National Lottery

Hannah and I have been working on a project recently about the national lottery. What interests us is how the breakdown of each pound spent is split up and given to a range of charities, sports and arts as well as the obvious jackpot. Here is a quick infographic we made this morning to visualise one single draw and where the money went. Just need to think of something cool to do with it now.

Arden and Anstruther Exhibition

Recently I had the honor of exhibiting at the Arden and Anstruther Gallery as part of 'Last', the final exhibition there celebrating Paul Arden's life and his work with Kingston University. Rosie Palmer and I exhibited our photos taken on our £10 hitch hiking trip to Venice. We decided to use the fireplace and create a space inspired by the lorries we travelled in, aiming to recreate the claustrophobic nature of the trip. People would sit on the lorry seat and watch a film we created specially for the exhibition that featured photos, a commentary and videos of the lorry drivers.

The exhibition is still running so if you are in Petworth any time soon check it out.

www.leannebentley.co.uk

My website is now up and running, here are some screenshots:

check it out here

Botch Jobs

A mock infomercial aimed to shame rogue landlords, who instead of fixing problems in their properties apply cheap cover ups, making over half the rented properties in the UK dangerous to live in.

This is Tomorrow

This project was to create two double page spreads to go in a 1000 run publication. The publication will be themed on typography and the future. We decided to look at the fact that by 2025 66% of the world will be without an adequate supply of water. We focused on how the act of printing could affect this problem. To do this we focused on the publication itself, using it as an example to highlight the huge amount of water used. We took every single page of the publication and measured the amount of ink used and how much water derives from this and set the information out on the first spread. The second spread calculates the total amount of water used for the entire 1000 run adding together the water used to make the ink and the water used to make the paper (17,380 litres). The question is then put to the viewer, 'is anything really worth printing?' Our whole spreads were designed with the issue of waste water in mind, everything was only as big as it needed to be with no unnecessary information. We also set the opacity as low as we could so it was still legible. Our spreads will feature at the back of the newspaper as a summary of the previous spreads.

The design is hard to get across on screen as it is 100% designed for print but you get the idea.

NEW YORK CITY

Photos taken on a recent trip to NYC.