Camberwell book brief: Impress.

Poster for Goldsmiths based collective Adult Youth

http://adultyouthcult.blogspot.com/

The images here are experiments leading on from my photographs of the Lewes Cliffes. The geological information has been transformed into 3D from the photographs producing structures which are computer generated 3d translations of the cliff and its infinite shapes and contours.

http://unknownlandba1.tumblr.com/

A droplet of ink in water is akin to the biggest natural disaster imaginable

stills from the Camberwell 'Design a dictionary' project

The briefing sheet put forward the idea that the origins of language where irrational and of a magical nature. This got me thinking that words are symbol systems which are far removed from the potency of the thing they define.

I want to present a dictionary which defines a language in a more illuminating way than the symbol systems which we use, i.e words.

I came up with the idea of defining my language with the medium of water and how my chosen things react or move within it.

Untitled from Isness Army on Vimeo.

Camberwell Graphic Design brief: 'A minute of your time'

We received a week long masterclass from film maker Alex Reuben

We came up with the idea of re-populating one of Europe's largest abandoned council estates with sound. The vast neo-brutalist blocks used to house up to 1200 residents before Southwark council started kicking the residents out a few years ago. Now it is almost completely abandoned apart from 3 or 4 families that refuse to leave. At one time the bridges and walkways connecting the estates used to stretch pretty much from Elephant and castle station to Old Kent road and you could walk between these two destinations without touching the ground once. It's no surprise then that this monumental design fault would lead to a whole array of murders, rapes, muggings etc.

Being in the estate filming for a few hours is a very harrowing experience. The court yard where this was filmed is looked over by thousands and thousands of windows, some you can still see bunk beds and old posters in. It's deadly silent, no wind gets in there and considering Elephant and castle is less that 100 metres away, all you can hear is the odd magpie. The only human life we encountered where three Polish guys, they looked homeless and were stealing the copper wire hanging down from a lot of the flats. If you want to know exactly how it would feel to survive the end of the world then this is the perfect place for you to visit. It is a truly post apocalyptic environment. After a few hours in The Heygate your mood starts to change and you become quiet and disorientated.. The bus ride back was very quiet.

The task of re-populating the estate as well was a very strange experience watching the footage over and over again and deciding where you would hear certain sounds or conversations and which direction they would be coming from. It's a very un-natural process and it becomes very nauseating imagining sound scapes and making it sound realistic. We must have watched the footage with different sounds about 500 times and the more you watch it the more you expect life in the footage and this starts to become very disorientating. I hope an element of this comes over in the Video.

Spaghetti from Alex Lyons on Vimeo.

had a lot of time on my hands last year.....

When the Platypus was first discovered by Europeans in 1798, and a pelt and sketch were sent to the United Kingdom, some thought the animal to be a hoax. It was thought that a taxidermist had sewn a duck's beak onto the body of a beaver-like animal. George Shaw, who produced the first description of the animal in the Naturalist's Miscellany in 1799, even took a pair of scissors to the dried skin to check for stitches.

My poster design for a Camberwell College brief on re-interpretating an existing exhibit at your local museum.

South downs, Lewes December 2010

isness army vol . 2 soon