EVE WHELAN

Salvador Dali once said, “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing”. This statement holds a lot of truth as we grow up as ‘copiers’; that is how we learn everything, to get a fundamental knowledge of anything you have to begin by copying before you can progress onto something more original. Yet nothing is truly original, everything has been inspired by something and most things can be deemed a prequel or sequel of something else.                Kirby Ferguson created a series of videos called Everything is a Remix, explaining his thoughts on how nothing is original more and the ways in which we can legally remix. He talks of Led Zeppelin and how this famous Rock band copy a lot of riffs from blues songs and even copy lyrics and names from other songs without giving the original artist attribute or marketing it as a cover. Ferguson explains how this remixing spreads over to the film industry also...

A lecturer and PhD student, Jonathan Lindley spoke of his journey into the adoption of sound. He started out like myself as a Graphic Design student, struggling to sync video with audio. This process of adopting sound seemed to be a way of rejecting being a specialist and trying to become more of a ‘Jack of all trades’. He spoke of the difficulties he faced while trying to be freelance when you aren’t an established designer, having difficulties getting work and getting work that pays well for your time. After working for a few artists doing graphic videos for their songs he decided to start his own recording studio to make his own music instead of just designing graphics for other people’s music he could do it for his own too. Not only that he could also begin to design the experience; using sound responsive graphics to engage the audience. He became interested in the idea of Neo-tribalism (a new revived form of being in a tribe) and how this affected your life and experiences. Th...

In a seminar we were asked to pick a song and draw a response to it. My chosen song was Guns N’ Roses Welcome to the Jungle, I wanted to create an image of jungle chaos; the type of place the wacky lead singer Axl Rose would thrive in. Looking at the lyrics, the following lines stood out for the jungle design: “Welcome to the jungle, we got fun and games”; “Welcome to the jungle, we take it day by day”; “You can taste the bright lights, but you won’t get here for free” and “Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here every day”. I wanted to create a chaotic, rock and role jungle scene with lightening, fire, broken glass and just a sense of unruliness. The stereotypical rock and roll lifestyle of rule breaking, I wanted to harness this with a loose and messy pen drawing, the kind of art where if you make a mistake you have no way of removing, only working around it to make it fit again. I am quite pleased with the way the drawing ended up and the process of making it was enjoyable, I ...