BROOKLYN-NYC-LAND OF INSPIRATION.

HOLY MOLY!
An incredible picture a bombed up building in Brooklyn NY.
If i ever get the chance to go to New York, this will be top of my places to visit.
And of-course, paint.
Currently my desktop wallpaper.

DIAMOND OF DESIGN.

New image at the top of my blog.
You can probably see its a diamond. Made out of cuts from different pieces of my work.
Ciao.

C.R.A.P website design.

Task: Take a design that completely ignores C.R.A.P.
talk about why and then redesign it in a better way.

Here is the website i chose to re-design. Its called www.fixedgeargallery.com
and is an online gallery for people to post pictures of there fixed gear bicyles,
look up events and discuss similar topics.








This is my re-design. I think it uses all elements of C.R.A.P well and as
a whole works alot better as a design, both visually and although not tested,
i think functionally.



Hope you enjoy. Im going to add more text soon but for now
i need some pillow time.

Guy

My Multimedia

This is 'Onwards' , an Animation for Nike which was created by British illustrator

James Jarvis around a year ago.

Nike sponsored the Animation and was posted on the internet to market

there Running brand.

James Jarvis has been a key player in the British Illustration scene for

some time now, famed for his simple character design, comic book

publications and vinyl toys, and more recently, animation.

Iv been aware of his work for awhile and am a huge admirer of his.

He has presented his artistic aesthetic through a wide range of mediums

which goes to show, with the right motivation and abit of imagination,

can take you along way. Im especially attracted to his vinyl toy collections as

it is a design practice i am really eager to delve into and would love to apply

some of my own character design to that medium.

I first saw 'Onwards' on a creative blog that i follow called http://72dpi.cn/,

and when i saw it, i was blown away. I was immediatley immersed into

the story and the music as it ties in so fluently with the hand drawn

illustrative style, i couldnt help but be inspired.

For me, when i saw this i thought that this is what Multimedia is all about,

coming from an Illustration background it was the Animation aspect that

really caught my attention. And it clicked then that i wanted to study

Multimedia at degree level.

From watching 'Onwards' you can see that it uses various aspects

of Multimedia.

Them being Animation, Film, Direction and Music Editing. I would be really

interested to see the design process for this and how they came to

animating the character and what software was used in the making.

I think the reason this works so well is its simplistic approach,

the focus on the yellow character against the black and white

background for example lets the viewer focus on the main theme,

the character running, and why is he running? To get from A to B.

Which is something everyone can relate to. Its just what he has to go

though to get there is the interesting part, and in the animation he

doesnt even stop, so when he carries on his journey into the distance,

it leaves an open question as to what more he will encounter?

Thats entirely for the viewer to decide.

I wanted to talk about this particular piece of Multimedia, because in

many ways, it is hugely inspiring to me. Not only is it aesthetically beautiful,

the music moving and the theme initially charming, but it has a deeper more

personal message which each viewer can relate to individually, and take something

away from this Animation.

What i got from 'Onwards' was the feeling of Escapism.

"Escapism - is mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, an

'escape' from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life"

be inspired by.

Overall i think it works Brilliantly. First and foremost as an Advertisement

for running and secondly as an Animation to enjoy and

Big love goes out to James Jarvis and anybody else involved in the making.

Also below, are 3 videos which tell the 'behind the scenes' story of creating the Animation.

A really interesting insight into why it was originally made.

Peace,

Guy

2009

I made this towards the end of last year. 

At the time i was really experimenting with gradients and wanted 

to use them to create 3D looking shapes. Iv always been interested

in typography and have always enjoyed modifying type and creating 

fonts. For this simple design i combined the two to create this 

'2009' image. It was for a calendar me and a few other young

designers made for fun.

Expect a '2010' version to follow shortly.

Hope you like 

Peace,

Guy

Icecream

An icecream character illustration. I did this as a personal project

just for fun and to try some new techniques.

All created in Adobe Illustrator.

Character concepts and finished illustration.

These are a few character ideas i created using 

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, i had them for 

sometime struggling to decide what i should do with them and 

how i could incorporate them into a composition that made sense 

and was interesting.

 So for the time being i made this concept sheet, presenting the 

characters as a collection and highlighting speific details of 

each one. I think it works quite well and i will be using this 

method in the future when presenting character designs.

Using two of the characters i created this composition. 

Most of the components were hand drawn, scanned in 

then worked in Illustrator and Photoshop. Im really happy 

with the final piece would consider making some prints 

and to sell probably A2 on matt card. 

Would you buy one? 

And do you like the finished design? 

Guy

New Literiture

 New book i bought today. Iv been wanting to read this for a while now.

Sorry

I havnt posted for a while now, iv been super busy with

work and personal projects. I have just started a degree

in Multimedia at Nottingham Trent University, i will now 

be using this blog as my online journal for my course 

where ill post personal projects, course briefs and anything 

that inspires me and things that i like the look of ect.

Many new posts will follow.

Watch this space.

Guy

Miami!

Im obsessed with miami alright. :)

Night Moves part 2

MORE FRESHLY BAKED ILL'SS!

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FRESH WORKS!

Night Moves part 1.

A really old flyer i made for a project i set myself about 2 years ago. I had this image of me opening a club night in the city

it being called Night Moves (which apparently is a popular night in london somewhere now), and i set myself the task of

creating all promotional graphics, posters, flyers, web banners ect. This was my first attempt and my favourite. Looking back

at these old designs makes me want to inject some more life into this project as i feel its unfinished business that needs a

new direction...

Zoned.

Mid-sketch.

Inspiration is everything.

My desk and general play area.

So what better way to start this blog than to upload some of my designs. Heres a selection of works from the past 3 years,

there all fairly old so may seem a little dated and are a clear representation of what sort of stuff inspired me at the time i

created them. These are all very colour rich pieces with a vintage sci-fi poster art vibe to them, abit geeky if i say so my

self but i had fun making them. Most are personal projects and some being promotional club posters. Hope you enjoy ;).

Keep chesking for fresher posts.

Peace,

Guy.