My Final Book Cover!!

NDC First Year University Projects collected in a book Woo! 

So proud..!

Test Book Cover!

Test Book Covers for the Class Book!

Heres my two...

Back to Front

Get Fruity..

Getting Fruity!! 

You must design the rotating icons / graphics for a surrealist fruit machine.

I got inspiration from 

Dali: The Man of Many Moustaches

Blazing Biographies..

Blazing Biographies

Cipe Pineles.

1908 - 1991

Austrian-born graphic designer and art director who made a career in New York at such magazines like Seventeen, Charm and 

Madamoiselle.

I done a shoot and imitated a version of my own Seventeen. magazine cover making  my model suit the time period Pineles was at her peak*.

Mile High

Mile High!!

Post it's theme! I used 1221 post it notes for this project, making it 208cm long..

 I almost wish it was bigger..

but this project was a money eater as I done it twice.

we all got given a letter of a specific typefont

This was Gill Sans

Working with post it notes made it pixeled. But I tried my best to make it as accurate as I could.

Zine Thing

Zine Thing 

The aim is to convey a specific message (or messages) to a targeted audience.

My Group: Sunny, Quasim and myself got given 'Mums and Dads'

What is a ‘zine?

an abbreviation for maga-zine / fan-zine;

informal & made with love.

DIY publishing / self publishing

Heres a few pages of what we submitted and attempted to sell at £1 each.

Feature shop Part2..

In just a week we got given the task of shooting at least a minute long trailer or short scene for our own feature film idea that we came up with for the first part of the project. 

I chose to film a scene from my feature film

This was a different experience for me, not gonna lie it was hard.

But got there in the end thanks to the help and support of my loyal friends! 

Hope you like it! (:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkVGwcjTE8 

Feature Shop..

Project given..Outline my own feature film.

                                 Reference; The Breakfast Club


Title; Room for Two
Main Characters; Two Best Friends

Aaron-  

Derek-


Plot; Beginning, Middle and end. 

Visual References; 
club, road, flat, kitchen, the hall way. 


Script; 
Aaron and Derek come into their flat, from a night out.

Best of..

A couple of pages from my sketchbook! 

101 New uses for a brick..

Can't believe I forgot to upload this! 

101 New uses for a brick!

Haymakers..

Haymakers 1, 2 and 3...

First one was just a sketch of what was outside my window, it was so dark outside but we have a street lamp just outside the house. I was so tired I drew this upside down in my sketchbook! Ha! 

Second one, I woke up sooooooooo tired and just thought to y self GOLD.

The light looked golden when i first opened my eyes, so I grabbed my gold pen took a different perspective out the window and just doodled. I really just liked the lamp.

It got a lil messy with the silver, some may call it art.. 

Third one.

I was awake already so felt to make lil monsters.. 

I saw a couple of paints infront of me so i mixed it with water, plopped some on the paper and blew away. 

it took like 20 minutes to dry then just added lil characteristics.. 

I call this piece Haymakin' Monsters! 

Random acts Channel 4 Brief..

Channel 4 Brief

Proposal by Nicola Dela Cruz

A three-minute film for Random Acts strand on Channel 4.

My Genre: Animation and Music with sound effects.

Storyline:

Life of a £5 note.

-Scene starts off with a £5 note. The Queen winks.

In this short animation we will see the life of a £5 note. It’s travel from hand-to-hand, pocket-to-pocket and till to till. Showing different people that touch, scrunch up and even look after the £5. Making people realise the short space of time owning the money. You see how quick money circulates all around and doesn’t stay with a person for too long.

In this short animation, we will travel with the £5.

See all it sees. From the horrors and hardships, to the love and friendships.

See what kind of people spend it quick and the people who tried to spare it.

This is my concept.

Life of a £5 note. 

Pay to Play take two..

"Redesign the £1 coin to express global financial climate"

I re-did/edited this project. 

The Queen was too neat and didn't really represent much on my previous coin.

This time i distorted it. She's melting away.

Our financial climate is crumbling away, everything is raising prices but the money isn't there. This country sucking the money dry.

The colour change is an attempt to communicate the pound coin fading and looking dry. 

Graphic Design Cookbook..

Banana 'Jazz LET' N

N is for Nicola! :) 

This project was not easy at all, and i was beyond proud of the way my homemade tin ddnt fall apart and actually produced a baked cake in my desired font.

Overall - it was an achievement as baking isn't my strongest skill.

Goal Scorer..

Visual illustration montage of my life

Within the 30 years time..

Theres too much!

I want to have Graduated successfully. Travelled, make money (different currencies, (enough that I don't struggle) and have my OWN house. Get married, have 4 beautiful children. I want to be able to say I started a career in photography and design. Hopefully do my photography business with my future husband. 

Meet more people, party, do some volunteer work in deprived countries.

Maybe do some illustrations for children's books, be an extra in a movie.

Work in the make up artistry business, model or work with famous inspirational photographers and models. 

Get work advertised big in the industry. 

Like Ed, I want to get flown out to work with people and get paiddddd!

Continue my growing collection of shoes.. 

And really just be happy!

Also I wanna be able to afford a real nice cruise with my husband on our 10year anniversary! 

Also i never want to forget where I'm from so regular visits to Jamaica and Philippines please!

Meet Me On the Corner Edit..

My cultural map, looking more of a map than my previous efforts. 

I added a title, enlarged the little illustrations, connected them with some arrows, showing me moving round, just like in the cartoons, and a start and finish.

My theme is still childlike illustration, montage, simple yet fairly busy, cartoon map.

Its a lil congested as the day itself was a very busy day! 

But the pictures remind me, it weren't all bad.. =)