2009

Felix Manuel

FdA Design Practice

I am in interested in complete design solutions: big ideas with massive multimedia potential. As such my work covers a wide range of techniques and styles.

  • Digital deconstruction from Felix Manuel on Vimeo.

    Digital video is now often thought of as synonymous with perfection. Most faults associated with analogue video can easily be eradicated digitally. However, anyone who has ever used a computer knows that digital technology is far from perfect. Data corruption and compression are some of the quirks that define digital imagery. For the medium to come into its own, it needs to accept its boundaries and allow them to become a part of its character.

  • Consumerism-detail
  • Chair-detail
  • Stool-detail

    In this project I wanted to explore the culture of the “disposable”. My idea was to take broken furniture that had been dumped on the street and return it to it’s owner enhanced. I have used gold leaf to draw attention to the signs of use. The restoration process is celebrated, creating an object whose age is it’s stregnth.

  • Cameraphone-cultures-cover
  • Cameraphone-cultures-spead1

    By recognising the intrinsic limitations of digital photography – by embracing jpeg compression – you stop fighting against the medium and instead let it inform your work. It is in this way a new innate aesthetic is found. This 80 page book looks at an elusive British subculture through camera-phone pictures.

  • Revolution-spreads

    Exercise in expressive typography using the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” By Gil Scott Heron.

  • Revolution-poster

    120×60cm poster for “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” By Gil Scott Heron.

  • Bodyshop2

    From a campaign aimed at reinstating The Body Shop as the original pioneer of ethical beauty products.

At Camberwell