Guy Ritchie - Poster Development

Back to the original idea of simple type on colour, has been developed further with a small illustration depicting part of the film in someway, not always critical but still important to the plot and usually its many twists and turns throughout. With the posters I didn't want the obvious phrase/imagery with each film that is always remembered, but to provoke a new look on the film pull the audiences curiosity towards the poster. This as a starting point depending on the crit, will be the basis of the packaging/cover of the films. I feel once a starting point has been decided, I can move forward.

Thoughts please!

MWA identity - Typeface No2

Inspired from the second MWA logo created, more defined letterforms were produced which lead to another typeface, again not as time consuming as expected, but work the investigation, a definite improvement over the first typeface, much more readable and experimental with diagonal lines.

 I feel much more successful, and has the potential to expand on.

MWA Identity. The next step.

From feedback of tutors/fellow students, I feel a slight revision of the logo was needed to see if any improvements could be made from what can be seen. It was questioned where the or not the colour combinations were required to enhance the logo and if the design was strong enough in a pure line-weight form.

Now the colour has been taken away, I feel the design had been 'over worked' and wasn't necessary to improve. Although I am happy with this logo, a little more development has been attempted to produce a more compact design.

Just mixing up what I already have, layering the shapes/letterforms created and dissecting different strokes to form new patterns, With the letters being M, W and A, I like the idea of symmetry with the logo so it made sense to just build from that with whats been produced. With the development, I ended up with the logo below. Although I do like the outcome, I don't think the architect is a big fan of Van Halen, which it only seems to remind me of every time I now look at it. If I'm ever in the position to design the identity of a heavy metal band with the initials 'MW' this will be the first place I look.

MWA Identity - Typeface

During the initial day brief for Matthew Whatley Architecture identity, while creating the logo I felt scope for creating a typeface directed from the rules and restrictions of the MWA logo created. Withe the rules in place, applying them to different letterforms didn't take as long as I thought, with some obvious adjustments to be made, this is attempt number 1 of the typeface, both line-form and reversed out. Not quite a portfolio piece, but if I keep practicing with letterforms and restrictions in the same way, ill will hopefully make some progress.

The typeface in use with 'Matthew Whatley Architecture' more of a composition typeface instead of a body copy don't you think? 

Works in some cases, obviously stronger in others.

Guy Ritchie - Quote development

Manipulation of a quote in indesign with a variety of fonts and colours, experimenting with what I have and coming to conclusions. You can see the development through the 20ish slides above.

Laser laser.

As part of some practice for future briefs and the handmade craft fair coming up, Both Rebecca Liggins and myself took the opportunity while the facilities were quieter, we would take advantage and practice with different materials.

The idea was to produce stamps with a variety of words and phrases to sell. The chosen material was lino which works great with oil based inks, unfortunately isn't the case for stamp pads. Even with sandpaper and distorting the surface, the pads took little-no ink at all, with disappointing results. Back to the drawing board.

Element Skateboards - Initial thoughts