Postcard Book from Italy, Circa 1900 »
This was an excellent gift my parents brought back from Spain, given to them by a friend who told them to pass this onto me. It is a souvenir postcard book, collected from Rome containing photographs of the Vatican City and Rome itself. The book dates back to around the 1900’s, and the publisher was amongst the first to provide postcards. I fell in love with the stab binding, the card stock, the letterpress typography and embossing technique on the first page.
Snark is a Lark »
It is Snark Forums birthday this month, and in celebration I am promoting it here and asking that my readers give it a go. To say that the community is amazing would be a massive understatement — Snark and its individual members have given me valuable case studies for my dissertation, led me to several bloggers I have met and will meet in the future, and still provides me with interesting and challenging (as well as inane and terribly fun) banter that continues to inspire and entertain me as I study and engage with online culture and its colourful personalities.
Sevenisms »
This week I opened Sevenisms — a group collaborative between a few friends and I. Every seven days a new theme is posted. Each member will then respond creatively to that theme whether that be through writing, illustrating, designing, painting or making something. Hence each piece of work will be a sevenism, as it was a product of something created in seven days.
Sevenisms: A group collaboration — Visit project website »
Sevenisms is a collaborative between a group of friends who studied together at Portsmouth University. It is a collection of multi-disciplinary projects conveying a chosen subject in the space of seven days. Hence, each piece of work produced for each weekly theme is a sevenism. Each week on Monday, a new theme is posted. That theme is then interpreted by the Sevenisms contributors, as they answer it creatively in any shape or form. The purpose of Sevenisms is to provide a friendly atmosphere for us as friends and as creatives, so that we can encourage each other, share our work and promote our individual styles.
As the creator of Sevenisms, it has been my responsibility to maintain the website in order to update the weekly theme, as well as create a neutral interface which both compliments the work and is simple to use for a variety of users new to content management systems. This included a variety of functions such as simple visual queues prompting users to log in, to more complicated configurations to the back panel to allow for private user areas. Using a combination of Wordpress and basic PHP, I have made a usable website which has prompted interesting contribution.
Some of my contributions are viewable here on my portfolio. For a full list of my contributions, please visit my profile page on Sevenisms.
