Jacob Coy » University

Survived the first month,

Jacob — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:36:55 +0000

So hey I survived the first month of uni. Three projects in and I’m still not really integrating well into groups. fixed up a couple of good friends in Sam & Robin (check out their work). Decided this morning I would actually start blogging again to coincide with me still working on my portfolio, the blogs been a bit forgotten about whilst I transitioned to uni.

Here is a brief look at some work from the last two projects:

Project 1 involved the creation of a low cost zine based around Winchester. With the final outcome produced on the photocopier. Studying the forms of buildings and landscapes of Winchester and flipping themselves onto each other to create a visually interesting and thoughtful piece of work.

Project 2 involved the creation of a pinhole camera from an object our choosing. I chose to create mine from a story book in a charity shop. all of these photos apart from the 2nd are 8 second exposures in the day with the 2nd photo being an hour and a half at nightime.

It’s 5:48 in the morning and I cant sleep.

Jacob — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:16:20 +0000

So yeah it’s nearly 6AM and I cant sleep at all, my sleep pattern has been so messed up recently and I keep finding myself waking up at 3:30 in the afternoon which doesn’t help things. I have work in just over two hours which recently has held no thrill for me. Recently I was given a very slight promotion but keeping up with the training has just proved to be a hassle with only working one day a week.

Beyond work my time at AUCB came to an end a couple of months back and I start at my new university: Winchester School of Art in just under a month and I’m quite apprehensive to say the least. Will my hallmates like me. Will my classmates like me. Will I be a total failure. There’s a lot to go wrong with moving out and taking on the world by myself. Although at the same time its very exciting to go out and make a name for myself. I’m hoping to exhibit some work on the blog as early as October or November whilst I build up my portfolio to release to the world properly (I’m picky with the design of it). I think I’ve gone on for long enough at 6 in the morning so I will leave you with some generic uni photos of what my room in halls is like. I will post some photos when I have all of my kit set up and when I actually move in.

All Things New

Jacob — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:01:00 +0000

Time for an update!

First up. University is over! I have finished my course and start at another Winchester School Of Art in October (hopefully) my art show starts in a week and I cant wait to go round on the private showing to see what people are thinking and saying about my pieces.

Second up I have eventually started updating my Portfolio with work now that I have all this time off, check it out if you have the time, it only has two pieces of work at the moment, but its being updated daily.

Finally I am appealing for work! I need illustration, and graphic design work over the summer. If you have a firm or you just need the odd job working on email me and I will see if we can work something out!

Some Photo’s from my art show to close this post off…

An Update To Rosy Lee

Jacob — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:29:31 +0000

I always wanted to update with projects and outcomes I was working on. So here is some of Rosy Lee my final major project for Foundation Diploma Graphics.

these are the fronts for 3 tea boxes I have produced.

Also an A2 poster produced for display in my fda show.

I shall update soon with photo’s from my fda show later in the month.

The trials & tribulations of UCAS, University and Life

Jacob — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:30:21 +0000

It’s been a while since I had a proper post on here so I figured it was time for a catch up. I am currently 20 days away from finishing my Foundation Diploma In Art and Design, and up until a week ago I was uni-less. I had replies from three of my five choices telling me I wasn’t good enough. Only one of which actually offered me an interview. I held back from offering any opinion on the process or the uni’s themselves because I did not want to affect where if anywhere I was offered a place.

I was offered a place on a very highly regarded course at Winchester School of Art, I shall be undertaking a BA(hons) in Graphic Arts and I can’t wait, although this wasn’t my first choice uni. Before looking at the uni’s themselves or going to interviews my pecking order was

Kingston University
Brighton University
Chelsea School of Art
Winchester School of Art
University of the West

Now Brighton was a long shot to start with as was Chelsea (both coincidentally rejected me before interviews) although I saw Kingston as an opportunity to excel. They offered me an interview to which I attended and spent a good 3 hours there. It was my top uni because of the prospectus and the course description, although from listening to students who were supervising us and those around us the course was a huge deal different to how it was described. I don’t have a problem with group projects but I’m not a huge fan, I’m very independent and I tend to work better by myself as I’m not hindered by others. Before I went into my interview I realised that Kingston wasn’t for me, which they obviously agreed with as they rejected me. This left me with WSA and UWE. Going to an open day at Winchester just solidified that uni as the place I NEEDED to go to. Everything is how I like it. Separate from the rest of the uni, tailored to my skills and full of equipment that I would utilise. Which was proven when I went to the interview recently, I managed to get a place on the course I wanted with a very respectable conditional requirement of a pass on my course. After a few hours of oohing and awwing about whether to choose UWE or WSA (my interview for UWE was 3 days later) I decided that I wanted to go to Winchester and here I am.

So now I’m frantically trying to get all my work finished for AUCB so that I can pass my course and progress to WSA. I think I might die a little bit inside if I didn’t pass and failed to progress to the degree. I am creating a new tea company called Rosy Lee (cockney for tea) an example of one box in my kitchen cupboard is below

The design of the boxes is based around the simple thesis that current tea boxes are DULL. They all have some bland image. Mountains. Hills. Some clouds. With the need to describe what the tea is like on the front in big writing. Why cant you be drawn in by a descriptive image and then find out about the tea whilst looking at the box. As such I present Rosy Lee.

So life is a train wreck waiting to happen but as my tutor says “you have beautiful boxes” so wahey must be doing something right!