Wry Manor is an upcoming Indie game that will be exclusively released to PC and Xbox One. The independent production of games is increasing as artists and programmers have the ability to create them with more creative freedom. With gaming platforms such as Steam and GameJolt being used to market peoples’ own Indie games, the game making industry’s restrictions are declining and making and distributing games are easier than before.
This creative freedom allows for niche topics and styles to be included that may be uncommon to see in mainstream games. Within the art community, RPGs and psychological horrors are growing increasingly popular with games such as Sally Face and Undertale having millions of fans, and a large fanbase of artists on social media sites such as tumblr and twitter. Most of these games also have more of a narrative and illustrative style of gameplay and focus more on storytelling than a game with ‘win conditions’.
Wry Manor is a narrative-style horror RPG that focuses more on illustrations and animations to follow along a storyline, rather than complicated gameplay that takes time to learn to exceed at. This makes the game accessible to audiences that may appreciate this style, and welcome players of all gaming experience. The initial age rating of this game is 12 and above as games with cartoon violence and disturbing imagery are required to have this rating, and the game would be released around October / Halloween time as the game is set in the autumn season, and more horror content is popular around this time of year.
Kynite coffins is a project consisting of a variety of graphics for a start-up coffin company based in the UK which will be focusing on coffins made specifically for pets. I will be designing the coffin which will include looking at the shape, size, colour and design of the coffin and ensuring that it is suitable for a variety of pets. This is coupled with a well recognisable logo along with a website which can be used to purchase the products or provide further detailed information about it
This will be sold nationally and is intended to be released by May 2022 and came about due to there being a gap in the market for pet coffins as they are usually buried directly in ground. In addition to this, deaths of pets and loved ones are mostly viewed as a negative moment of life however, I want to be able to turn this into something positive by creating a sense of comfort and warmth trough the design/colours in order to allow customers to send off their pet in a memorable way. With the target audience being pet owners, which can include almost anyone, throughout this the products are not limited to a specific gender or age.
In this project I have designed and produced a set of graphics and designs for a company called Twisted Boba. Twisted Boba is a new company that wants to bring a bright and colourful atmosphere to the streets of London as they bring Bubble Tea to a global audience.
Twisted Boba is reinventing Bubble Tea with new and exciting flavours that have inspired the designs and branded that I have created to promote their products. These designs include producing the logo with has been created with circles and negative space to achieve the look to appear to make up to be a Bubble Tea cup. The overall logo will help to bring to life the ideas from Twisted Boba with bright and bold colours to attract an audience of all ages.
This logo will be used as the main form to be on the Bubble Tea cup along with a different design to be placed on the top of the lid that can be pierced with a straw. I have taken inspiration from being ‘twisted’ and different to the usual branding for Bubble Tea companies, and therefore created designs for the packaging to include circles from the original logo as well as acrylic fluid art inspired designs for the overall packaging of the boba, tea and syrup labels.
All the packaging labels will be used for products that will be sold and then received by the customer in the custom designed shipping box that follows the colours of Twisted Boba. I have used digital techniques to create the graphics for the designs so that there is a high quality for printing to be used on the Twisted Boba products as well as giving the designs scalability.
I have decided to pursue an album re-design and re-package for Vietnamese American musician Keshi signed with ‘Island Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc,’ formally known as Casey Luong, for his ‘Trilogy’ records/ EP’s: ‘skeletons’, ‘bandaids’ and ‘always’. Currently, this trilogy exists primarily on Spotify and in physical form as a vinyl that was sold for a limited amount of time as a special edition item.
My aim is to bring all three EPs together into a deluxe album in which the design will be upgraded and refined from something that is relatively minimal and basic with the additional reason being that listeners can listen to the entire trilogy in a single CD. Three different versions of this Trilogy album will be produced in the theme of each EP which will potentially increase consumers’ desire to buy the new refined album.
Bubble and Squeak go Travelling (Children’s Book Project)
The aim for this story is to encourage children to learn about embracing and learning about other cultures and countries. This story focuses on the introduction of the kittens to European cities. This particularly allows for the fact that many children haven’t been able to travel at all over the past few years and may be understandably apprehensive at the prospect of going somewhere new. I wanted to create a book that was gently reassuring, educational and above all else, fun to read.
The concept behind the story is from the inspiration of my own kittens, when we first rescued, they were very shy and the only thing that brought them out of their shell was a ribbon. They played with the ribbon as it was comforting for them. This is where the main idea for the story stemmed from and plan to use these ideas throughout my work.
The specific places features in the book were epitomised by iconic landmarks, that are real, that are recognisable. I wanted to create a series of illustrations that tell a story of the kittens on and adventure, these illustrations are collaborated within a book and justified with simple text.
This project is about a company ‘Structural Designs’ who are an architecture firm opening in the West Midlands, Birmingham. The company itself, specialises in both residential and commercial architecture as well as restorations and even shows the client the design on VR so that the client can experience the design to see how it would look like when created.
I have been allocated the design work for their brand and they have given me the task of creating a brand identity for them, in which they requested that I create for them a logo, a business card, a letterhead and an envelope for the letterhead, and a brand style guideline.
The company wants me to create this brand identity for them that makes them comes across as sophisticated and modern like throughout all the pieces I produce. They also want me to hold this high standard throughout my work and to depict them with professionalism and sophistication as well as holding them with good quality.
My intention for my project was to successfully gain confidence towards street photography as a whole and find selective and unique elements to introduce to my work to take it that one step further and make it my own as well as being influenced by other photographers works. Exploring the way in which different cities and towns behave, comparing the buildings and the social aspects of the areas.
I experimented with various skills and qualities to present strong photographs that capture my intentions. A skill that will be important to investigate is composition, Tone, and space. This will allow me to navigate and explore different areas and create a more interesting and in-depth image, this could be a focus towards what I would like to capture. The concept I had in mind was to begin with simply taking photography shoots locally and almost experimenting with the initial idea of what I could see on a day-to-day basis. This allowed me to find what I was most interested in when it came to street photography as a broad perspective.
My intentions were to create prints similarly to Rauschenberg’s work and to be influenced in such a way to layer and build up images using my photographs of street photography to create unique and intriguing outcomes. Using similar techniques such as printing, brush stroke and layering through my works. This includes using cyanotypes and screen printing processes with my photographs.
The general concept of my project was ocean pollution. This involved how waste and items change naturally through time and in the hands of humans. I wanted to discuss the relationship and interaction between the natural world specifically ocean life and human activity and how humans can affect it.
The whole of my project comes full circle about how humans are the ones creating this mess in every aspect of the way, like fishing, waste and not recycling, littering, and releasing gases into the air and oils into the ocean. Which is harming the ocean and its marine life. But also because of that human are getting affected themselves because animals are dying creating loss of creatures for fishing, loss of jobs for people who work alongside the ocean or do with the creatures inside it not in relation to saving it.
And they’re ruining the actual water which humans love and want to explore in and for in so the whole idea of humans killing the ocean is also destroying themselves as well.
Throughout my project I explored formal elements and still life photography. I started exploring these with a digital camera photographing fruit and then began to explore these elements with a 5×4 camera photographing everyday objects such as twigs, dried out objects and roots.
Exploring the everyday objects that you would find outside took interest to me which was inspired by my two main photographers Karl Blossfield and Edward Weston. Both explored film photography and I was particularly inspired by Edward Weston being associated with the F64 Group.
My investigation used elements of cinematography to create a unique narrative of 9 to 5. My work is heavily influenced by street photography and displays places of work both internally and externally, the relationship of workers, methods of commuting, places used for work breaks, streets, work outside of the work-place, and family life.
