Faux Furs'days Poster - April

Poster design for next months Faux Furs'days events. I decided to go with a 'space' like theme, due to the Aires and the Onesies events, the later of which resembles a spacesuit in orange.

Dynamic Radio Advertising Booklet

A5 handout for Dynamic Radio to promote their advertising scheme.

Brickyard Poster - Mystery Jets

Final poster design for the Mystery Jets gig on 30th March at The Brickyard.

Faux Furs'days Poster - March

Poster design for Club Concrete's Faux furs'days March events.

The Twang

Although still in development, this is most probably my favourite poster design to date! I think some of the type needs to be sorted out still, but would like opinions on the composition etc?

Faux Furs'Days Janurary Draft Poster

Going with a new style for the new Faux Furs'days posters to keep them interesting and different, I would like opinions on the illustration, is everything right with the proportions, pose etc?

Brickyard Poster - Mad Manners Draft 1

A poster in development for the band Bad Manners. I wanted to try something a little different with the placement of the image this time, and by placing it upside down is appropriate for the band's ska style, and it draws the viewer in. I would like to hear peoples opinions on it before I send it off, I'm unsure about the placement of 'With Supporting Acts The User Friendly.'

Brickyard - Quireboys

I forgot to upload this poster, and the event has already been on, but here is my design for the Quireboys event at The Brickyard that was on the 25th November.

Faux New Year Poster

A rather rushed poster, which resulted in me designing with an xmas theme rather than new years theme, which set me back about an hour. However, I am very pleased with the outcome, I especially like the trees and the shading on the moon.

Power Nap Poster

I was given a completely free reign for this poster for the production 'Power Nap' which has a super hero theme. Seizing the opportunity, I decided to geek it up and design a poster with the comic book-esque panels, and went on a photo shoot with the actors.

Everything went well until it went for print, where the performing artists decided to ridicule me and slap a shitty comic book filter over the top of the poster and print it on pink sugar paper. Needless to say I was furious, but in the end it was all sorted out and they printed out decent quality posters.

Grillust (our course blog) commented on the issue in a rather humorous fashion: click here!

Ashdown High Poster

This is the poster for Ruth Stapleton's original production on the 25th October, in Stanwix Studio Theatre, I was asked to design it simple, yet eye catching, which I' think I've achieved pretty well!

Birthday Card - Dad 2011

My Dad loves cricket, and also plays in a local team, so I thought this would be ideal for him! I'm still not amazing at illustration but I feel I'm improving! I especially like how the sweater pattern stays vertical rather than flowing with the creases.

Slab Serif Typeface W.I.P.

I realised that my previous typeface lacked a little personality and that there are thousands of typefaces very similar to it, so I've given that one a break for a while to think what I can add to make it less similar to others. 

I've decided to take a shot at designing this slab serif which has more personality in it. The typeface is still in development, but so far, what do you guys reckon? Anything awful stick out?

It also needs a name, was thinking something along the lines of Versity, as the type has a very American University style feel to it. Other ones I've thought of are Segment or Regement?

Brickyard Poster - Rubakai

I have been given complete freedom with this poster, so I decided to use my own photo. I like the layout, but I can't help but feel that something is missing, maybe needs a little colour. The first poster is the original one, the second with red circles (which seem a little too overbearing) and the final contains subtle blue lines which is my personal favorite.

I haven't kerned the letters yet, but was wondering if there was anything major that I should change that you guys can spot?

[EDIT] Got the date wrong, my bad, it's actually on the 24th.

Quarantine Posters

I have been commissioned to design posters that will feature in a student film called 'Transmission.' The posters are to warn the public on how to survive the spreading infection within the film. This has definitely been my favorite work produced for a client, as I love post–apocalyptic, survival, zombie themed films and games, so it was very fun designing for!

Birthday Card - Ant 2011

I forgot to post the card I made for my friend Ant, as I was busy the following few days, but here it is! For those of you who play TF2 will know the character and the quote (which has been edited) and he is Ant's favorite class in the game.

[EDIT] 100th post! :D

Papercut Project W.I.P.

This is a work in progress, the brief is to create something interesting by only cutting into multi-coloured paper. I thought rather than just rip and cut at random, I would design something along the theme of the 2010 UK general elections (albeit a little late) I hope to cut into the paper to add pie charts and graphs (if I have enough room that is) and see what comes of it. So far though, I am very impressed! My skill with a knife has increased massively and the result is quite effective!

Birthday Card - James 2011

For James' card I wanted to experiment more with an illustrative style that I have been working on, with the use of lines and shapes to flow the eye around the illustration. I like the style and will continue to develop it further.

Birthday Card - Mum 2011

As my Mum loves Ballet (and used to do it) I thought she would appreciate a Ballet themed card. I illustrated the dancer from a photo, but while illustrating, I found that I really enjoyed it, so hopefully I can develop an illustrative style alongside my usual designs!

Help Japan Poster; Screen Printing

After reading Matt Cross' comment on the previous post, I decided to screen print the Help Japan poster onto an A1 piece of cartridge paper. I printed 10, some of which have been given out to friends, the others I will give to family members and keep some for my portfolio. I really enjoyed printing onto paper, and I would love to create more screen printed finals next year.