Communication Design School of Design
Kirsty Jack
My practice as a graphic designer centres around bold, colourful visuals, and how pattern, shape and colour can evoke emotion. I enjoy producing work that blends digital and analogue techniques, allowing for exploration in the process of making. I am drawn to design as a tool for storytelling and worldbuilding, creating a narrative I could imagine myself in, and drawing from personal experiences. Throughout my time in fourth year, I reconnected with my playful side and found a love for working with bright colours as I feel this brings a lot of my personality into my work.
Jazz Hoose
I decided to use my love of music to imagine a new bar and nightclub that would exist in Glasgow, with a focus on Jazz music. I specifically chose the sub-genre Jazz House as I feel this has a lot of personality and vivid imagery, which could be explored through colour and pattern, and be portayed in a fresh way, not typically associated with Jazz. I wanted to create a reflection of the feelings evoked when listening to the music and use these responses in application to the brand’s identity. I experimented with these values in the caseroom to create tactile artefacts I could imagine being in situ, including printing tiles for the bar front and book binding covers for drinks menus.
Paulin Watches
This project was in collaboration with Paulin Watches. My designs are based on my personal connections and reflections I have with music. I specifically thought about the music that shaped me and the nostalgia I have with this. This led to me looking at how I listened to music, and ending up using CD’s as my source of inspiration. I wanted to combine analogue and digital techniques to reflect the technologies of listening to music, using hand printing techniques to reimagine the decorating of CD’s and pixel art to start bringing it into a digital era. I decided to use the shapes from a CD’s reflections and the old itunes music visualiser as the base composition.
