Order of Service // first attempt

The King Is Alive!

The King Is Alive! - Street Art in Harpenden captured on my phone!

A few of the first pages of my journal this summer...

The first pages from my summer journal, inspired by a book I am reading called “One Day” by David Nicholson. Most work is montage and cut outs.

Tumblr

So I have finally sucumbed to getting a tumblr.... check it out here:
http://alexanderkeech.tumblr.com/

We Miss You

a moving video that really inspired me... hope it can do the same for you! 

Final Wedding Invites for my sister!

Draft Invite

Wedding Invites I Like

Well... my sister is getting married, and I am ever so excited! She has put me in charge of designing her wedding invites, and i sought to make a mood board for inspiration... she has given me the heads up that she would like a vintage theme, so I tracked down the most vintage and beautiful invites I could find on the net to inspire me... check them out here! 

I cant fight everyday...

i just can't do it today... i can't walk by those boys and take all the shit... i just can't do it... just today. I know I have walked proudly past them almost everyday this year, waving my freak flag high... and each time i take the "die fag" with a tight lip... but today, i just cannot take. Why can I not be free to be me? Why do people think i dress differently? It comes so natural for me to buy the clothes i like... and yet to others it is alien, and i just don't understand! these clothes i wear, i wear because i think they are nice, i like them, they are an extension of who i am... and people see them and they judge me to be something i am not! i just don't understand... i don't understand why people can want you to die because of the way you dress... because surely they know nothing about you? surely from seeing you in the street they cant know you? so surely all they are basing their assumptions on is the way you dress? I am gay yes, but why does that make a difference? I might not be, i just might dress so awesomely for a different reason... 
you can tell me they are stupid, you can tell me just to ignore them, but i do that, and i just feel nothing, i don't feel like i have beaten them, i still feel they are satisfied, it still doesn't stop them... why wont they stop?  
a lady once told me that i was born this way, and i believe her... i am born this way... i love being this way, most of the time.... but today.. i don't... today i hate it, and today i just cannot walk past those boys... i cant hear there horrible words one more day... i just cant do it.... 
tomorrow i will!  

#FashAddictBlog

So, I am now writing in my spare time for a really cool blog that you should all check out! I will still be writing here lots too tho! 

#FashAddictBlog

 http://www.fashaddictblog.co.uk/

 

the emptiness

the emptiness (2011)

prototype>?

inspiration

twitter

by the way, thought i should tell people that i do have twitter, and you can follow me there!
its http://twitter.com/sarbel18  

 

Are You Damned To Hell?

I am currently working on a poster campaign for my friend. I wanted to give you a lil sneak peak of how things are going. My muse was quite a religious one, but quite dark and sinister at the same time. 

Are You Damned To Hell? (2011)

My Heart Bleeds For My Community, My Neighborhood, And The Bigots.

I recently had a project for photography class which we had to take 10 photos which had to be about neighborhood. I set about it at first by researching the street I live on, and what used to be there in history. I found out from the local library, that it used to be an old pig farm in 1782. I used this information and decided I was going to use a pig's heart in my photo's of my neighborhood. I started to think about how I could tie in the heart to the project, and soon had the idea, to make the heart, the heart of my community/neighborhood, and to convey what I think about my area with the heart. I personally feel my street and community is dead at the moment. Nobody talks, there is some bitter rivalries and its practically silent, as nobody even respects that each other exist. So I was going to have the communities heart bleeding. As I was setting up my heart, I was approached by some guys in the street, who started about throwing horrible words at me, such as "faggot" and "little shit". This in itself really confirmed to me what I felt about my community, and neighborhood. And then I realized, it made my heart bleed... In trying to convey the heart of the community all bloody and dying I actually ended up conveying my own heart, lying dead on the floor in my street. This project took me down some strange routes and journeys within my mind, but in the end I came to a sad but interesting conclusion. Instead of letting it depress me, I actually feel a bit happier and more determined than ever, to try and re-kindle my community, and to make it a nicer place. Sometimes from our shadows, comes a little bright light... 

"5" - 2011

"7" - 2011

"10" - 2011

BoRn ThIs WaY

a lady who has a big impact on me. GaGa. <3 

My heart bleeds...

for my community, for my neighborhood, and the bigots. 

La Tour Eiffel

Paris

Jelly?

Again following on from previous work. this is jelly?

Jelly (2010)

love is...

So continuing from the previous post, and constantly inspired by the work of Pedro Inoue, here is some work that I developed....  i know it looks kind of creepy, and strange, but i wanted it to!

love is (2010) 

angel face...

A big influence for me is the artist and graphic designer Pedro Inoue, I love all his work, and here is an example of some of his work, and piece of work I did based on looking at pedro's work.

Pedro Inoue - Prada (2009)

Angel (2010)

El Tango De FACE...

Our most recent project in Graphic Design has been about image manipulation. Each of us had to do interesting edits of our own portrait. I did quite a lot of different ones, but here are just a few of my favorites.

Gothic Me (2011)

Lace Tears (2011)

 

 

 

Alexandra (2011)

 

Shatter Me (2011)

Facebook Wall (2011)

Cooler Than Me (2010)

 

Dark Scan (2011)

 

Lace Face (2011)

Angel Eyes (2011)

From Laura Caponi...

A couple of years ago I was living in Heidelberg in Germany, and I lived for a very short time with a lovely Italian girl called Laura. She is extremely talented, she speaks about 1000 different languages, and me and her are great friends. Anyway... I went to a really cool Halloween party in 2010, and I went as a masked vampire. A lot of photos of a drunken me appeared on facebook the next day, and one of them in particular was really cool (thank you to Lydia O'Hara for taking it!). It caught the attention of my Italian friend laura, who soon sent me some really cool edits of them! I wanted to share them with you, because I think they are really interesting! 

Vampire 2 (2010 - Laura Caponi)

Vampire (2010 - Laura Caponi)

 

A History Of The Future...

In case you did not know, I am currently a Graphic Design student at the University of Bedfordshire. I am about 1/3 of my way through my first year, and really enjoying it! I feel myself growing creatively with each week, and I am constantly pushing myself to do more and more. I thought now with my new blog, I would share with you some work that I have done up until now, while being at the University. I would have liked to show you my work pre-university, but I dont have it scanned onto the computer, yet... but maybe in a couple of months time, I will have got round to doing that.

Anyway... The First project we were set was to create an album cover for an 80's synth pop band. We were not allowed to use a computer, but technology that would have been around at the time (photocopiers, polaroids) were allowed. We had to try and convey our understanding of the time, and make it looking fitting for a real 80's LP. I took inspiration from El Lissitzky, Kraftwerk, and Letterostett.

A History Of The Future (2010) 

 

 I then used the materials I collected for this project and used them to create a magazine cover mock up, for a magazine I was thinking of making to co-inside with my radio show at the university. In the end I decided not to make the magazine (too much money!), but I did like the outcome of the magazine cover. 

The Tonlist Edition 1 (2010)

I'm Alexander Keech, Let's Begin...

"Art is what you can get away with" - Andy Warhol  (1928 - 1987)  

... let's see what I can get away with then.

Here begins my documentation of my journey.