Photoshop Handsome by Everything Everything

This was Fearne Cotton's record of the week on radio 1 a few weeks ago and she's played it quite a bit ever since. At first I wasn't bothered by the song but its grown on me. She talked about how the 2010 version of the video for the track was created by several different animators who were given only a few seconds each to create something. If you watch the video its really interesting how so much creativity can be combined in such a fresh and down to earth approach.

Whats also interesting is the difference between the 2009 and 2010 versions of the video, check them both out below:

                                         

                                                                2010 version:

2009 version:

Recent Developments-posters

This is the first poster design for boho I did, its based on the idea of connectivity in the boho zone.

After a few developments of the above design, I took the idea to my lecturer who approved of the overal theme and idea but suggested I try and involve and show the content of the boho zone i.e. the creativity and digital media better. Therefore I have produced the design below, the connectivity element is still represented with the jigsaw which also has circuit board type qualities to it but i have also added the firework explosion to show the creativity side of the boho zone by representing bright ideas, thinking and excitement. The logo needs to be altered in colour slightly because it doesn't look right on black in that certain shade of lime green but other than that I'm happy with the overall concept of the design.    

Now I have my logo I can now start the second half of my brief which is to design a poster and animated web banner for the client. Going with the idea of connectivity I have decided to start on the poster idea looking at creating a jigsaw puzzle with the boho face on it. This will be just a first idea before I put tag lines and other info on the design. I may also have pieces of the jigsaw puzzle missing, quite like the idea of have the a piece with the word zone on it missing so it would be like putting the zone in a zone if that makes any sense. Another idea I may look at is using instructions to put something together, the boho face again maybe? Anyway here is the first jigsaw puzzle idea I've come up with:

Boho face developments

I really like the grey and lime green colour combination and so did my lecturer, however she was unsure on the lime green box around the Boho face and suggested I refined the logo slightly, she did however think the concept was great so that was a big confidence booster! Below I have experimented with different colours to see whether the logo design would look better in different swatches and still look effective in different formats. I have also refined the bottom of the "b" removing the sans serif and adjusted the top of the head curve so its more rounded, this I still feel, needs some more work but its getting there. Because my lecturer was unsure of the rectangle box around the logo I have decided to change the format to a square to see if this has any better aesthetic qualities and I also felt that having a rectangle was unnecessary because there was pointless spacing either side of the Boho face which didn't need to be there because it sits nicely in a square and still has negative spacing in two opposite corners. I don't yet know which one of the colour schemes and themes I'll proceed with but I'll as some opinions first before deciding, therefore any comments welcome!

  

Some fantastic 3D landscape pictures!

Make sure you check out http://miniaturestonelandscapes.weebly.com/ if your interested in looking at some great 3D pictures! John Illingworth basically extends the back of a photo frame and creates a mini drystone wall landscape infront of a photo.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

Pretty cool video!

Canon PIXMA Bring colour to life The making of video

This is a really interesting video, well worth a watch! For more info and some great stills check out http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/11774/dentsu-paint-sound-sculptures.html