Saturday, 27 February 2010

What did YOU do today?



Thanks for asking. I made a mural of Bub, from Bubble Bobble. Procrastination to the max!

Thursday, 25 February 2010

society poster and boredom



Getting sick of Brave New World, luckily I hadn't started production yet. I found one of my favorite parts involving an elevator, which reminded me of the elevators from the hitchhiker's guide. So now I'm working on a script about elevator operators. Cool.

Friday, 19 February 2010

Kids nowerdays...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K50QpnvoteI

Here's my Kinetic typography element to our 'Save the Pubs' campaign for the MPA Roses Student Creativity Award. Unfortunately the overall piece wasn't good enough to submit, but when I tidy it up for the end of the semester review I'll add some audio and smooth it out some more, but for now I never want to see this project ever again.

I have much higher hopes for the D&AD. Took me an hour and a half of fastidious googling to find out that the little rivets I need are called Grommets. Now just to figure out where I can buy some!

Friday, 12 February 2010

the adventures of my living room wall, episode one

the first post, the one that hurts the most

New blog, how about that. I'm using this to keep track/showcase my new projects, mostly just for self-reference.

I'm currently working on the "save our pubs" campaign for the MPA Student Creativity awards. I finished the vector form of the logo, now just to colour it and add some texture and depth, then I have this weekend to work on the kinetic typography element. It's increasingly looking like the poster will have to be thrown together at the last minute, luckily I have backup Peter Blake/Richard Hamilton inspired idea which should come together without much hassle. And then, on to the D&AD awards! Next year I might do an animation for it rather then more graphic design, we'll see. Can I enter twice under different categories, I wonder?

I'm making a volvelle, which is when you stick-pin two bits of card together in primary school to make them spin around, only more professionally. It took me a while to find out what they were called, and until then I had to explain my idea to Warren in terms of "Spinny bits of cardboard".

My latest digital media project is an adaptation of Huxley's A Brave New World, which should look really cool. I'm going to base the visuals around political cartoons and caricatures, which is something I've wanted to do a project on since the end of last year. I'd go and photocopy some tomorrow, but I'm not sure many newspapers have them in the weekend sections. Worth a look, I guess.