15
Jan
On Thursday Evening we went back to Body & Soul for the first Adobe Youth Voices workshop…
Ben is leading the sessions every Thursday for the next six weeks!
The aim is to teach participants how to draw, create interesting characters and how to use Adobe photoshop as an aid to make those characters look amazing and finished to a professional standard.
This was the first session so, after filling up on some delicious dinner, we spent this time really getting to know one another, the group are a great bunch of kids, and i think it is safe to say we all had a lot of fun!
Ben started with an ice breaker, getting us all to think of our favourite film and get the rest of the group to guess what it was without saying the name! Some were a lot easier that others!!
Next we played a game to get us thinking about characteristics, which would help the guys to develop their own characters. You had to first think of 10 for yourself, and then 5 for another member of the group! Again this had some very humorous results, and some members of the group had ALOT more to say than others! Ben was a popular target for the second part!
Finally we ended the session by playing the game (we had a lot of fun and games this time round) where you take it in turns to all draw a part of the body!
As you can see we had some interesting results! We’re all looking forward to going back again next Thursday where we will begin more drawing and individual character development!
04
Dec
Adobe Youth Voices- Body & Soul
Posted by Ben in Consultation, Design, Graphics, Illustration, WorkshopsSo Thursday night i presented the introduction to the Adobe Youth Voices project to the wonderfull young people at the Body & Soul Charaty. They where very warm and welcoming to what i had to say, even though i was a bumbling mess!
I told them about a project starting in the new year, where i will be teaching participants how to draw, how to create interesting characters and how to use Adobe photoshop as an aid to make your characters look amazing and finished to a professional standard.
These are some of the slides of my work i showed to inspire the young people into signing up for the project. There was lots of interest and it seemed many young people wanted to learn how to draw characters and have some fun doing it.
After i presented the project we all took part in a workshop making masks for the christmas ball at Body&Soul. We where making the masks to be warn by the young people for there masquerade ball. It was great fun to take part in some crafts with the young people, it was all rather crazy and i regressed to my 8 year old state of mind. So i made a Optimus Prime mask and a Batman mask with fire for hair!!! This promply got taken a shine to by a girl there. She then covered it all in purple glitter!!! From Batman to BatQueen it was amazing.
A great experance and a successfull night, looking forward to getting started in the new year.
12
Nov
We had a great workshop last night with a group of young people from BYM Youth Centre in Tower Hamlets. The guys had a lot to say about relationships, condoms and all things to do with sexual health. The general gist was it ain’t great to get your girl pregnant if you’re not ready – nappies really do stink!
We’re working with Johnny Lighthands to design two posters that will go up around Tower Hamlets this Christmas, so keep your eyes peeled for some cutting edge design on a bus stop near you soon.
GV
02
Oct
Imma Work Towards My Dreams…Tee design..
Posted by Mured in Design, Fashion, Graphics, Illustration, WorkshopsTags: bold creative, Design, dreams, Fashion, Illustration, imma work towards my dreams, syed, tee
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“…A recent collaboration between Sayed from Mile End Community Project (MCP) and Bold Creative, worked together to develop one of his t-shirt ideas.
Syed worked with one of our in house designers at Bold Creative to realise design, …”
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Imma tee
Imma hoodie
0_0 inspired?
Do Something!
04
Sep
Tagmap workshops in East London
Posted by Rukia in Film, WorkshopsTags: Community Centre, Muslim, Youth
Becca and I went down to St Hildas Community centre in Bethnal Green along with ex Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq to talk to young people about issues that affect them. The project is called Tagmap and it’s about getting young Muslims to talk about their perspectives on current events and what they relate to.
We started the workshop off with a brainstorm of all the things that we would like to address and talk about in the workshop. I think this helped them to open up more and to express views that aren’t normally shared. The main part of the workshop was getting the girls to film themselves talking about what they thought was important and felt needed to be told. The conversations were broad and included issues around identity, the media, the Muslim and non-Muslim community and generational differences. It’s not often that young people are asked such questions so to find out what they thought helped me to build my own perspective on things.
The responses were then uploaded on to our website: tagmap.wordpress.com
Young people can view the videos on the website and agree or disagree also leave their comments. I think this is a great way interacting with other people and finding out what they think about issues that affect them.
02
Sep
I have just finished leading a really cool project for Redbridge.
It was a really inspiring project and I really enjoyed it.
What I did:
The project consisted of 5 workshops with the Muslim Youth Project.
The workshops were really fun, we carried out a range of ways using film and media to engage the young people and find out their stories and experiences.
Outcome:
With the Young people we designed a fantastic magazine. The young people came up with the name U-Turn and the magazine focused around their U-Turn moments. The magazine was designed to help engage and inform other young people to do good in their community.
It was a great project and I am sad it is over.