Thursday, 31 March 2011
McBess
McBess, is in his own words, an expensive illustrator and director. He can't be too expensive because his work is popping up all over the shop at the moment. Cast your peepers upon these videos for long term collaborators, The Dead Pirates (he's in the band, talented eh?). Carefull though, there's some swears and nudeness rudeness in there.
IllustrationMundo
For all you illustrators out there wanting to get your work, erm, out there, you could do a lot worse than create an illustrationmundo account. They currently play host to some rather tasty contemporary illustration. Iit's just one more way of getting eyes on your work and that's got to be a good thing. Click on the logo above to be whisked away...
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Sol Linero
Oceans from Sol Linero on Vimeo.
Each Campaign from Sol Linero on Vimeo.
Sol Linero's site shows her retro illustrations stylings off to a tee as well as showcasing some rather nice animation.
Fionn Jordan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
What the ukulele is to Whitehaven, so is the mighty Hurdy Gurdy to Barrow-in-Furness (and surrounding villages).
Too complicated to contemplate, the mighty Hurdy Gurdy... This one was made by Barrow resident Phillipe Mousnier
Although born in France, Phillipe Mousnier has been embraced by the people of Barrow and is known locally as 'Hurdy Phil'
Fionn's Barrow Hurdy Gurdy in all its Viking splendour
The beast on its back... The electric socket is used for charging small electrical items during play
This loud and quite frightening instrument first came to this remote (and formally quiet) part of Cumbria with Viking rading parties in the ninth century. The Vikings eventually stayed and so too did the profession of Hurdy Gurdy Crafter. The proud tradition continues to this day with Barrow being known around the globe for both its world-class nuclear submarines and also for the manufacture of world-beating Hurdy Gurdys!
A larger, sea-going Hurdy Gurdy photographed in Barrow dock yesterday
First year illustration student Fionn Jordan (21) was immersed in all things Hurdy Gurdy from an early age (he's from nearby Flookburgh) and kindly offered to show us his Hurdy Gurdy. As you will appreciate this is an offer we just couldn't resist so, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls we proudly present...
Fionn Jordan - Hurdy Gurdy Man.
Too complicated to contemplate, the mighty Hurdy Gurdy... This one was made by Barrow resident Phillipe Mousnier
Although born in France, Phillipe Mousnier has been embraced by the people of Barrow and is known locally as 'Hurdy Phil'
Fionn's Barrow Hurdy Gurdy in all its Viking splendour
The beast on its back... The electric socket is used for charging small electrical items during play
This loud and quite frightening instrument first came to this remote (and formally quiet) part of Cumbria with Viking rading parties in the ninth century. The Vikings eventually stayed and so too did the profession of Hurdy Gurdy Crafter. The proud tradition continues to this day with Barrow being known around the globe for both its world-class nuclear submarines and also for the manufacture of world-beating Hurdy Gurdys!
A larger, sea-going Hurdy Gurdy photographed in Barrow dock yesterday
First year illustration student Fionn Jordan (21) was immersed in all things Hurdy Gurdy from an early age (he's from nearby Flookburgh) and kindly offered to show us his Hurdy Gurdy. As you will appreciate this is an offer we just couldn't resist so, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls we proudly present...
Fionn Jordan - Hurdy Gurdy Man.
Strangest Thing of the Week #6
Behold this week's strangest thing moves and has music!
It is brought to you by Year 1 Illustration student Robert Marshall and was 'created' in response to a moving image brief that asked the students to use typography to tell a short story. In this case the subject was a journey from 'Restrained to Free'.If anyone understands the meaning/significance of any aspect of this piece please, PLEASE contact us at the usual address!
It is brought to you by Year 1 Illustration student Robert Marshall and was 'created' in response to a moving image brief that asked the students to use typography to tell a short story. In this case the subject was a journey from 'Restrained to Free'.If anyone understands the meaning/significance of any aspect of this piece please, PLEASE contact us at the usual address!
Monday, 28 March 2011
Year 1 - Product Names Project
The first year students have been exploring the power and use of language as a central element of effective visual communication. One project asked them to come up with brand names and visual identities for a range of products new to the market. The list included:
Louise Mothersdale & Lauren Griffin - Cuboid Eggs
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Breakfast Cereal made from Coal
Yvette Earl & Ben Walton - Breakfast Cereal made from Coal
Ieva Bureikaite & Kerry Heaney - Sarcastic Sat-navs
Ben Jackson & John Rutland - Cuboid Eggs
Louise Mothersdale & Lauren Griffin - Portable Anvils
Ben Jackson & John Rutland - Mirrors that Make You Look Thin
Ieva Bureikaite & Kerry Heaney - Self-cleaning Dustbins
Jade Wall & Stephanie Stilwell - Bras for Men
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Radioactive Hair Dye
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Radioactive Hair Dye
- new antique furniture
- wooden mattresses
- thermal Y-fronts
- wool burning stoves
- mirrors that make you look thin
- fizzy yoghurt
Louise Mothersdale & Lauren Griffin - Cuboid Eggs
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Breakfast Cereal made from Coal
Yvette Earl & Ben Walton - Breakfast Cereal made from Coal
Ieva Bureikaite & Kerry Heaney - Sarcastic Sat-navs
Ben Jackson & John Rutland - Cuboid Eggs
Louise Mothersdale & Lauren Griffin - Portable Anvils
Ben Jackson & John Rutland - Mirrors that Make You Look Thin
Ieva Bureikaite & Kerry Heaney - Self-cleaning Dustbins
Jade Wall & Stephanie Stilwell - Bras for Men
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Radioactive Hair Dye
Fionn Jordan & Matthew Swales - Radioactive Hair Dye
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Listen to Paula...
Paula Scher is a great designer and a Pentagram partner.
We think it's important that every aspiring designer and illustrator should listen to what she says...
We think it's important that every aspiring designer and illustrator should listen to what she says...
Carlo Giovani
Carlo Giovani is a highly versatile young Brazilian illustrator, designer, paper engineer and animator with a refreshingly analogue approach to visual communication. Please be aware that some of the work on his site contains imagery of an adult nature.
Monday, 21 March 2011
Howie's Hair
Tonsorially ambitious Year 2 Graphic Design student James Howie (21) has featured on this blog before... He has also been mooted as a possible contender for studio hair domination. Until today we hadn't quite appreciated James' true potential as he tended to hide his light under a bushel or, in his case, his locks under a woolly hat. Today that all changed as a very impressive mohican was unleashed on an unsuspecting audience.
However, before we get carried away in heaping to much praise on James' attempt to achieve vertical immortality the question must be posed - on the grand scale, just how high is James Howie's hair?
Here's the answer.
As can be clearly seen James' effort 'whoops' a typical cockerel and old school punk. However he still lags behind both Martin Degville from out of the band Sigue Sigue Sputnik and a typical 'new' old school punk...
Still some way to go then, but at least he is making the effort and it has to be said, this is a very impressive start.
Logo Land
The Second Years have recently completed their first corporate identity project. They were given a list of very different businesses, ranging from a space agency to a shoe shop, and asked to generate ideas for four of them. These are some of the most successful examples.
Louise Hubbard (21)
Petra Blahova (21) - The Riverside Trust
Lee Freeman (21)
Jennifer Bows (21) - The Open House Project, a drop in advice centre for children and young people
Helena Davies (21) - a garden nursery
...and finally a cracking piece of marketing for Secure Solutions, a company offering IT security services, by Grace Neal (21)
Louise Hubbard (21)
Petra Blahova (21) - The Riverside Trust
Lee Freeman (21)
Jennifer Bows (21) - The Open House Project, a drop in advice centre for children and young people
Helena Davies (21) - a garden nursery
...and finally a cracking piece of marketing for Secure Solutions, a company offering IT security services, by Grace Neal (21)
A Young Person's Guide to Editorial Design
Year 0 supremo Zoe Garnett-Scott (33) is pictured here inducting her intrepid students into the world of Editorial Design.
What Zoe doesn't know about Editorial Design can't be written on the back of a hand. That's because Zoe knows everything there is to know about magazine design leaving literally nothing to write on the back of the hand!
In her long and notable career Zoe has worked for some of the largest (A2) and smallest (A6) publications in the country.
Putting together a magazine is both a creative and a highly technical activity. It is one of the few areas of design that overlaps the worlds of advanced mathematics and particle physics. It is a little known fact that popular face of science Professor Brian Cox's interest in physics was initially sparked by his training as an Editorial Designer working on Smash Hits.
Brian 'Coxy' Cox during his Smash Hits days.
The journey from raw novice to experienced practitioner is both long and hard but we teach our students slowly and over a long period of time. Making sure that they understand each principle, technique and equation before moving on to the next.
Zoe's lecture to Year 0 students allows you (our beloved reader), to visually 'eavesdrop' on this exciting and challenging discipline of design. After an hour of lecturing, the studio whiteboard documents many of the 'trade' secrets of Editorial Design. Lets have a look at them now...
The post-lecture board in all its glory.
Featured below are the key equations from Foundation Level Editorial Algebra extracted for your benefit, including the standard equation for calculating 'mag size' (number of pages).
The most basic of editorial algebra equations are known as the People's Wallpaper Constants and are featured below:
As you can see two radically different publications owe their existence to identical factors but used in quite different ways. I know you're thinking that this all sounds very easy but just to halt you in your tracks we will now show you the type of Editorial Algebra our Year 2 students deal with on a daily basis. This advanced equation is simply known as the 'X-factor'.
Not so confident now are you?
Editorial Design is not a theoretical subjects and there is also a lot of technical equipment that the budding magazine designer needs to master. As with the theory, this kit is introduced gradually over time, allowing the students to master its usage whilst working on project briefs.
Tools of the Editorial Designer's Trade
Zoe is a passionate Editorial Designer and this enthusiasm rubs off on her students. She happily answers their each and every query about this ancient and noble art. The only questions Zoe refuses to answer relate to 'evil' design. She patiently explains to these impressionable young minds that when she was a student herself, she opted to train as a 'White' Editorial Designer, thereby electing to turn her back forever on the 'dark side' of magazine design. Black Editorial Design may, at face value, appear glamorous and exciting but in reality is highly addictive and destructive. It is very difficult to control or predict the outcome of even the briefest dalliance. Mild cases can result in the ownership of a fixed wheel bicycle but at its worst a 'retro' flat in Hoxton could result!
Next time: Black Typography with Rhiannon Robinson (33)...
What Zoe doesn't know about Editorial Design can't be written on the back of a hand. That's because Zoe knows everything there is to know about magazine design leaving literally nothing to write on the back of the hand!
In her long and notable career Zoe has worked for some of the largest (A2) and smallest (A6) publications in the country.
Putting together a magazine is both a creative and a highly technical activity. It is one of the few areas of design that overlaps the worlds of advanced mathematics and particle physics. It is a little known fact that popular face of science Professor Brian Cox's interest in physics was initially sparked by his training as an Editorial Designer working on Smash Hits.
Brian 'Coxy' Cox during his Smash Hits days.
The journey from raw novice to experienced practitioner is both long and hard but we teach our students slowly and over a long period of time. Making sure that they understand each principle, technique and equation before moving on to the next.
Zoe's lecture to Year 0 students allows you (our beloved reader), to visually 'eavesdrop' on this exciting and challenging discipline of design. After an hour of lecturing, the studio whiteboard documents many of the 'trade' secrets of Editorial Design. Lets have a look at them now...
The post-lecture board in all its glory.
Featured below are the key equations from Foundation Level Editorial Algebra extracted for your benefit, including the standard equation for calculating 'mag size' (number of pages).
The most basic of editorial algebra equations are known as the People's Wallpaper Constants and are featured below:
As you can see two radically different publications owe their existence to identical factors but used in quite different ways. I know you're thinking that this all sounds very easy but just to halt you in your tracks we will now show you the type of Editorial Algebra our Year 2 students deal with on a daily basis. This advanced equation is simply known as the 'X-factor'.
Not so confident now are you?
Editorial Design is not a theoretical subjects and there is also a lot of technical equipment that the budding magazine designer needs to master. As with the theory, this kit is introduced gradually over time, allowing the students to master its usage whilst working on project briefs.
Tools of the Editorial Designer's Trade
Zoe is a passionate Editorial Designer and this enthusiasm rubs off on her students. She happily answers their each and every query about this ancient and noble art. The only questions Zoe refuses to answer relate to 'evil' design. She patiently explains to these impressionable young minds that when she was a student herself, she opted to train as a 'White' Editorial Designer, thereby electing to turn her back forever on the 'dark side' of magazine design. Black Editorial Design may, at face value, appear glamorous and exciting but in reality is highly addictive and destructive. It is very difficult to control or predict the outcome of even the briefest dalliance. Mild cases can result in the ownership of a fixed wheel bicycle but at its worst a 'retro' flat in Hoxton could result!
Next time: Black Typography with Rhiannon Robinson (33)...
Friday, 18 March 2011
book jacket design
If you're interested in book jacket design (and let's be honest, who isn't?) then you could do a lot worse than taking a look at the book cover archive to take in a few good examples of the art. Other reference sources are available.
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