Christmas Pud

Working on Christmas Card designs... at the moment I'm using a lot of hand-drawn type and flat, pastel block colours. Hoping to make a set in this style...

Tigerpint Christmas

My entry for the Tigerprint 'Gifted' competition. I had a lot of good feedback on the hates & love project I did so decided to do something similar for this – the idea is to simply make people smile and to combine the commercial and fun things about Christmas with the real reason why we celebrate it :)

New Designers

I exhibited at New Designers last week - such an amazing opportunity! The quality of the work there was incredible and to be honest I was in awe of a lot of the other universities work displayed. here are a few photos I took:

Hates and Loves

One of my favourite projects of the year, my hand-drawn typographic posters of anonymous things that make people smile and anonymous things people get pissed off with. This set was mainly designed specifically for my exhibition because I wanted something that people could relate to, and since a lot of them were collected from my friends and classmates etc they could see their thoughts within my work (anonymously of course)

I displayed these at New Designers and was really surprised with the amount of interest in them, so I'm gonna develop these with new ideas. Maybe card designs/t-shirts..

Penguin Book Design

My entry for the penguin design award; a book jacket for One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Really pleased with the outcome.

Oranges or Icecream?

I love my Mac and photoshop and everything, but at heart I love to create stuff from scratch with paints, inks, pens and paper. I miss doing this kind of work and I don't think because I am a graphic designer that I can't use traditional media.

This project is based on being indecisive - which I am myself but trying (after researching) to make better. It has a raw, painted feel - I wanted it colourful, sketchy, like a thought book of how you feel when you are as indecisive as me. I had a lot of fun doing this and now its been sent off to blurb and hopefully I'll get a real life book in the post in a couple of weeks.

Its called Oranges and Icecream becaauuuse I like quirky titles and it just sounds ridiculous, like why would you ever be in that situation where you need to pick between some oranges and ice-cream?

Website

I finally have a real life website up now, its still in the process of being constructed and
more work to add but have a look :)

www.katbarcenilla.com