TOO TRUE

View the whole thing here. It really does hit a few spots.

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STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs dies aged 56. Going to be missed.

I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely. 

- Bill Gates

On a personal note, I hope to god people don't mourn him just because he's the creator of such symbolic items in peoples lives [iPod, iPhone, iPad] and that they actually mourns him for his achievements and his status as one of, if not the best inventer of the 21st century.

1955-2011

UNICEF - OWN A COLOUR

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

www.ownacolour.com

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.

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

EVOLUTION OF "DOCUMENT" ICON SHAPE

Design has a lovely habit of coming full circle. You'll see that a lot 2011 as every designer ever runs out of ideas.

QR CODES

I'm prophesisng this shit man. This blog isn't just my open bookmark folder anymore. This is the trend setter. This shit should be bookmarked on every damn mac the moment someone installs an adobe product. I say what's going on. I'm not behind any more. i'm level pegging with the innovators. I am the innovator.

QR codes are going to be huge due to smart phones profits soaring so everyone has the ability to read these now. If you cant read these, you don't deserve to. I'm going to start posting QR codes to sneaky shots of my work. Above is no exception.

ROOM PAINT

Repainted my room from this horrible blue i've had for about 10 years that I eye dropped from an argos catalog in 2000 when Do It All was repping their colour sensor machine. I think I can blame my blue room for my gargantuan hate of colour. The room is now black and white with two large 45 degree divides on each end wall. The picture is what I took on my iPhone about 5 seconds after moving back my desk and collapsing on my bed. My arms will never roll rollers again... untill I get sick of Black and White... or move out... I haven't set myself up well have I.

CIRCLE TO HEXAGON

So you know how all these new indie companys of 2010 started using heaps of concentric circles, primarily placing their mono-tone logo inside a circle? Well with the turn of a new year, the circle has been replaced by the Hexagon. Seriously. I'm seeing this everywhere. I used hexagons on a piece of work a month ago (pictures to follow) thinking it would be a new idea just for me to go through my daily rounds of design blogs a week later and they're everywhere. Be warned.

FONT 2010 & FONT 2011

I thought it'd be a nice idea if I said which font I found myself looking at and using a lot in each year so I came up with this FONT award thing I guess.

Steelfish - 2010
Last year was massive for tall slim fonts, I found refuge in Steelfish which I believe is a rip off of the Pittsburgh Steelers typeface, if not it's very similar. I'm not usually a fan of font copys but as this wasn't so evident, I used it in a lot of logo work.

Dekar - 2011
I found this after getting into Behance and finding myself in need of a nice, clean body text typeface. I like how angled the font is and also the fact that it can even be used in a logo or as sub heading type. It's a perfect all-rounder.

Download both fonts here:
Steelfish
Dekar

JORDAN-WALKER.CO.UK

SITE'S UP - CHECK IT OUT

www.jordan-walker.co.uk

North Herts College Internship

I'm working for North Hertfordshire College at the Goldsmith Centre for Business in Letchworth at the moment on a temp contract helping out with their workload. The place is great, there's no boundaries to design with them. No interview either. They went by a recommendation of a friend of mine. Shocking.

Starbucks Rebrand 2011

Oh holy shit. They're ruining everything.... get over it. This brand identity is a really good, clean and modern turn for 2011 which I hope is a trend setter unlike some other things... I posted late in 2010 about the work of ANTREPO and how his self initiated work of simplifying well known brands was pretty much the best piece of work I had seen that year. Well looks like it could take off. I really want to see more brands that simplify their logos. Not just well established brands but maybe new comers too just having nice, simple, clean logos.

Also... who knows? (Small LOL here)

Jordan Walker - Jacob Bailey Furniture Poster

The place i'm interning at is moving to a smaller office in Zetland House, Shoreditch. The place we're in at the moment, The Tea Building has a huge office space. Like seriously big so back when Jacob Bailey moved into here they thought it'd be cool to buy sofas and bean bag chairs which, to be honest is pretty awesome but the Zetland House office is pretty much half the size so we had to shift the old furniture. I got asked to make the poster and for once I actually got completely free reign with design which I was glad with and this is the out come. Shamefully it's not hand drawn outlines but a bit of pen work in illustrator... shame that.

Two Thousand and Eleven

New Year. Let's do this. Ermm resolutions. My new years resolution is to take better care of my teeth because the night before 2011 I had a dream my teeth were falling out so I got freaked out and bought floss and shit. As for my design resolution. more illustrated hand drawn stuff would be stella. Oh and more use of 3D, I'm talking old school blue and red here, not your James Camereron blockbuster. My christmas was great got a lot of good stuff and New Years from what I can remember was pretty good. Nothing like forcing a cab driver to bypass from the route home and go into the McDonalds drive through. Shame the fare wasn't paid in Egg McMuffins. 2010 was a good year. Nothing Great, nothing special. Lets just get on with things.

Oh as for news. I'm making a website. Will come out late February probably. Also how's the new blog theme?

NO SPOILERS BUT...

...guess who got in the annual Christmas eCard video for Jacob Bailey this year.
BIG HINT. It might be who you- ah fuck the picture's above anyway.

Brit Awards Rebrand

This is the new logo and award for the Brit Awards coming up in 2011. I've got to say I like he sleek new award and applying it typographically to the logo is indeed clever. In contrast, I've seen so many people using serifed classic fonts in typographic exercise so this idea isn't new but just conformist.

www.designbymusic.com

Jacon Bailey Intership

I'm currently working at London/Ipswich based designers Jacob Bailey. It's a small agency based in Shoreditch. I had the interview on the Friday and thankfully they liked my work so much they wanted me to start as soon as possible. I've already been thrown into some work but am sworn to secrecy so I can only post my work up when it's been release... or when I leave. Top people here. Hopefully more about this will follow.

www.jacobbailey.com

Graduation Round: 2

2010

2009

So I graduated yesterday... for the second time.
Can't have too many graduations can you?