The Forgotten Project

Well I had grand plans for the last month, unfortunately most went out of the window due to heavy work load. One of which was to exhibit at this years Plus festival. Started some initial faffing and then got waylaid. The title for this year was Hybrid and I started some typographical musings getting quite hung up on the word 'mongrel' and it's connotations to the modern day graphic designer; a cross breed of traditional and digital technologies and working with widening media. Anyway it got swallowed in the workload but here is some initial ideas, no idea where they were going and probably never will!

4talent Issue2

Here's a sneak peak of my layouts for the forthcoming 4Talent magazine, for an article on crime fiction from Northern Ireland. Not sure when it's due out but will post some photos when I get a copy.

SpeakOut Issue 2

Well here's one of the projects that has been keeping my busy over the last couple of weeks. Issue 2 of SpeakOut magazine will be available in and around Birmingham in the next week or so. Quite pleased with the layout of this one, helped out by some great photography by Michael Correll & Karen Strunks

Belated links from October

Sorry for my lack of postings recently had a busy few weeks, so in an attempt to make up for it take a look at my hot links from October.

Haunting photography and post production images from Oleg Duryagins.

Multicolr site lets you pick your key search colours and it searches flicker to find images with these colours in them. The best bit is the site allows you to specify up to 10 colours at a time, great for helping to create moodboards.

 

Who is Max Kerning? Find out by viewing the link, quite funny in a nerdy graphic designer kind of way.

Very good portfolio site from Mate Steinforth.

Australian Graphic Artist Justin M Mallers folio site, Superlover.

Illustration Links

A quick round up of the interesting illustration sites I have come across of late.

Illustration portfolio and shop from Australian Ghost Patrol

Portfolio site from Barnaby Ward

German artist Heiko Muller's illustration work

Ian Francis' mixed media artwork

Hyper Real Photography Round Up

Here's a quick round up of some of the best photographic and digital enhanced imagery sites and folios I have found on my travels.

Bizarre looking photography mainly consisting of variety of machinery and gadgets from Caleb Charland.

Craig Sheilds digital illustration portfolio.

Often quite disturbing digitally enhanced photographs from Ricardo Salamanca, especially interesting to see the before and after shots.

Fashion photography website from Miles Aldridge.

Takeshi's folio site.

Creative fashion photography portal site digital softbox.

Prolific fashion photographer Steven Klein's extensive fashion portfolio.

Midlands Design Events

It's going to be a busy few weeks in the Midlands for big creative events. Hopefully a good sign of the Midlands getting more established on the creative map.

Hello Digital kicks off with Hello World on 23-24th with Hello Digital on till the 26th. A chance to meet life sized robots, control a giant wall of sound and see some leading lights of the animation world at Millennium Point. 

Plus+ on 5th- 8th November looks like it's going to be better than ever. As always showcasing creative talent in typo/graphic design, plus a great line up of speakers including Jonathan Barnbrook & Airside, can't wait.

Wolvehampton plays host to the Flip Animation Festival on 6th - 8th November, clashing with Plus+ is prob not a good idea but if your more into your animation than graphics looks worth a visit.