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…here’s a quick update on a few projects completed and on going. First up – TTF (To The Full). They are an outdoor activities company based in Yorkshire. They wanted an ‘extreme’ look to their branding and that’s what they got! Next on the list is to deliver their website – coming soon! — It’s [...]
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Recently we were commissioned to work on a range of greeting card designs for Apple Pip Productions – an independent card company based in London. The brief was to give these sentimental phrases a sincere look and feel, avoiding anything that felt twee or cheesy. We used hand drawn type, textures and vibrant colours to [...]
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Here’s some great news for beer lovers – our client The Sparrow is proudly hosting the BrewDog Libertine Porter launch party! This is great news for Mark and Les the partners of the bar - they’ve come such a long way since setting up last year, this is really prestigious event so be sure to [...]
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I was sent the photo below from our good friends at the The Sparrow the other day. It appears that the branding for the New Inn in Thornton may have been ‘influenced’ by our work for The Sparrow. What do you think?
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Here are 10 great books I highly recommend, All design based. I restricted myself to only books from the EVERYDAY SOMETHING book collection. Hope you enjoy! The book titles click through to Amazon to buy. Feel free to comment. Number 10 Supersonic – Visuals for Music The range of visual styles, experimentation and playfulness in this [...]
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Pitching is something that is usually part of the average graphic designer’s life – I’ve experienced it both in agencies, as part of in-house design teams and as EVERYDAY SOMETHING since setting up in April this year. I must admit for being an absolute sucker when a pitching opportunity comes along – I can’t help [...]
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Recently Everyday Something were asked to pitch for the redesign of the TTR World Snowboard Tour website. The pitch was a collaborative effort with Simon Atherley. Unfortunately we didn’t win but here are some of the visuals submitted. View full size here and here
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Just submitted a poster for Constellations Festival – it will be featured in a newspaper which will be available to purchase at the event. Constellations is a brilliant arts/music festival in Leeds, you should go! Check the website out for more information. Below: a little snippet of the piece.
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…this week has been quite strange. A local company needed an identity and stationery designing. A quote was put together which covered both design and print costs. The client signed the design costs off. A presentation was put together and sent to the client with the proposed design and roll out across the stationery. The [...]
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Here’s a look at a piece done for a great arts project – ‘Cardboard Guitars‘. It references a Van Morrison quote – ‘you can’t stay the same’ and makes a visual reference to the designer Paul Elliman (typographical reference). A number of guitars were made and given to artists to illustrate. A preview exhibition will [...]
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Been working on an Oktoberfest poster for The Sparrow. Here’s a little sneak preview of the visual…
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This week has involved a number of small but interesting projects. Here’s a selection of works in progress and unused ideas.
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This week has involved drawing and vectoring. Here some early stages of a couple of pieces.
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Recently been working on some advertising visuals for the TTR World Snowboard Tour – below are a selection of things created through the process – featuring scanned flour, hand drawn illustrations and weird typography. The final advertisements will appear in the main site soon.
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Started a new project – just been doing some test shots to get the ball rolling. Potentially going to be using some clay for this as well which could be interesting. Another typographical piece in the works. May try and involve a photographer with this one, we shall see.
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UPDATE: I didn’t win. I now need to find more competitions to win iPads. Here’s an idea I submitted to for a logo/identity competition held by Leeds Corn Exchange. If it gets chosen the logo will appear on all their bags and I will win an iPad. Fingers crossed.
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This is a self initiated piece of work inspired by, ‘Wretched, Pitiful, Poor, Blind and Naked‘, a book by Gene Elliott Thornton, Jr (aka Malice from The Clipse). I’ve been wanting to create something which had a connection to The Clipse in some way for a while now and when Malice’s book came out I [...]
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Thought I’d share a few ideas that weren’t developed further on the MBOSS project. I guess every designer has loads of ideas that eventually end up in the archive and forgotten about. I think it’s worth sharing the good stuff, or at least the stuff that has potential. Here’s one idea from the initial stage [...]
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