Wednesday 27 October 2010

Poster time....

It's always nice to know that people will come back to you when you have done work for them!

I got a call from the guitarist from They Walk Amoung Us asking for a poster, as they had a gig they wanted to pimp! Brief was virtually non-existent, "You know what I like, just do something like our artwork!"

I had always liked the image I had put on the bad of their album, and I didn't think it ever took centre space, so I thought I would give it the attention it deserved!

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Always happy to do something like this!

Bed time...
Michael

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Resigning in 40 minutes!

I recently played a gig with a band called AC4, the members of which graced such incredible bands as The International Noise Conspiracy and the enormously influential and sadly missed Refused, sorry I'm getting off point.

I also went to an event in a local venue called "Design Wars" (great event put on by great people, links later), but the challenge was put to a small group of people/designers to create some album artwork, using words chosen at random (for band name and title) and the genre was also chosen at random. Each group was given 40 minutes to then create artwork from scratch using the equipment and images that were on the desk! I was in a group with 3 of my friends, 2 code geeks and a european union schmooser, we didn't win, but it was great fun! AND I liked the concept of designing something in 40 minutes!

So with a gig coming up, with a poster I wasn't fussed on...

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...again nothing bad, but I need a poster to try and design in 40 minutes! So I limited myself to photos of the band (as in the original poster), and tried to focus on the main details of the original. The biggest concern I had was showing the band in their normal environment, they are a hardcore band after all and the original picture wasn't exactly complimentary, even the band joked at the gig, they wouldn't want to watch themselves if they saw that photo!

So here we go, poster in 40 minutes!

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Its not a major change, but I think its much cleaner.

Enjoy
Michael

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AC4 on Myspace
Design Wars Official Blurb
Photos from Design Wars

Wednesday 13 October 2010

Movie Poster!

This was a happy brief to receive! The client saw one of my previous pieces of work and got in touch with me, so this is a little success story! Anyway, the plot!

This is a poster for a short film, made by Suni Khan, about 2 soldiers who are caught in the repetition stage of war, and hence the title is "Nothing Happened" the challenge was creating a poster with stills from the film that was mainly for online usage (I still have an idea for a print one which was not part of the brief, but I will probably do anyway at some point, the logistics of it would make it awful for online use).

The real challenge of this job was taking landscae images and making them effective in a portrait context, harder than it sounds, believe me!

I can't post the film as it isn't online anymore as it is being subbed to various festivals for consideration, but the poster is fine!

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There were a few ideas bouncing around between myself and the film maker, but this was the result we were both very happy with.

I will gladly update this when the film is available somewhere!

For now...
Michael

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Follow the film maker, Suni Khan, on Twitter!

Tuesday 12 October 2010

I can't wait for one of these!

One of my clients emailed me this photo earlier!

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Test print of the shirts I did for them! Makes me smile, that is all.

You know you want one...
Michael

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Wednesday 6 October 2010

Rejected...

EDIT: This wasn't rejected, I just got the wrong end of the stick!

Sad times, I did this and it was rejected, or atleast sort of, there was some misunderstanding about who was supposed to be doing this and I got carried away and did the dam thing without waiting for the ok from the big dude. So it's my fault this is going unused! However I love it! I really love it!

The idea was to create a deck of cards based on hardcore punk stereotypes, the suits being some of the obvious things:
1. Stars - loads of star tattoos in the world, and the revelation records logo is also a star.
2. Knuckle dusters - more stereotyping.
3. XXX - the standard symbol for the straight edge punk.
4. Wreath - go look at hardcore punk band logos, they are everywhere!

And for some reason, I decided the Ace of Spades with a Sick of it All Dragon (which I happen to have tattooed on me) in the midst acting as the joker!

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I love this idea, and I think it might get recycled in some way or another. Not sure where yet, but it will!

Nearly bedtime...
Michael

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Redesigning some more things!

This is a weird one, I don't dislike the poster that I saw, but at the same time, I don't like it. In truth I was half way through an idea for a Die Hard poster and lost the plot and wanted to give this idea a home.

Meet the original:

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Considering I am playing this show, I doubt anyone will mind a rethink!

Meet the redesign:

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The show is tomorrow, so I won't worry about anything complicated, just did it for fun really.

Little more to post!
Michael

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I do make a lot of posters!

Well I do!

After the success of the Swingin' Utters poster, the folks at the Croft asked me to do another one for another show! Good times!

The brief on this one was as comical as ever, "I liked your last one, do it the same, but different!" So that was my mission, the same but different...

Once again, 2 colour screen print ready on an ash white paper.

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The band are pretty cool too, indie punk from Philly. I am looking forward to going to the show.

It's one of those days...
Michael

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