C MY K

see my k........ mystery work
but i wanted to make a piece of work as a responce
in supporting my research that CYMK is over rated

it is practically everywhere and it is getting a bit boring
seeing it all around. it's getting to be past it's celbidate in
all honesty, im waiting for some whitty ideas..

in the mean time i experimented with type
i decided that for every letter of CYMK i would
place an item which had relation with the colour
for example:

CYAN - Water, sky
YELLOW - Sun
MAGENTA - Luxery, comfort
BLACK - Spray paint - urban

here are some examples of development:







MESSY but why not play?

development

So i tried to further the type, i thought it could work better digitaly



here is the comparison between digital and real



I believe with the correct backing colour this could be a very successful piece to work with:



What do you think?

write an image

General playing, i thought i would try to make a image out of type
this is my first attempt in preperation in how to learn to make it more interesting appealing

Solo please

So, one thing i have noticed during the holidays is that i play drums a lot with my spare time



Another thing i noticed.... is that i brake ALOT of drum sticks



sooo on a fine night with nothing to do i decided to experiment with some drum type
i discovered that some letters work better than others.
i believe selected letters were a success but over all 60% of the letters do not work
what so ever and doesnt work appropriatly:





oh well.

Face the music

Yet again, every spare time of borderm i have been on illustrator practising and practising
so i can get to a level of understanding the programme to at least an ametures perspective
i have now been practising on modeled icons i enjoy here are the illustration designs:











Not much i know, but i am developing which is what i like to see
before the summer started, i can honestly say i couldn't do this!
i want to base my summer around getting more realistic with this programme
but that is only one thing i plan to base my time on. I will keep you dated! OVER AND OUT X

keeping active

hands on the ball, illustrator is getting funner and funner each day
I have started to use it for jokes on friends now, just in aid to practise it
even more, here are a few Boysie references as inspiration:





funny, personal, practise
what a designer has to do eyy

Practising Illustrator (bake sale?)

Well ive been checking illustrator out quite a lot recently and have been trying to brush up my skills on it, and all that jazz.

After the Johnny Cupcakes lecture i thought about re developing an old logo i made from my previous college, i basically thought that if i applied this to some merchendise it could bite and i could make a bit of money over the summer for rent, i call it my 'get rich or die trying scheme' but without the wholeee death haha:
(WARNING THIS LOGO MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHT)






Sweet man

Summer summer summer time

Okay it's 07:41am and i have been awake for at least 30 hours now, so far through this time away from the timetabled course (4days) i am lost and my sleeping pattern is mangled up.

Night is day, day is night.
I basically can not win, however, with night being day it gives me a lot less of a interactive human pleasurment selection of things to do, as everywhere is closed, everyone normal is alseep and everything is offline.... so why not start the summer brief off with a random walk in the middle of the night to find type, image and message!

here is a taster of a few photos i took this night, the aim was to see what graphical icons could be found in an area that would be visited on a night walk, heres the canal!









Not only was this walk a nice relax, but a real eye opener.
But i found interesting a reallllllly old navigation stone with old graphic design images carved into itone being the royal bank of scottland logo which looks like this:



and well it made me think how old the logo for RBS is.
so i looked at a bit of secondary sources and discovered the bank and logo were actually founded in 1727 which deffenitly gave the direction stone a bit of age.

One thing i thought it was ridiculous the fact that within the space of 20 metres
there were two different designs for a No fishing sign.

Both vector based images, both black figures with the simple red ban circle
the only real difference is one tried to be more realistic than the other.

The more detailed one seemed inapropriate in comparison to the tone of the other
illustration practically at it's front door.

but overall my trip of the canal ended in me making a homophobic to some kind of message.
then i deffenetly did that with the second image, not for the warm hearted! warned



thats it for now, blog out x