Wightwick Manor and Gardens

Wightwick Manor and Gardens, located in Wolverhampton, was given to the National Trust by Sir Geoffrey Mander and Lady Mander in 1937 (they continued to live in the house whilst it was open to the public and gave guided tours to visitors).

The manor is home to a collection of pieces from the Arts & Crafts movement and Pre-raphaelite art; De Morgan tiles, William Morris fabric and prints, paintings and artwork by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lucy Madox Brown, Evelyn De Morgan, Lizzie Sidal and John Everett Millais just to name a few. Having more artwork on display by female artists than any other National Trust location, I noticed small frames in each room with facts about female artists and discrimination in the UK (staying true to the manor’s roots and heritage…Suffragists meetings were held at the home and Lady Mander was an art writer and collector).

I could have spent hours in each room looking at individual paintings and drawings, furniture and the architecture, there’s so much to take in (I was too busy looking at everything to take photographs). I also think I missed a couple of rooms, a display about the Suffrage movement and the Mander family's connection to India. It’s got an inviting homely lived-in feel and the Manders’ personality and unique taste displays their love and appreciation for art.

It’s worth another visit…maybe on a warmer day.

 

Kaleidoscope patterns/textures

Playing around with creating some textures and patterns similar to ones you'd get looking through a kaleidoscope. Not as bright and colourful, more subtle and softer.

Blue Floral Prints

I've been working on some blue floral prints recently. Still deciding if they look better in another colour scheme. Maybe yellow?

 

Digital Weave Part 1

I've been experimenting with hand stitching recently and naturally its ended up my design work on screen too. Its nothing amazing just yet, I'm looking too incorporate photographs into this...maybe digitally or on paper.

I have always enjoyed weaving and even used it for one of my second year projects at university.  I embossed paper with renaissance inspired patterns I had created by hand and then weaved them into the paper. This was for the Fedrigoni YCN brief back in 2015. Here are some examples below.

Here are geometric shape experiments I worked on this weekend. I'm not exactly sure how I want to organize these as I know I will come back to these ideas with development and more ideas. So maybe for now this can be part 1 with 8/8 and then I can just add additional parts as part of a series.

First experiment with circles

Digital Weave part 1 1/8

 

 

Digital Weave part 1 2/8

Digital Weave part 1 3/8

 

Digital Weave part 1 4/8

Digital Weave part 1 5/8

 

Digital Weave part 1 6/8

 

Digital Weave part 1 7/8

Digital Weave part 1 8/8

Daily Logo Challenge 7, 8, 9 & 10

Virgo – logo type for a clothing company

 

 

  Mount Blanco - logo type for a ski resort

 

 Pitch - Music streaming start up

 

Light - logo using a flame

Here are days 7, 8, 9 and 10. I've probably been spending around an hour on each one? And this includes initial sketches for the ideas. Each day the emails are giving more prompts to consider, like the audience, the scale of the logo and where it will be used.

 I would always consider this anyway when creating logos. But I feel with this challenge so far I've tried to make myself by more creative in a short space of time without thinking too much about where and how the logo could be used.

Logo Challenge Day 3, 4, 5 and 6

I forgot to post my logos recently. Here are the ones for days 3, 4, 5 and 6 for the daily logo challenge.

Global Panda logo 

A letter, I chose P for plant pot

Onward - a logo for a driverless car ( looking back at this, I am now aware it looks more like a motorbike tire than car)

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A coffee shop logo - I created The Coffee Club

Tania Kshah - Brand identity

Here is the final logo and logo mark for Tania Kshah, a bespoke dressmaker who specializes in bridal and evening wear. She wanted a logo that she could use for her brand (not only dresses but jewelry too...and maybe more in the future as she's super creative), something that allows her creations to have full attention and compliment her work. It will be used for her business stationary, advertisements, banners and social media.

Here the final logo, 3 variations using the logo mark and type.

Here are some of the alternative logo marks I came up with.

Information and details about her upcoming launch party and catwalk can be found here.