BERLIN

I am going to Berlin tomorrow for a uni trip with all the lovely art people. I am so majorly excited. I actually went less than a year ago with my family and I LOVED it there and can't wait to get back!
One more sleep!
The only minor thing is, I think I may have developed the tiniest fear of flying. I am not sure why because it has never bothered me before and I have been on lots of planes. There is just something very unnatural about a great hunk of metal high up in the sky with seemingly nothing holding it up. Scary. But I am sure it will be fine. The feeling of excitement overrides this fear many many times over.
If I was a small child I would look like this right now:

 Meanwhile, I need to go pack!

Follow Us

Our exhibition has a blog! It is still a work in progress but it has links to the blogs of all the other participating artists. Follow us at:
http://www.166bpm.blogspot.com/

Enjoy (:

FINAL poster design

So here is the final design in all its glory.

We went through many many MANY different versions of this, discussing layout, colour, sizing of image, sizing of text, sizing of image in relation to text and on and on and on! But we finally got there. Hannah took it to our design tutor Matt and he gave her some useful suggestions, she did some jiggling around and produced this beauty. I'm really happy with it and so is the rest of the group is too.

After the photoshoot I did a bit of playing around with the images at home and this is the initial design I came up with:

Similar but also very different. I do like how the heart is a bit more red in this one but our final design definitely works best.

Please also note our very generous sponsors, Kemp & Kemp Property Consultants. Here is their website: http://www.kempandkemp.co.uk/
Thank you very much Kemp and Kemp!

166 bpm Exhibition Poster (initial designs!)

This was our initial poster design:

We liked it but we felt it didn't stand out enough and didn't grab people's attention, especially after we'd had a group crit with all the other exhibition groups and no one said anything about it!!
In the group crit I quickly printed out a design I had done at home over Christmas and stuck it on the wall. It immediately got some positive feedback, so we decided to completely re-do our design!
Here is the poster that I had done:

This was back when we were calling our exhibition 66 bpm and not 166 bpm. This is basically a manipulated photograph of my brother's hands which i drew a heart onto. This was the original photograph:

So from this idea we decided to go one step further. Me, Hannah, Mike, Tom, Ness and Sophie J went down to the local butchers and bought ourselves a pig heart. We then had an afternoon photoshoot with the lovely (in other words DISGUSTING) thing. When we bought it it was frozen but as the day wore on it kept getting more and more defrosted, squidgy, bloody and smelly!
Mike had the lucky job of holding the heart, I have to say I did not envy him.

We experimented with different lighting and in the end got some really good images. A successful day (minus the blood!!)

Withnail and I

As another fund raising event for our exhibition, on the 7th of February we held a film night at the Porter pub in Bath (thanks to Kitty for sorting that as she works there!) We played the film Withnail and I which brought in a lot of people and we raised around £100! We sold popcorn which me and Hannah made. (Hannah had to leave to go to Oxford half way through the popcorn production process and I am very sad to say that her AMAZING duck shaped popcorn maker died in the process...I am truly sorry Hannah :( So in the end, after a disastrous attempt at making it on the hob with oil, I resorted to using the microwave.) The Porter also gave us prizes to give away in a raffle, so thanks for that!! Here is the poster designed by Kitty and Tom:

 
Also I got some snaps of Kitty and Tom announcing the raffle prize winners! They are not very good photos but you can just about see the many many heads in the audience! We had a queue waiting to buy tickets for entry at one point!

We are hopfully holding another film night at the Porter on the 14th March so everyone should come along! We will hopefully showing the cult classic Labyrinth with David Bowie (which I am ashamed to say I have never seen!!)

BACON

Before Christmas we thought it would be a good idea to start fund raising for our exhibition. We discussed holding a cake sale but in the end we thought it was pretty unoriginal because EVERYONE does cake sales to raise money.
At Dartmouth Avenue (our Art campus) there is a BBQ lying around so we thought we'd make use of it and hold a bacon bap sale! We figured it was more original than a cake sale and would grab people's interest more. So we arranged it for the 14th and 15th of December which were days that the 1st and 3rd years were to be having presentation assessments.
Here is the poster that we came up with:

 I drew the pig and was slightly concerned about the cannibalistic element of a pig eating a bacon sandwich (!) but as a group we decided it was ok because it is funny.
Me and Hannah put posters up around Sion Hill and Darmouth Avenue, Sophie C, Vanessa and Josie took charge on the first day, and me, Hannah and Mike cooked and sold on the second day. It was cold but it was fun and we raised about £50 in the end!
Here are some photos from the two days: