Film work

Fever Dreams - In The Negative 16mm film project around the ideas of fever dreams and the surrealness that goes along with the history of black & white 16mm films.



Metropolis - Tokyo A B-roll reel of Tokyo



The Eternal man

 

Commission work for Take a Challenge fundraising campaign.

Design is...

Graphic Design is ideas with clothes on.

Fashion is clothes with ideas.

Humans are lumps of flesh with ideas... and clothes on.

Design is the tangible look of a company, the branding agent, the core of an advertising campaign, and the backbone to non verbal communication.

It is the skin, the flesh, and the clothes of a company.

The logo becomes the face and branding the body.

Design makes an etherial, intangible company into an identifiable, person like, being.

Design turns ideas and concepts into people.

Graphic Design is a way of thinking.

A way of looking at things and a way of solving problems. How does graphic design do all these things? How is it so versatile?

I pose that it is because graphic design does one very simple thing. Graphic design makes ideas real. That is all it does. This seemingly simple task is so efficient that it can take any form you will it to.

Design is human.

We are design. Design is the human aspiration of something better.

In the next stages of humanity; gender, race, and religion will be lost to the greater goal of clarified, direct, reductive humanity.

Design itself is the next state of humanity. “Human plus” by design, our design; Homo-consilium.

But what will Homo-consilium look like? How will they differ? Well, that's up to us designers, makers, craftsmen, to come up with what we will become. It is our responsibility to improve ourselves.

It is our job to fix what is broken. As it stands, our world is broken and in need of fixing. Not just in the physical problems such as climate change but a deeper sociological issue.

An issue where the vox populi are indifferent and gullible. A better form of human may fix that. Be less susceptible to lies about what is good, right, or acceptable. Hopefully they will be able to think independently and not take their ideas from mass media.

The next stage must be better and we mustn’t be afraid to do what is necessary to get there. Morality isn't a thing we should throw out but we must rethink whether certain things are morally wrong.

The use of the dead for scientific advancement was morally wrong before the results out weighed the taboos and sentimentalities of death.

We must make the same attitude change with the unborn dead and of creating new life forms if we wish to truly alter ourselves as a race and as a society.

We must stop ignoring areas left as gods domain, the secrets of the universe and of life can't stay undiscovered if we wish to become anything more than a stage 1 civilisation and a stage 3 life form.

What is Graphic Design?

Graphic design is often used as the branding agent for companies, the core of an advertising campaign, and the backbone to non verbal communication. In one sense graphic design is the thing that makes stuff less boring. Without graphic design all companies would have fairly similar “visual identities” (for lack of a better phrase), advertising would be less engaging and thus less viable. Design becomes the wrapping paper and bow on the box of whores that is advertising. It's the skin and clothes for a company and it's the interface between mind and screen.

These traits raise a question, “How does graphic design do all these things? How is it so versatile?” I pose that it is because graphic design does one very simple thing. Graphic design makes ideas tangible. That is all it does.

It takes an idea, gives it a way to interact with people, and releases it into the world.

This seemingly simple task is so efficient that it can take any form you will it to. If you need graphic design to solve a problem, it can do it. It wont necessarily fix the root of the matter but it will stop whatever it is from being a problem. If you need it to communicate a message or sell a product, it's got a hole bunch of tricks ready to go.

Graphic design is to aesthetics what a sharpened edge is to making and building.

game play

If you were a politition

What would your manifesto be?

The government is full of lawyers and philosophy graduates. very few understand science or the scientific method. This leads to legislation that doesn't adequately deal with situations where science has an insight or solution. The recent proposal for a badger kull for example had very little evidence supporting it's effectiveness but it had the go ahead for a while, until a scientist said that it would have little to no effect.

So my manifesto would lead with scientific comprehension and understanding of its methods, hence Stephen Hawkings "The Universe in a Nutshell"

The news this past month has been saturated with hate crimes and stories of rape. I can scarce begin to describe the way this makes me feel, yet I am powerless to do anything. If I were a politician however, I might have a chance to change something. Make it more difficult to get away with such crimes would be a good start. I'd do my darnedest to lower the amount of such crimes being committed (how I don't know). If methods are effective, I would put pressure on other countries to do the same. If ineffective, I would still do what I could. 

The next part of my manifesto would there for be the "Sex and Power 2011" report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

So my manifesto is two books (essentially). Science and equality.

All sounds a bit kitch until you remember it's politics.