Graphic Design, Photography & Illustration. http://danicollenette.tumblr.com danicollenette@hotmail.com
Dani Collenette
Graphite Sketch of TV’s ‘Fashion Guru’ - Gok Wan 2012
Jack of all trades... Throughout the course of my Degree I have worked within many different mediums, and within the mediums themselves, many different methodologies. I have approached each brief in a different manner, and I feel this has provided me with a broad portfolio, which highlights a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’ style of working. Illustration I feel I can work competently within many contemporary and traditional techniques, both on and off of the computer. My portfolio showcases illustration which is digitally mastered, hand sketched, painted or even mathematically vectored. Photography I have demonstrated my workings within manual 35mm, and also digital photography, as well as photography within and outside of a studio environment. Working in a Photographers for the past three years has greatly expanded this skill, I have conducted many studio sessions involving large families, couples or photographing for model portfolios and I have also photographed at events. Within my role at the photographers I also edit photographs as well as shoot them myself. I often restore old, damaged photographs, edit people into or out of photographs and touch up images in which there is a stray hair or blemish. Design Some of the work I have created would come under the collective ‘Graphic Design’, such as advertisements I have created for the Photographers, or pieces where I have combined illustration and typography in order to create a more finalised design. I hope you enjoy my portfolio,
Dani
Contents If you click on each bullet point you will be taken to that section of my portfolio.
Illustration 6-7 8 - 19 20 - 21 22 - 25 26 - 27 28 - 29
Graphite Sketches Watercolour Paintings Digital Sketches Lino Prints Rorscach Prints Ink Pen
Photography 30 - 35 36 - 41 42 - 45 46 - 51 52 - 53
Digital - Enviroment. Digita - Studio. 35mm, SLR. Lomography Restorations
Graphics 54 - 65 66 - 71 72 - 75 76 - 77 78 - 79 80 - 81
Mixed Media - Reflection images. Vector Illustration Typography Advertising Digital Collage Video Gallery
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Contact
Photograph of my brother ‘Tommy’ 2011
Illustration
Graphite Sketches Over the next set of spreads I have displayed my chosen Illustration work from the last three years. I thoroughly enjoy experimenting, and so my work varies between many different mediums and techniques. On this page I have displayed two sketches created with sketching pencils. The panda’s to the right have been digitally mastered using Adobe Photoshop. The dog underneath, however, remains as a simple sketch. Sketches are the foundation of most of my illustration pieces, even the more digital images began as some form of sketch.
Illustration
Watercolour Paintings
Illustration
Digital Sketches
Illustration
Lino Prints
Illustration
Rorschach Illustrations
Illustration
Ink Pen
Photography
Digital
Over the next set of spreads I have displayed my chosen Photography work from the last three years. Working in a photographers for two and a half years has granted me with a great deal of experience within both a studio and external environment. I have also had access to a number of different photographic materials, and had the opportunity to learn how to both edit and restore photographs. I have displayed some of my manual, digital, lomography, studio and restoration work.
Photography
Digital - Studio
Photography
35mm Manual SLR
Photography
35mm Lomoggraphy - Fisheye Lens
Photography
35mm Lomography - Fisheye Lens - Multi-Exposure
Photography
Restorations
Mixed Media
Digital Montage
Over the next set of spreads I have displayed my chosen Mixed Media, Design, work from the last three years. This work may be a combination of illustration and photography, it may have been created to a set brief or it may be heavily typographic. This is my work that I feel best demonstrates what I consider to be ‘Graphic Design’. This and the following three images are all images taken from my publication ‘Reflections’. They are a montage of photography and watercolour illustrations. The concept behind them is that they are both a physical and metaphorical reflection of my work over the past three years, a reflection of where I want to head now and the skill set I will take with me, and also are reflected through the images of the people who are not only closest to me - but who have aided me over the course of my degree, modelling and giving up their time.
Vector Illustrations
English Syntax
I created a set of Vector Illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, in a brief in which I challenged the ever confusing English syntax. There are a lot of words within the English Language that harbour double meanings. Using the wrong version of a word can dramatically change a sentence; sometimes the meanings are not even slightly similar. I wanted to demonstrate a ‘play on words’ with a several ‘play on images’. I have written a caption under each image with the word which holds the double meaning.
‘Boxing’
‘Shooting’
‘Face’
‘Boot’
‘Nails’
‘Framed’
‘Draw’
‘Bark’
‘Remote’
‘Pen’
‘Light’
‘Sink’
‘Match’
Vector Illustrations
Hierarchy
For this brief we were each given a person at random in which to research and produce an info Graphic displaying our findings. Noam Chomsky is famous for the invention of the ‘Chomsky Hierarchy’, in which he investigates various formal languages and whether or not they might be capable of capturing key properties of human language. The Chomsky hierarchy separates formal grammars into classes, or groups, with increasing expressive power, Interestedly Chomsky does not believe the hierarchy is strong enough to model English syntax. I have demonstrated this through some wellknown faces to demonstrate these set classes or language. The classes increase from the slang baring fictional ‘chav’ Vicky Pollard, to the ever famous lyricist Elvis Presley, to the annual speech giving royalty, The Queen and finally with what I consider to be the best and most powerful use of the English syntax, Shakespeare.
Typography
Creating a Typeface
We were asked to create a typeface on the ideology of a ‘Utopian Society’. For my typeface I decided to look at shapes and how they’re preconceived. I decided that a circle presents the idea of utopia well. You often hear positive phrases relating to the circle, such as being ‘well rounded’. A circle unlike any other shape it made entirely of one ‘side’ and therefore does not represent the idea of ‘taking sides’ within an argument. I decided therefore to create my typeface from only circles. I also thought about what may be a suitable ‘Utopian’ name for my typeface. A wish is something that we want to happen because it is an ideal outcome. I would say that we all only wish for a utopian world, a world of happiness and peace. I decided to present my typeface alongside the ‘Dandelion’, as people often blow the dandelion flower as they make a wish in the hope it may come true.
Typography
TYPE -FACE
For this brief I looked at the idea of a ‘Typeface’ and broke apart the two syllables, Type and Face. I considered the pre-conceptions of typefaces, for instance how you’d treat a wedding invitation written in an elegant script font such as, ‘Edwardian Script ICT’ to if you received one written in ‘Comic Sans’. Some typefaces instantly make the viewer judge the piece in front of them before they have even read what the words say. Here I looked at the two typefaces ‘Comic Sans’ and ‘Impact’. Comic Sans is a much mocked typeface, it’s often conceived as fairly childlike, and therefore is not a typeface to be taken seriously. I displayed this by a face with a somewhat ‘goofy’ expression. The face is not strong and bold and fades into the background. ‘Impact’ on the other hand is a very strong, bold, typeface - living up to its name well. I have displayed his contrasting brightly on a bright red background, and tried to make it look almost 3D, almost forcing the reader to see it.
Advertising
Poster
This is a poster I created for the Photographers in which I work. It was for our Christmas offers, advertising the novelty photographic gift ideas we provide. It was printed as a large A2 poster to be hung in the window of both our shops and also as a set of leaflets.
Digital Collage
Make and Break a Grid
Massimo Vignellis designed the Unigrid system in 1977, the same year Erno Rubik sold the first Rubik Cube (or magic cube as it was known then). The Unigrid system is based on a number of squares with a black bar at the top and bottom, with the text written in the font Helvetica. This design is still widely used, but the most famous modern day use for it would most probably be for the layout of the Ipod Touch. The Corporated Design Foundation described the unigrid system as such: “Today, as in 1977, the unigrid program continues to generate both cost savings and the creative energy to imbue
its communications with visual and intellectual appeal. I have written “Ask Patrick” at the top of the second piece as in 1981 a 12 year old boy named Patrick Bosset designed the first ever Rubik cube solution book entitled “you can do the cube!”, it sold over 1.5million copies. I first made a grid by combining an old fashioned 3D use of a grid system, with a 2D one that was designed at the same time, although applied to a modern day item. I then used the pun to “shuffle” music on your Ipod to insinuate that you should “shuffle” the Rubik cube, breaking the grid format of the ipod as it is now no longer of any use.
Video Gallery
Dogme 95
The brief was to create a video in which complied to this set of very strict rules: The Dogme 95 rules : 1 Filming must be done on location. Props and sets must not be brought in 2 Music must not be used unless it occurs within the scene being filmed 3 The camera must be hand-held; filming must take place where the action takes place 4 The film must be in colour. No special lighting 5 Optical work and filters are forbidden 6 No superficial action (No murders, weapons, etc.) 7 No temporal or geographical alienation. 8 No genre movies 9 The aspect ratio must be 4:3, not widescreen. 10 The director must not be credited It was suggested after that we could possibly challenge some of these rules, and so i created my second video accordingly. If you lick on the videos they should link you to the sites they are uploaded onto, if not you may copy and paste the link into the taskbar.
http://vimeo.com/30226269
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLoBP4Axm0&feature=plcp
Video Gallery
Cut of my jib
We were asked to create a video that showed the ‘cut of our jib’. We were asked to demonstrate parts of our personality such as; where we live, a guilty pleasure, something we love, the way we work, things that inspires us. I decided to create this as a ‘stop start’ animation, hundreds of photographs creating a moving piece, each scene blending into the next to demonstrate a consent flow of consciousness. I then decided that this didn’t quite highlight the many different attributes which ‘make me, me’ and so I decided to collect photographs of everything that I thought contributed to the entire sum that is my personality. I photographed patterns, places, friends, family, my work, objects and from them all create a photo collage that sped along to the tempo of a song which also demonstrated my taste in music.
http://vimeo.com/30226176
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrFwRSvKM8I
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