Me...

-- The images I have submitted show my diverse capability of ways of producing artistic and design outcomes. I have included works from photography, fine art, life drawing, 3D design and carpentry. I have worked on projects where I have had to design a sustainable architectural space to working on automatic drawing machines. I am currently working on a five week project where I am directed to create my own brief and show creative response. Designing a bar where the theme is a mixture of psychedelic 60’s projections and furnishings crossed with a chilled, cultural ambience where people are able to relax in a unique way yet creates an idealistic playground for people to de-stress and associate with others. My main aim when designing is to get people interacting with one another as I believe we now live in a world filled with prejudice. My influences are the sculptor Richard Serra and performance artist Wang Peng. They use unique ways of getting people to interact and do the abnormal, altering peoples impressions. Their concepts both make people who are familiar with their repetitive surroundings, then break that chain by making them notice what is around them in the most simplistic way. I want to make this impression on the interior design world, getting people to network where they wouldn’t normally. Creating an atmosphere that people would walk into and automatically would not act on their inhibitions, to self-create a setting of socialising with one another. I am attracted to this course because I believe I would be able to make my unique mark on the industry, designing in an expressive, artistic and powerful way.MMU has a great reputation which is why I want to get on to the course and express my creativity and pursue an interior design career. The programme has a broad appeal as I will be able to engage in live projects, get a sense of space in other countries and cities. I will also be given the chance to develop my basic skills and explore projects in my specialism, plus be able to tackle major projects and have opportunity of a placement.

3D Design. - Creative response.

 Current project I am working on. Create my own brief and show creative response. I’ve decided to take my passion for nightlife and music and design a mixture between 60’s funk with a chill out ambience lounge bar, with seating/bedding for people to interact without having to move furniture around. It will be designed to make people want to associate with others due to the freedom of the space. It will display abstract and colourful movie projections onto the surfaces of the walls, creating a really psychedelic atmosphere. I will continue to make models and design sheets to promote my design idea.  Process on going...

3D Design. - Sustainable Architecture

2 month sustainable architecture project to design and produce maquettes based on a transportable, weatherproof, spatial area suitable to house around 60 people and be able to hold exhibitions. I based my design around a geodesic form that had a skeleton able of dismantling and an eco-friendly bio-plastic skin over the top.

3D Design. - Sustainable Architecture.

Models and maquettes used from a varied range of materials for experimentation. Research into different types of organic architectural forms from specialists. Working from sketches to produce prototypes and gaining understanding in this area of design.  

3D Design. - Theatre Set Design. (1st year work)



The brief for this design was to choose 1 of 3 famous theatre plays; I opted for ‘La Bohème’. A play about a man who’s world crashes in on him. I designed the uneasy surroundings to reflect his life. The walls each cave in at obscure angles representing how his life was caving in on himself.

Handcrafted Furniture/Carpentry.

These are images of what produced when I first went to college to study an NVQ in handcrafted furniture production and restoration. Using a range of classic and modern craftsmen techniques, I was able to produce handmade furniture of a high quality. The skills I learnt then still get used whenever I am designing or in the workshop today, these skills are of great importance to me and always will be as they are immensely helpful.

3D Design. - Drawing Machines.

The brief was to design and create a fully functional automatic drawing machine that was capable of making a pattern completely self reliantly. The outcome produced some astonishing minimal pieces of artwork. I had designed the college’s first ever drawing machine that was able to get its self out of corners, and correct its self no matter what barriers  were put in to create a drawing.