Saturday 19 March 2011

The beginning stages...

I love it when clients come back to you! I really do. It means I must have done something right last time. So welcome to working with a great film maker called Suni Khan again! Woo!

This time Suni sent me an email and asked if I could make a title card for his new film "Goodbye Ivy", I was suitably excited.

I must confess at this point, I got a little carried away...I had what I thought was a great idea, I'll admit it was something I wanted try doing and as always I got carried away. Just so you know, this is the result of me getting carried away...

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(worth looking at the larger version, link later, to see some of the detail)

...now, again I have to admit, this is my blog so I can say this. I like this, but after getting a few more emails from Suni about the plot and feel of the film, even I knew I was off the mark with this. Once again, it's my blog, I like this, I know it doesn't work for the plot and feel of the film, but I still think its a nice piece of type.

Right back on plot folks!

After a few more emails, where we talked about what the film was about, a few reference ideas and some general laughs about 4am emails (have a look at some of my instant album art) I had a great idea of what Suni wanted, and a few interesting ideas of my own!

There are several versions of this, but together we got to an end result that we both really like!

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As always I like to go the extra mile for clients and decided to include this little taster poster for the future of the project.

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The film is still in pre-production stages, but I am rather excited as I am going to be working on the credits for the film as well! This is going to be an awesome project!

Bring it on!
Michael

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Suni's Website
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Tuesday 15 March 2011

Again...how do I categorise this?

An awesome piece that I totally forgot to post when I finished it!

I am grateful for regular clients, I am even more grateful for regular client who constantly turns up with interesting ideas and challenges me to do fun things!

I got an email asking for a playbill for a release show, it was an interesting idea that I had never consider being a cool thing to do, but when I started looking into playbills from the 1940's, this fast became one of the best ideas I have heard in ages!

I will admit, I went a little overboard on the idea, but for all the right reasons! I had no idea how much fun it would be incorporating elements from their album artwork into the design, whilst adding random details along the way....

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This has to be one of my favourite pieces.

Thank Mike, Nathan and Brian for being amazing.
Michael

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Mike Borgia's Website

Thursday 10 March 2011

Roller Derby again!

Second thing I have done for my girlfriend's Roller Derby team! This time, rather than just colouring something in (seriously) I had to design something! Who would have thunk it?

This branch of the Tiger Bay Brawlers is called the "MERCHANTS OF MENACE" (caps used for drama).

I had to design this with heat pressing in mind, to there isn't any crazy texture details or anything like that, big and bold.

It needed to include:
A Venetian mask, check.
Their name, check.
Some reference to the Tiger Bay Brawlers, check.
And if possible some sort of skating reference, check. Thats what the 96A, 62MM bit is about, wheel dimension, hence the circle!

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Ain't I clever! Shucks, Jon Boy!

End stereotyping.
Michael

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Corporate things..

I was asked to do this as part of a treatment of logos by a friend as she wanted something completely different in the mix of what she was doing. Strange explanation I know, but it's true, when stumped, asking someone else for an bright idea can always help!

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What do you do when you have to design a logo for a company who are company at the top of a series of companies, so have no clear visual identity....the answer is some clean and cool looking! I did that ^.

Judge for yourself!

Listening to music on shuffle is a dangerous idea.
Michael

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Instant album art 6

This one didn't go quite to the rules as it was inspired by an odd conversation with a client about waking each other up sending '4am emails' and a random joke about that sounding like an album title. So my brain said, 4am emails does sound like an album title...artist can be the clients name...look out flickr random search here I come!

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So I give you Suni Khan's '4am Emails', a never to be released experimental acoustic trip hop album.

Best ideas are often the weirdest!
Michael

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Going backwards and forwards!

Another poster for the crew at the Croft, this was a really odd one as the band name was painfully long, "Hammer no more the fingers", if I had used the format they like the headline act's name would have been tiny! So I decided to try and make this one more typographical.

In the process of doing so, I seemed to manage to take a step back to 2009ish, in terms of my style, and make it very similar to what I used to do rather than what I have been doing. Does that make sense? Who cares? Visuals time!

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You will have to troll through some of my old work if you don't believe me, or you could just not and believe me...I'd prefer that.

Few more posts....
Michael

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