Mark and Steven - Website

Website

About them - Humorous Interview

Waterstones Advertising Campaign

Love Film Interactive Advertising Campaign

Give Blood Advertising Campaign

Steven has nearly finished his masters in creative advertising. He has teamed with Mark Wilson, they are working as a creative team as art director/copywriter. They are soon to be working on placement at Oglivy advertising agency in Canary Wharf.

They have a sophiscated designed website, alongside twitter. Their website shows their current portfolio of work. Visit their website at: www.markandsteven.co.uk

Mark and Steven - Shelf Awards

Steven and Mark and their Shelf Award

Steven and Mark entered the Shelf Awards, which is a advertising competition. The Shelf Awards apart from actually being a very special piece of wood The Shelf is an annual event aimed at helping the best young graduates get a foot in the door of the creative industry. It’s tough out there and trying to get your work seen by the top names in your chosen profession is even tougher. Particularly when you’ve just graduated from university…

That’s where The Shelf comes in. This annual event, now in its 11th year, connects the best creative graduates in the UK with leading art directors, copywriters, creative directors and recruiters. The graduates get an invaluable opportunity to network and showcase their work to industry experts while said experts get a chance to nab the freshest young talent around (and we mean that in the nicest possible way, obviously.) It’s a win-win situation. Especially as all guests get to judge and score the work on show.

The Shelf was started in 2001 by Gary Sharpen and although it’s undoubtedly a fun, friendly and informal event, the end result couldn’t be more serious. To date, over 120 students have benefitted from participating in The Shelf, either through making excellent contacts, securing work placements or, ultimately, gaining full-time employment.

It was held at The IPA, Belgrave Square, London. It was a great networking opportunity for them. All the entrants had to wear vote for me on the back of their t-shirts. Steven and Mark, had a sheet on top of their table for people to write comments about their work.

Steven and Mark came second place, winning a B&Q shelf to put all their future awards on.

Mark and Steven - D&AD New Blood Exhibtion

Trumans Brewery

Steven at his Course Stand

Steven and Marks Work

Give Blood Portfolio Work

Portfolio Table

Illustration Wall

Tea Party Collage Illustrations

Megan Louise Fashion Illustration

Crayon Typography

Fashion Branded Loo Rolls

Body Shop Adverts

I visited the D&AD new blood exhibtion in the Trumans Brewery. To see my boyfriend Steven's work, from his recent studies. On the Creative Advertising masters course based at Falmouth University in Cornwall.

There were talks, workshops and other activites going on alongside the exhibition. There was a illustration wall, that people were adding to during each day of the show. People were putting a lot of effort into their drawings.

There was some interesting work on show, from other universities. Beautiful fashion illustration from Megan Louise of Plymouth university. I particularly liked the fashion branded toilet paper, Chanel to put in the bathroom very chic.

Colin Banana

Hippo Snack Seller

Walrus Ringmaster

Tiger Cannonball

Flamingo Tightrope Walker

Gorilla Strongman

Elephant Clown

I recently visited the New Blood, D&AD exhibition at Trumans Brewery. My favourite piece of work was from the artist Amy Sarah Collins. She is a graduate of visual communication at Loughborough univeristy. Her work on show, was a range of puppets in a glass case. The puppets were a series called Colin Banana. www.colinbanana.com Amy is a 3D model maker with a thirst for puppet fabrication, character design and animation. She uses a wide range of materials and fabrics in her work and prides herself on her attention to detail and quality of craftsmanship.

Her puppets are completely handmade and have been created solely from recycled fabrics and materials. Her final project was development of a title sequence for new TV show the Colin Banana Circus - the story of a travelling circus run by a group of eclectic animal friends - for children aged 4-6 years.

Her puppets were beautifully made, and I could see the characters had been well thought out. On her website, it is great to see photographs of the making process of the characters. I wish her luck, in her future animation career.