Snow Photography

Whilst away this christmas as we all know we had a fair bit of snow.

So with this I decided to take some pictures of the scenery I seen/visited. Bare in mind these where took on my camera phone because my digital camera broke . . . the joys.

One day brief.

On Tuesday 5th May, I was handed a one day brief which i had to accomplish in 5 hours.

The brief was to take photos around the local environment, of every day life, that has an odd twist to it. We didn't have to take an image that was WOW in quality, it was just how the image came across, the way we titled it and what we was trying to show also was a major factor of how good the image was.

Floating Cone

Teddy bear outing 

Whats CCTV coming to?

New type of Staff Car Parks

Fake I.D. brief.

On the 30th April, I was lucky enough to do a one day brief with Fake I.D.

Fake I.D. was founded in 1999 by Yvan Martinez and Joshua Trees.

Fake I.D. is an independent graphic design practice that develops projects for cultural contexts (exhibitions, games, performances, publications, social media, websites and workshops.) Fake I.D. initiates collaborations between artists, brands and institutions, and works with companies to expand the cultural dimension of their communications through the origination motivation and support of thought-provoking activities and productions.

Currently in its tenth year, Fake I.D. had produced a diverse rang of work recognized in numerous books and magazines, including commissions from Aiwa, Anthropologie, COLORS, Emigre, The Face, Giant Robot, GBLT Historical Society, Harmony Korine, IdN, MTV, Nike, Sony, Urban Outfitters, Venice Biennale, Wieden + Kennedy and Zune Arts, among others.

The brief that Joshua and Yvan set us, was to use a set photograph and then produce a two minute voice over. Although this sounded an easy task, the catch was, that you couldn't directly reference anything appearing in the photograph itself.

For all the finished pieces, please visit;

http://www.wefakeid.com/p_lstn.php

Chubb - End Sting Design

For the past five weeks I have been working on a brief, which was to design an end sting for the company Chubb. The end sting had to be between three and five seconds long. My idea was to base if on a CCTV, so the idea was to be zoomed into the Chubb logo and move around the letters then near the end if pans out so you see the logo itself. 

Chubb - No Sound

Chubb - Sound

Magazine Video

Having just finished a brief on re-designing The Observer Magazine, we was asked to produce a one minute video based upon how we produced our work. My video was based upon the different stages i went through to get to my second spread.


As you can see i attempted to line it up with the beat . . . so when there was a certain beat the image would change.

Observer Magazine

For the past six weeks I have been working on re-designing the Observer Magazine.
The brief was to re-design the Observer Magazine to make it more appealing and interesting. I was set the task of designing a front and back page, editorial and inside cover page and two two page spreads. The two page spread was based on a article which was called Water Wars which in brief is about Tap Water against Bottled Water. I started this brief by associating words to do with War and then Water, after this I started putting two words together from each word association which helped me come up with some ideas. After I started with the initial ideas i started placing these on spreads so I could start adding type to the imagery to see how it would work. Whilst doing this I started using grids for the first time which helped me a lot because you get a lot more options for where things can be placed on the spread. Whilst doing this brief i used the Photography studio for the first time which helped me a lot with some of the imagery I used.

(going from top to bottom; front and back pages, editorial and inside cover, first spread and second spread.)

At the end of the brief looking at my final images i find them very succesful, although i wish had a bit longer to tweak the first spread because i find this page the most unsuccesful out of the set.