Okay it's 07:41am and i have been awake for at least 30 hours now, so far through this time away from the timetabled course (4days) i am lost and my sleeping pattern is mangled up. Night is day, day is night. I basically can not win, however, with night being day it gives me a lot less of a interactive human pleasurment selection of things to do, as everywhere is closed, everyone normal is alseep and everything is offline.... so why not start the summer brief off with a random walk in the middle of the night to find type, image and message! here is a taster of a few photos i took this night, the aim was to see what graphical icons could be found in an area that would be visited on a night walk, heres the canal!
Not only was this walk a nice relax, but a real eye opener. But i found interesting a reallllllly old navigation stone with old graphic design images carved into itone being the royal bank of scottland logo which looks like this:
and well it made me think how old the logo for RBS is. so i looked at a bit of secondary sources and discovered the bank and logo were actually founded in 1727 which deffenitly gave the direction stone a bit of age. One thing i thought it was ridiculous the fact that within the space of 20 metres there were two different designs for a No fishing sign. Both vector based images, both black figures with the simple red ban circle the only real difference is one tried to be more realistic than the other. The more detailed one seemed inapropriate in comparison to the tone of the other illustration practically at it's front door. but overall my trip of the canal ended in me making a homophobic to some kind of message. then i deffenetly did that with the second image, not for the warm hearted! warned
thats it for now, blog out x
Well ive been checking illustrator out quite a lot recently and have been trying to brush up my skills on it, and all that jazz.After the Johnny Cupcakes lecture i thought about re developing an old logo i made from my previous college, i basically thought that if i applied this to some merchendise it could bite and i could make a bit of money over the summer for rent, i call it my 'get rich or die trying scheme' but without the wholeee death haha:
(WARNING THIS LOGO MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHT)
Sweet man
hands on the ball, illustrator is getting funner and funner each dayI have started to use it for jokes on friends now, just in aid to practise iteven more, here are a few Boysie references as inspiration:
funny, personal, practisewhat a designer has to do eyy
So, one thing i have noticed during the holidays is that i play drums a lot with my spare time
Another thing i noticed.... is that i brake ALOT of drum sticks
sooo on a fine night with nothing to do i decided to experiment with some drum typei discovered that some letters work better than others.i believe selected letters were a success but over all 60% of the letters do not workwhat so ever and doesnt work appropriatly:
oh well.
General playing, i thought i would try to make a image out of type this is my first attempt in preperation in how to learn to make it more interesting appealing
So i tried to further the type, i thought it could work better digitaly
here is the comparison between digital and real
I believe with the correct backing colour this could be a very successful piece to work with:
What do you think?
see my k........ mystery workbut i wanted to make a piece of work as a responcein supporting my research that CYMK is over ratedit is practically everywhere and it is getting a bit boringseeing it all around. it's getting to be past it's celbidate inall honesty, im waiting for some whitty ideas..in the mean time i experimented with typei decided that for every letter of CYMK i wouldplace an item which had relation with the colourfor example:CYAN - Water, skyYELLOW - SunMAGENTA - Luxery, comfortBLACK - Spray paint - urbanhere are some examples of development:
MESSY but why not play?
