naomi wood: June 2010

Wednesday 30 June 2010

Start The Bus

One of my favorite pubs (definitely up there in the top ten!) is Start The Bus in Bristol. After a busy day shopping and gallery hunting we popped in last week for a burger to find they were having some sort of an arts and crafts shindig! So we got involved (maybe a little too into it) in making celebrity spoons (which Tess won with her ziggy stardust) and decorating the table. Here are a few pics from the evening.

http://startthebus.tv/

Up In The Air

This is the final film we made for the film brief.....enjoy!

Up In The Air from naomi wood on Vimeo.

Tuesday 29 June 2010

Look East

My top six cigarette stamps ( I have a lot of these ones) all collected from last summers travels around Eastern Europe.

Just the usual please

Here are my top three beer mats! (top three because I so far only have 3 nice ones but watch this space...)

Snap collective

Took a little trip in to Bristol last week to visit the snap collective gallery. They are a group of 8 illustrators and designers all under one roof not far from Park Street. Amongst other things they share a gallery and a screenprinting studio in which they can sell prints and hold workshops.

I found their electic and brightly coloured work very inspiring, in particular the dog card I bought from their shop (see below) by Abi Barfield.

http://www.snapstudio.org.uk/hello/

mind maps

This is my final piece for my book project which I wrote about earlier in this blog. Sadly the images aren't great quality but as you can see it is a giant map of New York screen printed onto japanese tissue paper which then folds down into an envelope ( of which I don't have an image..oops!).

Something a little more considered

Here are a few more shots using my Pentax MG. These ones are perhaps a little more serious.

why this is just the start.....

I picked up 4 rolls of film and dropped off another 5 today after only 3 weeks off from uni. I am going to have to kick this habit or start selling my body to fund it!

These are a series of pinholes and general hazy shots I like. I seem to be really digging extreme bluriness at the moment......

Tuesday 22 June 2010

Red Bluff

A little etching I did for a postcard entitled Red Bluff. My concept was the idea of using dressing as a way to pretend to be something your not i.e a man dressed as a woman.

Monday 14 June 2010

lost and found

I found some photos of New York I took back in March yesterday here are my favorites.

Friday 11 June 2010

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - White Corolla

Because if I was a pink bear with an orange cat for a friend and a tiger as an acquaintance living in a forest, I too would roller skate....

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Second hand book project

This is my response (so far) to a project in which we had to respond to the contents of a second hand book of our choice. My book was a travel book by Cecil Beaton. This combined with work I have done on maps in the past got me thinking about mind maps and ways to contain your memories from journeys. I am yet to finish it but here are some pictures of the work I have done so far...

Sound To Print

Last term we were given a brief to record a 2 min piece of sound from the centre of Bath and convert the noises we heard into words- phonetically. We then had to place the sounds into a grid and eventually create a codex from this. Here is my finished result. Although you cannot see it very well from these photos, I have screen printed the type on the front cover to give a bit of texture, and I have also screen printed the grid I created for the type in an off white.