Thursday 29 January 2009

Technics Competition....

Well, not much to add apart from the fact that I won! Which all in all is pretty dam sick!

See for yourself

Much respect to the other winner Josh, click here to see his emptees portfolio.

"We had so many brilliant and innovative designs entered into the competition that we had trouble picking between the final 5. In the end, we settled for two winners so congratulations goes to Josh Ray for his Technics (S)Platter style T-Shirt and also Michael Partridge for his innovative "We Are As One" design. Your prizes are on their way to you gents!! "

I have always like admitting to process, so here we go...

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First version of the vectors, yes the grouping went haywire on the ghettoblaster, but that is only a rough.

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First drawing from vectors, no idea why I had that font on there, but it looked shit, so that was the first change, generally pretty happy with the rest of it though, this is where I first tried the idea of connecting the parts, but I just wasn't sold on how they were connected through the drawing, so attempt number 2....

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Print out 2, this time with a different logo, I'm not entirely sure why I printed it out again, made sense at the time...

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I've always loved a musician called Jonah Matranga, he performs under the name of OneLineDrawing, so this is what I tried here, but just didn't work on this format! It just looks messy.

I am not going to lie to you, I had a version I was pretty happy with, but needed to figure out the best way to finish this off, I need a new version of the logo and the last part of my idea...

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So I drew the logo on the side of one of the other pieces of paper, and drew the hands again, this time with the fingers extending and at this stage I cheated. I stopped drawing and started photoshoping...

And the rest is history, design finito!

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Some paper, 2 print outs, a pencil, a lightbox in my (well my girlfriend's) desk, a scanner and a good idea. Makes me happy!

I am rather happy with this one....
Michael

Wednesday 28 January 2009

Self Portrait...

So this idea is actually for something bigger, than just this, maybe, I don't know yet, I haven't finished it, I just want to post it to see how I felt, if I posted it on the net and then went to bed, to mull it over and finish/come back to it later.

So here we have some hardwork on my part and the mad skills of Mei @ Mission Photographic, I'm not going to disclose too much detail yet, so I'll just say I wanted to look a bit silly, and we had a funny afternoon getting some photos!

Here is the original image...

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and here is the result of several hours work...

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Well I don't know if I'm barking up the wrong bush or should wait until its finished?

Episode of "The Wire" and bed.
Michael

Links
Larger Versions
Mission Photographic

Wednesday 21 January 2009

WE ARE AS ONE!

I posted the vector drawings the other day and I wasn't sure if they were going to get used for anything, and then as if by magic I see a post on Emptees, "Technics T-shirt Design Competition"!

Well, I had an idea about how music is created in the hiphop/dance community, not always but I get the impression its alot these days and then I got thinking about how I felt when I used to DJ and how I feel about music I've made...

The design should speak for itself, this shouldn't be one that needs explaining really...

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I'm rather happy with the end result, as it was a good process from photos to vector to printer to sketches to scanner to result. I can be guilty of relying on a computer, it was nice to not rely on it and use my hands again.

Bedtime...
Michael

Links
Design on Emptees
Technics Contest

Friday 16 January 2009

Banner

So I have just made a banner for a vegan/aniamal rights website!

It was a rushed job, so it's not mental complicated or anything, but it is odd to think that my design work could now be classed as having a conscience?

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Finished by around 3pm, online by 4pm! God Dam! I love the internet sometimes!!

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Random day, back to the other job....
Michael

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Respect Life

Thursday 8 January 2009

Oldy but a goody!

This really is an oldy! 2004ish maybe, I wish my memory was better.  Second year of my degree, friends band needed a cover for their EP, so they asked me.  I was only a second year, it was a big deal....

This will probably remain one of my favourite design accidents. They asked me to do a logo and a cover, I had found a typewriter, now I love typewriter's they are so magically individual, no 2 letters are ever the same, its amazing! So I was sat on my bedroom floor with typing out the the bands name over and over again in different ways, so I had plenty of different ways to scan, clean up etc for trails for the logo. Now I don't know about you, but it is always nice to have a fully fledged UREAKA(!!) moment, and boy did I have one staring at the piece of paper sat infront of me!

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This was what I saw, and this is the first picture I took! I took a few more, tired it in Black and White, but it still looked its best just as I'd seen it! Washed out, old looking brown plastic aswell!

It ended up looking like this...

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I'm not going to lie, to this day I remain a little bitter that after sending the "proof" off to them, with the comment "if you like the front I'll finish it off for you." But no, a few weeks later I was sent that CD with piece of white paper on the inside. Deflated, yes a little, but still happy to see a cool idea out there....

I'm not going to link you to the band, they have long since split, so it's probably not that important...

Bedtime
Michael

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Drawing...

Sadly not with a pen or pencil, but I have just done something fun with pens that I will post soon enough.

I am in the middle of a website design, and I needed some vector/outline drawings of a few thing relevant to the project, to be honest, I don't think they will end up getting used on the project I'm doing, so they are getting posted here instead!

I'm not going to lie, the reason I drew them is because I am to cheap to actually pay for a gomedia vector pack, but they do some awesome stuff, well worth a look, link at the end...

Plot...

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It was rather weird doing these, because I did the ghetto blaster first, then carried on, upon finishing, I realised that I had put more and more detail in as I went along, so I had to go back over and add detail to make them all look similar...

It's nice to think they have a home. Look at the larger versions, check the cross-hatching detail! Go me!

Anyway, I have to go to bed, normal job to go to in the morning!

It's a nice to start to the new year!
Michael

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GoMedia Arsenal