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Hofstede: Typre Tablet

Australian design studio Hofstede designed this type tablet to help promote themselves.
It features individual characters from some of their favourite designers / typefaces and is inscribed with the Jan Tschichold quote: 'Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts.'

Manchester Airport Vouchers Download

I was searching on the Manchester Airport site for something and i came across this really effective ad to get people to download vouchers. The visuals are really effective and relate to what the ad is about and it gives out that very christmasy feeling!

Stefan Chinof

We Love Apple!

I received this in an email today. Really effective visual with the present being made by different apple products. I love how they have delivered this in a very clever way, using colour to communicate Christmas rather than using the usual things you see on Xmas promotions such as snowflakes, Santa, Xmas trees etc etc.

New kettle chips ad-love it!

So simple and effective!

Toko Typeface

Pretty nice and visually interesting new typeface, currently in the making at Toko.

Plaza Magazine

I love the mix between a script font and a bold sans serif typefaces.

Noriko Ambe

Japanese-born artist Noriko Ambe strategically cuts into books, creating masterpieces. Check these out!

Some simple bits of type

I found these on leaflets and flyers which i have picked up when i've been out and about. I think the simplicity and chosen colour pallets of these pieces of design work well together.

This just reminds me of me..

As i was on the apple website today i came across this. The strapline used on this advert just made me smile as its something i always say when im talking to my mates!

Lovely Type

I think the letters in this piece of typography work really well to create an image.

How creative?

I absolutely love this piece of work. I wish i knew who designed it so i could see moreee!

Nescafe ad

This is my favourite ad at the moment! i absolutely love it, especially the typography at the end..make me say awww.

Billboard

The type on this works very effectively. The Grey and red contrasts really well together and the way type is layed out works nicely together.

Lovey Page Layouts

Coffee Island Business Cards

Ive been working on some business card ideas for the coffe island. This is what i have come up with so far.

Bon Vivant

After meeting up with my cousin i got my first live project from her. The brief was to design a logo for a French insipred Cocktail bar and tapas Joint.

This was information from the client to choose from one of the names below:

tableau [n. ta-BLOW or TA-blow] A tableau is a striking or artistic grouping of people or things in a picture or a dramatic scene. A presentation of a scene by a group of people who pose appropriately and remain silent and motionless is also called a tableau. In this case it is an abbreviation of the French tableau vivant (living picture).
Tableau traces back to the Latin tabula (a board or plank, hence a slab for writing on) but it entered English via the French. It has been in use in English since the late 17th century. Photographer Sandy Skoglund uses a tableau technique: http://www.kcad.edu/Gallery.finals/exhibitions/skoglund/skoglund.html.


bon vivant [n. BAWN vee-VAHN] A bon vivant is a person who is devoted to the finer things in life, especially good food and drink. Example: "She enjoyed visiting her uncle the bon vivant, who always provided fine wine and plenty of rich foods." Bon vivant is a French phrase combining bon (good or favorable) and vivant (living, healthy, animated). Vivant is the present participle of the French verb vivre (to live). Near synonyms include epicure and gourmand.

This was my logo concepts i sent:

Coffee Island

Over the summer i was asked by a friend to design a logo for a new coffee shop he bought in Salford. His coffee shop is located right outside Salford train station so he wanted something which was going to catch peoples atention as they ran to catch the train to their next meeting! Below a few photo's of his coffee shop.





Here are my concept ideas and final chosen logo by my client at the bottom.

Meeting with a freelance designer

Over the summer i also got the chance to meet up with my cousin, a freelance graphic designer in Leicester. She has recently set up her own company, five five design and it was really good having a chat with her! She showed me samples of her work and gave me some really good advice on how to tackle job situations after uni. She also said she was happy to pass me down any live briefs she got so i could have a crack at it to see what i can come up with which i think is a really good opportunity for me. Below are business cards and her flyer which she gave me too!

Tattoo Design

Over the summer..my cuzin asked me to design him a tattoo which consisted of out Hindu symbol of the 'aum' and also one of our gods, Lord Ganesh. He wanted something simple. Here were a few vector based images a did for him...





AND...here it is!!!!