ISTD Brief.
March 8, 2011
Next year I will be choosing my ISTD/ D&AD brief and so I have been looking into work that previous students have created. I found this beautiful piece by Rishi Sodha, I was instantly pulled in by the presentation, the beautiful, chic black packaging, and the explosion of the individuality wrapped posters. A beautiful controlled and executed piece.
Rishi is a very talented, award winning designer, I’m sure Rishi’s career will be very successful. On Rishi’s website Rishi explains the thoughts and process behind the concept:
“The original brief was to explore the concept of 100 and its significance.
As such, in this project I decided to answer the question: If we are defined by the people we know, can you be defined by your relationships with 100 people? 100 people were each given 100 seconds to answer 3 simple questions about an anonymous person, referred to as X. These posters look at their answers & invite the viewer to make their own judgements of the anonymous subject.”
Reily Says Roar!
January 14, 2011
Introducing the newest member of my family, the very friendly, Mr Reily.
It’s For You.
January 13, 2011
Todays illustration, as I sit waiting for the call to kick of my 2011!
Berlin v Cupcake.
November 10, 2010
I have been doodling and drawing more and more, I have become quite compulsive about it, cards, envelopes, packages, plane tickets, I can’t bare to see blank space with my name on it. This a doodle I done on the back of my plane ticket on the way to Berlin! I’ve been doing so much of these I think I will start updating more with these quick doodles! Cupcakes are always my go to doodle!
Illustration Roughs.
October 3, 2010
I have folders upon folders, and sketchbooks upon sketchbooks of my illustration roughs, that I either do as prep for a project or just for my own enjoyment. I felt that it was about time to brush of the cobwebs of some of these pieces and allow them to see the light of day, as I spend just as much time working on these roughs as I do on the final, polished products. I love looking back at my old work, each piece has so many memories.
These below are a stage further than the above storyboard style roughs, these were my first attempts at finessing the above pieces into a more pliable style. Throughout all of my work I feel that my style is coming through stronger and stronger, I adore to use bold colour and think black lines in all of my work. I take the approach of less is more.
Orphan Tee.
August 8, 2010
I absolutely adore hand rendered design, it is what I do best, and what I enjoy most, and lately I have been bringing my hand rendered designs into Adobe Illustrator to experiment with the relationship between the two. Lately I have also been very inspired by 1990′s colours, I adore the intro to Saved By the Bell, it is the first time I ever notice design at the age of 5 or 6, and it has always stuck in my mind. Due to this early influence I have always adored taking risks with colours, I adore yellows, purples, greens and blues together. This is an urban, promotional poster I made for my tee brand; Jam Jar Tee’s
Publication.
January 29, 2010
In the last semester at university we as a class undertook the task of creating a publication, that would be sent out to local and international studios to showcase the talent within our year. This project was a group project, and the class was divided into groups of 3, and we were each given a studio or creative to interview. After the interview we had to design, and come up with a proposal for the publication, whether it be print as in a book, a collection of cards, or posters or be it media, in the form of a DVD or CD, or a website. My group received the amazing opportunity to interview Dublin Creative, Creative Director for Dynamo and Co Founder of The Small Print; Richard Seabrooke. It was an overwhelming task to undertake, interviewing a designer of such calibre and then designing some form of publication that he would then see, and would be tied to him. The pressure was at times overwhelming but I think that just added to the creative process, as a group we broke up designing and working on different parts of the proposal. One of us designed posters, another packaging and another quotes from printers etc.
These are some of the pieces that I created for this project. My main task was to create posters for the publication. We had decided to propose to the class that we create a package which inside housed 18 posters, each creatives interview on one separate poster. Double sided and full colour, one side holds an interview designed using a beautiful typographic layout which compliments folds and the otherside an illustrative poster that in some way represents the subject.
I created over twenty designs for the poster. I adore the colours and the modular typography used in the branding for Richard’s company The Small Print, and the idea of modular shapes and colours is what I ran with, when creating the posters. Some where photomontages, some purely typographic, so illustrative and some a mixture of all. The poster was thin long rectangle, made from two squares. The fold was two diamond folds on each of the squares. Each poster, is received as a square, and it unfolds beautifully, I think it is an extremely exciting fold.
I created this little cost effective envelope (as a cheaper alternative to the beautiful one that we had proposed that Rory Murphy designed). It is created out of a piece of tracing paper, with the name of the participants wrapping around it, and a beautiful bold sticker begging the recipient to open it. I wanted the envelope to be visually exciting and intriguing.
The idea then being that once the envelope was opened 18 mini squares would be awaiting inside, to be opened and the viewer would be faced with a informational interview, that they can read and then once finished they can stick up the posters of their choice, if not all of them, in their offices.
Below is the contents of the package that the recipient would receive. Unfortunately, this proposal was not chosen although we put up a good fight and I am extremely proud of this piece of work.
Dot Project.
November 15, 2009
A few weeks ago, I along with 5 or 6 fellow classmates took part in an illustration workshop for the ‘Dot Project’. We were each given large pieces of paper and were asked to paint, doodle, draw dots in inks, markers, crayons, colouring pencils, in a multitude of colours using our opposite hands to writing. It was an extremely fun workshop, and it couldn’t have came at a better time, at the end of a stressful first two weeks of college. Some of the final products were exhibited at the Dot Exhibition in the University of Ulster, one of my pieces I created was exhibited and also the above piece which was a collaboration by the 6 or 7 of us who took part. We were extremely pleased with the final outcome, I think all of our styles complimented each other well and we created a beautifully successful outcome that is both vibrant and daring. The orgainisers of the Dot Project really liked this piece and are planning on using it further, it may even be sent to Thailand to be printed further, maybe even onto fabrics. I hope to take part in future workshops, I love to experiment and I love to reach into other fields of Art and Design.
Thank you to Allisterfor the picture!
MAD.
October 11, 2009
Whilst researching for my latest Universtiy project I came across some branding that Pentagram designed for the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. I instantly fell in love with the branding, it is so fresh, vibrant and modern. I absolutely adore Modular typefaces, they instantly catch my eye and they stand out in a sea of traditional typography that bombards us everyday. The typeface is not instantly easily read and I think that that mystery adds interest to it and pulls people in to investigate more, to discover the contents. The use of colour by Pentagram for this project I feel has helped it succeed. The above image is the logo that Pentagram came up with. The different patterns and colours they used to block in the typeface shows how dynamic of a design it is. The feel of the type can instantly change by altering pattern or colour; the wood gives it an environmental feel and the solid colour gives it a modern, youthful feel.
These are some promotional posters that were created, and I am so inspired from the use of colour. It is that that catches the eye and draws you in to the poster to enquire on its content.
These are some promotional postcards that Pentagram created for the museum. I again adore the colour use for each individual different postcard design, and the witty comments on each, its very clever and a great way to grab attention. If I saw these postcards I would want one of each, they are so exciting and inspiring. Modular type is recreated a lot these days for promotional means especially around Belfast, its seems to be the trend but there is just something fresh and different about this design, I don’t feel like I have seen it before, I think that again, that is due to the vibrant and experimental use of colour.
Like the postcards this follows the same idea, with the use of vibrant colour against a black backdrop and witty use of statements. This is advertising that Pentagram created for Buses in New York, if I saw this bus drive past it would instantly catch my attention, it is so big and bold and in your face, the scale and colours just scream at you to look at them.
Finally this is the branding for bags for MAD, the colours are so exciting, the pink is so vibrant and the pattern of the logo really jumps out, it is so fresh and differs from the other branding in way of colour and pattern. This is why this branding it so exciting, the colours differ, as if the branding is constantly being reinvented for different treatments which keeps it fresh and pulls you in to see how it differs and what it has to offer. It feels like a set of design that you just have to collect each piece! I am so inspired by this piece of work, especially its vibrant use colour.
CIA.
July 8, 2009
I found another design agency, quite like Heart Agency called Central Illustration or CIA, set up in Convent Garden, UK in 1983 by Illustrator Brian Grimwood. They showcase their illustrators work to a worldwide audience via touring exhibitions, seasonal festivals and their own magazine, CIA Quarterly, which they publish every few months. This dedication to their Illustrators have meant that over the past two decades the agency has grown into one of the most successful and critically acclaimed agencies.
They have an eclectic mix of illustrators, from photo realistic to abstract, from black and white to full blown colour. There is even a mix of computer generated, photography and hand drawn illustration. I find it a far more eclectic collection of illustrators when compared to Heart Agency whom many of their illustrators create similar work. Not only do CIA stick to illustration but they have also branched out to typography (which is by far not traditional, its very exciting work) and are soon to include moving image illustration.
I am so excited about this agency, it is an absolute gem bursting with mind blowing creativity. Here are a few of my favourite pieces:
Wendy Plovmand:
Her work is so beautiful and unusual. She is extremely experimental and I think that that is what drew me to it! Her work is so random, but has a lot to do with fashion. Her drawings are all of females, model like and her illustrations were even chosen for Elle Magazine. Her style reminds me of the work that Vasare does, very similar, its absolutely beautiful.
Maria Raymondsdotter:
I was instantly attracted to her work, I love the freedom of the lines in her characters and their simplicity. Even thought they are simple they have such attitude to them, their thoughts are drawn on their faces. I absolutely adore her work.
Gary Neill:
I adored Gary’s work, is is heavily influenced by previous eras. The illustrations look like screen prints, they are so bold in colours. He seems to favour up to 3 colours only in each of his pieces and this makes it so exciting, his colours are far from traditional and the clashing makes them pop. I could post all of his work on here, it is all so beautiful.
Susan Burghart:
Her work looks like it jumped straight out of a story book, each illustration tells a story, they are so pale in colour, thats what make them so warm, innocent and inviting. I could look at her work all day, her colours and her simplicity in her drawing style just pulls at the heart strings, they are absolutely beautiful.
Andrew Bannecker:
This is some of the typography on the site. Andrew is amazing at what he does. His work looks so organic, his colours are washed out and pale and all his type is hand written in a style that makes that very obvious. It makes the type so appealing and captivating. His typography is the illustration. Any characters presented in his pieces are lost within his unique typographic style. His style works well for children’s books but also for high end products. Here are some of him pieces.
Ok so i think I will stop with that otherwise I will be here all night, I would just go through all the illustrators work, Im so excited about it all, but I think you should just go to the site yourself and find your own favourites. No matter what taste you have I promise you that you will find an illustrator whose work you will fall in love with. CIA is my new favourite illustration agency, they have a great nose for talent.
