I am Aimee McDowell and this is a collection of my work, things and stuff - academic, personal and the occasional photograph Consider this a digital sketchbook. I'm studying graphic communication at the University of Leeds. I like Illustrator, taxidermy, geometric shapes, acidic colours and acidic geometric illustrations of taxidermy. Contact me @ aimeemc92@gmail.co.uk. FLICKR TWITTER FACEBOOK CARGO BEHANCE
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Taxidermy project! Well, 1/4 of it. This is kit 3 of 4, I couldn’t upload all of it because there’s just too much but I think this one’s my favourite. From top to bottom - Instruction manual, manual cover, box cover/packaging, 2 promotional postcards. The idea was to kind of desensitize people to thegrossness of taxidermy. Kit three covers gluing/sewing, and the kit would include a miniature deer form and felt deer mask. All digital for now because, being the intelligent individual that I am, I forgot to take photos of the finished project before I handed it in. The manual is folded kind of like a map, on a fine paper. Other kits include skills such as sewing, ‘skinning’ and tanning, through alternative methods, of course. There aren’t any animal products within the kits, my aim was to sell the craft as an alternative to something more widely practised such as knitting.
(Source: antiprism)
Sneaky look at what I’ve been up to. This is 3/4 of the covers for the manuals that I’m working on! They’re to teach how to be a taxidermist without being gross, some of it has turned out quite surreal. But I’ve been working really hard on them and I’m not actually too far from finishing the whole thing now. Each cover has a different kind of deer on it and in each manual there’s a little section about each ‘cover deer’. Putting them together like this has made me realise that there are a lot of inconsistencies, I still need to alter all of the colour schemes and some of the text could maybe do with altering but yeah. Yaay :)
My audience is female. Trying out some better colours.
Bringing taxidermy to the masses. One of the ideas for my hobbies brief, this is part of the instruction manual.
OH DEER on Flickr.
Wanted to take the deer vector further but I wasn’t planning on killing it (literally). Taxidermy X Flash sheet. How far is too far?
As part of one of my modules I’ve got to make 5 pages of illustrations about myself/my modules. This is my first, it loosely represents one of the briefs I’m working on at the minute. I’m not too sure how I’m going to add colour to it yet. From a photo, cheater.
Chinese Water Deer on Flickr.
