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2011-05-30T21:07:00.000+01:00

Knack Exhibition

2010-04-26T13:40:00.003+01:00

The posters are up for our 3rd year graphics exhibition at Tayburn next week. Well done Andy lad!

D&AD awards

2010-04-26T10:44:00.003+01:00

On Wednesday, I headed down to the Kensington Olympia Exhibition Centre, for the D&AD Awards, as a student rep. It was a really interesting opportunity put forward by D&AD to students, to be able to have a look behind the scenes of the judging process. I was allowed to sit in on the sessions whilst judges examine real projects from industry in to various categories. Unfortunately any student reps were politely asked to move well out of the way from the area that the student work judging was taking place.

I was shadowing the Music Videos jury, made up of Sasha Nixon, Tim Nash, Dawn Shadforth, Richard Kenworthy, and Corin Hardy. All the music videos were in different categories depending on which one best reflected why it was there: simply as a music video in general, or for editing, cinematography, special effects or animation – and loads were entered into more than one. Judges voted using aps on iPod Touch’s that were handed out, so all the information could be logged digitally – the second year of doing it like this; last year they used a Nintendo DS each. This was a bit of a faff and caused a few problems when we were waiting for results to be printed off at the other end of the building. A good old pencil and paper would have been much quicker. The jury could vote Yes, No or Abstain – if it was their work we were looking at, which happened a few times, as most people there were successful directors. The videos were entered by the agencies that the jurors worked for rather on those projects. Corin Hardy in particular had a couple of videos that he could not even mention when they popped up – Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing (posted back in november), Paolo Nutini’s Pencil full of lead and the Prodigy’s Warrior's Dance.

There are 3 stages in the judging process; the first round, called ‘in-book’, where all the rubbish is turned away and a shortlist is decided on that will make it into the D&AD Annual. Then a new list of work that is nominated for a yellow pencil is made up from the in-book list, chosen by majority vote of the jury. The final stage of judging is each juror casting a single vote for the nominated piece of work that they think most rightly deserves a yellow pencil, if any.

It was a long time to sit and watch videos back to back (over 40 before lunch, just to decide what made it in-book), and went on from 9ish until after half 6, breaking just a couple of times in between. Although, it was great to be able to chat to such top professionals about the work they do and what they were looking for in the entries, and see lots of great work that I hadn’t seen before.

By half 6, the music video results looked like this.

Andrew Zuckerman

2010-03-04T01:46:00.002Z

calenders

2009-11-23T16:17:00.005Z

New compotition brief - create a calender for the National Business Calender Awards. So i've found some inspiring existing calendars from various designers:

Serhiy Chebotaryov - magnets

Yurko Gutsulyak - matches

Sven Ellingen - hours of sunlight

www.sostav.ua - post-its

www.sostav.ua(2) - scratch away

Jonas Kamber - wooden hinged

Qaaim Goodwin - single-sided poster

Kostya Martsenkivsky - cut-through

Foreign Policy - world map poster

Alone-zino - single sided poster

Carlos Coelho - single sided poster

Sharad Haksar - numbers in objects (not really a calendar but still nice concept)

Kyra Odi - moon calender

Anastasia Gerali - conections

Stas Aki - napkins

Natalia Rak - single sided poster

(most of the above via behance network)

this is studio

2009-11-21T23:29:00.002Z

"We were invited to exhibit at the Dazed and Confused Gallery, as part of a show to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dr Duncan MacDougall’s infamous experiment: He claimed to have found that the human soul weighs 21 grams. We created a series of offset litho prints accounting the various reactions and triggers to 21 grams of forgotten matter: the inherent soul of our studio floor."

this is studio

strawberry swing

2009-11-16T19:59:00.003Z

An amazing animation video from shynola for coldplay's strawberry swing.

sorry i'm late

2009-11-16T19:48:00.003Z

A really nice stop-motion animation from Tomas Mankovsky, watch it here.

Great animated type!

2009-11-11T15:43:00.001Z

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

More motion typography

2009-11-11T14:40:00.002Z

"EGO" by sebastian bap (sebastianbap.com)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHBSVhjufFo

"Dirty Harry typographic movie poster" by Robert Keukelaar

http://www.typographyserved.com/Gallery/Dirty-Harry-typographic-movie-poster/326306

"Nick the Greek" (from snatch)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mnvvVi4HaI

Inspirational 3D Type

2009-11-11T14:32:00.004Z

Typographic animation

2009-11-11T14:06:00.002Z

"The Child" (New York, New York) by Alex Gopher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGWkdNWFZiI

"Tipografia" for CourtTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbwXnFbCTDA

Pangrams

2009-11-10T21:29:00.002Z

Our next set brief is all about pangrams. No quick foxes though -

i'm looking for boxing wizards or big japanese devils.

'Embedded Thoughts' screenprint

2009-06-07T14:59:00.003+01:00

Idea for my poster reflecting 'embedded thoughts'. I went to Beijing last summer, and havn't stopped thinking or talking about it since. Although i spent 2 weeks there and saw so much, the majority of the memories are based on the photographs i took, so i'm gonna make a photocollage screenprint.

new favourite website

2009-05-27T15:58:00.004+01:00

brilliant! type in anything and the sampled individual lyrics will be sung back to you! best way to waste hours through the day!

http://www.sr.se/p1/Src/sing/

Final Cut project

2009-05-22T23:40:00.004+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REV4H47tbG8

Titles created for a short film surrounding this years eca fashion show, complete with unauthorised use of Foals' "Balloons".

2009-05-19T23:19:00.002+01:00

I woke up with a loved one's eyes upon me

Loved one's arms around me

Oh...She's my one and only

Thanks for such a great week!

ball point pens and photorealism!

2009-05-08T19:18:00.003+01:00

The work of Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas. Juan was formerly a traditional painter, and began the drawings three years ago based on photographs of nights out with his friends. Amazing!

Don't try this at home...

2009-05-07T18:44:00.002+01:00

This is what happens when you don't back up your work properly and have to stay in the studio until it is finished! 1:44am = Bad times!

Thats the spirit!

2009-05-06T12:03:00.001+01:00

http://www.doihaveswineflu.org/

The Maccabees - No kind words

2009-04-27T22:54:00.004+01:00

Great video - just can't wait until friday now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhmKNBBp3OU

Danny MacAskill = Essential viewing!

2009-04-26T09:10:00.001+01:00

If you havn't already heard of Danny MacAskill, you simply have to watch this stunning footage shot around Edinburgh. It is just amasing! Enough said...

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z19zFlPah-o&feature=related

Here comes the sun!

2009-04-25T09:02:00.000+01:00

These are a few shots taken on the meadows last weekend, whilst lying on the grass and anticipating the summer.

1 day project

2009-04-24T20:09:00.003+01:00

1 day colour project to create an image dipicting yellow, by using purple. This was the solution; taking the usual yellow "Caution - slippery when wet" warning sign, and creating a purple one that conveys the opposite message, refering to purple being the opposing/complimenting colour to yellow. Where yellow says 'caution', purple says 'take it easy'.

A1 Screenprint

No safety net...

2009-04-22T10:00:00.001+01:00

I came across this great photograph in 'The Stage' recently. It's of students rehersing at a London theatre school (John Vickers, 1948)

Image + Sound = Very Effective!

2009-04-20T16:45:00.005+01:00

Great ad campaign for Sound production company 'Saxsofunny', featuring printed media that create the sounds of the images printed on them.

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePsC-HvvHxM

I salute you sir!

2009-04-20T01:29:00.001+01:00

Art Blakey, one of the greatest Jazz drummers of all time. Famous for his increadable skill and loud wailing whilst he was playing! I only have one of his albums with the Jazz Messengers, A Night in Tunisia from 1960, but i've heard a lot more. Massive inspiration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjRoTh0ktU&feature=related

Keane Cover Art

2009-04-19T10:20:00.001+01:00

Keane have had some really nice cover art over the years. Each album cover is really different from the next, seemingly never maintaining one set style, but always having something really attractive about each one.

2009-04-18T19:30:00.002+01:00

I can't wait for south east asia, and it's elephants!

Meadow Lane

2009-04-18T15:23:00.005+01:00

These are some initial images surrounding an investivation into type on a given Edinburgh street. My Street is Meadow Lane: a quite backstreet, mostly housing garages and lock-ups. It seems to be a graffiti hot spot, which makes up the majority of the type along the lane.

A blast from the past

2009-04-17T10:45:00.001+01:00

I went snowboarding over easter, and when i was digging my stuff out to pack, i found these vintage gems in the attic, and had to rescue them! Beautifully modeled by me and my sister - the coolest person i know!

Ali Baba

2009-04-15T18:01:00.005+01:00

Really nice old print. Cover Design for "The Fourty Theives" (Aubrey Beardsly, 1897)

Lonely Planet Guidebook

2009-04-15T11:04:00.002+01:00

This morning i booked flights out to Bangkok in the summer, for a five-week tour of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. This book is now my Bible!

Berlioz Poster

2009-04-15T09:28:00.009+01:00

Poster design advertising a series of lecture talks on Louis Hector Berlioz.

When thinking about the design, i was considering the way in which the poster would be positioned and seen by it audience. This idea of the poster only really making sense when it is pasted up in multiples side-by-side, was inspired by the way that fly posting often involves many identical posters taking over an entire strech of wall. Although, the design also refers to Berlioz himself, as he was a pioneer in utilizing large scale orchestras (over 1000 musicians). The large number of posters used to display the event reflects the way in which Berlioz used a large number of musicians to perform his music.

Pyramids cover art

2009-03-06T19:53:00.003Z

nice cover for pyramids' 2008 self-titled album

1000 frames of Hitchcock

2009-02-08T17:47:00.007Z

Hitchcock is one of my most favourite directors so this is a real treat! "1000 Frames of Hitchcock" is a project by Dave Pattern, found on 'Hitchcockwiki', attempting to reduce each of the 52 available major Hitchcock films down to just 1000 frames. The aim of the project is to create a library of images which can be used to illustrate blog posts, web articles and reviews, etc. The storyboard-like result for each film is beautiful and really visually interesting to look at.

(Sample of 'North By Northwest' frame collection)

Dave has also created a an average-colour band with 'ImageMagick' to represent each of the 1000 frames of 'North By Northwest'

Hip Hop Violin

2009-02-08T16:35:00.004Z

This is turning into a bit like a best of youtube - sorry about that - but this video is more than worth it. Wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM

I love Mashups!

2009-02-08T15:56:00.006Z

Following up the post about my epic discovery of JAYDIOHEAD, i was recently shown this beauty by a friend, increadable fit!

Bloc Party vs Chris Brown vs Katy Perry vs Tpain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InY2w1KCawY

There's so many corkers on sites like youtube, you just have to find them. Here's a couple more good'uns.

Jay-Z Vs Oasis - 99 Supersonic Problems

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzXghdM1aKs

The Beatles Eleanor Rigby Reggae Mash Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEi9XScj1mc

Cage the Elephant

2009-01-18T18:37:00.001Z

Bought the album yesterday after hearing a snippet of Cage the Elephant, and it's pure gold!

Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked

Money don't grow on trees

I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed

There ain't nothing in this world for free

I know I can't slow down, I can't hold back

Though you know, I wish I could

No there ain't no rest for the wicked

Until we close our eyes for good

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f5kbBxv9XPo

Mike Perry

2009-01-17T02:13:00.001Z

Mike Perry is an Illustration-based creative genious. This is one of his type experiments...with bikinis. Nice work! http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/

2009-01-12T01:33:00.002Z

I've been thinking about typography alot recently because of current projects, and i remembered some photographs that i took last summer in Bejing of type being used in public places .

Jay Z vs. Radiohead album

2009-01-10T13:08:00.001Z

One of the best things i've heard in a while - Jaydiohead, from Minty Fresh Beats.

Stream it for free at http://www.jaydiohead.com/imeem.php

more found type

2009-01-07T18:17:00.001Z

2009-01-06T17:05:00.001Z

2009-01-05T20:38:00.001Z

I got this M&S box with a christmas present, and liked it so much i kept it!

2009-01-05T18:50:00.002Z

Too true! Two colour screenprint.

nice shop front

2009-01-05T18:40:00.001Z

Found in Leeds. Does what is says, very nicely, on the tin.

birthday invite

2009-01-05T18:27:00.001Z

This was for a family birthday party in November.

We hired a great tribute band that covered The Jam.

Very good night!

sitting and watching

2009-01-05T18:00:00.001Z

I’ve travelled far in foreign lands
And noted what I’ve seen
But ne’er fell in wi’ views sae grand
As lately met my een.

~ Auld Caledonia's Queen