LOVE Screen Prints & The Stenberg Brothers

These I found on FFFOUND.com. Follow this link to the website http://ffffound.com/
I love the almost simplicity of these images. How the type layers the illustration. The lack of colour of the illustration makes the type stand out. The third one down is quite hard to see but the other two in my opinion work better. 'Death Ain't The End' i like too. I can make out Michael Jackson at the top. I feel the Poster is saying that even thought he is dead, his music will live forever. This I believe this is said in the other posters.

Stenberg Brothers 

Probably the main reason I got into Graphic Design- It was during my gcses when I discovered them- For my final piece I decided to do a movie poster influenced by them- Thats why I have nothing but Love for the brothers.

Distorted Type

I love this! I found it on someones blog and he found it on a website where various designers and illustrators that use different media and styles. He didn't have any link though. I love the awkward letter and I love the look of the typeface itself. When I get in to letter pressing I want to produce posters like this. 

Stretch Ideas.

Visit this website because all the poster shown look amazing! They really helped me get an idea of what to do to my own letter on my Design Practice blog. eyegasmz.blogspot.com

The idea of the letter form (or in this case the number) going outside the frame. Gives the impression of scale as if its been stretched.

 This sofa I found on www.ffffound.com and is good reference for my letters. Not only are the letters bold and hold the characteristics of being stretched but the photographer has been clever in photographing the sofa in such a way that its gives the illusion its being longer and wider. Naturally a sofa or chair is bent in this way. When ignoring that this is in fact a sofa and looking at it as a piece of type the curve gives the letters more life. It looks as if the letters a warped and streched. Again, the main problem with ffffound is they never give an artist or in that case a date so I can't look into other work this designer has produced.

ANDRE BEATO!

Super Villain

I found Andre's work a good year ago now in a magazine called ArtBox. His work to me has a very modern and fresh look to it that I am yet to see in other people work. Every piece I have seen has this lovely glossy and almost shinny finish which I quite admire. (mainly a type designer

'...My name is André Beato. I'm a Portuguese Graphic designer & Illustrator, born in Lisbon and currently based in London. I took a BA Graphic Design and a MA Design Visual Culture -Visual Production at IADE (Instituto de Artes Visuais e Marketing) in Lisbon. My work is mostly vector based graphics, corporate identities and illustrated typography. I've been working in the various creative fields of graphic, print and editorial, collaborating with clients from various industries such as record labels, magazines, clothing companies, advertising and others...' - ANDRE'S 'ABOUT ME'

I plan to visit his website more often as I can find great ideas and inspiration. Please visit his website and witness his style of design.

I like the "P" and the "E". They are indeed very exaggerated letters but connect strikingly well with "stretch"

This design was found onwrongdistance.com

Really relates to the word stretch. Visually there are clear and strong conventions and the letter itself is connoting STRETCH.

Again with this blog, a designers name is not given with every piece. Its not that important as this was used during my project of "Alphabet Soup" to gather more ideas, but it would be nice to explore other work that these mystery designers have produced.

This I found on http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/design and I've been looking for ages but can't find a designer anywhere. This is such a strong piece of reference for my 10 letters and this has really helped me. This is by far the best piece I have found relating to "Stretch. Not only are there 16 letters all squeezed tight up together in this small square but they each have their own square which they make good room of. There is so spare space in this piece, the letters eliminate all spare room by stretching to all four corners and thats one reason why this piece relates to stretch.   

Alphabet Soup. "Stretch"

My word I have to respond to is 'Stretch'. During the first studio session I had to quickly make 10 boxes on a sheet of A2 paper and in 5 minutes fill each box with a letter that responded to Stretch. This was a good exercise as it got ideas going. By Friday I must have ten 15cmx15cm letters that respond to strecth. I am not aloud to use photoshop, illustrator, or any kind of program. It must all be done all on paper. We can use card or anything we want but it must only be black and white.

This typeface is called 'Memoriam' and I found it on Ilovetypography.com. To me it looks like these letters have been stretched. The wavy bits at the ends of the letters remind me of what happens when you stretch bluetack or chewing gum. The typeface in general has a royal, elegant style. It almost looks like old fashioned hand writing thats been blown up in scale. 

For all my ten letters I am doing the letter 'R'. I chose 'R' because, to me, its a lot more interesting than most other letter. Especially when you compare it to the letter 'L' or 'I".  Theres a lot more happening in the letter, theres so much more you can play with.

Survival Kit Scene- Sam Hoh

By Sam Hoh

Here is a poster by Sam Hoh who is in my group for this project. He has showing the Survival Kits aid in this poster, why it is a help. Our Survival Kit is there to organise your life in a way that makes your work easier to get on with. He took two photos of himself using a tripod and then he created the text with pen on paper before finally scanning it in to Photoshop where the final alterations could be made. 

 - Our next job as a group is to actually create to box. 

First Day Survival Kit : Veidekke Bostad

Veidekke Bostad is said to be on of the biggest companies in Scandinavia. The idea of this particular survival kit was to help people who had just moved into a new apartment. If say their plates where in boxes this kit was there to get them through their first meal. I quite like the idea of our survival kit to have a logo similar to this. Here, they ( no designer name given with this)  have used Helvetica, which in graphic design and in the general public is the most conventional typeface out there. I am going to play around with some logo ideas and I will be experimenting with Helvetica.

Carlo Giovani : Paper Engineer

Carlo Giovani  is a graphic designer and illustrator from Brazil. He has a quirky style of paper engineering, which can be seen across his impressive portfolio including packaging for MTV, stop frame animation for Leo Burnett and paper animals for the New York Times. I particularly like this witty packaging design for Chinese tea. The box is what we are sort of looking to achieve however but obviously this design isn't quite it! 

Survival Kit: Caroline Henson

'A kit intended to be handed out to incoming students at Leeds College Of Art & Design’s graphic design course. Includes a screenprinted blanket, pillow and eye mask. A leaflet fully details why this kit is essential and how to use the products'

Things to relax to.

Caroline is a Graphic Designer who has recent BA (Hons) Graphic Design graduate from Leeds College Of Art & Design. I really like the simplicity of the designs but its a really effective piece of work. The box contains objects such as ear plugs, music, duvet and pillow. Even though we don't intend to create the objects in side I have taken a liking to the almost simple but effective design on the box. I think we plan to create not so much a plastic box but a carrier bag. Its not quite yet clear weather we will create a small, cardboard box or a carrier bag

"I like type & layout and have a passion for publication design.
I live in Huddersfield where I am currently available for work."

Caroline Henson Blog : Caroline Henson