HELLO CA$H

Another Johnny Cash inspired poster.

Original design/concept by myself.

Price tag created using polygons and pathfinder "unite" option.

GET RHYTHM

A Johnny Cash lyrical typographic poster for "Get Rhythm."

TOP: Border with a corkboard texture

BOTTOM: (l) Border without texture (r) without border or texture

Lyrics belong to Johnny Cash. Design is original.

W.A.M. II

Just one of those things.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Antonio Salieri

W.A.M.

...And playin yo requiems on repeat.

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

STEFFI GRAF

Recently has ended the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

This poster came from watching a funny tennis video where a fan yelled, "Steffi! Will you marry me?" from the crowd, to which Graf replied, "How much money do you have?"

Created in Illustrator CS6 and edited in Photoshop CS6 with grass texture.

 

Block colour

 

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen

 

Left: Twice layered Colour Dodge

Right: Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 50% opacity

Layered Colour Dodge and Screen 70% opacity

 

GRID SYSTEM

Another typographic poster from my Summer to-do list.
I do enjoy dabbling in Graphic Design, however a dragging lecture prompted a short sentiment.

No offence to Schweiz, the creators of, or utilisers of the grid system. In fact, it's a very interesting and useful concept. (You can even see I've paid a little homage its origin with a cute little Swiss cross on the bottom).

Created in Adobe Illustrator and edited in Adobe Photoshop.

 

TOP: Black & white

BOTTOM: Eggshell texture "multiply" 35% in Photoshop

YO.

Made using the hand I pen-tooled from my last typograhic poster.

Word up.

 

Combining all 3 colours: 

MOTIVATION

So, I've made myself a list of posters to do in Illustrator over the Summer.

And this is one of them. So motivational.

 

Left: Solid colour in Illustrator

Centre: Crumpled paper texture at 50% opacity

Right: "Fawn" texture at 25% opacity

ALL HAIL BEARS

I finally got round to doing another poster after a bit of project work. The concept comes from love of awesomeness of bears shared by myself and one of my sisters.

I re-used the banner from "EINMAL UM DIE WELT" and re-painted and masked out a bear face to make it look OBEY-esque.

Illustrator CS6 & Photoshop CS6

BAKKUSHAN & CRO

Developed even more typographic posters after class today.
This time with lyrics from "Baby, Du Siehst Gut Aus!" by Bakkushan and "Einmal um die Welt" by Cro.

Third version with grunge texture
(Leading on the first poster could do with a bit of work)

Second version with paper texture

Customised with panda mask pen tooled in Illustrator

PODCAST WORK

I did some work for a classmate's podcast this week and here are the outcomes.

You can listen to the podcast "Geek and the Greek" here on http://geekandthegreek.podomatic.com/ or subscribe in the iTunes store.

 

^ Final choice for podcast cover ^

BOOKLET: PRINTED

The finished printed booklet for one of my Univeristy projects. Used InDesign to compile it as a PDF ready for print.
In printing I used Moleskine paper pasted onto regular copier paper for the inside pages and brown paper pasted over regular copier paper for the front and back cover. Took a lot of time and effort to construct the whole thing.
Two insert spreads are drawn by hand as no time was left for them to be printed, but they still give an good overall effect I think. I drew a metaphor between coffee and the sea as I made it a journey through the booklet.

Publication thumbnails:

Finished publication:
Title: Q (shortened from "queue")

Front and back cover

Page 1

"THE COFFEE CUP"

The icon of a caffeinated religion, pilgrimage includes: businesspeople, models, students and overworked parents alike.

It is here where we begin our voyage dear wayfarers...

Page 3-4

Illustration insert of the sea and coffee bean fish  

Page 6

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, enslaving than coffee.

(Paraphrased from: There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. -Joseph Conrad)

Page 7-8

Baristas, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

(Paraphrased from: Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. -Nicholas Monsarrat)

Page 9

The coffee is the same on both sides of the cup

(Paraphrased from: The water is the same on both side of the boat. - Finnish proverb)

Page 10-11

Illustration insert of queuing and coffee with the coffee bean fish being poured into a cup

Page 13

Like to moan. Like to queue. Love to moan about queuing. My God they're British.

And the blue lion laughed and laughed.

PERSPECTIVE

I saw a pretty inspiring and awesome quote from Billy Talent's website the other day and decided to make a poster from what the lead singer said in an interview.

Used the colour of a blue/green to link with life in some cultures then added a texture in Photoshop.

Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CS6

RESPONSE TO MUSIC

In class today creating album covers for bands that we like.

Things we were urged to include: mood, texture, experience and atmosphere of the music; can respond to lyrics and themes, narratives contained in the music; could include fashions of the times or a political/social message.

Questions we were asked to possibly include in the creation process: why do you feel passionate about their music? (reflect your experience)

Answer: I love the style and tone of both Billy Talent and Alkaline Trio's music, found it a bit hard to push aside remaking a cover when there are already awesome covers to these two albums.

I wanted to create two albums that I could link visual language to such as "addiction" to pills and "dead" to a crucifix.

Compiled in Photoshop CS6

2, 3 & 4 are final versions

1-3 Alkaline Trio "This Addiction" album (2010)

Grunge texture, syringe vector, prescription pill image, banner vector and Alk3 logo (completely rendered in Adobe Illustrator using pen tool)

4. Billy Talent "Dead Silence" album (2012)

Grunge texture, text and cross rendered in Adobe Illustrator, halftone brushes and mask layer