Tokyo Photo Diary: Day 1

Shrine in Roppongi

Smoking makes you strong.

Ueno Park

Where we stayed

Design Against Fur Animation

Design Against Fur from Clare Dolan on Vimeo.

This is my response to the Design Against Fur 2010 animation competition. The brief asked animators to represent how cruel and unnecessary killing for fur is. To also express the way in which these animals are treated, while focusing on rabbits (of which 30-40 are required in making a fur coat). With each wave of the wand, the sound describes a different method of murder.

Japan

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

I am going to Tokyo in 25 days!! This sped up and nicely timed video is getting me rather excited!!
While I'm out there I will be updating here, my Tokyo diary.

A Collection of Collective Nouns.

Here are some of my illustrations for the Collective Nouns Competition. The other 4,000+ suggested collective nouns you can browse through Here.

A Brace of Dentists

A Cloud of Depressives

A Flight of Runaway Brides

A Heard of Ears

A Count of Vampires

New and improved Cycling .gif

Gif advert done as an extra to the Cycling for London Project set by AOI and the Transport Museum.

Cycling in London

Here's my outcome for AOI's Cycling in London competition brief, it's about cycling being safer, quicker and greener. Still needs some tweaking though.

Resistance Finished.

Here's my final outcome for D&AD's Resistance brief. I chose to illustrate resisting and fighting against OCD by scratching through the dark, controlled world of niggling OCD to the ability to remove the rituals and enjoy life.

Obsessive Compulsive Development

At the moment I am doing the D&AD brief on Resistance and where I am so far is:
Producing a poster about the fight in overcoming or controlling OCD.
2-3% of people in the UK have it which is huge!
Some sufferers will have to check through their rubbish before taking it out, in fear that they have thrown something valuable away, or in one case I have read, thrown a dead baby out. Seriously.
I experienced this examination of my flat's(don't tell them they'll think I'm crazy) garbage to produce this (in progress).

The Left Hand of God

During the past week and a half I've been working on the competition brief for the book The Left Hand of God, and here are my outcomes (one for each excerpt):

The first excerpt describes Cale (14/15) watching some Lord Redeemers bring new children into the 'Sanctuary' which is a very cold restrictive and highly controlled prison-type place. It is said to smell bad and be surrounded by smog. So I depicted Cale looking out the window with the children reflected, walking through the gate and into the haunting place.


The second excerpt is the battle between Cale and Conn. Conn was believed to win with no doubt, however Cale dodged and weaved his sword so fast and before long defeats Conn with a dagger. I decided to illustrate the moment when Cale is dodging Conn's sword to create these blurred Cales which nicely form what appears to be a glow or wings (Cale being the the Angel of Death).


The Third excerpt is about Arbell, who is desired by every man. Before this moment she had no pity for Cale, however after seeing the scars all over his back from where the Lord Redeemers had beaten him since he was a child, realisation struck.

Design for Perfume book cover

The story of perfume is about Grenouille, born in 18th Century France and abandoned in a pile of rotting fish. As he grew up he discovered that he had a gift, an incredible sense of smell, he had the ability to differentiate between different kinds of wood, milk etc, he could smell for great distances, through walls and glass and could tell every ingredient in every perfume.

For this cover I chose the scene when Grenouille smells the first scent he falls in love with which he cannot help but chase, find out what it is, take in every detail up close and possess it. The image is from his point of view so rather than using realistic colours, I altered colours and increased saturation just to show how intense the dirty streets of Paris affected him. I used a lot of layering of buildings to illustrate how complex his world would seem to us, being able to see with the sense of smell, through objects in front and all around us.

The red spiral and red ribbon-like textures on the front cover lead us into the middle of the image where you may not or may just make out a white female figure. As Grenouille has never smelt such a beautiful virgin before this moment, he has no idea what it could be, which is why you too may be confused and wondering what it could be that is leading you into this central object.