My self promotional digital book...

For one of my second year projects we had to design a 16 page digital book that would make my employer choose me over another applicant. I decided to make mine more visually aesthetic using quotes that I think represent myself. All the pages, apart from the front cover and back, will be done on a double page spread. It is going to be done like a fashion magazine in A4 size.

Alex Box Makeup

Alex Box makeup by Rankin creates a powerful fusion of art and fashion. Her images intrigue the audience with the use of bold, dramatic and vibrant colours. It gives a creative and innovative effect within the image. She has made makeup more as an art form and alternatively it immediately draws the attention to the audience eye. 

A picture says a thousand words and this is why I love Alex Box's work. I love the fun playful colours she uses in this image. The texture of the makeup makes the image feel more alive and makes it more fun to look at. It's such a dramatic image and in a way makes me think of the Joker in the new Batman film but in more feminine and not as scary. 

I love love love the pattens she has used in these two images. It makes the image feel more alive and free flowing. For me the makeup has become an art form. The images radically deconstruct conventional images of beauty in fashion. I love the way she has experiment with the structure and performance with fantasy and fashion within the human face.  It's is so beautifully structured and so powerful. 

Tim Bret-Day Photography

Tim Bret-Day is most famous for his Harvey Nichols and Agent Provocateur campaigns. His photography is simply stunning. With most of his images he isn't afraid to use photoshop and play around with different layers. These images depicts Menswear/Womenswear and Restaurants and Foodmarkets in a visual celebration of vibrant colours and a variety of activities with fascinating surrealism. He brings to life the heavenly fashion playground experience at Harvey Nichols with a kind of sense of humour.

Another one of his most famous photography is this year’s Agent Provocateur campaign. The above photo is titled “Season of the Witch” and the below two are titled “Pan and the Vestry of the Virgins” and “Pirate Provocateur” respectively. I love the way he uses lots of layers of people all over the image and yet it doesn't become to cluttered or over the top. You can immediately tell by the style of the imagery that it is Tim Bret-Day's work

Tim Walker Photography

Tim Walker's images are just so inconceivably detailed, interesting, crazy and beautiful all at once.  I love the way these images use a dream like sense of fashion photography. They become more like a fairy tale and as if he is telling a story within his imagery. 

I love the soft colours of these images and the way the light has been captured because it makes it more subtle and appealing to the eye. It becomes more like a dream. It is also warm and friendly and you feel at ease with the images. His photos are always very theatrical, imaginative and tell a story. This is clearly shown in this image and i love the way he has used over the top props to tell his story because it make the images more playful and fun. He makes the eye not only focus on the clothing but on the surrounding and the image as a whole.

I love the way he has used soft and calm colours which reflect the mood of these images. The way he has used a kind of balletic theme with these images which makes the piece have more movement and it becomes more fairy tale like. 

Click underneath if you would like to see more of Tim Walker's work:

http://www.thomastreuhaft.com/Tim_Walker/tw.html

Nick Knight - Clown

Nick Knight is one of my favourite photographers. He makes fashion photography more than just about the clothes or the models but he creates an exquisite bond between Art and Fashion. The sinister high-fashion harlequin photography and moving imagery creates a surreal and dreamlike vision of a nightmarish twist of Jack the Ripper's third victim, Dark Annie. 

I love the way the images look like they have been smudged or drained of colour, it looks like the water has run across the ink. They become more mysterious and in some sense quite scary and therefore reflects on the sinisterness of the piece. 

Clown
Magazine/ AnOther Magazine Fall/Winter 2009
Concept/ Panos Yiapanis and Nick Knight
Photography/ Nick Knight
Styling/ Panos Yiapanis
Model/ Carmen Kass
Hair/ Sam McKnight
Makeup/ Hannah Murray
Production/ Charlotte Wheeler
Location/ SHOWstudio

Guinness Suffer/Horse ad!!

This advert for Guinness was inspired by Walter Crane's 1893 painting "Neptune's Horses" (shown above). The text also draws inspiration from Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick.

I LOVE the adverts Guinness make and this advert just sums up their brilliantness. The graphics are simply amazing and i love the way the music makes you feel as if your experiencing the suffers excitement. The silence at the beginning creates a sense of anticipation contrasted with the fast past music when they actually suffering.

Sony Bravia - Colour like no other!

The Sony Bravia 'Colour like no other' adverts have to be one of my all time favourite adverts. I love the way they are showing the tag 'Colour like no other'  with different objects and fun, eye catching visuals. This makes the advert stand out from the rest and therefore makes the audience remember it because it is different from the other everyday television adverts. 

Love, Love, Love it......

V magazine!

 Grace Jones is the Jamaican icon who has seams to have done it all - music, acting and modeling.  So what a perfect reason to have her face as the Spring Preview 2009 issue of V magazine. I just love, love, love her! Is it me or is she still one of the baddest people out there and this image just shows the fierce badass girl in her. Its so striking and powerful. I love the contrast with her dark smooth skin and the silver 'V" and the texture of the sparkly hat.

This spread was shot by the fabulous art director Jean-Paul Goude.

Lady Gaga..... Need I say more! This shoot was taken by Mario Testino (one of the best fashion photographers today). I love the colour contrasts with this image. It jumps out to me, it's fun, energetic and angular. The angles used form a composition, they make the structure stand out more than most mag covers. 

Well a very interesting cover to an even more interesting spread. The semi nude pictures just show another day, another outrageous outfit from Lady Gaga!! Is there anything else more for her to do to shock us?!?

Ecard

http://www.emilyweller.co.uk/poppy_ecard2/poppy_ecard4.html

Webpage

New site - www.emilyweller.co.uk

POP magazine!

POP magazine is one of my favorite fashion magazines 

today. I love the way the cover immediately grabs 

your eye and therefore makes the reader want 

to read it. Not only does the colour in this 

image stand out to me, but the way in 

which the colours are contrasted

makes the image reflect the

POP art movement.

This image is fun and playful. I love the way in which the

 type has been laid out. It makes the cover more casual 

and the seam like its 'on the go'.  I like the way she

is shot in profile because it makes the reader 

want to see and learn more about her.

This image has been one of my favorite inspirations. Makeup 

is one of the most fascinating things to me, i love the way 

that it can completely change or cover up someone's 

identity - you can be who ever you want! It can 

also be seen as art and it can done in so

many different ways. 

Slow shutter speed images can be so interesting and i like the 

way this fashion image uses light to make movement. It 

makes the image feel more energetic and alive. Again 

the colour contrasts reflects on the POP theme of 

the magazine and makes it more interesting. 

Poppy Project

For one of my projects in my first year at Leeds University I was given the brief to design a campaign that made the Remembrance Poppy more appealing for the younger generation and to make them wear it more. I did some research and found out that most of my target market found the paper poppy annoying to wear because of the pin and mostly because it gets lots or destroyed. Therefore I came up with the idea of having a t-shirt with the image of the poppy on it and saying Remember 08. I wanted to make the campaign look at the positive side of Remembrance day therefore I decided to make it about why we should be proud to wear the poppy. I made the images of the t-shirts more fun and suitable for different genders so that it suited a wider range of people and ages. The t-shirts could also be worn all year round so that we remember those who gave up their lives for us all the time not just before Remembrance day. 

About me

What's your full name?

Emily Charlotte Grainger Weller

When were you born?

04/05/1989

Where are you from?

I was born in London. I grew up in Linchonshire then moved at the age of 11 to Leicestershire and continued to work and live there until the age of nineteen when I moved to Leeds to study Graphic Design.

What did you study for A level?

I studied graphic design, textiles and theatre studies where I achieved A,B,B

Have you got any favourite influences?

I have lots of favourite influences, all for different reasons. Fashion photography is one of my main inspirations.

Tim Bret Day is one of my favourite photographers because the way he uses his imagination. Look at the adverts he has done for Agent Provocateur and Harvey Nicholas and need I say more.  

Tim Walker's images are just so inconceivably detailed, interesting, crazy and beautiful all at once.  I love the way he uses imagination, dream and fairy tale to tell a story - this is what dreams are made of.... 

I am also inspired by other media including illustrations, paintings and graphics. There is no end to influence in an artist's world everything can be taken for inspiration, even the smallest thing like a cereal box!!

Here are just a few pics of me which were photographed by one of my best friends, Zoe Lower