michael snodden

'Cut it Out' by Noma Bar

2011-09-25T00:55:00.000+01:00

Today I went into London to see Noma Bar's 'Cut it Out' exhibition at Outline Editions on Berwick Street. There was a workshop where Noma showed up to use his bespoke die cutting machine to create copies of his work forhis adoring fans. Pretty awesome.

Here are the prints me and my friend Hannah got (SML, Pointed Sense, and Erotic Writing)

Followed by Coffee and Hot Chocolate at Flat White.

BofAML

2011-09-18T16:49:00.000+01:00

So for the past month I have being working as a temp graphic designer at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Not where I expected to be after leaving uni, but hey it's good expeirence. I'm there for another two months and then, who knows?

Emma @ Maison Bertaux

2011-07-17T15:48:00.001+01:00

A couple of nights back I nipped up to London for the opening night of a Haiku exhibition, in which my friend Emma Charleston (blog) was participating in. The exhibition took place in the basement gallery of Maison Bertaux, Soho; which coincidentally sells some very tasty cakes.

Emma had a fancy looking jammy dodger and I, a big fat chocolate profiterole. yuuuuum. (please excuse the filters I was playing around with that Instagram app - they looked much tastier in real life)

The exhibition consisted of several Haiku written by the same author and illustrated by three illustrators with differing styles. Below is Emma stood next to my favourite piece of hers, followed by two of her other peices.

The following pice is by one of the other artists. I didn't note their names sorry - for more information, here is Emma's post.

Internship @ Vivobarefoot

2011-07-17T14:41:00.004+01:00

A couple of weeks back in June I completed my first internship! I spent two weeks working at Vivobarefoot for their inhouse design team. They got me doing all sorts; from designing type for a sale window, coming up with concepts for shoe displays, creating a giant twister mat for a trade fair in the US, to designing a promotional flyer. It was real eye opener to how fast paced inhouse design is, and I really appreciate the fact that they allowed me to do real work for such a short internship. The experience has boosted my confidence, and made me even more eager to see what lies next for me.

Sketchbook No. 3

2011-02-27T15:15:00.000Z

I was woken by a Magpie chattering and scrambling around on my window ledge this morning. Now I'm not usually superstitious, but I'm pretty sure this aint a good omen. There are quite a few knocking around my estate at the moment; despite this, I kinda like Magpies.

Sketchbook No. 2

2011-02-24T18:14:00.001Z

I miss Brighton & Hove. I had a pretty good view of the sea in my final year of uni; so here's a page of boats on their way to and from Shoreham Port.

Sketchbook No. 1

2011-02-24T18:13:00.000Z

My Website

2011-02-04T21:11:00.000Z

My website is finally up and running!

You can view it here: http://www.michaelsnodden.co.uk

Round-up of University Work

2011-02-04T20:30:00.000Z

I have finished university and graduated with honours. I was not the best at regular postings, so here is a round-up of uni work I did not post.

Art Direction

2009-06-23T18:24:00.007+01:00

For our last assessed project this year we were given the task of Art Direction. I worked in a group of five, namely; Pete Duffield, LJ Hazzard, Sara Loiperdinger and Jean Tashima. We decided to rebrand a local Tattoo Parlour in Brighton called 'Angelic Hell Tattoo World'. After settling on our logo design and the overall look we wanted to achieve we split the various tasks amongst ourselves. I did the stationary.

The illustrations were done by Pete Duffield. For more of his work please go to http://peteduffield.blogspot.com

Type Beyond the Mac

2009-06-22T12:44:00.007+01:00

For this, our last typography project, we were given a list of statistics. We had to turn three of them into A3 posters using type only. However, we were not allowed to use the computer to set our type, we had to go out and find a typeface and do it by hand. The type faces I used were Egyptian, Rockwell, and another slab serif that I couldn't find the name of.

Different Trains CD project

2009-06-19T19:27:00.003+01:00

This is the project I lost when my hard drive crashed (remember kids - back up everyday!), but luckily I had a printout I could scan in a edit. For this project we were given a list of albums by influential artist, we picked one and designed packaging that had to include a slip case and 16 page booklet. The work had to introduce the artist to a new audience. I chose Django Reinhardt. In the booklet I obscured his face till the end so convey the idea of being overshadowed.

Letterpress Workshop

2009-06-19T18:58:00.006+01:00

At the beginning of the year each member of my class was given a quote; the last words of a famous individual. We were split into groups and over the course of the year each group would spend two days in the letterpress workshop printing their quotes. The final product is a 6"x6" book of all of our work that we sold to raise money for a london exhibition next year.

Here are some test pieces of my quote 'Bugger Bognor' by King George V.

The cover was designed by Danny Pinhas (shown below with the list of my class mates)

and here is a taster of some of the pages

You can see more images here http://milliedavies.blogspot.com/2009/05/graphic-design-level-2-our-letterpress.html

Proposed SHaCs Invitation

2009-05-12T23:17:00.007+01:00

I've got a slight back log of work to post, but I'm insanely busy at the moment. I have two projects on the go, I'm revisiting old projects ready for assessment in three weeks, and I'm helping out my assigned third year student for their degree show, as well as thinking about my dissertation in the back ground. Urgh.

Anyways, over easter we were set the task of designing an invitation for students from the School of Historical and Critical Studies. The invitation was for their private view of their part of the degree show. And this is what I did. Its an A3 poster that folds down into A5 panels.

Aim... To show how broad 'art' is via use of more iconic pieces.

Feedback... little bit too sixties, and too literal. I feel that I did not include enough.

Pendulum Poster Competition

2009-03-11T23:15:00.003Z

This is a poster I have submitted for a competition run by the drum & bass band Pendulum on their website. The poster is to celebrate their last album 'In Silico'. They were asking for any photo or image inspired by Pendulum. My poster depicts the Sun splashing into the sea, nice and dramatic for them. Still waiting to hear how I did.

Second Year So Far ...

2009-03-10T20:43:00.011Z

Here is some of my work from the first semester of my second year.

First off is my proposed design for the university's open day poster. I worked with my friends LJ Hazzard and Sara Loiperdinger on this one. Lots of 3D shapes in different colours representing different choices and variety. oh and a plain white one symbolising 'thinking out side of the box' ... get it?

These are some pack shots of a small book i produced for my 'Batch Production' project. We basically had to produce a book five times for £5. My book is called 'What to do in case you...', and is a light-hearted 'survival guide' for everyday situations; such as what to do in case you walk into a lamp post.

These two photos show a sculptural book I produced for my Book Arts extention studies. Its all about escapism.

We were each given one font that is good to use as a body font. We then had to design an A4 right hand page, a double spread, and a left hand page. So basically a double sided A3 insert for a magazine. I was given Eurostile. First spread is back and front pages and the second is the inside double page spread.

I will post more work as i do it. ... if i like it.

Some First Year Work

2009-03-10T20:27:00.012Z

I dug around and found some of my first year work which is of ok-ish standard to give you an idea of what I was up to.

First are some spreads and pack shots(excuse the bad colours of the photos) of a redesigned CD for my 'Visual Alchemist' project.

Next is 'Power Graphics' an A1 poster about Surveillance.

Finally we have 'Building Blocks'; an A3 broadsheet educating about typography.