KesselsKramer 'Royal Memorabilia'

Very funny project from KesselsKramer where they have produced their own range of Royal memorabilia for Prince William and Kate's wedding. Adding in humour whilst taking inspiration from the traditional memorabilia produced for Royal weddings.

You can even buy it here http://www.kkoutlet.com/shop/products/royal-memorabilia

Printmaking

Been doing some printmaking experiments this weekend for my current Uni project called Language. The brief is to brand/ celebrate/ promote language, my line of thought brought me to Shakespeare and to Shakespeare's use of slang in his works. I then took this further to our own use of slang and symbols and decided upon emoticons and then to explore Shakespeare with emoticons as they in themselves embody emotions and work very well to convey the meaning within Shakespeare's plays.

I experimented with lino printing and mono printing using emoticons and a blocky aesthetic and generally getting very messy in the process!

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Little White Lies 'The Black Swan Issue'

Very interesting little video of the making of Little White Lies' latest issue 'The Black Swan Issue'

Beautifully made, especially the hand-drawn image on the cover and type designed by David Carson, and a great insight to what it takes to make a magazine from start to finish

Found at Creative Review

Design updates:

Website design following the same brand style as I used for my business card.

Letterhead design for a covering letter.

Tweaks made to the wedding invitation me and Amy have been working on, cleaned up the typography and drew the heart accents properly. Planning on screen printing a limited amount using silver and mint green inks.

Smile for London on the tube

Second trip to London to see Amy's winning animation playing on the underground, we decided to view it at Victoria station as this was on our way to the Saatchi Gallery.

Great to see the animation in the environment of the tube platform on the massive CBS screens they have, also great to see it alongside the animations from Airside and Aardman, the latter being particularly good.

Proud.

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The beginnings of a re-brand

Initial ideas for new self branding, working currently on the business card and getting some kind of logo sorted.

Eventually will have a business card, website, CV, covering letter and maybe something extra.

Currently working on...

Working on a small side project with Amy to design her sister's wedding invitations, going with green and silver colour scheme and a minimal design as this is reflective of the couple's tastes.

Then with the heart at the top of the design we will be having two thumbprints from the couple which fit together to form the heart shape. Little personal touch

Forgive my hand drawn hearts, better ones will be designed!

Smile for London Launch Night

Me and Amy went to London for two days on the 13th January for the Smile for London launch night at the Museum of London, which was for a competition that Amy entered and was chosen as the overall winner! Pretty surreal for her and got to schmooze with some designer folk.

Then we had a nice peruse of Camden Town and spent a little too much money, it's hard not to in Camden.

Amy's winning film: http://www.vimeo.com/16845078
Smile for London website: http://www.smileforlondon.com/

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