Another redesign...

Number one; as you know (well if you've been following my recent work) I've been redesigning things that I see that I don't like. This is the first example I have done for a friend. I saw this on facebook...



and considering there is an old client and a dear friend involved in this show, I had to do something about it!

I have a strange obsession for awful stock photos, the kind of thing you have no idea why it is on a site, or why some people will pay for it? Regardless I saw a picture of a milk carton, and it has been in the folders on my computer for ages waiting for an opportunity to come to life! Here it seemed was my chance.



I was struggling with it a little, as I had the text on and the layout/texture all sorted, but it looked like it was lacking something. So for fun, I stuck some lightening bolts on it! AND I love it!

Take Care!
Michael

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Juliet Echo

A poster idea that became a shirt...

I started out designing a poster kinda for fun, maybe to get used, I hadn't decided when I started doing it, but as I started to develop it I decided to use part of a bands album artwork, that I had recently finished and then by proxy, sub it to them. Thinking that is!

I won't show you stages, I will just skip to the final poster design...



As you can see this was designed, again, based on a 2 colour screen printing process, and as you can see there was potential to evolve this into a shirt, so I did.



I like it, they like it, I look forward to seeing it in the cotton!

Someday soon I will post the album artwork, it is in pieces in about 4 different file types, so please work with me people!

Mythbusters is on...
Michael

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Peachfuzz's Myspace

Re-design round 2!

This one was fun. End of. I saw this poster everywhere...



and I was reminded of a show on Channel 4, featuring some famous agent bloke, that was about rebuilding careers and such, In one episode he was faced with a circus and they had posters like this and insisted on bringing their design into the 21st century. When I saw this, I thought to myself that needs funking up.

I wrestled with what to do with this and decided on this.



Monster trucks are one of the last bastions of rock n roll! So why not go wild a produce a rock style poster for it! I wonder who the original poster would appeal to, I would like to meet them and ask them whether they prefer mine or the original...

For any nerds out there, this poster would be a 2 colour screen print on brown stock.

Word
Michael

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Beach Break Live 2010

Not so long ago I was invited to go to Beach Break Live as a photographer by the marketing department of Visit Wales. Now I don't mean to sound overly grateful, but I will say I got to go to a music festival, that was right on a beach, that was full of ready to party, partially naked 20ish students...sometimes life is very hard.

Not many of the 400ish pictures ended up on the blog for Visit Wales, but they are supposed to have a flickr and facebook, so there could well be more on there...

It was an interesting job as I we (me and the writer) decided we didn't want to try and present it in a "Hey, Beach Break Live is the best thing to happen in Wales ever!" way, but more just to document our time at the festival. So I give you my pics...









This little gem isn't on the blog post, but I filmed it and feel the need to share it!



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Symbol

I recently had an interview, and for the interview I was asked to design a symbol for a fire hazard. I haven't thought about symbols and signs in a while, but it was nice to find a positive use for part of the focus of my masters dissertation!

This is one of those random little things that I did, that I wanted to share as I enjoyed making it, even if I didn't get the job.

I chose to do it in orange for a few reasons. Red is generally a warning colour and black stands out the most on yellow. The problem is yellow has become a standard for information signs so the hybrid of red and yellow is...



Trying it on grey, as I wanted to see what it looked like.



And finally just black and white.



From a technical standpoint, using the halftoning on the flame instead of a gradient, who make this a easier/cheaper to print or lower memory usage if it was online.

Sweet.
Michael

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Contest

At the beginning of the year, I swore blind I was going to make a more concerted effort to try and do more projects for no reason/contests/just because, so it hasn't been going that well, but I have certainly tried a few things that haven't seen the light of day on here because they haven't been finished. Give me time, they will come.

I've mentioned Emptees in the past, there is a similar site called Bandjob, and there is currently a competition running to "Re-Design A Horrible Album", what a great idea, when I saw that it was Creed's "Human Clay", I thought to myself...screw sleeping I'm going to have a crack at this!

I hate Creed and I hate that album cover, its an embarrassment! So this was really exciting to even think about. Meet my offering...





It is a stock photo that I have treated pretty heavily to try and make it more interesting, my idea was to not get a million miles away from something that they could use, whilst being a thousand times better than the original. I'm going to list this as for sale, as I doubt I will win the contest and this might interest someone as a cover for their record, stranger things have happened, but I honestly have no idea what will go over well with the judges, we shall see...

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Parody/homage

There is a fine line to walk between a homage, a parody and out and out theft. This shirt design was inspired by an afternoon following my girlfriend around various shops, a conversation about parody and knowing some friends far too well.

I give you...



This design came to life after wandering around shops seeing countless "Tapout" shirts in a few different shops, a conversation with a friend about how funny it would be to do a parody of it for my friends in Chains of Hate. I tried a few variations around the style that is generally used in "Tapout" shirts, grunge, heraldry, big text...

I wanted to get the heraldry as the focus of the shirt and use Chains of Hate to parody the Tapout logo, but I couldn't figure it out, I had a brain wave and their ever present UKHC was used instead. I really enjoyed making this!

Details time......



I'm going to be very upset if they don't get this printed on an A2 screen as it will look rubbish on an A3.

First post in ages...
Michael

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