DESIGN FOR LIFE

Name: Liz May Age: 25
Home town: St Austell, Cornwall

Describe your designs? Colour with a mix of typography, image and doodles.

 

Where do you get your ideas from? Everywhere, I normally keep a mini note book with me, that I jot down anything from a sound I like to sketching a nice bit of typography. Past and present artists and graphic designers inspire the way I think, and I also cut out and keep anything from leaflets I pick up, to wonderful bits of design I find in magazines.

What inspires you? Mainly the sea, I have been lucky to have grown up in Cornwall, where I have always been able to go to the beach. In past projects I used the sea as my main focus for my graphics, getting ideas for patterns and illustrations from odd bits of washed up things I found on the shore.  People inspire me too, I have met some really interesting and random people so far, so I feel that different peoples personality often inspires me aswell.

 

Which painters do you admire? I absolutly love Patrick Heron, with his brilliant use of colour and shape and the same goes for the work of Terry Frost.  Graphic designers play a huge inspiration and admaration too, like Peter Saville, to name a few.

What’s your connection to the sea? I live in Cornwall, about 5 mins drive from the beach, so the sea is always a part of my life.

 

Describe your perfect day? Anytime that I can spend it on the beach, with the following to make it perfect…A lovely warm spring/summer day, get up early and watch the sunrise with my boyfriend and to have a big bbq on the beach, with friends, family and the dog, right until the evening, just having a good time.

Sum up your life in five words: Design, photography, smiling, doodling, beach.

View Liz’s work at www.designthoughts.co.uk

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