Lily Truelove
Portfolio 2023
Planning and Moodboards for my final piece including concept ideas, Pinterest Moodboard, inspirational collages and thumbnail sketches. Collage and Lust
Images gathered from vintage magazines, The National Gallery and Psychedelic Sex by Dian Hanson, Eric Godtland and Paul Krassner.
Final draft sketches
A magazine concept from the brief ‘Words’ in which we were given the choice between light, path, futures, values and home. I created a bespoke publication inspired by Minimalissmo and The New Era, this was my first completed piece done entirely within InDesign.
A soft rebrand of The National Gallery aimed to target a younger audience through modern and colourful marketing utilising social media platforms to reach a wider consumer base of children and parents. I conceptualised an immersive sensory exhibit to inform the posters that would include animated artworks inspired by the V&A Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibit and interactive screens for children to express their own creativity that would be displayed digitally within the exhibit.
other Pinterest images. A fun personal piece, digital illustration done in Procreate.
Inspiration –taking elements of Ricardo Cavolo and Annie Hall’s illustrations alongside
An open brief in which I decided to pursue an artistic alternative to fast fashion and trend cycles. I researched facts about the current state of fashions ecological impact and options for sustainability alongside visual inspiration which then influenced the decisions I made when designing and picking fabric samples.
My Final piece idea was an installation featuring 1-3 garments fashioned from my designs in high quality, sustainable, un-dyed cotton with images/videos of international rural and urban landscapes projected onto the garments. The purpose being to start a conversation on how big companies can solidify a promise to pursue digital and sustainable fashion to combat the damaging effects of the fashion industry. This sadly was an unfinished piece due to time and resource restrictions.
Example images for projection
Done as my final piece for Graphic Design and Illustration Alevel “The Brexit Chronicles” was a way for me to work through my frustrations surrounding the outcome of the 2016 referendum and its finalisation in January of 2020.
This piece is a digital collage made in Ps using found imagery and inspired by the works of Jamie Reid.
“Inspired by Fuel’s Extensive Russian Tattoo Archive I decided to incorporate my love of tattoos and dissecting the female experience to explore the relationship between femineity and masculine energy this specific style of tattooing emulates. I love the juxtaposition between the softness of the bodies and the Flemish Baroque style and the harsh bold lines of the tattoos. I believe tattooing in this style, although examples of tattoos originate as early as 5000 BCE, is a modern instance of an art movement and one of the most popular and accessible means of creative expression.”
- excerpt from my final evaluation
Media Studies
Alevel final coursework brief – creating a mainstream magazine cover and advertorial using our own photographs and writing. Inspired by fashion magazines such as Vogue and Elle, photos edited in Photoshop and pieces compiled using InDesign.
A personal piece exploring an ongoing theme throughout my work: the female experience. This particular piece accentuating the fascination of hypersexualised women within media, inspired by my interest in Laura Mulvey and Judith Butler’s gender-based theories.
A rebrand concept for a large local business – The Cornish Tea Company taking inspiration from the local landscape and competitor companies such as Origin to create modern, sustainable packaging for teabags and gift boxes. A mixture of digital and practical processes including Ps and marbling.
the moment of their birth.
A continuation of the previous piece focusing on the societal pressures women face from
Made in response to a quick afternoon brief ‘Collage”, in Photoshop.
An introductory project to zines using photo manipulation of gathered imagery to communicate a chosen architectural theme/movement mine being Brutalism.
A quadriptych of etchings exploring my mental state at the time and the way in which my emotions could rapidly change becoming all encompassing and extremely difficult to manage – inspired by doodles by John Lennon.
