Do Your Own Thing Online - Digital Workshops
During Covid-19 lockdown we worked with Heart n Soul to help deliver and communicate their monthly creative sessions with young people online. The idea was to have an online space for their participants to visit and experience a creative session either during the online event or in their own time. What we felt was important was to populate the page with familiar faces and voices to make it feel personable and connected.
Here is an example of one of the sessions.
Heart n Soul website
We redesign Heart n Soul’s website working closely with their staff and members to create a visually exciting and accessible site. The main focus was to communicate the vast exciting services Heart n Soul offer and bring their visual art and creative content to the forefront. We believed that seeing and experiencing what they creative speaks more than a paragraph of text!
Do Your Own Thing is Heart n Soul’s, creative arts project for young people with learning disabilities, aged 10-25. Throughout August 2017 a group of young people will be making art in the Could be Good project space. Work created during this time will be open to the public later this year.
Gilles Peterson - Website Design
Website Design and Art Direction
Could be Good hosted a residency in early 2017 with Ifeoma Orjiekwe. A self taught artist living in South East London
Ifeoma explored narratives of feminine beauty through repetition and pattern, drawn from her personal experience of Nigerian and African culture and art.
Find out more...
www.ifeomaart.tumblr.com
Feeling Emotional
The Wellcome Collection
We were invited to take part in a Friday Late Spectacular at the Wellcome Collection. An event to celebrate the publication of The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith. We produced an activity for visitors to become an emoji (emoticon). We created a digital stand-in game where visitors selected an emotion card and used there face to express that emotion in the stand-in.
Project links:
Wellcome Collection
Photography: Wellcome Collection
Tate Schools with Ben Connors
We collaborated with artist Ben Connors and Tate Schools and Teachers, on a series of events across Tate. The activities were for students with special educational needs and their teachers. We worked with Ben to help deliver creative sessions and design the events.
Project links:
Ben Connors
Tate
Diggin’ the Gallery, 2015 Tate Britain
Photography: Rose Hillson Summers © Tate
ivo Theatre Website Design and Branding
The Squidz Club & Do Your Own Thing
Do Your Own Thing offers creative sessions for young people with a learning disability aged 10-25 years. The work the young people create contributes to a club night for under 25s called The Squidz Club. Which takes place at The Albany in Deptford, South East London. We regularly plan and facilitate creative sessions with the young people at Do Your Own Thing, to produce print and digital artwork for the Squidz Club.
Project links:
Heart n Soul
The Tunnel of Love
The South Bank Centre
Over two months, Southbank Centre brought together artists, communities and partners to create its Festival of Love in celebration of the same sex couple act passing. Each of the installations at the festival explored Ancient Greek concepts of love chosen by psychotherapist Phillipa Perry. Disability arts organisation Heart n Soul were invited to create an installation in homage to the Tunnel of Love fairground ride. Exploring the Greek concept of Ludus, meaning-flirting and playful affection; we worked with Heart n Soul to curate and design this interactive installation.
Forest of Deptford
We worked with a group of adults with learning disabilities from Heart n Soul’s creative arts project Allsorts. The work was made in response to a sound piece they had created with sonic arts collective Call & Response and composer Michael Price. We worked with clay to create abstract objects and made miniature 3D printed figures of the participants. They were arranged into a scene, with a digitally mapped light sequence. The work was accompanied by 13 speaker multi-channel soundscape, exhibited at Call & Responses gallery space, in Deptford South East London.
Lizzie Emeh
We worked with artist Lizzie Emeh on her autobiographical album See Me released as three EP’s. We art directed this project and designed all digital platforms related to the release. We created the event design and performance visuals, for the first EP release at the London Jazz Festival. We designed EP artwork and other associated print.
Project links:
Heart n Soul
Lizzie Emeh
Emily Mary Barnett
Hannah Wood
The Beautiful Octopus Club
We were the art directors for The Beautiful Octopus Club at the Southbank Centre in London in 2014 and 2015. A club that show cases performance and visual art by people with learning disabilities. Over 2000 people attended and over 50 artists showed their work at each event. We designed the overall look of the club focusing on print, signage, space and digital artwork. We supported Heart n Soul to create a shop. Working with artists Ifeoma Orjiekwe and Tilley Milburn to make artwork and merchandise to sell
Project links:
Heart n Soul
Southbank Centre
Ben Connors
Ifeoma Orjiekwe
Strata East
We worked with artist Ben Connors to create visuals for an exclusive performance with jazz label Strata East at the Barbican. Hosted by Gilles Peterson who commissioned the work and brought together the legendary musicians. We created animations and visual portraits of artists signed to the label in the 70s.
Project links:
Gilles Peterson
Ben Connors
Event images by Rodger Thomas
from jazzwisemagazine.com
Bunki
London based electronic producer Bunki commissioned us to make a video work for his EP Sktch. We produced a semi abstract, digital collage of everyday and industrial objects. The video work was listed in Dazed Digital, music videos of the month, January 2015.
Project links:
Square Glass
Dazed
Access All Areas Website
Access All Areas supports people with learning disabilities in theatre, television and film. They wanted a website that would be used by industry professionals and was accessible.
SoundLab Play Space at Nesta
We designed print, the space and video for the event Soundlab Playspace at Nesta in London. Soundlab is a project to help people with learning disabilities express themselves musically and collaborate with other people using readily available music technologies.
Project links:
Heart n Soul
Unthinkable
Makeyoursoundlab
Event Photography:
Piers Macdonald
The Fish Police
The Fish Police are a pop band with a punk sensibility made up of frontman Dean Rodney, Charles Stuart and Mathew Howe. We worked on the release of their album The Marzipan Transformations. We art directed this project: designed digital platforms, performance visuals, music video and styled the band. We worked with graphic designer Teo Connor and photographer Felipe Pagani to create the artwork for the album.
The Marzipan Transformations is on sale at Rough Trade East. The Fish Police were featured on Stewart Lee sits in and Heritage Tracks, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone BBC 6 Music, January 2015.
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Dean Rodney Singers
This project was produced by Heart n Soul, a creative arts company in the UK for people with learning disabilities. The Dean Rodney Singers commissioned for Unlimited Festival. A project celebrating disability arts culture and sport as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
We worked closely with artist Dean Rodney to develop his creative ideas visually. Dean collaborated with seventy two musicians and artists from seven countries across the world. Working together online artists created twenty three original songs and videos, using iPads and web technologies. This project created a unique space for disabled and non-disabled artists to work together. Culminating in an installation at the Southbank Centre. We worked across all areas of this project from digital design, art direction and creative mentoring.