Flatland Final

Flatland was a project I completed a while ago to help me obtain my MISTD (International Society for Typographic Designers) membership, however it's only been recently that I've decided to create a mock-up for my website. Let me tell you though, it has been no easy feet. Mocking up a project is usually fairly simple but the sheer size of the files for this project have caused Photoshop to give up on me many a time.

Anyway for those that don't know my Flatland project is a concertina folded book, hence its peculiar appearance in these layouts. Eventually a full description and layout of the project will be up on my site but in the meantime here is what I've managed to do. I still have a few small details to fix but hopefully it will be up this weekend.

Ctrl Alt Rock... It begins.

Just back from a meeting with my latest client about our new (ridiculously huge) project. 

Ctrl Alt Rock have asked me to essentially re-brand their entire company and take them in the direction they've always dreamed of. The project will go on for many months so I'll do my best to keep you all updated here. In the meantime please enjoy the sketch that first ignited the project. 

Possible logo? Let me know what you think.

Got Milk?

I despise Illustrator!

Today I achieved...

NOTHING!  Today instead of doing what I had set out to achieve, I procrastinated by vandalizing my good friend Leanne Swifts beautiful masthead design.  On the plus side not only do I think she likes it (crazy girl) but its actually inspired me to go back to a project I previously struggled with.  

Just goes to show you that even a wasted day isn't a waste of time.

Leanne's Original design with me filling in the blanks she carelessly left out. 

My ghostly experiment with her masthead.  

Would you be able to spot this in the magazine rack?

Flatland

It's been a while since I've posted anything so I decided to finally upload photos of a brief I tackled several months back.  The project was to create a design for Edwin A. Abbott's book "Flatland".  The brief stated that the designer could choose to recreate parts of the story anyway they saw fit; I chose to redesign the format of the book.


You know what?  I was going to give you a massive run through of what the story is about and why I chose to design it they way I have but instead I suggest you go read the book and let me know if my design works.  The book isn't a big seller and can be found on the internet for free (I bought my own copy because I'm sad and like books).


My design only covers three chapters of the whole book, so you can imagine just how big the project would be if I was to do the whole thing lol.


I would just like to take this opportunity to thank all my models and photographer for their help during a dark time in my life (the completion of this project).


Gary Nicholson (http://munchypotato.blogspot.com/) 
Abi Dowler (http://www.madebyabi.co.uk/) 
Hannah Guthrie (http://www.hannah-guthrie.com/) 
Hugh Leoidsson (http://leoidsson.com/) 
Leanne Swift (http://www.leanneswift.co.uk/) 
Alex McIntosh (http://www.alexmcintosh.co.uk/) 
James Lodge (http://www.jameslodge.co.uk/) 
and Finally Jim Millington (photography).  

Unraveled

p.s.  Just a quick mention on the quality of the print.  Unfortunately due to my lack of connections in the world this print was with university facilities and is therefore not amazing.  The design of my book would require a professional printing company (and apparently even they would find this a struggle... I'm a little proud of that lol).

Experimental Typography

After recently being inspired by Gary Nicholson (http://munchypotato.blogspot.com/) and his Experimental Typography projects I decided to hunt out some previous ones of my own.  Below is my 3D typeface entitled "AQT".  It's sculptural design means that each letter form can be viewed from any angle as an abstract piece but only from certain views is it legible. 

I intend to go back to my designs in the upcoming months and improve (not only the photos) but the final promotional poster.  If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve my design in any way please drop me a comment.  I'm personally considering playing with video recording or (it was suggested to me) incorporating architecture into the presentation.  Let me know what you think...

 A select few letters - Can you guess what they are?

Final Promotional Poster - The aim was to challenge the legibility of the letter forms by playing with close cropping and out of focus photography (probably the only time I've ever intended for a picture to be blurred).

Details of the quote from the poster

What Next Exhibition

 My most recently completed project was a quick brief set by my course leaders.  They presented our studio with the task of designing a poster for our end of year exhibition.  The brief was very open and with no restrictions.  The exhibition itself includes more than just the Graphic Design course and this was something we all had to bare in mind.

Unfortunatly I have to admit that the incredibly cool type face I'm using for the title of the exhibition is not one I designed myself.  I actually found it on Buro Destruct's type store http://www.typedifferent.com I recommend you all drop by their shop as some of their fonts (like the one I've used here) are completely free.

As well as designing the poster we had to create a mail-out/postcard to send of to specially selected invitees.  Underneath I have shown both the front and back to my design; the idea being that the lines from the type extend to create the background on the reverse side.

Our lecturers have yet to choose a finally design for the exhibition so fingers crossed my gets selected.  Either way these are only the screen mock ups.  When I get the chance I intend to print them off only some nicely selected paper and perhaps with a little spot varnishing and other fancy touches.  As soon as I do I'll post pics of them up for you all to see.

Please feel free to let me know what you think and if there are any weaknesses you feel I have missed and should amend before printing of some ace quality versions.