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Laptop death

Lesson of the day: Always Back Up. Daily.

I sadly did not and with my the exploding of my hardrive i appear to have lost of lot of my third terms work. shit.

Quite simply one of the best shorts i have ever seen. Pixar have nearly always started their films with a short and this is one of the bet yet. What starts out as a simple idea unravels to really blow you imagination.

Tibits Restaurante

Heres a viral video i helped make with Amp, for Tibits restaurante. It was a fun day.

Type is basically done. There are few typefaces i know of that you can do this sort of colour variation with. I like it a lot.

Getting there. Missing a few letters though. Then obviously punctuation, caps Oh and numbers...loads to do then.

Found this awesome typeface, its used in Wired magazine. It was originally designed by Bronislaw Zelek but has never been digitalized. I want to try and draw it onto a computer myself as a bit of an easter project but I literally have no idea where to start. Lets try and learn.

These were meant to be the final pin up for the presentation on the last day of term. We also had t-shirts, stickers and the models made, just to show how far Noob Music could go. Peter, however hurt his back so instead of a crit we dressed up in suits and went to the bar. Hopefully should have a crit wen we start the summer term. So should be trying to improve this project. Haven't got round to it yet though...

This is a draft poster for our channel, even though we didn't use it in the end i thought i would put it on my blog for 2 reasons.

1. I actually liked it and it was a lot of work.

2. I'm colour blind and can't actually read the poster myself, so it makes me laugh.

Got some final ideas for what the Noob should look like and i decided to create a 3D pop out version of the Noob. I think this could be a good way to promote the music channel and obviously when MTV decide to release this channel we should get loads of viewers...But here are what the Noob would look like and also a 'noob entertainment system' NES! the final Noob design is going to be changed to have antenna for the N on his head.

NOOB MUSIC

Peter Chadwick, from Popular Design has set us a brief to create a music channel. Me and Sophie have decided to do it on the music of video games! Stuff like this:

There are lots of interesting design ideas that i think can come from this project. We want the channel to be current and colourful, with modern references to japenese culture. As its called Noob Music we have also decided to come up with a character called the 'Noob'. Here are a couple of early design concepts for a 3D version.( its meant to say noob on its side)

Low Res First Test

I'm pretty happy with this as a first draft, after a tutorial today i know how to hopefully make it a lot better, by dropping the opacity on the text and introducing splatters and maybe some imagery.

Inspired Motion graphics

This is the plan for my motion graphics video with Charlie Brooker ranting brilliantly about what he would do if he was in charge. I want to get the camera to pan over the words twisting and following as each word is revealed (through after effects). Its going to be a massive learning curb, but i'm really looking forward to the final piece.

AMP

Amp is a great creative agency based in london, that happens to be run by my brother. They've worked for some big clients, from the likes of Marriot hotels to the RSPCA and produced some fantastic work over the past few years. Their new website is now up and running so check it out for some great work. www.amp-london.com

Roll On Bad Type.

The brief was to seek out, spread and celebrate bad typography, whether it be shop signs, pizza menus or number plates. Often its easier to know what not to do than what to do and this was the idea behind the project. My team and me came up with the concept of wallpaper, and trying to surround ourselves with bad type. It was also interactive and gave people a chance to vote on what they thought was the worst type. We loved the repeat patterns and would like to take the idea further to thing such as table clothes and t-shirts. Here is the finished wallpaper, and a test we did in a bar.

DRAMA

My final illustrator piece for the word drama. Its fairly simple, i wanted to show drama through lighting, and the fragmentation of the word itself.

Inspiration speech

Them Bones

A visual for an up and coming band in Nottingham, who i have been working with. This was inspired by some Alex Trochut typographic pieces, where he shows words disintegrating. I wanted it to look as if the band were smashing through their own name.

Just some prep work for drama, i want to keep it abstract.

Final illustrator image for the crit, not 100% happy with it, i feel it can be lifted up a level but im not sure how at the moment. Hopefully in the crit tomorrow Ill get some feedbak on how to improve it.

Using the idea of lighting and shadows create drama. These are some photos i took for the 3D model part of my illustrator project with the word Drama. Think i might do an illustrator version of these images.

My Zine for drama.

Brilliant video.

CHRISTMAS WORK.

Not Working

Over Christmas i have no work set.
I have therefore done no work.
This is not good.
I'm going to do something before i go back.
Quite what to do i don't know yet...

Over Christmas i have no work set.
I have therefore done no work.
This is not good.
I'm going to do something before i go back.
Quite what to do i don't know yet...

MOON

HOLY CRAP THATS GOOD!

Epic film, kept me on the edge of my seat for the full movie. Some beautiful shots and a lot of silence. Hats off to Duncan Jones

Iconic photo

Iconic Photo

Doing this pose was not easy. I had to practice the face shape, its crazy.

SHRINE

Above is Mine and Emma's final shrine to Gadgets and old school music. With help from our tutors we found that repeat patterns were the best way to achieve beauty in the randomness of wires surrounding our vinyls. The idea that the symmetrical patterns would create shapes and forms for the viewers eye to wander through really works. This was one of many repeat patterns we tried and we favored this one because of how the wires flowed, or even grew out of the four plug sockets located in the corners.