14 / 41

I recently purchased this nice little publication, 14 / 41 (14 years 41 logos) - a limited run publication by MashCreative founder Mark Bloom, a showcase of 41 of his favourite logos over his 14 year career. The book also includes 5 golden rules of logo design and an insight into how he approaches an identity brief. 14/41 is a lovely piece of design and is incredibly helpful, especially with all the identity brief’s I’ve been dealing with lately. 14/41 is available at a cleverly thought of cost at £14.41, and can be found here.

2012

A magazine brief I've agreed to do outside of the course is to create an illustration based on 2012, with references to the Olympics & the whole conspiracy behind the end of the world in December. The deadline is this coming Fri and with all the work I have going on I'd like this wrapped up asap. Unsure about which approach is strongest…

'EARTH'

I attempted a drawing of Earth, colour and all, and it sucked. Playing around with the colour I accidentally inverted it and realised it looked so much better. It doesn’t exactly look like planet Earth anymore, but it’s kinda cool. Ongoing project away from the course. More details when finished.

MOOD

Finally getting my new brief underway after getting various projects completed. Spending my Friday night playing around with logo ideas for the magazine I'm designing. More details later.

Tonight I decided to do an observation drawing. It's been a while. Probably the first thing I've drawn in ages that isn't a person.

KELLY & JOE

Despite the billion things I have going on at the moment, because I'm cool I've agreed to help contribute illustrations to a magazine being set up by a couple of people I know studying in London. They initially wanted me to illustrate their portraits for the intro page (below) and at some stage they'd like me to illustrate a still from a photoshoot they're doing to compliment the editorial.

THUG LIFE

As future technology being one of five topics I've wrote about towards Contextual Studies I thought it was appropriate to mention this in my essay. Coachella is a three-day music & arts festival held in April in Indigo, California, and the most talked-about event this weekend just-gone was the 'live' performance of late rap legend Tupac Shakur, despite the fact he died more than 15 years ago. The hologram/CGI work of art was created by Digital Domain Media Group Inc. and is believed to have cost more than $400,000. Watch a visual Pac perform alongside Snoop Dogg in the video below. Awesome.

On the friday before Easter Break, lecturer Nick gave us a tutorial on putting together a poster which was inspired by Swiss Design. I never got round to finishing the poster itself therefore haven't been able to blog about it, so I decided to make a poster of my own, involving features we learnt and which were used in the poster from the tutorial (e.g blending options and colour editing). I used the tutorial itself as the subject of the poster as something to work with.