Melissa Meikle

Social Enterprise

2011-10-07T03:03:00.000-07:00

Scale of Woman : Fan

Is It Broke? - Finished Result

2011-09-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

Here is the finished result with a video to demonstrate. Everyone seemed delighted with the final concept and it got quite a few laughs.

Is it Broke?

2011-09-29T06:56:00.000-07:00

The project was to identify a problem in everyday life and solve it in a radical/conceptual way. We were to present a few ideas in 1 week, then after our presentations, we had to choose one of our ideas and make it.
My final idea is a model of a cow's bum! This is the 1st initial sketch of it

The problem was cows emitting a lot of methane gas through flatulence. The solution...create a bag to fit over the cows bum to collect the gas which could then be supplied to gas companies. It's just a starter project so the design doesn't really take much consideration about the other things that come out of a cows bum....

Starting to make the structure

Making the bum took the longest!

Found a rubber glove, perfect for the udder

Managed to buy some cow print material to make it look a bit more realistic. The model is attached to a wooden platform with a hole near the top to let the air through to the rear end. Nearly finished!

How to...make a bacon-butty

2011-09-19T02:36:00.000-07:00

Amsterdam Pages

2011-09-19T02:33:00.000-07:00

Had a trip to Amsterdam as a class and at the end of it had to produce a book. As a result we all joined together and did 6 pages each, this is my contribution.

Waverley Tweets Opening Sequence

2011-09-19T02:29:00.000-07:00

The first video is an opening sequence for a 'Waverley Tweets' project. You can also see it on vimeo

This video is a viral for 'Waverley Tweets'

Winter 2010

2011-09-19T02:12:00.000-07:00

The worst winter in a looong time! What better to do than go and take some pictures.

Seagulls standing on the River Tweed

The frost even froze our lock from the inside and water dripped from the roof onto the handle

This Is Your Life

2011-09-19T01:28:00.000-07:00

Visual data - As I use buses as my main source of transport (and feel I waste a lot of my life waiting on them!) I thought I would document the buses I got on each day and how long I spent on them.

A page out of my notepad

Wob - Wait on bus (mins)
Time - Time I got on bus
J - How long I was on the bus (mins)
Bus - Bus number
L or R - Whether i sat on the left or right side of bus

Each colour represents a bus, while the length of the the line is how long I was on the bus. Each line represents a day.

The grid below show each bus by colour. The length of each horizontal line is the time waited on bus, while the lines above the line represent sitting on the right hand side and the bottom is the left.

A Tattoo Design

2011-09-19T01:17:00.000-07:00

Peek-a-Boo

2011-09-19T01:14:00.000-07:00

QuardInq Logo Design

2011-09-19T00:52:00.000-07:00

Seeds of Care

2011-09-19T00:50:00.000-07:00

This is a gardening company that I created and branded. The company works as a kind of charity, which employs volunteers to help elderly people tend to their gardens. It is a way of lending an extra hand for those who like to look after their garden and also builds new friendships to those who might be a bit lonely otherwise.

I liked the idea of the dandelion seeds blowing in the wind to other gardens, so thought it would be a nice symbol for Seeds of Care as its is spreading the help and care to gardens of people in need.

This is the front of the business card

Back of business card (1)

Back of business card (2)

Back of business card (3)

Back of business card (4)

Letterhead

Back of letterhead

Press Advert

Birdsong

2011-09-19T00:43:00.000-07:00

As part of the illustration module I created a children's book called 'Tod Finds Friends'. It was to be published through lulu.com. Here are a few page extracts and the link to find the book on Lulu preview of the book

Metro D&AD Poster (2010)

2011-09-19T00:42:00.000-07:00

December - Crackle

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November - Bang

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October - Rustle

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September - Splash

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August - Roar

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July - Hiss

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June - Ooze

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May - Woosh

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April - Drip

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March - Squelch

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February - Fizz

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January - Crack

2009-12-31T06:16:00.001-08:00

2010 Diary

2009-12-31T06:02:00.001-08:00

Following on from our typography project our next task was to create a diary for 2010, my theme was sounds.

Art Fair

2009-11-03T03:18:00.000-08:00

The class are being asked to produce a piece for an art fair this year, with a chance of selling our work. So I've just decided to print out some of my photographs onto A4. Still need to sort out the cost of producing the prints and window mounting them though. Haven't quite decided what photos I'll be using yet, but I've narrowed down the selection to this.

2009-10-25T10:18:00.000-07:00

I've started using my own photographs to make cards and I've recently sent off a few pictures to get printed properly for christmas. I've narrowed my selection down to these few.

There's so much craziness...

2009-10-25T10:07:00.000-07:00

The Poster at the top is the final result.

Typified Poster

2009-10-25T09:53:00.001-07:00

This is the final design for the Typified poster.

2009-10-25T09:26:00.000-07:00

I took these pictures with a handy light-up pen (thanks to the army stall at the highland shows 4years ago) and a long exposure on my camera. These images were going to be used for our initial idea of a background for our group website but we have since went back to the drawing board and thought of something else.