Friday, September 30

UNICEF - OWN A COLOUR

With the colour Grey, I just bought 400 bottles of water for African children.

www.ownacolour.com

Wednesday, September 28

ANYONE NOTICED...

...that the smaller letter in the Adobe Suite icons are always lower case apart from on InDesign and After Effects?

Tuesday, September 20

Monday, September 19

COREY HOLMS - THE BIRDS POSTER


Sometimes I don't need to write something to tell ypu how good a piece of work is when it speaks out for itself.

Friday, September 16

KYLE BEAN - POP UP DESIGN MUSEUM






www.kylebean.co.uk

TO ALL OF YOU STARTING YOUR FINAL YEAR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN AT UNI...

...a few kind words

EXPECT THE FOLLOWING:
ALL NIGHTERS
SCALPEL BLADE CUTS
CHEAP MEALS
LIVING OFF VENDING MACHINES
RELENTLESS ENERGY DRINK
CORRUPTED FILES
PROGRAMME CRASH
END PROCESS
MORE ALL NIGHTERS
CHAT ROULETTE
LOST MEMORY STICK
FORGOTTEN PASSWORD
NOT BEING ABLE TO LOG IN
PRINT CREDIT
FINDING IDEAS
TRAWLING THROUGH BEHANCE/FLICKR/BLOGS
HAVING NO TIME MANAGEMENT
COFFEE
YOUTUBE
HEADACHES
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITISISM
GETTING PUT IN YOUR PLACE
STARTING FROM SCRATCH
LAST DAY RUSH

I bet you can't fucking wait.

JACOB GILLBREATH - CONAN O'BRIEN KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY



I really like this style of videography, a camera moving over a page or composition of text in such a way, it's really great. This may not be the best example but It still looks really creative, the use of minimal colour and the subject is just a all round excellent package in my opinion.

I LOVE REMOTE DESKTOP

Thursday, September 15

JORDAN WALKER - STUDENT CREW LOGO EVOLUTION


This is the many stages I went through with one of my worst clients to make a logo for "NHC Student Crew" It was tough but I'm glad I went though all of that because the final result was well worth it.

Tuesday, September 13

JORDAN WALKER - KLAYPEX CAFEPRESS BRANDING



Oh yeah... ooops

I did this last week for up and coming dubstep duo Klaypex. This was basically a perfect opportunity to try out HTML and CSS.

Basically, designed the header and buttons and made everything functional.

I got into contact with Klaypex about 3 months ago after seeing this video:





Visual effects were done by Sam and Nico of CorridorDigital who have a massive subscriber base anyway and got this video a million views in no time. All music was done by Klaypex and was even said at the end of the video with a link to their personal webpage with all their current LP's music uploaded for free. not only that but they were advertising their free LP on their website as well which I downloaded straight away. I liked the music but saw that their marketing side was laking so I simply inboxed them asking if I could help. I thought that the message would be lost under the sea of "BRO SICK MUSIC BRO" messages so you can imagine how surprised I was when it said this:





Been talking to them for a while, got to speak to them both on skype. Really nice guys. A lot more work up in the mix so i'll keep you poster.

All this and i'm still working on London 2012 as well.

2011=Busy

www.klaypex.com
www.cafepress.com/klaypex

Monday, September 12

JASON LITTE - ONE DEGREE



I blogged about Jason Little almost a year ago now (Link here). I saw this piece of work a while back and thought it was very understated, alsmost too understated to post up here as inspiring but I came across it today and just thought the way he's presented his brand guidelines for his branding of the company One Degree was quaint. This idea of a plain CD being incorporated into a design on print has been stuck in my head since I first saw this a year and a half ago. It'll definitely be put to use by me at some point.

TRAVIS BROWN - LOGOFOLIO



Really nice logo design by Travis Brown. Often simplistic, vector images but can incorporate nice textures as seen at the top.

www.travisbrownstl.com

Thursday, September 8

JORDAN WALKER - LGBT TYPE POSTER



Custom font made up for an LGBT poster.

How to make a rainbow look cool and not cliché

Monday, September 5

PTARMAK - URSA MAJOR BRANDING







Austin based designer Ptarmak brand Vermont based mens skincare company Ursa Major. Really simple design that encapsulates the history behind Ursa Minor, a constellation.

"In Greek mythology, Zeus (the king of the gods) lusts after a young woman named Callisto, a nymph of Artemis. Hera, Zeus' jealous wife, transforms the beautiful Callisto into a bear. Callisto, while in bear form, later encounters her son Arcas. Arcas almost shoots the bear, but to avert the tragedy, Zeus hurls them both into the sky, forming Ursa Major."

Not your everyday soap story.

The book that they can sent out is traditionally bound which is rare these days but a really nice touch. The design holds the angles from the logo throughout the pages too. It's always nice to see thought behind typography.

www.ursamajormen.com
ptarmak.com

TONY KELLY - AMERICAN APPAREL ADVERT



Haha. Brilliant.