It is time to Rise Early world

I couldn't post yesterday, the creative drives were simply too much. Created this excellent art guide for families at a exhibition at my local town. Great fun meeting people in the making, and getting my editor  and Typography skills together.

Beehive. An organ which drives the motions and motives. It exists as a symbol for the exchange of movement and work to provide for the future of human kind.

Jack

The World is an Organism

Some more iconic symbols rendered on Illustrator, a few other of my blog posts may provide in depth details to this imagery.

But with symbols like these, a beehive, a representation for human exchange vie cause and effect to produce and consume. It can entail a self-explanatory concept for you, the viewer to absorb (and to consume as media, a main function to maintain parts of the beehive).

I like this shade of gray. 80% black to be exact.

Jack

Funky icon contin. Symbols and Silhouettes for all

Another strange and unusual piece of graphic work, composed to demonstrate role-play and the performing arts via image. 

The iconic performance drama masks were made to appear as if they were a divided shape. A shape similar to a horizontally cut egg or tablet. This presents a unusual treat of individuality to the design. 

Yet the iconic contrast of emotions through the masks are recognized by the viewer almost immediatly.

This will also be published alongside active and energetic text for children to discover and role-play activities from within the arts space in an adventure through the gallery.

The boxes are simple geometrical shapes which break the ice to generate a more so symmetrical image, but also advocate mystery.

what is in the box?

a chest perhaps?

I can open it can you?

Jack 

Draw, create, build

May be a slow and steady start for the blog but what can I say aha. I had a lovely time away for now, and am glad to be back creating and building some ideas.

Here is a short and sweet pencil design I made to be used in a exhibition children's guide to instruct people to draw in different areas of the leaflet. The iconic design was fun to create, and the use of 80%of black was great to advocate subtle features of the design. What better way to portray design details on a grayscale print. The majority of illustrations were constructed using this 80% black, and the text was printed in original black to create a priority of information.

glad to be back!

Jack

How many colours can you use?

You can't beat a good action film. 

Whether it be cheesy action with great consistency between CGI graphics or old kung-fu films and martial art moves, action has become a large part of our lives. 

I had a interaction with a taste of a action form today, not physically, nor releasing my inner-chi powers to combat  a juggernaut, but a incoming client brief delivered immediately suggesting that the design should be finished asap.

I know, I know, it doesn't sound like much. But it's that shock attack feel which gives design that real feel for the true nature for being a designer, direct experience, and immediate results. That efficiency glow in the muscles after a target has been nailed, where you might as well have been bringing those PSI and Chi powers to prepare for ultimate target annihilation.

Similar to work some graffiti artists may relate to, work which is rushed under surveillance or pushed and powered by rational positions and decisions. 
Sometimes to provoke the inner-talents of the true artist. A meditation, a narrow tunnel of sight between only the artist and their work. A passion for work, a passion to make others feel fuzzy. Feeling that 'fuzzy' feeling of inspiration juices across the lungs, as the mind generated ideas on end when ideas have never adventured before.

The work above is this sudden brief I have been in fact gratefully landed with. 
A family based guide for a local arts exhibition which I cannot wait to finish. My previous project had been immediately dropped unfortunately, only to return at a later stage.


I have such great respects for the artists venue, and wish to create a really interesting guide to be used by families at the gallery. The artist is called Olivia Plender, and her work has been a great influence on the design. Perhaps not this one as displayed, but the exhibition guide will interact with younger audiences in art and design and allow them to partake in activities. 
I will link the artists website below, I highly recommend watching such a in-depth interview concerning her new works and exhibition, greatly inspiring for those interested in imagery intention, symbolism, conceptualism act (in modern day society).

I am going on holiday tomorrow, and for this reason will not be able to blog for a week, so excuse the lack of activity. 
It will be a nice week, a week away to generate and reform plans and perceptions of ideas. I can relax and enjoy the sun in another almost uncomfortable sense. So I will write back on the 10th of August and after. 

Olivia Plender - http://www.mkgallery.org/exhibitions/olivia_plender/

My recent favourite Typeface at the moment, used in the graphic above. (discussed in a previous post).

http://chewingcans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/type-for-nation.html

enjoy

Blog in a weeks time, stay tuned!

Jack

Book cover - playing with texture and pattern!

Made such a large file size to utilise this yesterday so apologies in not posting, it was too big to upload!

Had some great and some what frustrating times in lining up the pattern and organising the layers of photoshop but gradually came to this success. Hopefully this will be printed over the next day or so I can take a few pictures of how colourful it will be using gloss 140gsm gloss.


Whether you are interested in design or art or otherwise, feel free to Contact my email address for any questions/informal discussion

Jack

Tasty Texture

By tasty, I mean something sensual, something that little more inline with something you can experience.

When we see and view art, we observe its visual features. Its appearance, its texture and paint strokes. But it's those hidden sensual features which help influence a greater experience of artwork itself, by involving all of the senses. 

My love of negative-white space, sometimes allows me to imagine the texture of different materials when I place my hand over the creative design for example. I like to imagine an imposed raised area as I press my hands across the work.

 Using negative white imagery on black background, particular in photography is best to simulate this strange tingling to the fingertips.

By cropping the work at the top, the viewer is unsure whether the work continues around the border. As a white line immediately touches the frame above, and thereby creates an imaginary shape at the viewers imagination requests. I love it. Going to use this design to cover a couple of books for college on my up coming year or so.

Some other negative white-space - http://chewingcans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/eco-pattern-reducereuse-and-recycle.html - enoji

Cant wait to show you the finished product!!!

Wont be able to reply for a couple of days, its ever so much hassle in resizing images to fit the small allowed file size to post on blogger. Blog soon!

Jack