As with the piece i put up a few weeks ago, the point of these was to create a good design that suggests the richness and colours of life that bees are helping to sustain. Theyre largely created from aluminium foil and drinks cans, with a few bits touched up in Photoshop. Still looking at Alan Aldridge, definetly will make sure i get to his London exhibition in the next couple of weeks, even if it will be 5 hours each way on a bloody coach.

Iv created this illustration with the idea of communicating the theory behind bees strange dissapearance. The signpost, made from printed paper, suggests them being lost, and the design on it hints at the reason - radiation from mobile phones. While i have printed and made the signpost, the bees and flowers were done in Illustrator and Photoshop.

I created this piece using a flower print i did from textured card. Iv changed the colours digitally, and the stems and boxes are also done in photoshop, but the leaves are printed directly from leaves. The influences on the style and colours used in this piece are Alan Aldridge and James Marsh, i looked at these because i wanted to create a good design that suggests the richness and colours of life that bees are helping to sustain. I think the very organic technique of printing directly from a leaf has mixed quite well with the artificial look of Photoshop design.

Iv made these bees from beer cans, inspired by the models i found at camden.

Personal Project

My personal project is based on Symbiosis; the relationship between two diferent species that are interdependant, in some cases relying on each otehr for survival. Iv chosen this because i was interested in studying nature or conservation but wanted to look at it from an interesting angle. The first example i thought of was Bees and Flowers, which seemed too obvious and boring, untill i read further and found that Einstein had predicted that if bees were to die out, humans could be extinct within four years. It had never really occured to me that bees gave us any benefits other than honey, when in fact most plants rely on them for reproduction, including everything we eat, feed out animals on, and make our clothes from. As reports of bees declining all over the world have been in the media recently, i felt that this would be a fascinating subject to study.