from the tickets, to emphasize the importance that without that structure that particular journey now has no meaning...the individual dates would be used to create a separate piece enhancing the confusion.


To cut out the dates from the tickets took about 2 hours but look like I hoped they would. Just to remove that piece of information has now recreated the meaning of the tickets.

My main piece will be based on using the cut out dates to create a sudden burst and underlying "Panic" of their existence. Below are some of my experiments that I have been exploring:



Experimenting with ways of how layout can affect the visual understanding of what I am trying to portray.





The close ups make the tickets huge..even when there not!