Matt W. Moore - Line

Its freakin' wallpaper!
Full of vector based strong lines, at 90degree and 45degree angles in different shades of colour, not much to say really, apart from they're brilliant! If anyone fancies getting me anything from his shop online, I would love you forever. especially a Deck, Ive had my eye on one for ages.. Not these below, the handpainted ones arent for sale :(

Couldn't you just eat them they look so good? just me? thought so...

A Nike Dunk campaign he did in Barcelona, Spain. Yet more edible graphic design.. mm mmm.

what is a book?

(L-R clockwise) Plastic, Cow Hide, Steel, Pigskin covers.

Bamboo Bindings

Shelf life, a book about brands is sold in a foil crisp packet, what a brilliant idea! and how good does it look? Inspiration for my book of 100? I think so..

Couple of wicked book covers.. found on a french website- visual invasion, which I found through FFFFOUND! which you should seriously consider bookmarking and looking at everyday, maybe twice a day. These are my two favourites, but theres plenty more here

Don't think this is it, I keep updating this post throughout the brief for anything I find.

Andy Gilmore - patterns

This is more like it! geometric patterns from lines, more the stuff I like, really simple but powerful.

Andy Gilmore - Line

Not usually a fan of this sort of thing, but I was especially impressed when I came across Andy Gilmore's illustrations of animals. I think the technical use of the media is what I like about it.

What is a line? videos!

Didnt think it was actually possible and that people do this stuff on a micro scooter, I had one which was years ago and obviously didnt get the potential. You could say they take it a little too seriously.

Probably the reason why I didnt do product design.. Used to waste plenty of time on this game in CAD sessions, creating lines for the little man on the sleigh to run on, simple minds I guess. Want to waste some time? The game is here.

You have been warned.

Timelapse assembly of a painting made purely from handcut stencils.. yep, stencils. Its hard to believe from the results but they are. From the site Xynthetic which I would definitely recommend.

Typogateaux

Bit of fun, cakes on the last day before christmas devised by amber, Mine is the bottom one, not great but it did taste really nice. People were put off by the bottle of green food colouring I used for each of the green cakes..

Smile!

 So yet again another blog update to do when ive left the blog alone for too long.. Well pretty chilled few weeks for the work in some cases, but the recent brief turned out quite good. 'What if?' was the title and we had to devise a problem from the previous research in the brief (research from a theme devised from 100 photographs taken) in a nut shell. Our problem in my group (Martyn Woolley, Sophie Robinson, Rebecca Liggins and myself) was that leeds isnt happy enough from all the research we did.

From this, and the questionnaires formed we tried to solve the problem directly from the answers 'what makes you smile?' answers included smiling from other people, comedy and other related answers. the solution was really only based around photographs I took with art direction.. they came out quite good. Check emmm-

look alright don't they? Going for more of a natural smile than something that may look forced.. and I think we did it well.

Mailshots. What a brief..

After the annoyance of the previous impact poster brief where the brief was met but not allowed (not allowed black and white) I was kinda determined to make something out of the next brief.. and it was well good! mailshots, having to produce, 10 identical mailshots based on the previous work from the 'no news' briefs.. as mine was based around plastic bags and recycling. I lead off with that as a basis.. From the work ive previously done, I found that people on average use 300 plastic bags per year so that was a good starting point to go from. My original idea was to send old plastic bags in envelopes to people to encourage people to reuse them.. but you dont tend to see anybody re-using carrier bags unfortunately, because of how they look, and the designs placed upon them. Then i thought about making new bags to go inside envelopes for people to use..

But why couldn't the bag be the envelope? some sort of folding bag out of the net of the closed envelope.. based around an original net of a carrier bag and adjusting the dimensions, I formed (actually quite quickly) a net to fit within the bag.. It wasn't perfect but it worked. i guess all the best ideas are the simple ones that come quite easily. After adjusting the idea (as you'll see on the images) reducing the height on the top so it folds flatter, and making it from a single sheet of sugar paper.

After the idea, the name and branding came quite quickly 'Postbag' a bag from the post that you can re use.. My target audience was for students, so the the type, and potential imagery was all based around them. I think its time for some pictures now to actually show what im on about.

The closed article, looks like a normal envelope right? no need to apply many graphics to the outside, just to the address the same as the inside and just keep it normal everywhere else.

the graphics on the outside of the bag, screenprint'd that look really nice I have to admit, after the sugar paper, screen and colour it came to £1.60 for enough for 15 postbags, amazing! Definitely screenprintin' again for another brief, the results look really good. 

The front (and as it would for different editions for different target audiences) shows different items that students would usually buy (stereotypes, but it doesn't matter) in quite an organised form.

The left side shows typography that promotes the bag, encourages people to use it and recycle.
The right side has an address as the main logo for postbag 'concerning everyone, everywhere, US3 1NW' or 'use one now'

I got some really good feedback from the final crit, with only really the material used to highlight. As the research shows, purely to fullfill the brief, I used sugar paper but with more time, development, and money, the bag would of been produced with a canvas material used. Also would be colour, we were allowed 2 colours and stock, but if im honest, i didnt think about it too much on the time frame, just green to instantly give a 'recycled, natural feel.'

Super update.. or 'supdate' if you will..

Well.. time for a super update on the ol' blog. I have to admit my attempts recently have been a little thin on the ground, but not to worry, by the end of this post I should have pretty much everything up to date. Ok firstly Visual thinking the new rota'd time in on tuesday afternoon.. At first I thought it would be just time taken away from the rest of the course but its actually quite a good afternoon to work with paper in a raw form, something I haven't really worked with in the past. So, heres the pictures.. We had to visualise different words and phrases within paper shapes and a fixed amount of colours.

'Bright bounce'

'Simple bear'

'Harsh Penguin'

'Tall'

(From L-R) 'Line', 'squash', 'comfortable', 'lost', 'snap', 'dance'

NEXT. Plastic recycling is booming in the UK. quite an interesting brief to form three high impact posters based around the quote from the news paper.. from the work we had done the monday to do with combining image and type, it worked well as a basis for ideas to be produced.. There was limitations with the outcomes which i'll moan about in a minute, grr. Anyway, ideas -

Lots of little ideas on a5 sheets to be a basis of the posters.

 Open, closed questions. Fact and opinions

Symbols created.

Selection of development for the posters.

NOW. We weren't allowed to use black and white in our designs which is fair enough.. but the annoying thing is I actually havent, but still caught up on it. The bags are blue, the text was green and the 'maths' poster the stock was allowed according to Amber but then turns out not to be. Not impressed. Although, that aside, probably my favourite pieces so far on the course. It was good to think that these were created with illustrator, a program I would usually be scared of using, but they came out alright yes? 

Mailshots is the new brief at the moment we are conquering, based around the recycling briefs i have had previously. To produce a mailshot to be sent to relevant people, I have some goooood ideas, but nothing really to post as yet, so you'll have to hang on for that. x