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.) 

BOOK

For 36 weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists; 2 from Brooklyn, NY and 2 from Belfast, Ireland.

Every Wednesday, one participant would receive the book, and have 5 days to design a spread in response to the one that proceeded it. It would then be sent on to the next artist the following Monday.

There was no communication between the artists about the completion of the book. Its first journey was on 2/6/2003 and its final trip was on 2/2/2004, travelling over 60 thousand miles in the process.

I hate my sketchbooks; I find them such a trial to complete and not a natural way for me to conjure up ideas and developments. I find myself spending waaay too long on them; and they end up becoming so forced and rigid. I think this is why I love this idea so much - it's spontaneous, requires no structure and can go in endless directions (somewhat literally). A really cool idea, and the visuals that have been created are beautiful.

See more, here at BOOK.

LOVE these

I adore these European book covers, discovered by Grain Edit. Simple yet complex at the same time? Ace. Click on the image for more.

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).

My life in GIFs.

Yawn.

GIFs from iamnotanartist.org

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!

Type Face.

Ever wondered what a conference between various different typefaces would look like? Watch this:

Font Conference...

Really not sure how I feel about the ending to be honest. 

Comic Sans is never the hero! 

(I am hoping it's supposed to be ironic?!)

Stamps!

These beautiful stamps from Uruguay, between the years 1971-74, are just amazing! The palette and type use is simple gorgeous; I wish our stamps looked like this! 

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letterpressed.

Ok so these are fairly similar to a previous post; but here are some images of the developments I have made to my book binding project. I took my idea into letterpress and hand printed the statements onto some really gorgeous stock. I really like how delicate and precious they now look.

Book designs.

Here are a couple of collages I've created, which will feature on my box set for the book covers I have designed for Alan Warner. I've chosen the top design as my final image.

(I feel) Out of focus.

I found this quote from Mark Twain and thought it was quite suitable to how I'm feeling and all the work I've got on at the moment. I decided to make something interesting out of it, just because I was bored. It's a REALLY bad quality image as my laptop really isn't wanting to co-operate with me right now, grr.

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.

I like this a-Lotta.

Lotta Nieminen works as both a graphic designer and illustrator. I love all of her work; it's nice to see someone not limiting themselves to one approach.

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. 

Finished books.