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LUMINARYASPIRE TO BE INSPIRED
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- It’s a means to a start not an end.- Something that is visually pleasing for your eyes.
- It’s purpose is to help give your inspiration that kick.
- It’s here to help BIAD students realise that while there maybe
many students on their course that all is needed from them is it give everything to each
individual project and become involved.
- Importantly we had fun.
A BOUT USMAGAZINE
ABOUT INSPIRATION
Creative DirectorsJordan Henry
Tal SapirMark Wright
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EditorsJordan Henry
Tal SapirMark Wright
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PhotographyMark Wright
IllustrationTal Sapir
Graphic Design Jordan Henry
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Welcome To Issue 1
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
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inspirational students. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
inspirational editors. . . . . . . . . . . . .
inspirational writing. . . . . . . . . .
inspirational coffee. . . . . . . . . . . . .
birminghamluminarywith out light where would we be? a short walk to look for light in the not so obvious
Tell us a little bit about yourself and your work. My name’s Bill, I am originally from Coventry and I am a photographer. In my work I like to do everything, you know? But not just Photography, I am interested in print making & illustration; I want to try it all and because of this my work is con-stantly changing, I like to keep my work eclectic!
If you were a tree which would it be? Ah man, I like the way you made it rhyme, I would want to be a Rowan tree, have you seen those leave’s in autumn!?
Favourite song? Towers by Bon Iver. That song’s so uplifting! Makes me want to create!
What’s the best bit of advice you can offer for other creative’s? Just do what you love, listen to what music you love and look around for inspiration for your work. Whether it’s talking to someone, walking down the street or the trusty in-ternet. Always have something to record that moment that inspires you.
Tell us a little about yourself and your work? Hey, my name’s Riyak, I’m from London, and I’m now a first year student studying Fashion at BCU.I’ve always wanted to be a famous fash-ion icon/designer, and I’m always making my own clothes, so it was only natural I chose fashion.
What’s your favourite song? Ohhh my god! I don’t even know where to start... okay I guess I’ll have to say Serani - No Games, that is my jam! Just makes me feel sweet.
Where do you go for inspiraton? Well I’ll usually go to a mixture of friends and get their points of view, and let ideas com-bine and create new concepts I wouldnt have thought of myself.
What advice do you have for other cre-atives?Try to be as versatile as possible, learn how to use different softwares, and experiment!But most importantly have fun!
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Tell us a little about yourself and your work? Well my name is Mikey, I’m 21 and I’m from Colchester. I’m currently a first year student studying Visual Com-munication at Birmingham City Univer-sity.I specialise in Illustration, and my work is mainly anime style sketches , I guess that happens because I spend so much time watching anime!
What inspires you the most? When I’m struggling for inspiration I always put on some music. When I listen to certain tracks that get me hyped up I seem to just get in the zone.
Right, with that said, what’s your fa-vourite song?Hmm, I don’t think I have a favourite song to be honest, but I would say that grime is definitely my favourite genre of music. The wordplay of artists like Ghetts just get me so gassed
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your work? I would say i am a very creative person, whether it be illustration, baking or making, i’m not very good at much else! being from a very rural and historic part of somerset, i find this really inspires my work, as i live in a very creative place, where the style is very handmade. the village i live in isn’t really the real world, with only about 700 people living there and about 90% of the children going to private school ( i am an exception) and everyone models there house on country living. My work is collage illustration that is rather twee, incorporating old book pages, stitch fabric and variety of paper. i hope to go into fashion illustration or children’s’ book illustration as i haven’t quite grown up when it comes to fairy tales and any thats doesn’t actually exists.
If you were a tree which would it be? silver birch
What inspires you the most? ther artists work and peoples passion for what they do or something they really love.
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nspirationWe asked people at random to quickly sketch something that inspires them, and here are the results, now ask yourself what inspires you?
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Behind Closed Doors...Who is Jordan Henry, and what is he really about? Turn over the page and find out more...
I would say that Animes/Mangas, Comics and Games are my main sources for inspiration, more specif-ically the concept of superheroes, supernatural powers and martial arts.
From an early age I’ve been reli-giously watching animes such as the widely known Dragonball Z series, even now I still watch One Piece, Naruto Shippuden, Fairytail and so many more. The majority of the animes I watch usually involve combinations of super powers, martial arts and humour, which allow the illustrators to create action packed, emotion-al, brutal scenes, with hand drawn special effects and that is what I love about them.
I do like to work my various soft-ware and media, for example; Illustrator, Photoshop, and I often do photography projects and video recordings, all kinds of things really. But I would say the vast majority of the work I do is sketchbook based, my favourite medias are using inks, food colouring combined with the use of bleach, and black biro pens.
I think the best thing to do is sur-round yourself with positive, pro-ductive and creative people and I’m sure that you’ll have moments where you bounce ideas off each other and come up with concepts you may not have come up with on your own.
JORDAN HENRY Graphic DesignerHey, my name is Jordan Henry. I am from Northampton and I am currently in my first year at Birmingham City University, studying visual communication, more specifically graphic design. My editorial is going to give you an idea of my creative style, what inspires me, and why I actually decided to study Graphic Design.
I’ve always been quite creative and I loved sketching as a child and I still do, but I was first motivated to study that art of graphic design when I was about 14 years old. I was told to check out a myspace page by one of my friends. The page belonged to a graphic designer called Glen Infante (left), who is now quite a well known graphic desinger. He is a massive inspiration to me, as I’ve witnessed his development over the years and he’s gone from uploading vectors to Myspace to becoming the CEO of his own clothing line ‘ILTHY’.
Above is just a few selections of the main type of work that I like to get up to in my spare time. As you can see there are examples of sketches that have been influenced by the animes that I watch. My work is quite illustrative and you may be wondering why I’m not studying Illustration as apposed to Graphic Design.The reason why is because I feel that Graphic Design will give me a broader spetrum of skills and allow me to become more versatile, and I think that it is very important to be as versatile as possible.By being more versa-tile, I’m given the key to open more doors, and I like to keep my options open.
A LOOK INTO MY WORLD
A LOOK INTO MY WORLD
I would say my main inspirations come from my chilhood, watching films like the ‘Phantom Menace’, ‘Mulan’ and ‘Toy Story’. It has always been a dream of mine to work on such productions, and thats what I hope to acheive by studying at BCU.
I still take inspiration from many video games I play and films I watch for example: GTA IV, Avatar.
My favourite tool is the fineliner which is what I do most of my work in, but I also like to use pencils, biros and inks.
One of my other passions is weight-lifting, and this shows through in my artwork, in terms of showing human form and muscularity.
One of my favourite Illustrators is Alex Young. The reason I love his work so much is because you can tell his work has come straight from his brain and nothing has been left out. It’s like raw unedited thinking on the page, and it flows like the mind does.
In five years time I see myself may-be travelling around the world, or hopefully just started of my own ca-reer in the art and design industry.
My advice for people that are look-ing to get started in the creative in-dustry would be to draw everyday, and take pride and passion in your work, dont let anyone discourage you.
If you fall off the horse, pick your-self and get back on the saddle.
Tal Sapir Illustrator
My name is Tal Sapir, I’m from St Albans and I love to spend my time drawing, and taking inspiration from the world around me. I’m now at BCU studying Illustration, and I hope to pursue this line of work in the future. I would say that my main strength is concept art and visualising ideas as whole.
exploring‘running around fields, building dens, tree houses and having sticks and stone wars’.
the stickswriter and photographer Mark Wright
It might derive from my child-hood antics and the location I was brought up in, but I long to be in the sticks.
Up until the beginning of September I had lived in Leamington Spa since birth. A town that is pretty well covered when shopping is on the agenda but what this town also has is an expanse of fields and woods within the surrounding area, that is basically walking distance from where I lived.
You see I grew up spending most of my childhood running around fields, building dens, tree houses and having sticks and stone wars; anything so that I was outside explor-ing. As I get older I appreciate how much I spent outside doing those things because now days it’s one of the last sources of inspiration that i can turn to.
It’s important to feel that very small, childish certainty that you’re alone and any idea is a cinch.
After moving to Birmingham it was surprising how much I missed those walks. No green patch of land to leave my footprints on and worst of all no gathering of trees to share my ideas with. I’m not the only one who talks to the trees right?
My only frustration with living in Birmingham is the subtraction of not necessarily countryside but little pockets of the world in its most natu-ral form. Places you can go and walk without being clouded and blinded by bright advertising screens and the gloominess of every shade of grey.
As a visual communicator I do be-lieve however that this isn’t such a bad environment for inspiration. The amount of visual content and opportunity to analyse this is so diverse it’s almost too much! Maybe that’s
where it crosses the line? Maybe there is too much of one and not enough of the other.
Maybe I’m just being spoilt and ungrateful. Everything was easily accessible, it was all on my doorstep and I’ve become lazy and lax with my work. I’ve noted this and I have got up out of my seat and set out to explore for a place I can go for inspi-ration. The name of my destination is The Lickey Hills Country Park, its fair few miles south but doable.
The main aim of this editorial wasn’t to show you where The Lickey hills are... It was to make you realise that we all have peculiar, dynamic, clunky ways in finding inspiration; you have to go out and explore this unfamiliar concrete jungle and find your source of inspiration. Like me (I hope), you guys thrive off inspiration.
‘Find your source of inspiration’.
SPECTRUM ART SHOP
Spectrum art shop is probably one of the nicest, most friendly run art shop that i’ve been in.They stock most essenstial equipment and materials for any type of aspiring, professional artist.They have recently moved so you might want to check that you have the right address for the.
The new address is:175 Corporation Street, Birmngham, B4 6RG
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GOSTA GREEN ART SHOP
The university art shop at the BIAD Campus at Gosta Green is run by the Student Union. The shop stocks an array of branded materials and tools for any level and type of art student.
It wouldn’t be an art shop if they didn’t sell cigarettes and guess what, they do.The address is:
Corporation street, Birmingham B4 7DX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
This Cafe is one of those special things given to us rarely. As soon as you walk in you know you will not
be disappointed with the coffee you buy.
You’ll come out swearing you had another £20 in your wallet/purse.
Do not worry this is not because they employ thieves. In fact it’s quite the opposite. The staff are
100% welcoming and comforting. You can truly feel the Independent atmosphere mixed up with the rus-tic, informal approach the staff have
with you.
The best thing about Yorks is their breakfast system in the morning.
You have the choice of a handful of quite quirky but tasty dishes from a set menu or you can choose to tackle the array of breakfast food
from the buffet table.
This review/advert needs to be rounded up, so... Get to Yorks
Bakery Cafe, You’ll love it.
YORKSBAKERY CAFE
Yorks Baker Cafe address: 1-3 Newhall Street, Birmingham, B3 3NH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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