Pippa Toole
Pippa Toole painted onto these Doc Martens for a charity raffle where they were won at the end of the event. She painted the pink tone onto the shoes and allowed them to dry before painting the design and adding the eyeball pieces.
The work is successful as it suits the target audience of Doc Martens with the dark tone of voice that can be seen consistently throughout her work. The pink undertone contrasts well with the black silhouettes painted over the top. Also the eyeballs being an add on to the original shoes makes the shoes more recognisable as her own work.
The product is successful as the design is strong and they were made for a charitable raffle with Doc Martens. The tone of voice of the piece will be seen as appealing to the audience because of the dark but playful paintings.
Louise Lockheart (Printed Peanut)
Created for Heal's including all the products that are seen in a luxury Christmas hamper. The work is successful because of the simplicity in the design using only two colours to create the piece as she has made use of the colour in the background as another element. Also the style and textures she has created using analog methods add a comforting tone of voice to the piece which is perfect for the tea towel design.
However I personally believe that the design could have been recreated using only one element of the hamper such as the bottle of champagne on its own in the centre of the tea towel to emphasise the minimalistic approach.
The patterns and textures that have been created using found materials which are scanned and added to the drawn element of the individual products. The final design has then been printed onto a tea towel making it a functioning product.
The role of the illustrations on the tea towel serve the idea of the typical items that are usually seen in a luxury Christmas hamper making it appealing to people who shop at Heal's. Also the colours that she has used to create the print appear to be sophisticated with the deep blue tone alongside the burnt orange tone.
Gemma Correll
A lot of the work that Gemma Correll creates is for applied art purposes as a lot of her work is on the website Ohh Deer where the illustrations are seen on different objects such as mugs, cards and t-shirts.
This particular piece of work is successful as (like the other pieces) it uses minimalistic colours but the image is still clear. The text on the piece adds to the humour of the piece. The hand written style to the font suits the rest of the design which proves it has been experimented with before the final piece has been created.
Although, the piece has less successful elements to it such as the font which could be slightly improved if it was more similar to the style she uses on her other work.
Did she experiment with lower case letters to create the piece?
The product that Gemma Correll has chosen to place the design on is functional making it a strong piece of applied art.
Rob Hodgson
These pieces of work are strong because of the idea behind the designs which add a humorous/satirical approach to the pencils. I believe the depressed pencils are a stronger idea than the burger pencils as they only work when they are all together. However, it's a good idea if a group of friends get one each as it works as a turn on friendship bracelets.
The designs on the packaging have been printed where the pencil covers have been printed and wrapped onto the pencils. The design on the front of the burger packaging has added humour as I explained before with the pencils being separate as a hand is grabbing sections of the burger.
As a pencil it is successful because of the thought that has gone into the idea of the product. They are completely functioning pencils that will be appealing to artists who are interested in his work.
Marcus Oakley
This piece is from an original painting created by Marcus Oakley which has now been printed onto a tote bag for ASOS who printed as part of a giveaway.
The piece is successful printed onto the canvas bag with the use of one colour which means it can be mass produced meaning more people can get it and recognise his work. However, I personally think that the bag would have been more appealing if it had more colour to it even if only one more is added to fill in the body of the cat.
