Made Madd

Paintings

Tim Cong — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:22:45 +0000

I admire people that can paint, although I never really excelled myself and could never truly ‘paint’ paint, but it was one of those things which I really enjoyed. My attempts were about mark making and the final finish of the paint. Nothing too serious.

A Means To An End

Tim Cong — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:35:18 +0000

A collection of drawings from Central Saint Martins (Foundation 08-09 & BA Stage 1 09-10), my design work has always predominately existed through 2d work. After my first year on the BA Product Design course, I realised (the hard way) that it is just one of the many skills a designer must use during the process. My style is quite illustrative and loose but does not describe technical aspects appropriately. I drew the way I did to try and make things more interesting for me and for other people but design sketches are not precious they are a means to an end. This calls for a change, new things to come…

Ink Prints

Tim Cong — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:46:03 +0000

Early samples, quite abstract and textural. its amazing how you can create an illusion from the use of subtle tones and the suggestion of line. These are very loose studies but with refinement I feel there is something there. I will continue to investigate into this idea of printing tactile visuals on two dimensions.

Playing with Plastic

Tim Cong — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:57:16 +0000

A project driven by the exploration of a material. I discovered that this reformed plastic had incredible steam bending qualities which allowed for the design to mirror the contours of the relaxed body position. The construction consists of six identical pieces, two of which are reversed to create armrests as well as to provide structure. Accessible means of manufacture as well as the potential for tessellation in packaging proves promising. A design in its earliest form, requires development and sensitive handling of this versatile material. (http://www.ecoplastic.net/)

Experiments in Image & Surface Manipulation

Tim Cong — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:43:23 +0000

These are a few exercises in various surface design techniques, I did these way before I had even heard of Photoshop. Back when we used our hands, and things were trial and error. When we took risks and were spontaneous and on occasion rewarded with moments of visual delight.

Work in Progress-Dorris Does Shop

Andrew — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:25:03 +0000

Here’s a quick picture of a work in progress. Dorris Does is a tiny shop situated in Camden Stables Market that will be selling vintage clothes and jewellery. It is the project of a friend of mine – she’s just leased the shop after working the market for over a year, and asked for my help to fit it out.

This pic shows the main rail comprised of broom handles and iron plumbing pipe connectors, and a small shelf made from found wood and slate.

More coming soon.

Tiger shaped sunshine.

Lydia — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:35:39 +0000

I do not really like nature. I suffer from hay fever, get bored when ‘walking’ , never relax, usually moan, and have to have some sort of picnic or food orientated goal to dilute the arduous task. However, yesterday was very different. It seemed that the sun was perfection and there was a lovely welsh breeze. My new baby sister had been born merely 3 days earlier and my other siblings (Tiger and Millie) were being complete legends.

Nature was lovely.

We walked along the fields, sat on the grass outside our house, raced each other and played games barefoot. It was all very Rousseau. I can truthfully say that i really enjoyed myself. I liked being muddy, not having to worry about anything and not caring what my hair looked like. Perhaps this is my post-finals-mother-nature-rehab recovered self… or perhaps my Claritin (Hayfever drug) had distorted my cynicism.

Either way, i even made an ‘aww’ noise at a passing lamb.

Despite their nostalgia and subjective sentiment, what i love about these pictures is the warm LIGHT, the youthful MOVEMENT, the playful saturated COLOURS and dare I say, the nature.

All pictures by Lydia Pang

Caricatures

Henry — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:22:09 +0000

Here are some drawings I did for Owen, third year 3D Design Camberwell, for his publication for Sprouting 56.

For those interested, the project he’s doing promotes the idea of agriculture within an urban environment. Pretty interesting stuff. So my job was to do caricatures of the people contributing to the publication which was awesome. More to come…

Business Cards

Andrew — Thu, 27 May 2010 22:42:36 +0000

This is the first batch of Made Madd business cards!

The idea is to inspire the recipient to make something; something playful, that can be made from a material that most people can get their hands on – an A4 sheet of paper. There is a slightly more sinister side to these instructions – hopefully the recipient will think the paper plane so good, that they want to hold on to the instructions and even show a friend! That said, it’s just a paper plane.

Oh well… we think they look nice anyway.

Old Skool

Henry — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:27:17 +0000

Here are two pieces from my old portfolio. I think I did these around 3 or 4 years ago of my mate Seb who I used to share a space in the studio with. Those were the days when there seemed to be an unlimited supply of paints and no one would really wouldn’t care if you dropped and emptied a whole tube on the floor. Before coming to London, I actually got myself the biggest bag I could find and told the technician I had get a few of my old pieces when in fact I had gone in the store room and filled this bag with as much oil paints as I could.

As you can see, I have a severe inability of painting below the neck. I think I just find faces far more interesting and I would always ruin pieces by drawing a really disproportionate or just a generally poorly drawn body. Also backgrounds were also tricky for me. I could never spend the time to draw every inch of detail because it was way too tedious and intricate of a job for me. I just stuck to the faces. I actually remember my art teacher taking the piss out of the second one saying it looked as if Seb had been slapped in the face and that the yellow streak was a massive trail of spit.