FREIGHT

although this is kind of old now it should still be published!! Freight is the project which I was Art Director for and which was launched at the Leeds Met Graphic Arts & Design degree show 2008 as part of the Arts Festival '08. It was a great success and it was really great to have all the stress culminate in such a fabulous result. Go Team!!

Short Films

Today i couldn't help but do three things:

1: Play with bevel and extruded type in illustrator

2: Redesign the poster promoting short films showing at the faversham on saturday (because it is horrible)

3: Make a poster using YELLOW!!

(There is also a grayscale, photocopier friendly version for good measure.)

Royal Shakespeare Company

This was a quick one / two day project exploring an idea i had for a series of posters which could run for a set of Royal Shakespeare Company shows. The main premise is that you have big, bold type quoting the appropriate play; using the red of the RSC logo as a single colour print. I have chosen to use New Clarendon for its heavy serifs and pure beauty. This also proved to have some challenges when kerning and has given the posters a touch of quality which was missing without it.

(There are 7 posters in all but i have only uploaded a selection; but you get the idea)

Space Opera Book Series

Here is the final artwork sent off to D&AD for the Space Opera book series brief. I'm pleased with how the final images came together and generally how the planning of the format works well across different titles.

Quida Update

Here is the current incarnation of Quida, now more commonly know to those in the know as Quida Sans. Notice the removal of the quiffs and D.A's so that the typeface is more user friendly and is less for display, although it has been chanced since this outing it hasn't been exported as a useable file yet.

Final Isotypes

Here are the final isotypes which i submtitted, for some reason they didn't fully upload on the last post. Also noticed the magnificent vending machine piece of artwork.

Audi Design Foundation

It has been a long time since i updated this so it sounds like it just might be a good time to do it! Here we have my final submission for the YCN Audi Design Foundation. All the isotypes have an element of the straight and the round to get around becoming too stylised and less communicative on things which need rounded shapes.

Hex Font Working Progress

Here are some drawings and things charting the progress of detail decision making for various characters of my new font, working on the cues at the moment, still need to think about the caps.

Jealous & Confused

Saw this the other day and I can't believe that it wasn't chosen as the logo for Nation Year of Reading! It is so simple as to be a piece of genius, has a friendly corporate demeanor but also has a modern edginess too!! One day I shall create something equally brilliant!

Some other good work by this studio made from ex-LOVE member

http://www.sample-us.co.uk

Check it out kids!!

50 Years of Helvetica - 1967

The poster is 50x50cm and represents THE cultural event of 1967, the release on 1st June of The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". And the symbols are just for a close up from on the poster as they are rather schweet!!!

Recent Work...

Here's a few updated things and a bit of new work. The revised CODE OF CONDUCT poster, decided to do it all CAPS and make the layout more blockier to make it seem more like a real old-school london transport poster, i think it gives it more authority, although i'm still not entirely sure about the pt sizes.

the updated tony blair poster, still in caps but better revised and hopefully the final version, however i need to see a printed version to be sure at various scales. i think i did a pretty good job on the h&j's for this and i'm pleased with the overall finish. pushed it to the edge then brought it back one when it broke.

then just more sketches in the development of my font for the space opera book series, just working out on paper more finalised ideas before i put them into fontographer. still unsure about what kind of 'a' to have and whether to have square or rounded line ends.

My New Font

Here are the beginnings of sketches for a DIN inspired font to use on the book cover project, for chapter headings and a paper slip/tube for title/author etc.. A continuous line width, using square terminals and rounded corners with an extended flared motif, sort of like a serif, but not...

Milk To Spoon

More drawings in development of a series of logos to be used on a hot drinks vending machine, currently focussed on the milk and sugar logos having conquered the teabag...i have chosen the cow to represent milk with a droplet within the body above the udder. Spoon for sugar, angular to remain in keeping with the overall visual style of the set.

More Blair...

This works much better in CAPS, the uniformity of the lines makes the layout much easier to sort out. However i have since learnt about H&Js so i need to make some adjustments to perfect the fabric of the text.

Space Opera

Fresh work for the Space Opera book cover series. The theme is to have the cover as a solid image, with unexpected/uncommon information on the spine, then more information on the back. Before developing the innerds!

Blair

A poster taken from a political speech. I chose the speech given by Tony Blair shortly after 9/11 in the House of Commons; because it is the first significant political event I have really paid any attention to, not because I love Tony Blair. The speech gets better at the end, the beginning is unimportant and just sets the scene, hence why I have presented it in the way that I have. Set in Helvetica which is clearly the Tony Blair of fonts. This is A1 in real life.

This is still a working progress, I need to figure out some of the bugs and perfect it.