Nic Bennett
Nic Bennett is a Graphic Designer / Illustrator, based in Bristol.
He is interested in most things, particularly printed ephemera and the visuality of cultural aesthetics.
You can find out more about Nic's work at nicbennett.com.
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Sometimes i have to search the deepest areas of my brain when finding a suitable solution to a brief, and sometimes it just happens. This project just materialised on its own. I had been playing around with geometric shapes and blocks for a while, but i didn't know what to make out of it all. Then the 'Spare Time' project came along, and i thought " i know, i'll make a computer!" then all i had to do was come up with a snappy slogan. (which was the word surf, as this is what i do in my spare time) The result is quite simple and easy to digest, with a pleasant aesthetic.
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My response to the brief was a process of working in a low resolution, via bitmaps, that made me look at the construction things on a smaller scale to make something that is bigger as a whole.
For my research and inspiration i looked at small things, like atoms and particles, knowing that within the tiniest atom there is still lots of tiny things inside again. This lead me to look at subjects like: quantum physics, Entropy, Interference, Orbital mechanics etc... (Things that i know nothing about).
What concerned me about all of these disciplines is a chaotic framework of energy and movement within everything. This Energy runs throughout every process of existence, on a massive and microscopic level simultaneously.
These thoughts are echoed in my piece, you could look at each pixel being a particle of energy frozen in time, amongst the mass of movement that subsumes our being.