Daniel Jarvis

Creative Portfolio

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Brief: Looking at the concept of satire, try to recall something you have witnessed recently and create a response for it.

Repsonse: For this brief I looked at a recent trend that has swept through my university, it seemed that almost everyone, male and female, was wearing a t-shirt which had a upper and lowercase letter across the chest. It was a simple design, font was Helvetica bold and the company was kind enough to have every letter of the alphabet availible. These t-shirts were being sold for

£25.00 and I still do not know why anyone would want to buy them.

I wanted to take my newfound love in screen printing and put it to good use. I redesigned these t-shirts and created a parody style catalogue that demonstrated my frustration with the lunacy of there popularity.

Brief: A three week brief was to create a ‘Book about a Book’. Explore the concept, and to develop a response that could be sold at my university book fair called ‘First Edition Books’.

Response: In creating ‘A Book about a Book’ I was initially struck back by the freedom of the brief. Having room to explore so many different avenues was exciting but also made it difficult to narrow down developing a concept. A colleague and I collaborated to come up with a response, we wanted it to be bold and also memorable.

In exploring the concept we concluded that each page of a book, however beautiful it may appear to be, is just a vessel for the message. In our minds we do not

remember every word, but we create an image in our imaginations that enriches our experience.

With this information we designed and constructed a 30ft long corridor of rooms, where, the consumer could walk through and experience the narrative. Each room of the book was shaped upon an extract of a diary, where the words had literally manifested into physical form.

We are proud to say that 186 people experienced our book for free.

Brief: This brief was to look at the childhood game ‘Chinese Whispers’, and to explore the ideas and concepts that are associated with it.

Response: The game is fundamentally a repeated process of listening and retelling. My response was to take this game and redesign it, and create a test that could be used to monitor how society recalls a story.

I wanted to create something that could act as the stimulant, that would also connect with my audience at a deep and emotional level. Having a more emotionally charged topic I thought would help create a more vivid picture that would be easier to remember, so I focused on Child Abuse.

I have been told that music is considered the pathway to the soul, and so I created an audio piece that

encapsulated the story. I also created an a housing for my audio, further enriching the experience. I took a teddy bear, what is believed to be an object of comfort and security for a child, and I brutalised it, disfiguring its body to encapsulate the drama of the audio.

I gave my participant this bear, and let them listen to the audio, afterwards I presented them with a bear similar to the one I had designed, and asked them to manipulate it however they saw fit.

Right: The original bear that I created.

Brief: Self initiated brief to document a week of workshops for Graphic Design years 1 & 2.

Response: During the laboratory week, my university organised for companies in industry to come and hold talks and workshops for its students. I was asked by a lecturer to document the laboratory for my university, producing several short clips that they could use on their website.

I have only recently starting looking into the dslr filmography and it has rapidly become a passion of

mine, so I jumped at the idea of having the opportunity to produce work on such a public scale. During this week I filmed, and edited all works solely on my own, which has been positively received.

I am proud to say that my work is being exhibited not only on my university’s website and youtube page, but also my course’s external blog. But also being displayed on a professionals website, Hellicar & Lewis.

Brief: This brief was to interpret ‘what happens after death’.

Response: I’m not a religious person so I do not believe there is anything after death; there is no beautiful plain for my spirit to reside when my physical form is spent. I found it difficult to envision anything other than a well of blackness I believe we are all destined to culminate in.

I focused my efforts on exploring the body’s journey through death and how that vessel decomposes after

time. I visualised bodies laid bare on display, rotten, beautifully embodying the concept momento mori, the realisation that we all will die.

The vegetables are representations of human form that encapsulate my vision. Collectively they project a family unit, all dead, that were once alive.

Brief: Professional competition initiated by Hendersons to create an informative pamphlet incorporating the ‘touchy feely’ aspect of paper, with the next Point of Call being their website.

Response: For this brief a colleague and I collaborated in manufacturing a product that had a high end, professional finish.

We played with the phrase ‘In for a Penny, Out with a Pound’, as we felt it was fitting for the audience it was aimed at, and also would positively reinforce the idea of the financial benefits of investment.

We screen-printed a design onto thick recycled card, using metallic colours to allure the consumers’ eyes.

The letters of the pamphlet were risen on the page to add another dimension to the product, and to encourage the consumer to interact with the content further by being able to feel the words.

We successfully screen-printed a QR code on the reverse of our pamphlet taking the user to the companies website as the next Point of Call.

We are still waiting upon the result of their decision.

Brief: This brief was to explore the concept of psychology.

Response: The mind with all its complexities is continuously being explored by the designer. As a society we have been endlessly tested upon, presented with short sharp pulses of consumer products.

A designers’ mastery of the mind has become so acutely adept that we shape what, why and how the general public interacts with life.

We are the manipulators delicately cutting into the minds of the majority, prying open their thoughts and exposeing their vanities, indulgences and dangle in front of them their every desire. We have made them vulnerable.

Most importantly, thank you for looking at my work.