what do you mean, you've not seen...

All things Shrewsbury

Now this is proper design – none of this new cover every game – no the same one for the whole season. I imagine I went to both these matches, I have a garage full, they are now on the tinternet for £20 a pop. I may not be in next week!

Now some of you may be a little worried about all things "Shrewsbury" given the example set by our resident "Salopians"– Gazzer Nicholson & Jimbo Bradley. However good things are stirring in the town – see http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssfcgraphics/

Edinburgh visit

Edinburgh held many attractions for the recent BA(Hons) Illustration visit. However to be honest what is better that a couple of heads, a couple of stairwells and some blank walls!

iPad information and interface design

Year 2 students have recently been designing an iPad App interface. Here are a few results...

Steph Stilwell (21) Yr 2: BA(Hons) Graphic Design





Tori Pierce (21) Yr 2: BA(Hons) Graphic Design

SHOCK PROBE! iPAD APP DESIGNED ON PAPER

James Bradley (21), BA(Hons) Graphic Design


We asked our second year students to design an iPad App interface, either for The Sage, Gateshead or The Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal. Here are examples of how two students got to grips, on paper, with information design for the screen



Hannah Moran (21), BA(Hons) Graphic Design

All-Hallows-Eve

5.00pm and night draws in on a ridiculously warm and eventful Halloween day.
Robert Smith has left the building, Nostradamus has made a prediction, pumpkins have been carved and candles lit.



Soon rosy faced children will come a 'trick or treating'... Their smiles of joy will soon disappear as they discover there are no Haribos or Cadbury's 'fun-size' to be had here. "But where have they gone" we hear you ask? The answer's quite simple - Grillust's scoffed the lot!

Nostradamus Predicts...

Grillust Goes Goth (for the Day)

It's Halloween today and we couldn't think of a more suitable way to celebrate it than in the company of that 'godfather of goth' Mr. Robert Smith (from off of/out of The Cure).

'Laughing' Bob treated the assembled throng to ukulele versions of his greatest hits including: The Lovecats; A Forest and In Between Days.


Impressed proto-Goth Josh Ford (21, pictured above left), who lives underneath Blackpool Tower, was ecstatic. "The last time I was this happy was when I went to see The Fields of the Nephilim at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom in 1991 when I was only one year old" he gushed excitedly!

Yvonne Kennedy (also 21, pictured above right) who lives underneath the Bullring, Birmingham, was even more effusive in her praise. "To be here today listening to Robert sing Boys Don't Cry has got to be right up there with the time that I went to see Wayne Hussey (former Sisters of Mercy member and Mission front man) playing the evil stepmother in the 1998 production of Cinderella at The Birmingham Hippodrome".

Robert was invited to the studio on this special day by his good friend Kraig Mitchell (21) of Year 1 Illustration.

Another Day in the Studio

GRILLUST™ T-Shirt No.2 - a Jenny Cox Original

Here's the second T-shirt from GRILLUST™ Enterprises and this time it's one for all the tutors out there.

This wonderfully humorous, poignant (and accurate) observation is brought to you by talented, Year 3 Illustrator and wordsmith, Miss Jenny Cox (21). Drop by to Jenny's website and blog to see many more of her witty musings on the human condition.

Chalk Tree

Here are some 'chalky branches' for Adam...

Ever wanted your very own font?

Well now you can have it, without the need to get your head around Fontographer.



Fontifier is a website that allows you to create a digital font by simply filling in, and then uploading, a template. You could create a script font based upon your handwriting/hand lettering or, if you want to keep things digital, you could adapt an existing font to fit your your own exacting needs. All you need is some imagination, 9$ and a PayPal account.


Grillust™ would undoubtedly use Fontifier to re-draw the rubbish tail on the uppercase R in Futura.
It is a little known fact that Paul Renner (Futura's designer) had intended to attach the tail to the bowl approximately 2mm to the East of its present location. However, while making the master drawing for this letter in his Bauhaus studio, Renner's elbow was accidentally knocked by Johannes Itten as he enthusiastically indulged in a bout of arm wrestling with Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius! Crazy times...


The R from Futura yesterday - it's not an R it's a P in disguise!

...Because It's There

How many web links can you get into just one post?

This many.

HELVETICA+HEAVY METAL=GENIUS

OK, so when we say genius we mean nonsense, but you get the idea...

No, on second thoughts, it is a genius idea and when printed onto a good quality, crisp, white T-shirt, may well be the start of the GRILLUST™ merchandise empire. After all, what's the point of being a brand if you're not going to milk it for all it's worth?

So... Ladies & Gentlemen we give you hellmetica © the first typeface to bridge those previously parallel universes of High Design and Heavy Metal logos.

You know you want one!


If you would like us to make this T-shirt a reality, let us know. If there's enough interest we'll get some quotes in and get back to you with prices.

STOP PRESS!
What were we thinking? A metal t-shirt in white?

Grace (who knows about Metal) pointed out the error of our ways in no uncertain terms. So for Grace and all self-respecting 'metalists', here is hellmetica © as it should be seen, reversed out of black. A black far blacker than James Hetfield's darkest 'dark night of the soul'. A black that's blacker than the depths of Slayer's abyss. A black that's even lots more blacker than that very, very black monolith featured in the film '2001 a Space Odyssey', viewed in a windowless dungeon in the depths of a castle devoid of electricity, candles and fire, on a moonless winter night...

Saul Bass Bookyes please

Dear Lawrence King, please ask me if I want a free review copy of this book. Go on. You know you want to.

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