New Website

I thought it was about time I created my own website for my design work, I decided to use square space to create my website as I like they're layouts and it is simple to use. Now I have a website I can link studios to it for them to have a look at my work, this is something that I want to keep updated at all times as many people could be viewing it. 

www.aimee-parker.com 

Design Studios of Interest

Now Context of Practice is handed in I am now going to be looking at studios of interest and applying for placement to gain experience in the graphic design working world. I shall enquire about placement via email and send a pdf document of some of my work and a copy of my CV. 

Studios of interest so far: 

Glasgow: 

Risotto Studio 
Warriors Studio 

Leeds:

Robot Food
Rabbit Hole
Vast
Catalogue

Sheffield:

Peter and Paul
Feild

Manchester:

Raw
Gorrilla
Nine Sixty
Instruct Studio
Mark
Vibe Studio
Creative Concern 

London:

Lazy Oaf
Urban Outfitters

Berlin:

Hello Me
Ahoy
Slang
Basics 09
Upstruct


The more I research the more design studio's I find of interest, I will contact these studio's this week as a start and possibly more in the future. 

Berlin '16

I took a trip out to Berlin to explore the city as I have heard good things about it. We took various tours of the city and learnt a lot about the graffiti, art and history. Here are some images of interesting art I saw in Berlin, the large scale and detail was incredible. 

Victor Ash

Astronaut, Krusenberg

This was one of my favourite pieces of graffiti by an artist called Victor Ash. What I like about it is the scale, but what is most fascinating about it is that the piece of graffiti is placed in context as at night a light shines on this piece of art next to a cars sales pitch with flags, the light shines through the flag and onto the astronaut, so at night it looks as if the astronaut is holding a waving flag.  

Other Victor Ash work 

'Sea View' Denmark

Look at me, look at you. Bremen Germany

Falling Graffiti Writers and trees. Berlin 

Tree house 

The Urban Treehouse is a historical gem. Sitting right along the former Berlin Wall, the treehouse was put together by Osman Kalin in 1983 while the Berlin Wall was still standing. The derelict land was suddenly under inspection once the wall fell, and it looked like Kalin's masterpiece was going to be torn down. Protests ensued and the neighboring church, which it turned out owned the land, elected to let him stay. It still stands today, and Kalin is more than happy to let passers by take photos of his inventive home.

1up Crew

The 1up crew are one of the most famous graffiti gangs in Berlin and they are very famous for spraying the trams in Berlin. Someone of the gang will be inside the tram and pulls the emergency cord which gives them exactly three minutes to spray the tram before the police arrive. They are dressed head to toe in black and their face covered so no one knows who they are. All over Berlin there is the 1up logo in various places. The 1up crew- one united power.

They video it all and put it on YouTube, here is just one of the videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-n3zZhjlSY

Studios of interest in Berlin 

I didn't contact any studios before going out to Berlin because there wasn't enough time, however I would like to visit the city again as I wanted to stay out there longer, I have been looking at a few studios I could contact including:

Hello Me
Ahoy
Slang
Basics 09
Upstruct

I will contact these studios in the near future