BEN KITHER
3rd Year Portfolio
Summer Work: Kino4 film posters. Silence: Silence book. Competition Brief: Fedrigoni paper. Personal Project: The Access Project, logo and promotional material. Don’t Panic Poster Brief: Resistance poster. Branding: Superdead Skateboards logo. Screen Printing: Promotional T-shirts Fundraising: Cards and Macbook Vinyl’s Personal Project 2: TQ Magazine
SUMMER WORK
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My reply to the Kino4 Summer Project is intended to be striking and instantly recognisable amongst the hundreds of posters that appear daily in the Chatham Building. The posters use colour as a metaphor for themes of the films. The Corporation uses green to represent greed and money. Goodnight and Goodluck uses blue to reflect the sombre mood of the film. If and Rollerball both have red to represent the hyper-violence shown, with If also using red to represent the British class system. The Film info is represented in a simple circle format to make creating new posters easy and quick, only needing a change of copy and moving the circle so as not to clash with the image. I created my own typeface for the KINO4 title
SILENCE
Silence book
The book created in response to the silence brief is intended to take the viewpoint of various members of the public going about their daily life. It is meant to show the internal monologue of someone in a moment of silence and how silences can vary from person to person and when they occur. The folding cover is blind embossed and documents the making of the book and includes the images from the book.
Silence.
COMPETITION BRIEF
Stills from ‘Paper Pyramids’ the film is made using 96 paper pyramids of 4 varying sizes and colours. When a viewer moves their mouse over the video it pauses and reveals the ‘Doing Something with paper logo and showroom address.
Stills from ‘Embossing’ the film details how to blind emboss a sheet of paper. The base was originally created for the Silence project. When a viewer moves their mouse over the video it pauses and reveals the ‘Doing Something with paper logo and showroom address.
Fedrigoni Paper
Stills from ‘Planes’ the film has not been created. The film would show hundreds of paper aeroplanes being thrown from a window and then follow the flight of the planes down to the street below. When a viewer moves their mouse over the video it pauses and reveals the ‘Doing Something with paper logo and showroom address.
To the left is the address card that would appear when a viewer mouses over a video. This would fade to reveal the Fedrigoni website address. It would also appear at the end of a video if the viewer watches the video till its end.
LONDON SHOWROOM NOW OPEN 36-38 DIAMOND HOUSE HATTON GARDEN LONDON EC9N 8EB
Fedrigoni paper wanted to raise awareness of their London showroom, so far they have created paper installations and held various events there so I decided to create a series of viral adverts that ask the viewer ‘Doing something with paper?’. The adverts show a stop frame animation created from coloured paper, a blind embossing being made and paper aeroplanes being thrown from a rooftop. The adverts are intended to be shown on various art and design websites. ‘Paper pyramids ‘and ‘Embossing’ are on the enclosed CD, the ‘Planes’ advert has only been mocked up.
PERSONAL PROJECT
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The Access Project, logo and promotional material
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What is The Access Project? Bright students from disadvantaged families are unlikely to access the university education to which their natural ability should entitle them. They are less likely to apply to top universities, and when they do, they have often not had enough opportunity to develop their thinking skills to compete with students from more advantaged families. The spark for The Access Project was a class of students aged between 12 and 13 at Highbury Grove School who seemed to have the intellectual curiosity and ability that would eventually suit them to top quality university education. Alex Kelly turned to the expertise of teachers, university admissions tutors, recent graduates, and researchers in social disadvantage to draw up a programme for students that would help them to close the gap with their more privileged peers. Now in their GCSE year, the students from whom the idea originated were the first to benefit from The Access Project. The Access Project has been a registered charity since February 2009.
‘My Tutor makes me work so hard. He gives me homework, even in the holidays! I have to write a 2000 word essay on Nazi propaganda! I think he thinks I’m at degree level already!’ -Michael In pursuit of academic rigour, students are matched with recent graduates, who they meet each week for an hour’s tutorial. Students travel to meet their tutor at their tutor’s workplace.
THE ACCESS PROJECT
1 in 10 UK school leavers wins a place at a Russell Group university. They are joined by only 1 in every 100 students on Free School Meals. How do we fix this?
What do we do? The Access Project organises for published authors, filmmakers, scientists, journalists, economists, expert debaters and mathematicians to run weekly workshops for students who have the potential to access excellent university education. Each participant has a tutor who they see each week, and they also go on visits to universities, exhibitions and foreign countries. Participants attend after and out of school activities each day of the week, choosing them according to their interests. The Project seeks to open the eyes of able students to the opportunities offered by Russell Group universities. Ultimately it helps participants become rigorous thinkers, so that they can access excellent university education.
‘I want to study medicine at Oxford, but I don’t think I’ll do punting again.’ - Ann The Access Project organises at least one university visit each term. Students and parents meet undergraduates and lecturers, and find out about admissions and finance.
Students. Students become Access Project participants at the age of 14 or 15, when they begin their GCSEs. They stay on the programme until they finish their A Levels in year 13, when they leave school, hopefully to take up places at Russell Group universities. Our participants are selected by filling in an application form, attending an interview, and passing a probation period during which they have to prove their motivation to succeed. Currently there are 60 students in three different year groups who participate in the Access Project, all from Highbury Grove School. The target for September 2010 is for there to be 80 students in four different year groups at Highbury Grove School, and for the first cohort to be starting in a neighbouring school. We are determined that all Access Project participants will win places at Russell Group universities.
‘It’s good because I’ve learnt a lot of things about making films that I didn’t know before. And everyone in the school has watched one of the films I have made!’ Dwayne Students can pick from a wide variety of extra curricular activities put on by The Access Project. In filmmaking club, students have made horror films set in school, and promotional videos about Highbury Grove’s after school activities.
PERSONAL PROJECT
The Access Project, logo and promotional material
Funding. As a charity, The Access Project needs to raise funds via charitable donations to pay for the activities it offers. It costs £1000 for one student to participate in The Access Project for one year. We calculate that one of our students needs four years on The Access Project to give them a good chance of winning a place at a top university. In September 2010 we aim to have 100 Access Project participants, so that for the academic year 2010-2011 we need to raise £100,000. ‘Thank you. The trip has given me a love of Rome. I can’t wait to come back.’ Michael Students have the opportunity to go on at least one trip abroad of four days or more each year. On our 2009 trip to Rome, the students were in teams and had to find their own way around! They sketched the Pantheon, performed a short play at the Colosseum, and met the British Ambassador.
What can you do? You can become an Access Project Tutor, you can offer work experience, and you can donate. Weekly one-to-one tutorials with a graduate are comfortably the most valuable extra activity we put on. Students have been transformed by the impact of their tutor their test scores have gone up, they have become more confident, more articulate, and more determined to succeed. To become a tutor you need to offer need to offer an hour of your time each week. Access Project participants have been turned into budding doctors, architects, academics, and game designers after doing work experience during school holidays. Please get in touch if you can offer our students work experience. Access Project participants are free to do work experience during their half term holidays. Students return from work experience more confident and more ambitious, the experience also helps students decide which universities and A-levels they should aim for. As a charity, we rely on donations to fund our work. It costs £1000 for one student to be an Access Project participant for one year. If you donate money to the Access Project you will be able to change the lives of the students we work with.
‘In the science club we learn a lot of interesting stuff, like Neuroscience, How can the brain be that complicated?! The club is good for me because I want to be a doctor.’ - Lawrence The Access Project helps students to stretch themselves. Members of the Accelerated Science club explore areas of science that are only touched upon in the curriculum.
Work by our students. Speech To The Fields
The Access Project organises for a published author to come in to school each week to do creative writing with students, through the charity First Story. Each year the students’ work is published in an anthology. She Is Everything To me… She is everything to me she carried me she taught me she cares for me she is everything to me she is there when I cry she is there when I laugh she is there when I want her she is there when I need her she is everything to me she shows me things… …things I have never seen she is everything to me when she cries I cry I can’t help it you see when she laughs I laugh unless she laughs at me one day I asked her how I could pay her back and she said: you can pay me back by doing more for your own children than I did for you…
‘I’m so grateful for the opportunities that The Access Project has given to me. I take advantage of everything I can! I’ve become way more confident.’ Fatos
Hoops, goals, posts & fields. All here. Always in use. Health and safety taking the fun out. All we need? Perseverance, my friends. Let us run, jump, shove & slide. Rejoice in the pain, for we win! Playing fields belong to the children, not to the Government. We must fight for them. I can see the future, we shout in joy & exultation, for our fields, once again, are our own! Comrades, join me, and proclaim: “Us? Not moving!” And let the future begin today! Daniel Williams
‘It’s amazing to have your work actually published. Something you can hold in your hand! I’m proud of that.’ Daniel Fatos came to England from Turkey when she was 9. She is now in her final year of GCSEs, and has been an Access Project participant since September 2008. Daniel wants to be the first person in his family to go to university. He aims to study medicine.
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Contact details. 6 Inverness Mews, London, W2 3JQ 07789 870 112 www.theaccessproject.org.uk ake@theaccessproject.org.uk The full list of subjects and activities available through The Access Project is Creative Writing, Accelerated Economics, Accelerated Maths, Debating, Journalism, Culture and the Arts, Accelerated Science, Filmmaking, Exhibition Visits, Oneto-One Tutorials, Mentoring Year 7s, Trips Abroad, Trips to Universities, Crime and Punishment. ‘A few years ago I would never have thought of this, but now I want to study English at Oxford University’ Leyla
Charity Registration Number: 1127870
The Access Project is a charity based in London who help under privileged children gain places at University. The charity needed a logo redesign and also a promotional booklet to send to potential investors. I created a logo based on a paper plane, synonymous with school children and flight, it is also intended to represent the ‘A’ of Access. The colour green is used to show growth and also the traditional ‘green means go’ link to the colour. The booklet is a mixture of information aimed at what the charity is, but also contains copy detailing how it has directly affected certain children and what they hope to achieve by being part of The Access Project.
THE ACCESS PROJECT
SCREEN PRINTING
Promotional T-shirts
Elizabeth Marsh-Rowbotham wanted some simple T-Shirts making for her campaign to be elected as VP Education officer. Using a halftone image and some simple Helvetica type I created a design that is eye catching and easy to print. 5 T-shirts have been printed in total.
SCREEN PRINT
DON’T PANIC POSTER BRIEF
Resistance poster.
Taliban forces in Helmand Province. One Man’s Freedom Fighter is Another Man’s Terrorist.
Don’t Panic is a monthly free ‘magazine’ often found in trendy stores, cafes and the like. The main attraction to taking the envelope it comes in is the poster included. Each month a word is chosen and you are able to interpret the word in any way, upload your design to the internet and by a voting system it may be chosen to be printed for the next magazine. The word I worked around was ‘resistance’. My response to the brief is based around how the word resistance is subjective to your view point. To most people in the Western world Taliban soldiers are terrorists, yet they believe themeselves to be freedom/resistance fighters, liberators against Western oppression.
LOGO DESIGN
TwoDist Voodoo Logo
Two Dist distributes for several smaller level skateboard companies such as Roger, I-Path and Rasa Libre. They asked for a logo based around the idea of a voodoo head with a thick black outline and the ability for the logo to be used in a variety of colours as well as black and white. My design uses elements of the skateboard (wheels and deck) to create the eyes and face, it was well received by peers but Two Dist decided not to use the logo.
FUNDRAISING
Cards and Macbook Vinyl’s
I have contributed to the degree show fundraisers in a variety of ways. From the top left image going clockwise I have made the following: ‘Youth Is Wasted On The Young’ T-shirt design for TeeTwelve, Old Mac design for T-shirt collaboration with Chris Scanlon. Further collaboration with Chris in the form of Macbook vinyl stickers and finally Valentines and Mothers Day cards.
FUND RAISING