Hate Brief: I Hate Rain Hair

This project was all about the art of persuasion and art direction. The brief which was given to my class by a creative team at Saatchi & Saatchi's, was to turn something we hated into something we love.

My hate was rain making my hair turn into a frizzy afro. After much thought i came to the conclusion that quite a lot of people still think the afro is pretty cool, so the copy in my hair reads 'It's like a fast train back to the 70s.'
My initial solution was to create a poster but i opted for an A5 fold out leaflet that tells the magical story of my transforming hair!

I have thee attention span of a gold fish!

I feel like a bull

with a red quilt lifted above my eyes,

like an up right cobra,

coiling it’s neck as the flute plays...

This hypnotic trance

is such a delay.

You Gotta love Nina Chakrabarti's Handi work

Nina's work is often concerned with collections of objects in pen, pencils and felt tips. 

My fave is the the picture of the seasonal sea shoe. Beautiful detail and hand drawn type, none of that high tech vector stuff :)

Navigators- My place

Beautiful Illustration by Tanji

http://tanji.jp/blog/

To be honest I love Tanji's illustrations so much, I'm on the brink of posting all her work here. Her work is not completely unique, but colorful, emotive and moody all at once! I love Japanese artist illustrations. I'm particularly fond of  anime, animation openings, which carry a lot of  culture and character. I may post some up later.

BBC Comedy. Ident Project

Typography ;)

Hello u Cr£atIvE$

Hey Bloggers i've missed you!! I must say i've felt creativly constipated and it has not been an easy ride. I'm now back from visiting the states and with the summer in full swing i've risen from my slumpyness and i'm back on track. You Missed a couple things that i'll be up dating you on. Like my 2 week placement at Inferno with Anita. 

It was really insightful! I had a great time working on briefs and speaking too the Creatives, with some senior advice and a window of thought it helped reaffirm my passion for the Advertising industry :)

Premature Bee Hive

I took some pics of this bee nest that was slowly growing in my aunts BBQ thingy. Before I could capture were it originally started nesting my uncle flicked it out. The little groves bees make are amazing! Perfect architecture from natures best.

Time waits for nothing, but everything takes time... I'm back!

I need to refresh my memorie bank when it comes to knowledge of photographers, artists, copywriters...etc.

So i've done some reading and digging, to my delight I discovered Mario Epanya; a french artist, thurned makeup artist to fashion photographer. Mario took these beautiful pictures for the future Vogue Africa edition. I'm very excited to bag one as their hasn't been any previous issues of it's kind. 

~Morning has Broken~

I sleep early, then rise rise at the peak of dawn :)

Since being at home for easter, i've had no reason to stay up late so unless I'm out i sleep before 12pm. My family is up between 7-9am so now I wake up at 7:30 and 8:00am. Instead of becoming annoyed. I've become enchanted by the stillness of the morning. The air seems cleaner and the birds sing/howl more prominently.

So next time you wake up early, don't role back into your covers!

Open your window and appreciate the stillness of the morning.

It's now my favorite Thing.

The Tale of a Lowly King

An unchangeable wind

On a distinguished night,

Hailed to lowly kings and put up no fight,

With animosity and rage, the stars dimed there light

For this was a scene, in which they could not delight.

 

The bow of the ship has now lost it’s way,

For this lowly king, will repay,

His ingratitude to the nightly stars,

That hallowed his pathway, thus this far.

 

The sea had no choice but too obey,

 The unlawful wind that choose its way,

The lowly king had changed his mind

And broke the omen of ancient times.

 

A beautiful Nymph, lit under the moon

Awoke from her sleep and hailed the lagoon

Trapped under the curse, her father bestowed

By betraying Poseidon, a new fate he chose.

 

She spoke to her father the lowly king

And rebuked his ill treatment; to nature he sinned.

In disguised turmoil he did not obey,

Now his darling daughter will always pay.

 

The evil curse of the nightly moon

Will always keep her, in this deep lagoon.

Her father’s new allie: Aeolus the great

Will lead him home safely, to face his new fate.

My poem was inspired by Homers 'Odyssey' and Virgil's 'Iliad'. I'm not sure, but you may have to appreciate mythical stories to like it on a different level x