Loop the Loop progress

posters, posters, posters. And a few more posters.

Here is a poster I whipped up today. Heard a Muse song on Radio 1 and felt a sudden need to create an altar to the brilliance of the best band that has ever existed. I think I'm going to start constructing it in my corner of the studio, starting with this poster...I have been working on my moving image all day, getting closer to a solid idea of what I will do for the final piece. This occurred somewhere in the middle of the day, was all a bit odd.

MIGRATE tests

First Screen Prints

I made my first few screen prints the other day, sadly the acetates I used from uni had printed badly so the screens weren't perfect. For the final A2 posters I'll print the acetates through Snowhite and hopefully get a better result.

I will take a pic of one of the completed prints soon and shove it up here. I want to tweak the design a bit and alter the colours I have used. More experimentation to come...

New random poster

I've seen a lot of wocked poster designs recently, and I wanted to have a bash at a planetary poster/thing myself. I really like the work of Simon Page - www.simonpage.com and others, His work has been a great inspiration for my D&AD project so far. I have done a lot of abstract illustrator work recently, and I needed to get this out of my 'solar system' - get it? ha. Yes. So here it is. Not sure if I'll do any more as yet, got loads of other stuff I should really be doing. I'm thinking of doing a lot more poster design in my own time, potentially having some as final outcomes in my self initiated project along with a book or two. I really want to improve my printed work and presentation. It starts here!!

more progress...

Still hammering away at the D&AD brief, getting closer to a final image...perhaps. I will be screen printing next Tuesday (finally) so hopefully I will have some more attractive, 'real' things to shove on my blog. Also trying to work on the new moving image brief, without much luck so far. Oh, and we also have some work in the Winchester Gallery at the moment. Some quick snaps have been put onto the Sauce Collective blog.

Now that's what I call relief 2010

I managed to get all my work done and ready for hand in on Friday, so I get to take the weekend easy til I have to sign off on monday. I took a few pics of detail on some of the posters I printed in the last few weeks. I still really need to get into the screen printing studio. I have to go and bother someone about it. I'm hoping that by posting loads of images in these posts it'll make up for the fact I have neglected my blog recently, and no one will notice.

my working process

I'm going to post a few blogs about the crap I've been doing recently. Here's a booklet I produced to go in my portfolio along with work from the first semester. I tried to give some info on what was going on in my head while I was working on the projects, because I know it's more than likely that Paul will open my portfolio and instantly the letters 'WTF' will materialise in his mind.

It's been a while.

It's been a long while since I posted anything, so I thought I'd make a bit of an explosive mess of this post. These are a few things I have been working on for the D&AD project. I'm having a lot of fun, will hopefully get a chance to screen print some posters next week if I can elbow my way into the screen printing studio. Things have been really hectic and with hand in on Friday I'm not sure why I am blogging instead of drawing countless pictures of robotic owls and ancient solitary bears. But there you go.

dont panic continues...

Here's a bit of type I put together this morning. I used a font that I made using fonstruct, and then tried to give a 3d feel with some CMYK crazyness. I seem to have lost the 3d effect route that I was going down, I want to pull it back to that. No Doubt this would give me a headache if I came to screen print it! I'm still working on the impossible triangle idea too, more pics to come.

type ideas for dont pan!c

I am trying to develop my use of type within the D&AD brief. I intend to explore the impression of 3d text and optical illusions, in combination with the style I have already developed this far. I think negative space could potentially work really well too. I will hopefully do some more wor today/this week and add another update!

I'm going slightly mental.

Here is my latest poster design for the D&AD brief, it's a bit crazy. I got tired of trying to make something with a solid meaning and instead decided to throw together something that I actually liked and enjoyed making. It includes a slight wobbly reference to Back to the Future, I was thinking of time travel and how I could incorporate this into the poster. I'm also thinking of life and death, and ways in which you could avoid it - time travel? Meh, who knows. There is still a huge amount of room for improvement and I intend to develop this a hell of a lot more in the next few weeks.

Most of my ideas for this project involved the use of coloured acetates laid over the image, or in the form of 3d goggles, to reveal hidden messages in the image. Even though this was considered 'gimmicky' it's still something I want to persue. I think it gives more interaction between the viewer and the image. So for best results in future, get out your old 3d goggles/red and blue acetate! More images to come soon...

The state of my studio space

Got some of the zine pages arranged here - including stuff from Kat and Chantal. Still waiting for Neil to finish his before we start trying to work out the layout. Hopefully will be finished in the next week.

My wall in the level two studio. It's getting pretty full of posters and prints now. Might have to get rid of some of it to make space for the new bits and pieces on the way from the D&AD project.

I printed my initial poster design on beige sugar paper, looks nice in the 'flesh'. Slightly wocked. I also did some overlays with a few different colours, trying to come up with something that would look completely different when you look through different coloured acetates. More to follow.

D&AD brief fumblings

I'm pretty screwed at the moment in terms of my D&AD brief. I've been struggling to find a subject to base it on, related to the subject of 'resistance'. I really like the style of propaganda posters, and the work of obey/go media etc. I kinda want to combine this with a bit of drawing if possible, and mix up my processes a bit. If I have time I want to do some screen printing and overlaying, perhaps including colour and hidden messages.

This specific design is a little poke at the frustration and annoyance caused by the abysmal printing system at the university. honestly, for an arts-based uni we should have a much, much better printing system that actually churned out some nice prints. It's vital for us, but it seems the uni is more interested in taking our money and rodgering us with champagne bottles. We will have to see if we can do something about it.

I want to make some red acetate glasses too....

personal project - Zine. So...

A few images I intend to use for our self initiated zine project. Our theme was 'black and white', after a bit of thought, I settled on a samurai-inspired set of images. I had thoughts of darth vader and the death star, but then I think I've done quite a bit of that recently...The pattern above was inspired by the pattern on a piece of samurai armour. As for the samurai mask/helmet, I have wanted to tackle a vector of one of these for ages. We intend to get it all put together within the next few days, so I should have some more shots of the finished article up here soon.

Brief two continued...

screen prints

Here are a few screen prints from my session the other week. If I can get into the print making studio again sometime soon I might use my own screen and print this design onto a t-shirt or two...

Myth of Origins brief

I have just 'finished' my Myth of Origins brief, but I still have a lot of work to do. I'm not happy with my outcomes or the direction I ended up floating off in. I intend to do a whole lot more experimentation in the next week, incorporating typography, collage, photocopying and a bunch of other whacky sheet if I can. I need to make it all much more visually interesting, and luckily for once my crit was helpful in making me realise where my downfalls were.

I have added a few of the half decent images from this brief to my website, you can find them here.

I have also finally received my Canon 50D, so I will probably take some better images of my printed work and upload them here pretty soon, including my recent vader screen prints and other assorted junk that I've had lying around for a bit.

Vader

A new illustrator design-come-screen-print idea. I have always loved the aesthetic of Darth Vader's helmet, what a legend. Seeing as I'm really into shearing rectangles and putting them on a 45 degree angle in illustrator right now I thought I'd add a few of them too. I have screen printed this design onto some nice brown paper with silver black ink, will add them to the website/blog when I get my new camera and can take some pics.

Pumpkin Fun Times

One giant pumpkin, ready for gutting. I'm no master pumpkin gutter, so I had to collect together a bunch of crap that I thought might help to hollow this bad boy out.

I drew a rough idea of what I wanted the pumpy to look like, stereotypical Halloween pumpkin stylie.

Hollowing him out was pretty grim, he was full of slimy pumpkiny goodness and seeds, I felt like a murderer.

The Finished article:

Minus pumpkin = sad faces!