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Over the last couple of years I’ve been getting photos; full frame shots of close ups of various types of corruption – mould and algae growing on a board creating beautiful colours and textures, rotting and sagging tarmac on the side of a local carpark that is reminiscent of the skin of an elephant or the surface of the moon and most recently photos taken of the rust and corrosion on a burnt out car – of which these are a couple of examples…
We’ve been so busy at the moment, it’s been hard to find the time to put up bloggins posts. So this is the first in a while!
These two (as yet unnamed) pencil drawings are works in progress from a possible future series of art prints…
The intention is eventually to print them on a large scale as a series of pictures, using these pencil drawings as starting points in the process. However the rest of the method of printing, size etc. is still in flux. Time to experiment!
The Birthday of the Infanta design work is coming on… We’ve got something that is really going to work with the overall design in terms of poster work etc. Can’t wait to work on the illustrations.
Creative St Albans are looking to develop their brand. Here are a couple of the logo designs we are proposing:
These are just a couple of process sketches Matt has been working on. This first is a sketch of a MauMau warrior for the theatre performance ‘Burn My Heart’ produced by Blindeye and Trestle:
These next couple are a sketch and an ink drawing for ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, a proposed theatre performance at Trestle Theatre:
Here are a couple of process images from the flyer we recently designed for Trestle Theatre, under the title “Thomas Paine: The Liberty Tree”. It was to promote a performance by two singer/songwriters, Leon Rosselsson and Robb Johnson with the titular free thinker as the theme.
This is the finished flyer:
It came together with ideas and work from all three of us; we especially wanted to have the tree as a central connecting image for the design, from this came the idea of having the roots spelling out the title of the piece. I created the text using a simple sans serif font to get the layout and give a guideline, then worked over that in pencil and ink:
Meanwhile Jim created this sweet guitar/tree motif in Photoshop. Here you can see it coloured and integrated with the text:
This was unfortunately unusable in the end as the brief stated the need to use pictures of the performers. To this end Matt created this sketch, and followed from there, inking it over the lightbox and eventually bringing all the separate components together for the final design:
Here are some of the illustrations I’m working on for Lamfrag’s next Short “The Polig”. They won’t be in the actual film but will be the key feature in the poster and DVD design. Hope you like them – more details coming soon…
Cyclic Defrost is an Australian electronic music magazine I happened upon when I found a really good interview with Christian Fennesz. It seems to be pretty good, with nice design and layout, as well as good writing about interesting music – I just read a real insightful interview with Autechre that I hadn’t seen before there as well. What is more every issue is free to download online in PDF form. That’s a lot of reading!
The picture above is the front and back cover of issue 16. It is a wicked bit of design.