Tuesday 30 December 2008

SpeakOut Issue 2

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.

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.  


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Friday 12 December 2008

Hit Music Network- Part 2 of 2


Continuing from my previous post here's some more of my print designs for on air promotions for the Hit Music Network.










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.

Not had much chance to play around with this but looks good fun, Hobnox have made online versions of Rolands old music mixers and pedals, you can twiddle away to your hearts content and record up to five minutes of your sampling. (Just a point to note you need the latest flash player to view)

If you use a Wacom tablet then this round up of tips and tricks again from DesignM.ag will help you get the most out of it.

To be honest most of it is hot air and only relevant to large companies but there are a few interesting insights in Design Weeks Creative Survey.


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


Well don't know much about this one as the magazine and website is in Chinese but it's worth a download, especially if your into fantasy or character illustration. Quite chunky files 50MB+ so don't say I didn't warn you!