Experimental self portraits

Using the nexus 7 and a panoramic function on the camera launcher

LPID-Geo-Nations

LPID (Low Power Information Database) - Geography start screen

The Starting animation for an LPID map of the 3 main unions formed by treaties and war.
Sea level rise has caused many coastlines to change dramatically. Many islands and countries have been totally submerged.

A short animation showing potential sea level rise using google maps and resources

I forgot about the transparent black issue with google gifs

City ARK

The book Earth by david Brin talks of large structures with domed glass canopies housing endangered and other wise extinct animals. These structures are all over the world and contain animals from the surrounding area. This is my first rendering of such a structure in Sketch-up

First screen print of term

Space Pilot

From drawing to vector, to mono halftone for silk screen original sketch coloured with markers (about 6cm by 4cm)

More refined drawing coloured with markers, ink and food colouring (about 14cm by 9cm)

I then trace the sketch in illustrator, refining lines and adding symmetries. (just under A4 at 350dpi)

So that the image can be screen printed I have to transfer the image to illustrator and separate the colours to represent the inks I wish to use later. This is the black channel with a half tone dot applied to it. (again just under A4, now 150dpi)

Lost Memories - Digital Vs Physical

LOST MEMORIES (French, English Subtitles) from Francois Ferracci on Vimeo.
A Brief snap of a future Paris where monolithic buildings stretch into the sky decked in holographic advertising. Everything is stored online. Everything is digital. A couple take pictures infront of the Eiffel tower when an EMP hits. All the man has left of his now estranged girlfriend is a polaroid of himself, taken by her.

Bristol 10k

Having filmed last weeks 10k for Love Running, I took what footage I had and edited it into a short video.

Book Project - The Final Product

Here are a few spreads from my final portfolio book for Year 1 Graphics

Design of the year 2012 – Design museum London

Every year the design museum london holds an exhibition of the best design of the past 12 months. This years exhibition had a wide range of graphic, product and environmental design; including a redesign for an ambulance; multiple different types of table and chairs; and a re-branding for a business magazine.

While walking round the top floor of the design museum I wondered why the chair had to be redesign so many times. There must have been 10 separate designs for chairs, some made of recycled materials and some that could change shape depending on how many people wanted to sit on it. Sure they were inventive, I just don't understand the need for quite so many in one show.

My favourite piece from the show was the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine design. Considering I don't understand or care much about business, I would consider buying this just for the design of it. The re-design uses clean, bold covers with well balanced, justified text to give an easy to read article around the generously sized graphic images. The design of the magazine is on par with that of Time magazine and Filter (a graphic design magazine based on quality over regularity).

One of the curious entries was the Stanley Parable which is a short story played out within a video game (Half life 2 engine). The story is narrated by an omnipotent voice that explains what your character is doing as you do it. The voice seems to be able to say what your about to do and where you will go. Following this path you are lead through the world (mainly offices) and shown how trapped and controlled the character was before the start of them game and thanks to your intervention is now free from the control of those higher... or are you? By disobeying the narrator and going deliberately against what he says, the story changes. Depending on what you disobey and when, you get a different ending and a more complex path. Some ending in your death, some in your mind falling apart as the world falls down around you. I think it's a brilliant example of voice acting bringing a story to life as the narrator seems quite friendly at the beginning but as soon as you go against him, he switches to a vindictive over watcher. If you don't want to play it yourself, there are videos on youtube going through every eventuality. After doing just that myself, I realised I had missed so much on my play throughs. I think the stanley parable questions our sheep like behaviour and our willingness to do as we are told because we think we a free to choose. I enjoyed the show but I was disappointed that it was such a small space.

Though I did hear the V&A show which covers 50 years of the same such thing was worse...