Letter form

One of our first assignments of the term was to design our own letter form, At first I didn't like theoriginal outcome, but the final week of term was giving to us to revise our final pieces. Im now content with the piece..

Guess who's back?

Its been quite a while since my last post, but as the festive season drew in, with its parties and excitement, alcohol and presents.. I was busy completing assignments and writing essays, The life and times indeed. Now with the first term over and done with I now have the time to update this glorious blog.

As of this weekend I am back home, and will be for roughly a month, I intend on seeing family and friends as well as relaxing.. alot, Well deserved I think, Its been an extremely busy term.. And overall I came out with a pretty decent grade.. B-

Over the next few days I will begin to upload work, inspirations and other things of a similar nature
Peace x

Extraordinary Pigeons.. Yeah

in doing research for a visual metaphor exercise in the library my team mate made a superb find, a book entitled Extraordinary Pigeons. I was quickly distracted from the work as I began flicking through this crazy book, It was quite hard to keep the laughter down.. I didn't mind the tears though. Absolutely Epic.

I love it when you call me big figure..

This project is has easily been my favorite one yet. The brief was to create either a good or bad character using a visual metaphors on an usual scale of 3(w) x 9(h) A4 sheets. Has to be said that working at this scale was a pain in the.. neck, Photoshop took ages rendering any minor changes as well as saving.

We brainstormed out ideas for awhile before deciding to tackle the brief of using a bad person. You were allowed to eleborate and develop the idea of the person being bad in any way you felt nessercery. Me and my team thought a corporate boss was a nice starting point, we quickly developed the idea by stating that he made all his earnings from exploiting third world countries via sweatshops.

After 17 hours of slaving away on our design we finally finished and made our deadline. We got a really good response from our classmates and our especially our lecturers. Another job well done i'm thinking. Looking forward to the next brief!

Ohhh quick question..
..why the hell does a PSD have a size limit of 2GB? It makes absolutely no sense.. And I like how they know your file is over the limit when you tell it to save, but it attempts it for about 15 minutes then decides to tell you your file is to big and that you have to save it as a PSB? Nice one adobe!

Form, Function and Material..

Friday was the deadline for our project, an A3 poster which had to illustrate the form, function and material of an object. The object we were given was a tin can, not the most interesting of things agreed, but we thought that this was a positive because it would drive us to think harder and be more creative.

Me and my team mate (Matthew Weeks) are pretty happy with the outcome. It got a good response from our class mates as well as our lecturers. Job well done! Whats next?

Never judge a book by its cover..

Roughly a year and a half ago I realized that I didn't own many books on graphic design, In an attempt to increase my collection I logged on to amazon and bought a few books that looked interesting. A week or so later they arrived "Graphic design that works", " Graphic design cookbook" and "Graphic design as communication". The first two books were a good read, with alot of strong ideas and nice work, The third book (pictured above) was just page after page of text, not some that visually enticed me, needless to say I was never interested in it... Not until about a week ago when I was sorting through my books, making room for my new arrivals (still attempting to increase my collection) I picked it up and flicked through, hoping it had transformed into something of interest, suddenly my eye was caught by something familiar, A print of F.T marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb (1914) futurista poster. I became alot more interested in the book as the week before we had been shown this poster in one of my lectures, I began to realise the relevance of this book to my course, Flicking back to the contents page I read "(chapter) 6 Modernism, (chapter) 7 Postmodernism," which are huge aspects of my course.
So basicly.. I purchased this book based on the cover, Id say a job well done to the designer, But then I was disappointed with the content. Now a year later its going to be tremendously benificial. Never judge a book by its cover.. ?

Fabien Barral

This is a small selection of work from one of my favorite designers Fabien Barral. I love the style of his work, I find it very inspirational.

Paul Arden

A few weeks ago I bought 'It's not how good you are, It's how good you want to be.' by Paul Arden, Just reading the book builds you up, gives you an extra sense of drive and power. Straight away I began looking for more of his books and came across 'God explained in a taxi ride' and 'Whatever you think, Think the opposite.' After eagerly awaiting their delivery, I now officially own them. I cant wait til I get the chance to sit down and read them properly.

Reading List

1. Whatever you think, Think the opposite
   
2. A smile in the mind
3. God explained in a taxi ride
4. How to have creative ideas

One of the best books I have purchased

The art of looking sideways - Alan Fletcher

I recommend anyone who's into graphic design to buy this book. I did so at the recommendation of Ben Terret. Its a book about everything.. Colour, Creativity, Aesthetics, Paradox Etc. I can spend absolutely hours reading this book

One small step for man..

One ginormous leap for Jay Price.. His first blog. I took a long time to get around to publishing my online account of thoughts, feelings, inspiration and work. Let it begin..