personal development plans

So, for the infographic I am creating a 'Marathon Training made easy'. I am at the point in my sketchbook were I need to start experimenting with different ideas on how I am going to create the imagery.

My last two pieces have been very 'vector graphic like' so I am making a conscious effort to make this brief completely different - though still following my little own style! My numero uno experiment was to draw an image of a trainer, scan it in and colour it in using Photoshop. I pretty like this wee technique - it keeps my drawing style but adds a bit of a multi media feel to it!

We likey?

Walaaaaa....

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Defaced Presidents... and some Queens

This is pretty good. It's a Flickr group of loads of defaced money. Check out the link, there's tonnes of them!

http://www.flickr.com/groups/612007@N21/pool/

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A pretty inventive music video...

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Some Stuffs I Done.

Whilst i'm sat here and jays at the pub playing pool (i couldn't be bothered going) I think ill show y'all what i sometimes get up to =D

I take photos, this is Jays cat Rosie, I like to think she was laughing but I caught her as she yawned...

I sometimes make teddys xD not done in a while though...

I love painting, i've got a ton of canvases at the minute but I has no paints! =( to poor to buy any too. This was done in oil.

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12 March 2010

Typography

As I was looking for some cool typography wallpapers for my mac, I came across this typography guy, made out of letters and words.

(sorry the image looks a bit small..just because there's to much negative space!!)

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Ian Brown at Platt Fields in June

One more quick heads up. This looks like a class event. It's a warehouse project arranged gig with Ian Brown, plus Scratch Perverts, Unabombers, Mr Scruff, The Whip! All of whom I've seen live before and are excellent. It's gonna be MEGA! GET DOWN THERE!!!

http://thewarehouseproject.com/ianbrown/

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SMiles Studio Diary

Thirds!
Working with Design Elements and Principles I created a poster for my to be finished "You Brief". I wanted to use the images of the big owl on the small world and have the sky and clouds as a massive visual in the poster to show the feeling of air and space and freedom.....which was the main thread of the story.

So I played around with a few ideas and experimented with the layout and settled on the owl and earth in the lower 1/3 of the page slightly left and looking up, giving an anchor point and to take the eye upwards to the words.

The clouds are bold in white and black and they contrast against the blue background, taking up the remaining 2/3rds of the page. I wanted to use the principles of movement, contrast and size in order to create the impression of the air and freedom. The typography is my own, hand drawn, scanned in and traced and the placement of the wording is dynamic and informal. I used bold colours in order to contrast against the background, whist staying true to the overall colour scheme.

Elements and principles used in my piece are:
3rds, contrast, colour, shape, line, movement and size.

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SMiles Studio Diary

Info-graphics Brief

OK so this brief has finally started to make me think about what I need to do to make what I am doing on this course my career. I have been trying to put my finger in why this is happening now, is it the fact that i like the idea of producing info-graphics....is it just the timing...who knows but it has started!

So my first objective bearing this in mind was to choose something that is relevant, current, dynamic and not totally saturated yet! I thought about issues and areas that I would like more information on and it came to me like an arrow whooshing past my ear.......terrible pun there........The Robin Hood Tax.

It is a brand new campaign which has the possibility to be massive. It has broad support and is starting to make tracks, but my issue is that the website whilst fun and a little garish, isn't that accessible for the facts and in a sense is aimed more at already conformed anarchists/activists or "socially conscious" people and doesn't have as much pulling power to average "Joe Public". This is very evident when viewing the amount of people as fans on Facebook compared with the number of people who have signed the petition via the website, a staggering 75% more on Facebook. So is this due to the information being less accessible via the website, is the more concise information on Facebook easier to understand? Also there is definitely a space for a piece of visual beauty to hook people in.

So i started to make my presence known via the Facebook wall and an email to the group via their website. I mentioned my desire to make a piece of info-graphics for the campaign, which i said that I would be more than happy for them to use if they so wished to. they have responded by saying this is an area they are definitely interested in moving to next and are really happy to help me with any information as and when i need it.

So feels like I have stuck my foot in the door and now I just need to get on with the goods.

Here is the link for my brief inspiration.

http://www.robinhoodtax.org/

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