The Light Surgeons

Video made by The Light Surgeons. Its called "In Passing" and is about a woman in Manchester who is partially sited and she narrates her story and how she manages to get around the city. I think the group have approached the project in the best way using the actual woman's voice to get the message across in a really effective way. The digital/motion illustrations are a really nice touch and these are complemented by the text that reads out what she is saying. This I suppose makes the video subtable to the deaf also. Another quality that the video has is the lighting is really well used.

Theres also some other great graphic design by them on their website http://www.lightsurgeons.com/

Anne Wilson

I've been trawling through a list of about 50 different artists, illustrators and designers to try and get inspiration for my latest project, urban. Anne Wilson's work has sent a chain of ideas flooding through my head about how I can create abstract busy images to represent the hustle and bussle of the city. Her website is http://www.annewilsonartist.com/

Geoff McFetridge

This is the work of Geoff McFetridge. It's similar to to the kind of work I want to achieve in one of my little projects I've set myself for the professional studies modules. The project is about faces, so I'm going to montage a load of drawn out faces together to create one big image.

Film Unit AV video

My latest project is on the theme Urban. I'm just starting by looking at artists and designers that do work on the same kind of material/topic to get inspiration. This video was shown on Channel 4's "One dot TV" in 1998. It features Film Unit AV and an urban based project which looks quite interesting an I could imagine some of the stills of the video would work quite nicely.

Jason Munn

Jason Munn produces great and witty poster designs usually incorporating more than one theme in one image. The following poster is a good example where he combined a paint brush, bucket and a guitar.

you can see more of his work @ ... http://www.thesmallstakes.com/index.php 

I think another interesting quality in his work is that he likes to use print making techniques. This comes from him having a degree in fine art rather than design.

Ken Reynolds

I came across this designer/illustrator simply by chance and I'm really glad I did. I've just checked out his website http://kenreynoldsdesign.co.uk/ and I got a really positive and creative vibe from it. His portfolio on there isn't huge but its all quality and he shows some really good ideas. I think more appropriately is that  the graphic design work he shows on there is the style I'd like to be producing myself when I get out there in industry.

 
This is one of the images he did for ipscreen and I think its really clear and has a good idea behind it. The other work he did for this company is really good to!

A SMILE IN THE MIND

I got this book for my Birthday last week and its brilliant! Full of witty ideas in design and includes a couple of example by Abram Games who I've covered in the past on this blog.

by Beryl McAlhone and David Stuart published by Phaidon

Final poster design

Pretty similar to the last development except I've set the tagline so that its level with the bottom of the "R" at the end of the "four" that comes down. This just makes the poster easier to read, follow and brings the eye down to the additional text below.

Although this advert was aired to viewers over two years ago I had to include it on the blog as I think its a really good comercial. It may seem like a crazy idea which would never exist but thats why its such a success because its different and catches the audiences attention. Barclays are a bank and by portraying their products as a fun way of life it works as a very good marketing tool. The advert has even inspired an app for the iphone/ipod touch which is based on the waterslide advert.

This is the latest advert by Virgin Atlantic. I think they've done it really well, portraying themselves as a sexy, stylish airline and a place to be.

This is the latest development to the road to nowhere poster. I've changed the logo to the rectangular film 4 logo as it fits better within my design and the tutor prefers this one for this brief. I've chosen to have the "four" vertical so it leads down to the text to the right. With this I've also added some hierarchy to the different sections of text with different shades of grey and point size.  

poster developments

I got rid of the movie board as it complicated the design giving two concepts almost. Therefore I decided to focus on the cross word and I decided to use a grey colour instead of a traditional crossword black to make it look more contemporary. However, in my tutorial the tutor said it needed more of an impact and that I should maybe take some of the contact details etc out of the crossword and use the traditional black. So its back to the drawing board and I'll try again.   

This is my latest design for the film genre event. The clues on the right hand side are not the ones I will use but this gives an idea of layout. As far as composition goes I believe this design is far better in terms of proportions and placement. The black is bold, eye catching and striking so will attract attention from further away better. My next step is to maybe make the crossword fit directly above the text and have the poster in a elongated format. 

Road to nowhere

This is a poster design brief I'm currently working on where I've got to come up with a design for the road movie film genre. The poster must promote a festival sponsored by filmfour which is based around that genre. The concept behind my design is fulfilment/destiny.