Intervening the everyday

I like helping people, and I like to help people feel better, so I set out to create positivity for the people around me. 

I wanted to steal a moment from their routine to show them that they can feel happier, better more optimistic, that there are reasons to smile. I wanted these moments to come from them, from their emotions and feelings in response to something I had given them. I did this by creating messages for them to see.

I started with a few posters that developed at a fast pace adding new messages and concepts. I had a camera by my side and a pile of posters ready to go up at all times. The initial interest in my posters inspired me to find new ways of intervening and intercepting the everyday in my neighbourhood. I designed stickers, badges and business cards. These designed pieces spread my messages to people by giving them something different and questionable. 

When my community became Barcelona I took it there. I measured and documented the intervention though photography and created a book of my photographs and the stories behind the images.

Lexicon invitation

One of my proposed invitations for my degree show titled Lexicon, which means the language of a particular group. Printed using 11pt Garamond in metal type. 

The show is part of Free Range and opens on Friday 29th May until Monday 1st June. It's in the Truman  Brewery (F Block, Room T1) on Brick Lane in London. Come along!

Cut it out

Here is the beginning of something new.

Hand & Eye Letterpress

I'm in the middle of a two week placement at Hand & Eye Letterpress in East London. It's been amazing so far but very tiring so I must now recline and rest for another day pressing letters. More words and some photos to follow.

I'm currently in the midst of the final project for my degree. It is a campaign which intervenes with the everyday, to create more optimism and maybe even happiness. I have been documenting it with photography and the above is something I found in the studio, it describes my current status (and blog absence).