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.

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!

Community

Sneak peak of mine and Amy's community project!

AM/PM

Just finished this brief for uni, we were asked to take the title AM/PM and either create a title sequence for BBC4 or as I chose to create an interactive kiosk design.

I took this and adapted it to an installation based on the idea of space and time. I then decided to create the installation for the science museum as a way for kids to learn about the solar system, called "Solus". The installation puts you in the position of the planet, the interaction involves you walking on the floor interface and when you stand on the name of a planet it triggers the sun, represented by a wall of light, to be brighter or dimmer depending on which planet you have stepped on. Then at the same time the temperature of the room changes in accordance to the planet you are stood on

Then this is a video animation of how the floor interface changes when you step on a planet and trigger the interaction.

CV: self promotion

CV time.
Here's my design for our recent CV project, I decided to go big but simple in the design... and by big I mean 2 meters.
Printed on the plotter double sided, which was a nightmare but I got it to work with a lot of help from the technician, so all in all worth it.
The design is on the front, my CV: about me, qualifications, experience, contact etc etc. Then on the back is a kind of wallpaper design, as the size of it reminded me of wallpaper and could then be something that the recipient could put up, the design became a play with typography saying "employme" repeated in an op art pattern down the length of the paper.

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Mail Art: Aliens

This was in response to the question "does it matter if there is life on other planets?" I chose to write a letter from the government as if aliens were invading Earth in the format of a telegram. I also included a piece of foil saying to use it to make a hat in order to combat alien mind control, this came from the idea of cliches involved with aliens. I then wrote on the back of the envelope "the truth is out there" which is again a cliche term that everyone would recognise as being about aliens.

Mail Art

Hello 3rd year of uni!
Our first project is called Mail Art where we got posed 12 questions and were asked to produce 4 responses to them and then mail them to our tutor. Here's my 4 responses, all packaged and now posted, I tried to include some kind of interactive element into each to make them work on a more advanced level.
I'll reveal more after we've presented them all on Wednesday.

Bank of One Hundred

Final Prints.
Heres my final note designs for my 100 project based around the idea of how the value of £100 has changed from 1910 to now and how it will change again in 2110. I printed as wad of 50 notes for each and printed 3 cover notes using gold silver and bronze foil transfer.

New Books

Picked up these yesterday, "V&A Pattern Digital Pioneers" and "The Encyclopaedia of Typefaces" It's pretty great having a book that lists every typeface I just wish I could own them all. The Digital Pioneers book has a lot of inspiration in and the patterns created are really intricate and interesting AND it comes with a CD containing all of the images, can't really ask for any more.

Bank of One Hundred New Notes

Here's the next two banknote designs for my 100 project.

The first is the 2010 version, I based it around the idea of the internet and design styles of now, I used the grid system as the background pattern and then a binary pattern and a depiction of the internet as the imagery.

The second note is the 2110 version, I based this around the idea of future technologies. I was influenced by code languages for the design, using the typeface used in Actionscript for the main note design. Then I built up code languages to form the image of a carbon nanotube used in nanotechnology, which is cutting edge technology.

Bank of One Hundred

An update of my 100 project, I've developed my idea to make each note show the year in which the value is based. For this, the 1910 version I decided to go with the imagery of a car, as this was revolutionised transportation around this time. Im then planning on having the 2010 note's imagery based on the internet and the progress of communication and the 2110 note's imagery based more on the further advancement of technology, maybe nanotechnology, using abstract imagery and adding technology onto the note itself.

Lots to do basically.

.... Still Money

Another days work and this is how much further I've progressed. A lot of intricate work, but very fun to do.

Money Has 8 Different Typefaces!

Working on my new project called "100" I've decided to go down the route if £100 and how the value of £100 has changed over 100 years and will change over the next 100 years. So I'm designing a banknote based on that of the UK banknote, except adding in my monetary values and imagery relating to my idea. So yea... 6 typefaces on this beast, it really shouldn't work but it does. Also a lot of time goes into making money, this right here has taken me pretty much all day... and its not finished........

The Devil and Daniel Johnston Title Sequence

My title sequence for the documentary film The Devil and Daniel Johnston. I was influenced by the way Johnston he recorded his music onto cassette tapes, so I decided to put the titles onto cassette tapes. Next I was influenced by his artwork and how he drew on his cassette tapes, so I made small stop motion animations to go over the cassettes. Then I cut this will footage of Johnston, to give the viewer a clue as to who he was before watching the film.

The music is True love will find you in the end by Daniel Johnston.

Showreel

Showreel of my work from 2008-2010.

3 Cubed Grid

Here's a close up of the grid for my 3 Cubed project. Using a condensed typeface to mimic the design of nutritional information on food packaging.