Life drawing

Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend a life drawing class. A bit skeptical at first to say the least as I had never done life drawing before! This opportunity correlates with my new brief 'What is beauty? which is a topic I have always had a passion to explore and research. Life drawing allows you to draw /judge another from just their appearance , you are projecting what you physically see in the outside and portraying their perception on paper. This is what I feel is the beauty of life drawing. It allows you to manipulate a human body how you wish - much like editors do in campaigns in the media today. 

Below is my finished piece from life drawing. I decided to use a different technique to technically challenge myself. 

What am I like?

I've been away for awhile catching up with uni friends and work so excuse the lack of posts! 

So I've been given my first brief of bye semester: what am I like?. Initially I thought this task will be an easy breeze but then I thought what am I ACTUALLY like? Our task was to select 10 topics from a list of 13 and visually display what we feel defines us. I decided to take a different route and ask my close friends what they feel suits me best to each topic. (Which was quite interesting to hear to say the least), I asked 10 friends and wrote down the majority of answers. 

Above is a mind map of what things I will include in my project. I have decided to use real life objects or pictures to create a  visual mood board. Here is some of my inspiration. 

          Development and experiments 

                     My final piece 

To see my final piece or more exams did my work make sure to check out my online portfolio at issuu.com/georgiiasheehan 

City travels

Over the summer I visited two European cities and realised I haven't shared my stories yet! 

First stop was the beautiful city Paris.

Identical cafe tables and chairs. Space invader graffiti. Flowers on Parisian balaconies. The Eiffel Tower and it's lights. Handmade ice sherbets and I've cream from berthillon. Creamy shades of the Parisian walls. The heavy scent of Serge Lutens fragrance in the Palais Royal arcade. 

Breakfast? 

Try Rose Bakery at 46 rue des martyrs, even better than London! 

A quick tea break?

Visit cafe de flore on 172 boulevard saint-germain. Could of spent all day here people watching the streets on Paris 

Handmade ice cream? 

Go to berthillon. 31 rue saint-Louis-en l'ile.

Even though I only stayed 2 nights in Paris, I managed to see all the top tourist attractions and about 10 brides strolling round the street in their wedding dresses! 

Be sure to check out the love lock bridge (just be sure to get the right one! - blonde moment for me) 

I also stayed in Barcelona for 3 nights with my boyfriend. Unfortunately I was I'll the whole time so luckily I have a Spanish speaking bf to get me the drugs I needed! Although I was ill I still appreciated the amazing architecture. As Barcelona is a fairly big city there are lots of tour buses to chose from, which was great for poorly me to have a sit down while getting the breeze blown in my face!

Love a bitta interning

There's nothing I love more then getting a  good internship which suits your personality and skills perfectly! I've been working with the marketing team at Confetti Media Group working between two divisions: Confetti and Notts TV. My role included assistance with PR Communications, Admin, Social Media, Sales and Market Research jobs. I was responsible for researching, collecting and presenting visual content for Confetti's independent magazine; 'Wire', compiling market research for the Confetti Grad Facebook page, writing interesting content for Notts TV and completing promotional jobs for the Confetti FE Freshers Fair. I also got to attend team meetings to share my ideas with the team for their exciting upcoming campaign #BlueDuck and the new edition of Wire Magazine which was extremely insightful. I am also working with another FCP 3rd year student and being mentored by a FCP grad! 

Here are a couple of images I have taken of my time at Confetti: 

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A mood board I started for inspiration on the FE consumer.

I have learnt a lot from my time with tr marketing team and can't wait to explore the industry of PR and marketing even more! This summer I am hoping to do an internship abroad so fingers crossed! x

TOPSHOP Zine

Every since the day I started to collect zine for my designer zine project I have been a little bit obsessed with one collection.. The Topshop zine. Apart from being completely free from any Topshop store (v dangerous for Topshop lovers) it has a distinctive design which I absolutely love. It's kitsch, flamboyant design brings through the brand and identity of the brand perfectly. This zine is definitely my favourite for design and art direction so take a look in your nearest Topshop store!

Mock up of business cards

So I've decided to get organised before I go back to university and create my own business cards! Below are the digital mock ups I created on Photoshop. I then test printed them on a home printer to check colours, design and size. I chose a monochrome theme as it's simple, effective and visually pleasing. I will be adding a creative twist to the cards (they are not finished yet!) which I will post very soon! 

Walking on water

Ralph added another dimension to Fashion Week Monday night in Central Park.

His Polo Ralph Lauren line showed in a runway spectacular with projections of NYC, including the Brooklyn Bridge and other scenes, presented on top of the waters of Cherry Hill lake in the park. After Burberrys projection show in Asia, projection seems to be hitting te too trends for fashion catwalks!

The extravaganza closed with Lauren taking a bow on the lake (at least it looked that way). If you haven't seen it use the hashtag #Polo4D to check out the videos and photos! Mindblowing.