Antoniya Kuneva Graphic Design Portfolio 2011/2012
Antoniya Kuneva antoniyakuneva@hotmail.com Graphic Design Por tfolio www.akuneva.gdnm.org Hardworking and passionate Graphic Design student with plenty of organisational skills. Looking for challenging work placements which will give me the chance to learn and make mistakes while exploring future career options. I am currently a Student representative of my year group at University and always on the lookout for exciting oppor tunities!
Reflections Experimenting with reflective furfaces. Inspred by the idea of Utopia (a hidden ideal world which plays tricks on us so we can never discover it...)
Tracing paper The transparent and fragile qualities of tracing paper inspired me to compare it to filo pastry. This booklet can be used as a direct mail piece to promote it.
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Weekly usage of objects (experiment conducted by myself. I recorded how many times I’ve used objects during one week)
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Popularity of objects (depending on how many people tend to have them in their bag) The data was collected by surveys and by looking at J.Travis’ ‘Persona’ project.
25% How big are the objects? What would be the relationship between the size of an object and its impor tance? If the keys to our home are most impor tant to us then why is it that they take the least space compared to everything else?
6% Size vs. Impor tance of objects For this project I worked with Rhea Gaughan and Lauren Gregory. We had to select a collection of objects and come up with information graphics about them. We then looked at the impor tance of objects we use in our everyday lives.
Up-cycled notebooks Made using photocopy paper which would have been otherwise discarded. The pages have been French folded with the clear side out so that the paper can be used again as a notebook.
The Golden Girl (Златното Момиче)
Independent Practice project based on a Bulgarian fairy tale Collaboration with Georgina Sadler and Rebecca West www.vimeo.com/33417530
Limitations Create a typeface using only white paper. I tried to concentrate on the movement and creases of the paper.
Dan Mumford and Mark Pavey interview
Tim Balaam (Hyperkit) interview
AK:You mentioned that you are sharing a studio with other practitioners at the moment. What would you say are the benefits of working alongside people from different fields?
AK: What was the most useful thing you learned at Camberwell? Is there anything that you found unnecessary/boring at the time but then proved to be very useful?
DM: You get different opinions, I work in a studio with people that don’t do anything like my work at the moment. A lot of them are illustrators and designers but when they see my work they look very confused sometimes but its nice to get their opinion because they have an eye for composition or type or what colour would suit a cer tain T-shir t etc. It is a lot better to be in this situation as opposed to sitting at home on your own.
TB: One of the most interesting things that I learned was the ability to think on my feet. We used to be put on the spot quite a lot, not to just talk about your work but we were also presented to other ar tist’s work. We went on lots of trips to see things and the tutor would ask, “Tim, what do you think?” and we would have to form opinions quite quickly, which was really positive. At the time I didn’t think this was as impor tant, I thought it was just par t of the college experience. But when away from college you kind of have to respond like this to clients. You have to be in control of what you are presenting to them. You need to be very quick when picking up on an idea or on the way a conversation is going and be quite ar ticulate.
MP: In my studio there are six of us and there is another guy called Richard Ardagh who produces similar work in a way even though he is more print based and I am more web design based we still have similar interests so it’s cool having him there to bounce ideas off. But at the same time there is somebody who does Corporate event planning who does big conference expo’s and designs the architecture of those booths and then someone who does interior design. Although it may sound like we wouldn’t have anything in common, sometimes the guy that does interior design would work on a re-brand of a pub so he would design the interiors and then bring me along to do the print design and typography. DM: At the same time you are in a room with a bunch of creatives and its always good to be able to talk to people about stuff that interest you e.g. music or a movie. There is usually a lot of things you can talk about. MP: It’s nice to be able to talk to people about the negative aspects of work as well. DM: Or really boring stuff like business, tax, being self employed. All the sor t of things you don’t want to talk about but you still need to. MP: Sharing a studio is awesome, even if you think that it’s weird at the beginning or that it may not be working, in the future you might look back to the experience and realize how beneficial it was.
AK: At what time of the day do you feel most creative? Some designers work better in the morning and others through the night. You and your wife (Kate Sclater) work together so you probably discuss projects even after you get away from the office. TB: When am I most creative? I think most of the time. There is always problems and issues to solve so everything that we do is always in the back of my mind. It is like the curse of being a visual person. You naturally have an opinion on how you’d like things to be or whatever. AK: You do a lot of workshops with students, I looked at your ‘Housing and the City’ project where you did workshops with the London school of Economics and today you are doing a workshop with the Graphic Design students here at Epsom. How often do you do this? TB: Every now and again. We are going to Germany next week for 3 days because we have a workshop there but we don’t really do it that often. If we have time then we will come in and do it but we usually do more talks because its quite hard to come in on a day and achieve something, it isn’t quite so simple. AK: What do you think the benefits are for both you and the students? TB: For us, we are quite interested in how design education is taught and I have never been here before so it’s nice to see what the students are like, look at the types of work and the thinking behind it. It is a case of keeping things interesting for us because it brings variety in the week and its always nice when people ask us to come and ask us what we think about Graphic Design.
The LAB 2011 I was par t of a student-led publication by 1st and 2nd year Graphic Design students documenting the LAB where I interviewed some of the visiting speakers including Tim Balaam, Mark Pavey and Dan Mumford.
Serial Thriller (Rumours) A video in the theme of Chinese Whispers about how a message changes when moving from visual to verbal media. www.vimeo.com/33070315