Origami!

I wanted to produce some origami for part of my final major project, however it didn't really fit in to the brief, although through my research i grew to love the art of paper folding, the patients and skill it takes is phenomenal, this is one of the piece that inspired me, origami with a message.


The Chinese describe a newborn as a sheet of blank paper, pure and innocent. Blank paper is empty but full of potential. Everyone begins life as a blank sheet of paper: what the paper becomes is determined by how it is manipulated

Fantastic!

 Paper, Life, Newborn

Paper, Life, School

 Paper, Life, Work

 Paper, Life, Travel

Paper, Life, Marriage

Paper, Life, Lesiure

Paper, Life, Death
paper.life

Coffee!

I used to work as a barista in a coffee shop,  a lot of the time i would just stand there and look busy however what i should of done was try and make something creative like the images below!

Typographic Faces!

Had a stage... still in that stage where I like to make people.. celebrities.. out of words.. be that quotes, lyrics or things their into.. here are a selection.


In order from first created, Doncaster Live.. to last created Jimi Hendrix

F*ck you! pay me!

whilst on work experience the managing director made me watch this... the first 2 min's are amazing!



2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo.

Whilst on holiday in November 2009, a gent  proposed to his now-fiancee. Here's how he  popped the question.

I think this is brilliant, although I bet she wanted him to do it the old fashioned way.

Marriage Proposal

Chicken Wire Fun!

A series of sculptures and photographs in response to a brief with the title :

'Is there anybody out there? '

shot in a coffee shop at 7am... Caramel latte helped a lot.. especially when your the model and the photos hoot is at 7am the morning after your 21st Birthday.

A ticket can take you anywhere.

Used to travel a lot in my  first year of University, acquired a lot of train tickets, so instead of chucking them away i decided to make something out of them.

Tetris Sugar.

Whoever said tea was boring must not have sugar with theirs!

Tetris Sugar!

Royal Society of Arts

For over 250 years the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) has been a cradle of enlightenment thinking and a force for social progress. Their approach is multi-disciplinary, politically independent and combines cutting edge research and policy development with practical action




The following work reflects one of this years RSA briefs, With the title of

'Make Something Disappear'

Choose a product that consumes significant resources to produce and distribute and use design to reduce or eliminate its negative impact. Either design the product differently, or design a way for people to do without it

I decided to eliminate the physical product of an instruction manual, as we globally waste 10 billion tonnes of paper per year.

The next four images show my solution to this problem.

2nd Year Finished!

April 15th 2011 marks the end of my second year at Lincoln School of Art & Design!


This year was more of a learning experience than first year was, the brief were bigger, and it tested not only my graphic design ability but also my time management skills.


Starting a blog at the end of the year seems backwards, I should of really started this at the beginning of the year so I had an account of my year, oh well at least it's in place for next year.


So I guess what follows is gonna be my years work in a backwards order, starting with my Final Major Project first.


So here we go my first post.. with the last thing I've done this year at Uni


My Final Major Project had the theme of International Women's Day as they celebrated there centenary this year, with this in mind I choose to celebrate one of this decades greatest women,


'Eleanor Roosevelt'  now everybody has heard of Eleanor the First Lady of America, but do they know she was a journalist? Writing a newspaper column everyday for 26 years, this fact is the theme throughout my project, celebrating an educating the public.


Starting with an 'Exhibition'  

This led me to produce a series of wall vinyl's

And a Factual Promotional Video

Within the 'Exhibition' I wanted to feature a snap shot into the environment Eleanor worked in, so I created an installation for public viewing.

I created the installation and then photographed it.

I also created a 32pp book as a catalog of some of Eleanor's most inspiring columns within the subject of women, I will post images of the book when I've popped into the studio and photographed it.