Edit.

A little zine I have produced to display some of the work that myself and Nina McNamara created during our  placement at Flux last year.

New...

The new content for the next edition of Flux Magazine has arrived in my inbox! I am fortunate enough to have  been asked to work on it while art director John Walsh is on his jollies! Really pleased to be working with them again; it's all interesting stuff so far and I feel like I currently have a lot of responsibility which is exciting. Keep your eyes peeled for its release this Autumn :)

Placement 2

Some collage experiments and spread ideas from my placement at Flux magazine, using images from the Sia photoshoot.

 

       

      

Some experiments from my placement at Flux...

Here are some images from my placement at Flux magazine that I have been meaning to upload for a while. I played around with some cover and spread designs (working alongside Nina Mcnamara also) which was really good practise. Some of these elements were used by John in the published edition of the magazine. Here are some cover ideas, I'm really pleased with the aesthetic of them (click to enlarge).

 

Get yourself down to WH Smith...

The latest edition of Flux Magazine is out now, and I am proud to have been a contributor to its making!

Placement on the publication was really exciting and interesting, I learned so much from it despite having to finish sooner than I anticipated due to a bad case of chicken pox (seriously bad timing!!). I know now that it is exactly this sort of thing I wish to do on leaving university, lets just hope I can achieve something as amazing somewhere in the future.

 Also, check page 60 out... an image of my hand featured in an illustration we created was incorporated into the design - random, but ace!

News!

After all my blogging about this publication, it feels good to be announcing that myself and fellow student Nina Mcnamara (Check out her blog - Das Wunderkammer) will be embarking on a four week  placement at Flux magazine! We shall be working alongside art director John Walsh and designing the next edition of the publication. So so very excited and chuffed to have been selected!

So keep your eyes peeled - it will be available nationwide, in stores such as WHSmith and Magma, this summer!!

BIG GRIN :)

my final FLUX designs.

I created my own mini-edition with the layouts I had designed for my Flux project. Pretty pleased with the final result. (nb: the white edges of the magazine have since been guillotined off.) 

BB take 2

Just a little editing. Text looks less cluttered and have introduced another pantone to add more interest.

BB

My designs for Flux; article about Bertie Blackman (Australian singer/songwriter).

CONTENTS.

Some developments of my contents page designs. I think the last design is the better of the three.

more designs...

Latest designs I have created as part of my Flux brief.

For the above idea, I referenced styles by the Futurists in my work. I wanted to play on the idea of a "Journey into now" transferring past styles into the present. I wanted the piece to look similar to old science / school textbooks, in order to reflect upon the idea of "Only Human" being something scientific or biological.

These designs feature the images I have created; by scanning my face and distorting the image by moving while the process took place. I feel the scans produced are really interesting and play on the idea of Only Human. The images maintain organic elements yet also feel somewhat robotic or non-human. The type on the second image I feel works best. Overall pleased with the developments so far!

Flux; Spring edition.

Here is the original published copy of the spring edition of Flux magazine. I've been lucky to have my work published in the issue. It has been incorporated into the art direction of the publication, and is featured on the contents page layout. 

It feels odd seeing my designs in a glossy magazine! Also it's more odd that for our latest brief, we've been set the task of redesigning not only the cover and an article from the issue, but the contents page too; which poses the question of do I keep my work in the spread or remove it?! Tricky. Although I am over the moon I get the chance to display some work commercially, I wasn't too keen on the design that was chosen, but ah well - like they say; any publicity is good publicity!

p.s. excuse the poor image quality.

In the Flux.

Initial cover designs for Flux magazine. More work and improvements to be done; plus the design of the contents page and a double page spread about Bertie Blackman.