Lord Whitney

Lord Whitney, a duo of art directors, set designers, who advocate play, curiosity and the make believe. What I really love about them and their work is that their main focus is craft, design and aesthetic. I feel like a lot of my work can relate to this concept and reflects that. Particularly with this project I am focusing heavily on aesthetic and craft - making something physically and creating a story or character. The also focus a lot on colour and experimenting with clashing contrasting colours and 'playing' which is exactly my intentions with this project. Their attention to detail is something I am really drawn to and really inspires me - they have clearly meticulously created these pieces of art and their professionalism really stands out. The contrast between really simple mundane, easy accessible objects like paper, card etc made into simplified versions of more complex images and the portrait figure of a human is something which I am so interested in. I'm so intrigued by stage design and how something so simple can come across as something so paramount within the concept of whats being portrayed. 

 

'Mock n Roll'

In this project they teamed up with illustrator Jack Hudson and created a series of mock up albums inspired by quirky 1980s covers. The project was informed by creativity, play and people - this links really well with my current illustrated self project, using humans as a focal point but staged in a way that makes them less human by costume and part of the set but also edited in such away that is so far from reality and creates a whole new world - also something I aim to try and achieve. The daring choice of colours add to the whole fantasy giving off a sense of surrealism - an art movement I would quite like to look further into.