Typography

Typography has never been my strongest area of design but I feel I'm getting better at it. These are some pieces from the first type project I've ever done so don't be too harsh!

Spread Your Wings

My brother and I are attempting to set up our own T-shirt company (Spread Your Wings obviously ;) ) and this is one of our first designs. Inspired by the likes of Glamour Kills and Johnny Cupcakes. At the minute its pretty much a hobby/pipe dream but if I could make a career out of it it would be pretty amazing.

Illustration

Illustration has always been a passion of mine. I specifically remember sitting and watching Toy Story in the cinema when it first came out, the ripe old age of 6, and thinking "this is incredible, I want to do something like that" At 6, I obviously didn't know I wanted to illustrate or do Graphics Design, but I knew I wanted to bring things to life, much like the toys. After that I used to sit and draw all the time and effectively got better at it....


Few of my favourite people. I love drawing people, illustrating style and fashion as I rather love fashion. I don't often draw in faces unless theres a desperate need to express an emotion, not because I can't, I just prefer not to. I'd never seen Mr Bingo work before which is a bit weird looking at it now.


This is a piece from the first Illustration project of Year 1. I made a book based on a quote from one tree hill. I can't remember it exactly but this illustration was to represent the like "All you need is one" aww...


This is just a doodle I did after watching the Notebook. The type is something Noah said which the illustration is based on. If it wasn't just a quick sketch I'd do the type better, more elegant. Thought about doing the whole thing on Illustrator to get crisp lines, but I don't want to loose that personal feel.




Invitation I did for a paaarty. Didn't get used mind, they opted for a more slick version of microsoft word and google images which killed me soul but I still like mine more. Some people, no taste :)



This was one of the initial designs I did for Spread your Wings. Quite like the idea but at the moment its a bit complicated for a t-shirt but I cant quite let it go.




I think I've finally mastered the ways of the blogging, treatz.

Photography

I studied photography at collage for a year and although I enjoyed it, I was also doing Fine Art and Graphics and I seemingly enjoyed them more. Now I have an SLR however I find myself enjoying taking pictures more. My work is always stronger when I enjoy doing it, these pictures probably reflecting this...








These are some images from the Rule Book project. They did include type in the project but I prefer them as just photos. Mainly because I hand wrote the type and worked it in on photoshop as I didn't know how to do it in Illustator at this time. Now I know, I hate that the lines arn't crisp and clean!


Possibly the earliest I've been up in my life, on a train. Sometimes you see the best thing out of a window.





The wonders of my home town. Seriously...










I like the seaside.








Leeds Festival 2008- Even the rain couldn't put a dampener on this experience

Mood Board For Animation

For our animation project we all got given a designer and have to create a homage to said Designer. I got Erno Goldfinger, an architect designing such buildings as Trellic Towers. I don't particularly like the buildings themselves but I'm looking forward to animating my feelings towards them. This is my mood board which I actually really like. I think this idea could work really well for a "Spread your Wings" t-shirt, using my own photos and using the colour, paint and type to illustrate something SYWesque!

Cup o Tea

In the near future, we will be making a website (how exciting) this was an exercise done to help us understand how websites need to link pages. Rather complex for such a seemingly simple activity. I did this on illustrator initially drawing the cup and swirls then placing the instructions on top. I think it looks quite fun, I particuly like the title. I missed a few instructions but I will be aware when linking my website!

Okay so I am not particularly clued up on this whole blogging idea so excuse the fact that I am a complete idiot :)
Some how I have managed to attach some work (or at least I think I have).
The photographs are either from projects or things I've captured whilst living the dream.
The illustrations are again either my favourite parts of projects or odd sketches that I have taken a shine to.
Anything including "Spread Your Wings" are designs for T-shirts
I hope this has worked but I dont have high expectations!