Yin (Sinclair ZX81 Manual - Illustrated)

This is a poor photograph which does not do the cover of this futuristic manual justice. The ZX81 was in effect a calculator which could run basic code - but just look at this cover. It promises the future in a bladerunner vision. There are no credits inside the book so I am stumped as to who illustrated it.

Observation#1 (Disturbing)

I noticed this in a shop today by the door, it was so disturbing that I had to take a picture of it. Maybe this suggests a sale is to rape the shop, there is clearly some dark reasons here (half dressed?). I will watch the shop to see if the recession claims it.

Drawings#12 (Brighton 2008)

I sketched this whilst at a flea market. The stall holder set out an almost modern art approach to his stall.

Drawings#11 (Brighton 2007)

********These sketchbook pages were produced whilst on my MA. The task was to notice things about my new enviroment. It was a sunny day in a hot September. I enjoy working by noting down what I thin kand see when working on this assignment.

Drawings#10 (Brighton Sep 2007)

Drawings#9

Experiment#7

Graphic Design : Filth Records 2007

This was a project that was printed on newsprint designed to be the 'biggest' club flyer 'manchester had seen'.

Media Moneky (Yin)

Media Monkey - a great media player with an orange and grey colour scheme. It searches your hardrive for all your MP3s, organises them, connects with your i pod and is alot less 'heavy' than i tunes.

Drawings#8

Drawing with pen and ink I found from 2001.

Yin#5

http://redroomnw.blogspot.com/

Above is a good site for italo disco - I enjoy looking at the old record covers too some good amongst the 80s cheese.

Yin#4

Cynthcart Comadore 64 - A great synth cartridge for the c64 platform that unlocks the SID chip.

http://c64music.blogspot.com/2005/08/cynthcart.html

Bird on a branch

Layout Experiment #1

This is a photo of a photo of a photo. Here I am experimenting with layout concerning a small booklet I produced on my MA at Brighton. It is really concerned with memory. A collection of memories is really like a collection of photos on a table. Different pictures of the same person in different contexts. I wanted the image to span both pages and be overlapping in the middle for the continuity of the image. I arranged the chairs so that one was facing another way. That adds a bit of suspense to the image and it is almost as if the photos have just been surveyed by someone or 'recalled'. Chairs can be a great indicator of presence / non presence / disturbance/ at ease. Chairs are so ingrained into our way of life with people having thier own chair - they can be made to signify people themselves. A chair upside down on a table signifies absence, stillness where as a chair on its side on the ground signifies violence.

Beepurple Wall Calendar #1

This was an idea in which the events Beepurple organize could be viewed with a simple wall chart given out to prospective students. Concept / Illustration : Adam Barker, Graphic Design / Typographical Wizardry Jonathan Lin. This was designed to be given out with the Flyer.

Beepurple Flyer#1

This small flyer was produced for Beepurple (Brighton University). It was tackled by Spoon&Fork which was set up in September 2008 because of a growing client base. I am a co-founder of this group which consists of several of my colleagues. The concept of this box was to fold up into a box. Ideas a boxes, businesses are boxes and the idea was to reinforce thinking outside of the box. The illustrations are by me, Tagline Jonathan Lin, Concept Jeff Driver. It did turn into a very nice project and a quick turnaround.

Drawings#7

This was a draft submission for Mute Magazine. The isometric tree in the background has always baffled me as I don't usually draw isometric. Then It hit me of the influence -

http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/academic/hardie

It must be quite nice when a student filters a visual style into their work. It does look to be standing away from the rest of the picture so in my mind I might be distancing myself from the influences. One thing is for sure George Hardies trees are isometric-tastic.

Experiment#6

A rough drawing of the British isles can be turned on its side to resemble a cat. A bit of visual play. The dots represent the different cities' geographic placing within the UK that a non UK person was asking about. This must be an offshoot of Alan Fletchers - The Art of Looking Sideways (in a literal sense).

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1173351

Misprint - Happy accident

Misprint a lack of Cyan produced a more defined image in some ways. Banding can sometimes look great. This image was used in the YCN @ the RCA exhibition 2007.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ycn/1362604850/in/set-72157601961328712/

Drawings#6

Drawings#5

Experiment#5

Yin#3

Experiment#4

An idea I had to map the flow of drugs in a dispensary which filtered into a potential business model.

Yin#2

Yin#2 - sound cloud dot com - clever. It shows the tracks uploaded as wave files. Then people can tag the tunes within a mix to ask questions. The bar on the right is who is online, probably not new but genius.

Drawings#4

Experiment#3

Showing how our mind is controlled and the thoughts within it. I used the ZX81 as it looks cool. I remember as a child being shown the brain as a giant computer system - A very 1980s image. I stil lcan't shake this vision of vast magnetic drums ticking away every time a thought is produced maybe it is time that view is shaken off...

Experiment#2

Drawings#3

Experiment#1

Drawings#2

Drawings#1

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Yin

Yin - This find Funkapolitan EP 1981, London Records, Designed by Peter Saville no less. Looks like its hot foiled, Flash does not do it justice. The back design is an amazing way of laying out information. The instruments each artist plays are laid out in a table (left). The band themselves are funktastic - amazing find.