Another Fucking Design Student

I left my job as a full time Graphic Designer, to develop and explore areas of work that better reflect my abilities and passion for creation.

I am now one of the thousands and thousands of design students in the UK all facing the challenge of getting noticed in a jam packed industry.

I believe in an equal balance of concept and execution in order to produce work that has worth. Blurring the divide between computer software generated design and traditional hand made processes to create something which can be seen to have depth and layers of process.

This blog will showcase work I produce as part of my degree, self initiated projects and behind the scenes of some of my processes. Basically like all the other fucking design student blogs out there. :)

Rob Francis © 2009

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rob@iwillcreate.co.uk

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Mulberry Book Animation - Behind The Scenes

For more info about the making of, click the Vimeo link in the video

Mulberry “The Book” Animation - Finally I have something worth blogging! This animation I made has gone live on www.mulberry.com 

Made to promote the 40 Year birthday book. for more info on the animtion click the Vimeo logo in the video. Behind the scenes coming up next…

Here’s my proposal for my FMP, feel free to flick through. The Klang Blick project is about to go into full swing very soon. keep an eye on the klangblick.com blog for updates, exclusive content and behind the scenes.

Behind the scenes for Jess, as she puts her window together for Selfridges Bright Young Things.

see the items she has on sale exclusively at Selfridges here

My new project has started now in the form of a Visual-Music collaboration under the name of Klang Blick. Check this link to the blog for more info on it and to keep up to date with all the developments. If you are a musician or film maker and would like to get involved with the project then feel free to get in touch.

My new project has started now in the form of a Visual-Music collaboration under the name of Klang Blick. Check this link to the blog for more info on it and to keep up to date with all the developments.

If you are a musician or film maker and would like to get involved with the project then feel free to get in touch.

Check out http://www.jjam.info/2010/11/jjam-friends-at-somerset-house-10-12-december/

I’ve contributed to the psychedelic selection of xmas cards you can print yourself. The link has all the details, it’s on today and tomorrow (11th/12th dec) at Somerset house.

Here are some behind the scenes photos from the film Rabbits Don’t Like Chips. Thank you to Josu for being armed with his camera to take snaps in between helping out on the film.

To see some of his fantastic photography and great design work visit his website http://www.josumuniz.com/

Here is the most recent film for Jessica Dance and her new handmade accessory collection entitled “The Woolery Collection”.

This film is intended to showcase the accessories and also step into the mind of the young designer. We follow a girl day to day skipping and dancing around the sea side town in which she lives, we wanted to have a narrative to the film that many fashion films are lacking in. We hope that the loose narrative would pull people through the film and take you on a short escapist journey.

For more information on The Woolery Collection visit jessicadance.com/​shop

More info for the tech heads out there and the credits can be found here: http://vimeo.com/17055136

Finally got round to cutting a showreel together! It has work on it from 2009 and the first part of 2010. 

I have also just got myself representation from www.offkeycreatives.com who will be representing me for my moving image work and direction. Good times!

My end of year project from last year was part of the Best of Ten exhibition at LCC. Which featured a selection of the best work from across all the end of year shows across the uni. I was really pleased to be part of it and for my work to be put along side some really great pieces.

Slow to blog this, a few snaps of Duster Monster at this years Tent exhibition held at the Truman Brewery as part of the JJAM show. There was a great turn out, I was informed that Duster Monster was a hit with the younger audience amongst the visitors and was told a nice story of a child chasing him around the stand, he didn’t manage to catch him which was lucky! I wish I saw that :)

Ok, ok this post is far overdue, sorry :(  I have been fortunate enough to have been incredibly busy with all sorts of work over the summer “break” from video production, animation and graphic design. In this post I can reveal my contribution to the Everyday Delights show at Tent London curated by JJAM. His name at the moment is Duster Monster and he will play the lead role in my next short film. (he can walk by the way!!!) To see him in the flesh and strutting his stuff pop down to the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane between 23-26 September and look for stand G01 at the Tent exhibition which is part of London Design Week. So, I’m back to uni soon and will be getting my head back into learning, I’m looking forward to starting work on some of my new ideas and in theory I should have more time to keep this blog a bit more up to date. also, just so you all know my website is down at the moment and no one seems to know why. I’m working on a fix today (hopefully!)

Ok, ok this post is far overdue, sorry :( 

I have been fortunate enough to have been incredibly busy with all sorts of work over the summer “break” from video production, animation and graphic design. In this post I can reveal my contribution to the Everyday Delights show at Tent London curated by JJAM. His name at the moment is Duster Monster and he will play the lead role in my next short film. (he can walk by the way!!!)

To see him in the flesh and strutting his stuff pop down to the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane between 23-26 September and look for stand G01 at the Tent exhibition which is part of London Design Week.

So, I’m back to uni soon and will be getting my head back into learning, I’m looking forward to starting work on some of my new ideas and in theory I should have more time to keep this blog a bit more up to date.

also, just so you all know my website is down at the moment and no one seems to know why. I’m working on a fix today (hopefully!)

Long time no post.. I’ve been working on lots of freelance jobs to pay the bills.

I have plenty of cool projects in the pipeline though! I’ve been asked to contribute along with 49 other creative types to an exhibition and book curated by jjam that will be part of London design week. It’s also open to submissions where the top 50 will be in the book more info at http://www.jjam.info/call-for-entries

I’ve also made plans to team up again with Chris Moss Acid and a fantastic dancer called Ugo to create a crazy audio/visual remix concept, that’s been on the cards for a while now.

And most excitingly I just got my hands on an underwater HD camera, so expect to see some cool/trippy magic stuff floating around my vimeo.

Next post I’ll have something cool to show!

Finally I have got round to uploading my entry to the D&AD Student Awards, it won a second place yellow pencil which I am really happy about. I’ve been featured on the LCC blog where they asked me a few questions about the awards and my film go check it here

There is also a bit about the ceremony on the onedotzero blog, which has an embarrassing photo of me with my award.  if you want to see check it here

Also you can see what the brief was and more about my entry on the D&AD Student Awards site which is here

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Here are the three posters I will be exhibiting at my end of year show at LCC. Though originally I (along with many other students) had much grander plans. Given that we live in a democratic society and we are fortunate to be entitled to freedom of speech I have decided to express my disappointment about how the end of year show is panning out. This may turn out to be quite a rant…

We were asked to create a piece of work for the end of year show that had a “WOW” factor and generally it was pretty much an open brief. Students were coming up with fantastic ideas which were encouraged during tutorials, many of those ideas became reality, which has been great to see.

Now however, we face the reality of fitting 88 students creative endeavors into one moderately sized class room. Whilst the majority of other courses across the university exhibit their students work in the purpose built galleries, entrance hall and much larger ground floor studios. We are resigned to a room on the third floor at the back of the university building. Given that this course is an FdA and not a BA, I can understand that we would not get any of the prime locations in the university.

But we also have to share our room with the 3rd year top up course which is a full BA degree, now this is something I don’t understand. These 24 (aprox) students should be able to exhibit their work in one of the more prime locations alongside other BA courses.

With such a tight squeeze into our room it will be no surprise to discover that our once “WOW” projects have had to be shrunk to fit. Hence why I am now exhibiting the three posters above, though originally I had intended to show my three films on the old stripped monitor you see in the poster, attracting attention at first to the object and then to the moving image work. Now every student can only show a maximum of three posters along with moving image work (if applicable) being shown in a big compilation on a screen with no sound, there will be a few computers connected to the internet where people could look at the moving image work with sound (I hope). But this doesn’t come close to my original plans, especially as I commissioned three musicians to make the music for my films which will now predominantly be shown in silence.

The show hasn’t happened yet and it may not end up being the disaster I anticipate, but I had to write this to communicate my frustration and I speak for other students who feel the same. I am also fully aware this type of thing goes on at other universities as I witnessed it first hand just the other week, but it’s hard enough trying to get noticed in this jam packed industry with out having universities not communicating coherently to the students when the goal posts have moved. 

This is by no means a reflection of the course in general, we have fantastic opportunities working on live briefs and are given freedom to create the best work possible, with support from the tutors. But I feel something needs to change in time for next year, so other students won’t have the same frustration and unnecessary anxiety.

If you feel I have over stepped the mark or agree with this rambling rant, then please email me to express your point of view.

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