Rosie Wellman

Hey, I’m Rosie.

I’m a multidisciplinary designer with a specialist interest in print, publications and workshop facilitation.

Community holds prominence within all of my projects and runs through my creative process. I believe the beauty of being a creative lies heavily within collaboration and sharing ideas. I’m passionate about continuing the tradition of analogue methods in current-day design, regularly going back to collage and simple mark-making at some point in a project’s development. I also really enjoy learning from other people’s ways of working and feel it’s integral to growth as a creative.

Please get in contact if you’d like to collaborate or chat about a creative idea!

moc.liamg@tcatnoc.dgeisor

@r0siegd

Creative Conversations

This project was heavily inspired by my own experience of being an autistic woman. I was diagnosed just before my first year of study on my course; a diagnosis that continues to influence my work.

Autistic women tend to be diagnosed a lot later than their male counterparts, often heavily hiding their true identities throughout their formative years. In response to this, I was motivated to build a creative community whereupon Neurodivergent women could come and share their experience through creative practise. Through my past experience of facilitating creative workshops, I noticed how the act of ‘doing’ often made people feel more comfortable to share their stories.

‘Creative Conversations’ was a pilot workshop looking at how mark-making; (creating through various lines, textures and patterns), could not only be used as a mindfulness activity, but one that provided a ‘safe-space’ for participants to be authentically themselves. The project required me to develop skills within promotional design, budgeting/ planning and workshop facilitation.

Collaborators:
Photography;
Sélina Moussa, (BA GMD)
+ documented outcomes from Workshop participants.

Community Broadsheet

‘Community’ was a project in response to my time spent as a co-facilitator and member of the ‘UAL Zine Community’.

The design of the large format broadsheet was influenced by the collaged, ‘hands-on’ approach used in zine making of the past. The beginning of the design process saw me undertaking a lot of experimental collage which later inspired the final designed outcome. Content of the publication includes anecdotal stories of members of the community, upcoming events, and a double-page spread dedicated to tools commonly used as part of the analogue zine making process.

Inkjet printed at LCC.

Collaborators:
Content Photography; Anita Strasser
Contributions; UAL Zine Community.

How’s everything?

‘How’s everything?’ is an A6 publication following the journey of voice notes sent and received between friends over one year.

Recording voice notes is quickly becoming one of the main ways a whole generation communicates. With it’s facility for people to offload their subconscious thoughts, it can be compared to the modern day equivalent of journaling.

The book is laid out in a way that visually depicts messages sent and received. This is accompanied by collaged illustrations as ‘internal monologues’ of the recipient (myself). Photographs sent around the time of each voice note are also included to provide visual context.

A hard-cover, perfect-bound book, printed and finished at LCC.

Collaborators:
Photography; Sélina Moussa, (BA GMD)