•DESIGN PROCESS - CREATING A LOGO •

•DESIGN PROCESS - CREATING A LOGO •

This is an unusually long post for me. I've not posted for a few weeks as I'm awaiting clearance to reveal details one of my favourite jobs of this year. It was the creation of a cute little character, but for the moment it still remains under publicity wraps. So here's a tidy graphic design job. More notes following the images ....

 The brief - to design a new logo for a packaging company. 

I've shown all the pre-final design ideas plus, following this text, you can see the chosen design in 3 formats.

Although most of my work these days is pure illustration I really do get a hell of a lot of satisfaction from graphic design work.

Please feel free to click and enlarge these images but remember that they are all strictly copyright. ©

SMARTPHONE DOWNLOADS

SMARTPHONE DOWNLOADS

Every so often I refresh my catalogue of downloadable graphics for the Smart phone, Cell phone, Talky, Handy etc.

I now have somewhere in the region of 200 designs available and all registered and precessed through WDA - Wireless Development Agency in the US.

I quite like this little Rainbow Tortoise fella and hope he or she goes on to greater things. The images are reminiscent of the psychedelia I produced in the 1980's and 90's using the ubiquitous V Dub van.

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•TOON TV

•TOON TV
This was one of a set of colourful cards I illustrated and designed as part of a new magic trick. It is produced and published by Razamatazz Magic and has special regards to Wayne Dobson, who first invented the fun and intriguing card trick.
I've performed this trick for young relatives and with only minimal rehearsal, it went down a storm.
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•EASTER POSTERS

•EASTER POSTERS
These giant posters (the vertical one is 5 metres tall) will be seen in the shopping mall at Milton Keynes over the Easter break.
The Mac slows down a bit when processing such large images so in order to keep working efficiently I had one job ongoing on the iMac and the other on the G5 and between them they coped admirably.
I suppose there's a good argument for working in vectors on such mammoth illustrations but over the years I've moved away from Illustrator and work almost exclusively in Photoshop, Painter and Form Z.
I think it's easier to 'paint' realistic forms rather than trying to create them mathematically with blended vectors. But then you've only to see some of the best vector artists' work to realise that if you're at the top of your profession and you know what you're doing it is possible to achieve almost any effect.

• BRICKS






























•BRICKS
Happy New year to all!
I'm just about recovered from a bout of flu, back at work but half speed at the mo. These two giant, 48 sheet posters, were commissioned at the end of 2008 by Dig For Fire, for a client of theirs with more brick varieties than is strictly healthy. So they spend their time building rainbows and maps of the UK to demonstrate the wonderful colours and textures and asked me to capture some of them in Photoshop and Form Z.
Watch out for them around the streets of Yorkshire. Click on an image to supersize it and remember that they are all strictly copyright ©.