Saturday 21 March 2009

Last day of term.

It was an amazing term. Thanks for the knowledge, the enlightment, the bullshit, the fun, the critique, the bigups, the catfights, the the tolerance, the lunches, the dinners, the parties and a special thanks to Mr. James Quintessential Norris for closing it off. Sampson, I'll never forget how you melancholically shouted in my ear that Jarvis' Cocker's 'Common People' is my song. It's yours darling! Happy holidays and safe travels all, word to yo moms. XBX













Monday 16 March 2009

CSM BAGD 1 Football tournament.

Bethnal Green, sunshine, footie, drinks, food, smokes, hoodlums, a thief and about 40 sophisticated artfags. Yay!




















Tuesday 10 March 2009

Live Brief 2 - Duke Street

I also did another brief. The client this time is Duke Street, an industry leading private equity group, with offices in London and Paris. They recently moved to modern refined offices and require inspirational artwork to adorn the walls of their meeting rooms.  The aim of the project is to complete photographic images or illustrations based around the theme of London. Duke Street would choose students whose work they think best represents their brand.

I undertook this mission with Emmanouil Zahariades, a greek fella in my year, who taught me some nifty Photoshop tricks and delivered some brilliant photographs used for the project. We came up with the idea to create multi exposure images consisting out of photographs of well known and less familiar sites of London and tried to merge the contemporary with the past, putting the emphasis of Londons colorfull, hectique, energetic and intricate vibe, keeping in mind that these images need to work as decorations in a professional environment as well as making a creative statement. We wanted to have the final results displayed as Duratrans. We submitted a variety of work; 1 panoramic image, 6 square images and 2 single wall filling images of London skylines.

The final hand in was yesterday as was the prizegiving supposed to be. But the jury decided to postpone the prizegiving and instead shortlisted a handfull of winners of who they're almost 100% sure that they want their work displayed in the London W1 office... and we're two of them, yeahboy! 4 of our 6 square images were selected for display. Unfortunately the lightbox idea isn't gonna to fly due to Health&Safety Hazards ( meh booh!), but they loved our images and would like to see them printed on proper photographic paper. If that's going to work, which I'm sure it will then our work is guaranteed a place on the walls in 2 of their meeting rooms.

Unfortunately I'm not yet in the position of showing you these 4 selected works but here are 2 of the squares and the panorama that didn't get selected for you to get a feel of what we've done. Once the project is finalised I'll show you the chose images.

Rule Brittania! Vivat Londonium! Bigups to Manolito, well done homeboy!

Live Brief 1 - Hugo Boss

Remember the Hugo Boss competition? the brief was to design a Christmas concept which included a window display, mailing material, give-aways and packaging. Due to circumstances (having to find a new flat, moving, other briefs, coursework, eating, sleeping, wanting to stay sane, etc.) I decided that it was best to leave this brief for what it was and dropped out. I did manage to make it to round 2! It was a good experience, but it hurt, dropping out was necessary but a difficult decision to make. 

My initial concept evolved around unity through the use of geometry and light, taking into concideration German Design and Hugo Boss' clean and modern appearance. Here's a sketch for a window display, the idea was to have translucent panels hanging from the ceiling that could be backlit from behind. (Yeah, the idea is obviously more elaborate) and 2 prototype mailing design considerations which are basically thin cardboard fold out cards. Everything was done with good 'ol grid/tracing paper, scissors, ruler, and pencil. Goodluck to all you remaining competitors!




Wednesday 4 March 2009

Vintage Lecturis magazines

A gentleman from Cornwall sold me these graphic magazines for almost nothing. They remind me of the Netherlands. They're part os a documentary series that were produced under the editorial supervision of Wim Crouwel. It was assigned by printing company Lecturis bv in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Copies were spread free of charge amongst relations.

Part 4: Readability. An attempt to describe the coherence between reading, writing and printing. Written by Johan Dirken. Designed by Wim Crouwel. Published July 1976.  


Part 9: About Magazines. This issue consists of a dialogue about magazines between designer Anthon Beeke and author K. Schippers. Published in August 1979.