FAT FACE TONY, ULTRA BODONI

and my favourite...

This was my first taste of the letterpress.

I SPY...

What a sign!

I SPY...

With my little eye, something beginning with...

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME.....

I have been trying to compile a list of sites I thoroughly enjoy and look upon if I need inspiration. I just hope they can be just as useful to you.

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The list is on the bottom right hand side of my blog.


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THINK M, THINK

 

Thanks to one of my teachers Jo Spencer. I decided to play with some of my Adobe software.

Thanks JS.

GO

Lastly but by no means least is Nicholas Di Genova with his company Mediumphobic. All though he is a illustrator I feel he has a graphic design edge to his work and I just cant help but stare at its delicate lines and cleverly thought out colors.

I am infatuated.

Thank you MP.

LETS TALK

..on my sofa.

...said Mr Freud.

Some of my personal work.

YOU

This is the fourth company I wish would have me as their apprentice. This company I found out about more recently and is Oh Yeah Studio.

I think within all of their work a combination of abstract and geometrical shapes merged with hand-drawn illustrations including a palette with few colors is a winning arrangement.


Thank you OYS.

SAN

The third company I would do anything to work for is The Small Stakes. Jason Munn is the man in power of this operation and I absolutely love what, who, and why he works. " Arising from a love of independent music, design, and making for the sake of making, his posters soon became a fixture in the local independent music scene." I think this is most childhood designer's dreams, and was most definitely mine.

Thank you SS.

NI

The second graphic design company I am besotted by is Vault 49. Based in New York, I think they design quite innovative design projects. Their work tends to be quite sleek and modern. Generally using the digital camera, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrater having a colorful but restricted color palette, their work is truly beautiful.

Thank you V49.

ICHI

This is the first of 5 posts I will be putting up. These posts will show which company I would want to have work experience / internship / a job within and why, including some imagery of course!

The first graphic design company is I Love Dust. I have had an obsession with this company for many years now. I think the reason is because there isn't one piece of work that they have produced that has not been inventive, interesting, shallow and that I have not liked!

Thank you ILD.

NOSTALGIA AND MOURNING

I had the rare opportunity of having some spare cash the other week, so I invested in a book. This in my opinion is not just any book, it is well thought out, extremely interesting, a graphical pleasure and a book like I will try to make... one day. This book is called It's Nice That and is the fourth edition.

There was one photographer that particularly caught my eye.

"We generally make images with a fantastic atmosphere" say the Japanese collective NAM. I think they have hit the nail on the head, atmosphere. It is like they have captured a hectic scene and have frozen it in mid-motion. I can only hope that one day I will be working with such talented artists.

Thank you It's Nice That and NAM.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

THE LETTER J

Within one of my workshops at London College of Communication we experimented with typography. We looked at the principles and terminology of type. We also experimented by playing with the scale, recomposing and layering our chosen letter. Here are some of my own,

Recomposing.

My workstation.

I also played with type by considering two words at the same time, being soft and another word...

I found merging soft and order more challenging then others. The two seem a bit of an oxymoron however I think my result was an interesting approach.

I think the reason this experiment worked was a combination of using the outline of a sans-serif typeface and using a heavy b type pencil.

YELLOW CHICKEN NUGGETS

I went to the YCN building near Hoxton Square last Friday. I think YCN has a great ethos around all of its work and I am even more impressed with its schemes to try and help young and upcoming designers, like myself, the valuable opportunities we need within the industry. Whilst I was there I was also told that the lady sitting behind the macbook was in fact the lady within the Becks poster adverts.

She was nice enough to give me a quick cheeky photo.


Thank you YCN.

FREEZING COLD ART

I took a trip to Frieze Art Fair at Regents Park on Sunday. It was a great fair which I thought had not only great talent, but also each company got a great space to do what they did best, show off art!

I thought these three pieces by Hiromi Yoshii were extremely refreshing with not only great use of white space, but also very carefully chosen illustrations within the three silhouettes.




Also please watch this video in fascination as I did actually being there!

 
Thank You FAF.

ONE THING LEAFS TO ANOTHER.

Within a group session at London College of Communication I was shown some work by Bruno Munari. More specifically a page out of the book "Air made visible". I found his work extremely interesting and here are some of my own drawings from the session.

The leaf photocopy that all my drawings came from. 

 

  This diagram was drawn using the main points on the nerve system to the outer points of the leaf.

 

This is using the negative of all the important parts of the leaf. 

 My work in progress.

I think the most important thing I took from this session was that you can make everyday mundane objects into new and exciting things. I believe that you just need to look at something hard enough with a different perspective and you can make something much more visually exciting for both you and the viewers.

I will try and take this with me when designing.

ELECTRIC BLUE GALLERY

I visited the Electric Blue Gallery on their opening night of FACES.
Not only was their thought provoking art along with a lively atmosphere, but there was unlimited supplies of alcohol and Adam And The Ants guitarist Mark Ryan playing the chilling "prince charming" as you walked in.

"Man this gallery knows how to roll" I thought.

This was my favorite piece of the night, bringing together a well known and saintly idol to many, John Lennon, having his face repeatedly attacked with the thick clumpy dark acrylic paint and the yellow haunting stains dripped down the side of his face. Immediately you zone in staring for a whole minute without paying attention to anyone, especially not the man standing behind you with a small white fluffy dog trying to lick the back of your neck, as this piece is so dark and inspiring

Thank you EBG

Faces
Sep 16 - Nov 16 2010
Eine, Zevs, D*Face, Jasper Goodall, Rafal Zajko