Degree Show

I went up to London to see Central Saint Martins MA/Graphic Design, Illustration, Digital Media show and also CSM BA Graphic Design show. I took so many photos of the work I liked and also took their business cards too. I was looking through them all yesterday only to find out that there were soooo many people in these shows that I didn't remember which student did which work...etc. How embarrassing.

Here are some of the photos I took. If you happen to find your own work here and are upset about me putting the photos without your permission, please do let me know! But just to let you know, your work is up here because your work is amazing!! (so please don't get upset too much ;)

By the way Brighton Uni Graphic Design/Illustration are having a London show!

The schedule is as follows.

2nd/July : Private View from 6pm til late

3rd/July : Open from 10am - 8pm

4th/July : Open from 10am - 8pm

5th/July : Open from 10am - 8pm

6th/July : Open from 10am - 8pm

It is at Rag Factory off Brick Lane. It's near Truman's Brewery where Free Range is.

There's going to be workshop by

3rd/July : Alex Bec and Will Hadson of AlexBec / It's nice that

6th/July : Jim Stoten

and also Peggy Sue are playing in the evening of the 6th (final night).

Wooooo yesss I know it sounds worth a visit, doesn't it?

Wooooo if you don't come, trust me you're missing out a big time!!

Creative Review

Faceless Women Trilogy 1: Harvest is on Creative Review Magazine website now!

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/feed/june-2009/08/faceless-women-trilogy-1-harvest

Also University of Brighton BA Graphic Design/Illustration 09 Graduates website is up, too. Lots of nice work promised to be found there!

http://gdi09.co.uk/

The private view

I was at the Brighton Uni Degree Show private view last night. It went superbly well and I got to talk to very nice people who could possibly give me some commissions (always welcome, ALWAYS!) and lots of mums and dads of my dear friends. It was a bit weird and sensational seeing the parents of my fellow students I've known for almost 3 years for the first time though. Seriously, some of the parents/siblings looked like different gendered/aged versions of them. (Yes I'm talking about you, Josh!) I repeated "wow they're like crones..." quite a lot in my head, but of course I had enough self-control and politeness not to say it in front of them even though I'm one of those people who can't hide what they're thinking. Apparently my face shows a lot about what I'm thinking according to my dear friends. So well done me.

Unfortunately I was too busy running around having a good time and forgot to take photos... But I'm thinking of asking people if they've got any photos from last night and if they do, I'll post them here soon. Fingers crossed.

Thanks to all those who came to the private view. Hope you had a fun time!

*****Brighton Uni Degree Show*****

is finally going to start on the Friday, 5th of June (private view starts in the evening open only to ticket holders) but is going to be open to public from the Sat, 6th of June until Thur, 11th of June.

It's going to be open from 10am to 8pm, with an exception of the final day the 11th, opening at 10am closing at 4pm.

Time to head off to Brighton everyone! The weather's nice here and you can lay on the beach too...

www.yukomich.co.uk

My main website is finally updated after 6 month of not touching it. Well I wasn't being lazy! I was very much involved in pencils and paper so I forgot about the digital side of things. But now after 6 months and a couple of sleepless nights, it's all new! I mean, not all the images but the design and things. With some new work too. It looks nice. Big time. haha

Final of the trilogy!

Today I finally had my final piece of the 'faceless women trilogy' framed. The piece is called 'Harvest' (above). It's about the Miao Women (or the Hmong Women, apparently, Miao is a term not favoured by the Miao people. They prefer to be called the Hmong, according to wikipedia. So I'm going to officially refer to them as 'the Hmong people' from now on. But you know, I just love the sound of 'Miao'. I think it sounds otherworldly. I love it. So I'm going to call them 'the Hmong people', but my reference image file on my laptop is still named 'Miao'. It's not publicly displayed so I think I'd just get away with it keeping it to myself!) harvesting rice together.

The women don't have eyes because I didn't want to give them individuality or character unique to themselves. Each woman is one part of the whole, but also the whole represents each woman.

It's very difficult to explain. But it's like, the women are the ohmu and the whole image is the sea of corruption! which  I know to most people of the world including my tutors haven't got a clue what I'm going on about but those of you who are familiar with Hayao Miyazaki of the studio Ghibli's masterpiece, 'Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'  (not the film, the comic books!), my gibberish all makes sense!  So, I'd recommend anyone who comes across my life to read Nausicca. Available at Dave's comics on Sydney Street if you happen to live in Brighton. If not, amazon is always only one click away.

Anyway, I'm very satisfied with how the work looks with the frame and everything! 

 

Llama Groom

I've had an extremely busy day today running around trying to scan my illustration (I know it doesn't sound like much of a mission, but if the piece you're trying to scan is A1 sized, trust me things would get much more complicated!) and to frame it. Anything digital and me are not very good friends so some things went a bit wrong as always but in the end I've achieved what I planned, which means yes yes I'm picking up the new work "Llama Groom" nicely framed from the framer tomorrow!

The one at the top is the work "Llama Groom". It's the same size as "Baby Weaving" (SRA1 that is) and I'm going to show it in the degree show along with "Baby Weaving" and another piece which I'm still working on called "Harvest". The two eggs in the middle are the eggs of the llamas of the two maidens at the top. They're playing music for their unborn babies. All the other ladies are mothers of the llamas they're carrying on their backs helping the two maidens entering their motherhood. 

And also I made the other pattern based illustration today. Yes I'm a prim and proper workaholic! haha.