Black Box!!

This was the video of our Black Box Project, Let us know what you think.

STAMPS!

I'm looking at entering a competition about stamps. This is to come up with the front cover of the London Stamp Festival by Stanley Gibbons Limited. The competition ends in February. I will be updating over the next few months show you what i will be coming up with and would love to get some feedback.

THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS

Just sent an email to the company Im hoping to be working for soon. this is one of the ideas i've come up with for there logo, this is in different colours at the moment waiting them to get back to me. Tell me what you think about the LOGO in the mean time.

The Final Deadline

So Thats the end of 'Text and Image' the final deadline was today and I handed everything in early this morning. The next project is a live brief for a charity called 'WAR ON WANT'. We had a talk a week or two ago to learn about this small ran, 'Radicle' charity. I feel that if I was to choose a brief/charity this wouldn't be the one. This will be a good learning curve to understand how to cope/handle working with a client that maybe you don't agree on all their principals.

Live Brief

With being busy I'm trying my hand at a live brief, this is quite a big one consisting of:

Logo – Project - Before xmas

Logo – Festival – Before xmas

Letter Head – Before Xmas

Business Cards – Before Xmas

Graphics for website - Jan

T shirts - April

Banners - April

Posters/Flyers for creative workshops - Feb

Posters/Flyers for Festival - Feb

Information Pack - Jan

Sponsorship pack - Jan

Badges – April

This will be an on going brief throughout the year and should be good to show on my CV. The brief is called the BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS. If possible would love to hear what you see as this. I will be posting some of the Ideas up later. so you can let me know what you think.

More...

Another part of the two weeks of me not writing on my blog, I am coming up to my deadline in Text and Image. This consists of My sketch book(s) and any other pieces of work I have done over these few months. Its all due in on the wednesday at 12:00.

LONG TIME GONE

Its been a while since I posted anything one this. Its been a VERY busy couple to weeks. Since the last time I posted I when to London, where I looked round the new exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Art with Anish Kapoor and the Wild Things. Then went to the Logan Building in the D&AD for a talk from Paula Scher, and her insight into graphic design, this was really interesting and inspiring.

THERONIN

this is there show reel. this is a quicker view on their Amazing work.

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THE RONIN

Over the past few years there has been a company that I have been following. They're called The Ronin. There blog shows all there work over the past few years. one that people might be interested in is a short film called 'Black Day to Freedom' some great work. The two videos are the Black day to Freedom and 'things fall apart'.

I just found this film of live motion images of cities that make it look like there miniatures. have a look and tell me what you think.

miniature city 2 - featuring vividblaze - from mockmoon on Vimeo.

Book Binding

Today I've been looking at book binding and all different ways of working and possibilities of end products. Tomorrow I will be trying to do harder styles of binding the I have previously. The two books I have looked at that have helped understand the possibilities are 'Japanese Book Binding' by Kojiro Ikegami and 'Handmade Books' by Sue M. Doggett.

DADA POEM

Just looked at the Dada poem task where i have to cut words out of a magazine and scramble them up put them in a bag and pick out 15 max words. with this we then draw an image corresponding to the sentence the words make.

This is what I got:

Access, Impatience, Recyclage, Man, You're, A, Virtue, Windows, Hot, Of, Rock

The image is still being looked at and will post this as soon as its done, I will show my working too. At this moment of time I'm looking at the single words, what they mean, and how I can relate them to the other words and if the images change if the words are together.

Designers Awards 09

This is the National Design Metalworks 2009. Some of the winners of this I think should be shown on my Blog. To see where the Ideas are going in design. The website for this is http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/coresite/html/NMDA.asp.

Graphic Design Was Lee Bamforth

2D Illustration Was Barton Damer

Character Design Was Aaron Atchison

These are only A few But these three are the main ones that speak to me. For the future of design, it shows how we are going forward and the great ideas still coming to the Public View.

Art Inspiration

Looking at Art Inspiring you there's a Few designers I've been looking at Emily Aliston. There's also Tim Bradford. Then a Studio Called BLUP UK I Love the look of this website smooth and easy to navigate.

Some more images looking at text and type and how its possible to edit them in Illustrator.

Glyphs

This is just some of the work that Im doing at the moment. Its a Start when I looked at Text and type and the editing possibilities of Illustrator.

Letter Press

Well I finally did it Print Press. And it was awesome a true hands on approach to type. The smell and feel of designing. Nothing computer based about this. you can see on my photos with Flickr what I did and how they came out Pics

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Type And Tape

Starting at 12:00 I got to design type out of tape. the basis of this was to go out in the world and design fonts with just tape. Really enjoyable to get doing this even if it was raining. I have some of the photos of this on my Flickr page that I have now linked to this Blog. Have a look and tell me what you think.

I have recently bought two books. One being called visual signs an introduction too. and the other is Stop Stealing Sheep and learn how type works. Should hopefully help me with whats to come. There are two other books im reading, one of these is an artist called Julien Opie.

CRIT

Had the Crit today and I think it went ok. I went for the RED colour of the illustration. One of the main things that got focused on was the council house, Unfortunately this isn't what I wanted to focus on. It seemed to just get to be a bigger and bigger issue when talking about it. It was a bit too risqué supposedly. Apart from that all went well.

12th/10/2009

Just finished my Editorial illustration piece of work. not sure what colour to use.

Today has been also interesting with taking out two books about vis com and the idea of gender in media. Looked at Images and the symbiotic representation they give and show.

Went to Poole today to do more drawings and I also took a few photos. Might actually have an idea of what to do now.

I uploaded one of my designs to a competition. Its help by Umbro and this is what it looks like. Visit Here to vote for my design.

Let me know what you think of it too.

Just Starting Up!

Hey guys just starting this blog, will be showing all my work and working on this site. keep checking to see where I go and what I do.

Chris