SpeakOut Issue 2 is out now and here's a few photos of my layouts. The deadline for articles and contributers for the next issue is 9th January so if you want to be involved get in touch here.
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
4 Talent Photos
Been meaning to post some photos from the latest 4Talent for a while, below is the great cover illustration from Christain Zebitz and my spreads featuring illustration from Kate Copeland. Not sure what the future of 4Talent Magazine is as the dreaded 'R' word seems to have claimed the jobs of the Networks teams. Real shame as they were a great bunch to work with and the magazine since changing from Ten4 to 4Talent looks and reads better than ever but we shall have to wait and see. My previous spreads for 4Talent can be seen here.
Saturday, 27 December 2008
Links from December
Here's a round up of some great links from the last month or so.
Spoongraphics round up of cool designer toys and vinyl figures
Strange| Beautiful inspiration site full of all sorts
From the makers of the Behance Network comes Served, five sites full of design inspiration split into Typography, Photography, Industrial/Product Design, Fashion, Motion Graphics.
3 part photography/ photojournalistic review of the year, with some amazing shots from global events in 2008
Some great illustrative prints from Alberto Cerriteno
Everyone's been bigging up Magdalena Czarnecki's work on several blogs but it is outstanding, I especially like the origami packs for WWF fundraising
Round up of 10 most innovative concert visuals from 2008 on accent feed blog
'Static and reactive' visuals from Portuguese Art Director Nuno Trafaria
Illustration portfolio from New York based Jinyoung Shin
The Creative Review Blog takes a look at Elliot Young Studio's hand stitched programme for the Royal Variety Perfomance.
Friday, 19 December 2008
A Bit of Christmas Cheer
Well I noticed I've not been very festive in my blogging, Christmas wind down just hasn't happened yet, but I have had a couple of interesting yule related briefs. Firstly, below is my E card for Equalities charity Brap, it has an alternate Christmas message focussing on work to be done in 2009. Secondly my design for Trent FM's Charity Ale pump, if your drinking in any Nottingham pub this weekend why not get yourself a pint and do your bit for charity at the same time. Finally a desk top advent calendar for the Hit Music Network's clients, printed with the stations logos foiled on.
Friday, 12 December 2008
Hit Music Network- Part 2 of 2
Hit Network Radio Designs- Part 1 of 2
Well as the end of the year approaches I thought I'd put together a bit of a retrospective of some of the work I have done for a regular client, the now Global Group owned, Hit Music Network. They are a great small design team to work for and hopefully I shall be continuing to freelance for them in the new year. Always a challenge to come up with new idents that give consistency to the brand but stretch across a number of local stations. The basic rules of thumb, Avant Garde & an adapted Century gothic, the core brand colours pink, green and black and a clean visual approach.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
MUTO- A Wall Painted Animation
Just mental, god knows how long this took to produce, find out more on the blublu blog
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Links from November
A quick round up of the interesting sites & articles I have come across in the last month.
Beautiful paper illustrations from Yulia Brodskaya.
Great round up from DesignM.ag focusing on interesting typography.
I've been a big fan of M/M{Paris} for while, since their visual collaborations with Bjork on a number of her CDs & DVDs. Their new catalogue of work for sale has some great, but pricey limited edition prints.
Poladroid
Do you love your 100 mega pixel, 50x optical zoom, image balancing, super Digital SLR Camera? Great as they are, for some images I miss the personal feel and wonky colour balances of the old Polaroid photos. Mourn no longer Polaroid's decision to stop production of it's film (planned 2009), now you can turn any jpeg into a one of the litttle beauties.
Poladroid is a free mini application with a great interface that will develop your jpegs into high res polaroid style photos. The image develops on screen and you can pick it up and shake it as you would the real thing to speed it's development.
True you could quite easily set yourself a template in photoshop in no time but would miss out on the randomness of the tones/ sharpness of the images, just like the real thing. It's only available for Macs at the moment but a PC version on it's way according to the website.
Tuesday, 2 December 2008
CG Arts Online Magazine
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