What is 'GOOD' Brief..

I'm currently doing a new project at the moment entitled 'What is good?' for which I have to chose a subject which can be personal or literally anything that I perceive to be 'good.' This was quite a challenge as I could come up with 101 things that I thought were good and yet I kept coming back to one thing - the pub. However I have chosen Alto saxophones. As I play the Alto sax and personally find them well good ;) I'm currently researching them and trying to find out as much as possible about them for Thursdays crit, which I am not looking forward to...

Poster designs...

My friend Alex has just started his own radio show with a mate, Louis and asked me if I would design the shows poster for them to go on the radio website and to put up around Leeds College of Music.
The show is called 'THE SOUL SOLUTION' on www.LSRFM.com (Leeds Student Radio) and is on every Tuesday 11pm-1am.
You can listen live by going on the above website and then clicking on the 'listen live' icon on the top right hand side.
They also have their own facebook group:
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29454936475&ref=mf
They play a mixture of funky grooves, soulful vibes, hip-hop and the latest news from the Leeds music scene. Check them out!

Here are the final poster designs... I hope you enjoy!

Books books books..

Bought a couple of new books yesterday. Dead proud of myself. Had 20% off all books in Borders. Amazing. I got 'Latin American Graphic Design' by Taschen and another on vectored images all of musical instruments. I'll post the name of the 2nd later. I definately recommend! I came across a graphic designer that I found very inspirational in The Latin American one called MASA.
www.masa.com.ve
Check it out.

Jack Wills clothing..

I posted this video for the beginning of it really however its quite short...but I love the way the illustration at the beginning is encorperated into the video and animation. I've been trying to find out who it is that does the illustration for the Jack Wills seasonal catalogues but havent been able to yet. It's really bugging me because i really like them! Here's the link to their website, which features a lot of it on there.

http://www.jackwills.com/Default.aspx

Things to do..

Back into the swing of things.. good or bad??
Either way I'm being given briefs left right and centre. Started a new module in 2nd year called 'Enterprize and Innovation,' this being the business side of it all, time and finance management. What to look out for in invoicing and sending statements etc.
For which we need to give a presentation on around Christmas.
The next is our on going PPD, for which we need to prepare a presentation for later in the year and develop our print side of our portfolios. Later I'll have to start developing a digital one too. Fun.
I have also returned to 2nd year Critical studies which I don't enjoy. At the moment I am looking to find an academic write for which I can write a critical and analytic response to for our essay. That'll be great..
And for the rest of the course I've also got my other on going core modules such as the 'Colour4print' brief and a new one 'What is good?' for which I need to research into something I perceive to be good. Im still slightly unsure about what I'm going to do but have a sneaky feeling it might be music inspired!
So yeah other than that I just need to keep going with this blog malarky and keep my eyes peeled for placements.

Busy Busy!!

Don't Panic competition..

This week i was set a one day brief, to design a poster for the 'Don't Panic' pack using the word 'machine' as my theme. I decided that I wanted to try and do something in an illustrative style. A style more like the type that I am interested in myself and inspired by. I came up with a couple of final designs and had difficulty chosing which one to enter. I chose the cogs pattern in the end, however still liked my juke box idea. The juke box idea came about by trying to think of machinery that played music as i wanted to encorperate music into it somehow as that is a big inspiration of mine. I chose the juke box just to be different and have the slightly retro feel that would contrast with the vibrant CMYK colours. I chose to do the CMYK colours to keep it simple and limit my pallet. It made it easier for me to use them and also was inkeeping with my other current project, 'Colour4print.' Here is my final design..
Cant seem to get the juke box one to upload now so will try again tomorrow, but for the mean time - enjoy :)



I stumbled across some problems with printing my final design however, this being that you cant print out the 'over print' effect on a 4 colour CMYK printer. Something I hadn't taken into consideration when i produced it. I thought I was being successful in working with a limited colour pallet and experimenting with effects in the CMYK mode only to find that the effect would only show up in RGB on screen. Oh well. All part of the learning process!

PS VOTE FOR ME! x

TV ads...

I've seen a few tv ads recently that I really like and have found really interesting. Here are a few of them which I have found on YouTube..
This first one is from The Carphone Warehouse which I stumbled across at the weekened while my mum was watching XFactor! It's the advert that comes on at the beginning and end of every break to say that they are sponsors of the show. I like the way in which the illustration is manipulated and transformed into animation..



I also quite like this guinness ad thats on at the moment which features the music machine..



And finally an old ad which I saw again the other day. It completely fascinates me as to how someone could have thought to produce something like it and how they did it. It is made by the brilliance of SONY which advertises the Sony Bravia LCD tv. I also found it quite fitting to what I am currently looking at now at college - Colour..