jiraffe

Draft shot.

2012-01-30T22:59:00.001Z

Sometimes I do rough camera animations to test a camera move before committing to the final shot. I only animate the camera's movement and leave all the bits in the frame static. It's come in handy a lot as I can just drop it into the working edit quickly and see how it'll flow. It's something that's become a key part in the shooting process for me since trying it first in my Stephen King animation.

Here's an example of one of those camera animations. I didn't go for this shot in the end but it gave me an idea for one coming up so it was useful. The shot could be a little more straight too but I was impressed with the versatility of my tripod! Mini crane shot!

Teaser!

2012-01-29T15:00:00.000Z

Here's a teaser of a few frames from the animation I've been working. Very, very excited to get it out there! Still much work to be done so I won't babble on. Check it out!

I have been...

2012-01-27T13:59:00.000Z

... animating with some of these recently. Very excited with the work I'm doing at the moment!

Currently working on...

2012-01-24T00:07:00.000Z

Here's an illustrator sketch I've just made for a model I'm going to build. Oh yeah.... twice!

Storyboards & sketches

2012-01-21T17:45:00.000Z

Thought I'd share some scans of a few storyboards and production sketches from the animation I'm currently working on.

Jonny Lives

2012-01-19T10:54:00.001Z

The Future Shock asked me to do another poster - here it is! I went for a simple, bold typographic approach to put the focus on the intriguing band name. I had this idea that 'Jonny' was supposed be like a famous/legend activist who has gone into hiding and his followers had started a street campaign to people know he was still around. Originally I wanted to strip it back as much as possible to just Jonny Lives and a few bits of information but I was told the ad was going into a mag/local press so it needed to get everything across. I think it's still successful with getting across my original idea but it'd be really cool to just go around and paste up posters with only 'Jonny Lives!' on them to build up some mystery behind the name around the local area.

It appears this is my post of 2012...

2012-01-18T12:31:00.002Z

...here's a sneak peek at something I'm working on at the moment. Animation & model making for Investors Network. www.investorsnetwork.co.uk

I'd love to show you more but that would ruin everything! You'll just have to wait a few weeks until the animation is released online.

By the way! I put together a tutorial video for the site which you can check out below. Quite nice to be working on a variety of things. Keeping me on my toes and learning new things on the way.

I love unexpected results from...

2011-12-15T13:52:00.001Z

... scanning weird things. These awesome textures are from washing up liquid inside a plastic wallet (inverted and contrast messed with).

He's silver now.

2011-12-14T10:22:00.000Z

Soon

2011-12-11T02:45:00.001Z

Friday Fun.

2011-12-09T14:02:00.000Z

Merry Christmas!

2011-12-08T18:42:00.000Z

I'm in the Christmas mood, and you should be too! Here's an illustration of some holly I whacked together today.

A little peek...

2011-12-07T16:37:00.000Z

...at something I'm working on. Very excited about it.

'We are the 5% Zine'

2011-12-07T13:42:00.002Z

My friend Chris (http://www.thezu.de), whom I work with at Red, invited Victoria and I to contribute to a zine he was curating. The theme was 'we are the 5%' which refers to the creative industry making up 5% of all industry in the world. It's also a bit of a reference to the Occupy movement and the fact that most of us in the creative industry are part of the 99%.

You can see mine and Victoria's contribution below (side by side!). You can check out the rest of the pages here: http://www.thezu.de/5percent.html

Constellations Newspaper

2011-11-18T14:19:00.001Z

The newspaper for the Constellations Music Festival in Leeds arrived at Red yesterday and we finally got to see our poster in the flesh! I'm very happy with how it turned out and the paper itself is really nicely put together and there's some awesome posters in it.

The newspaper design and festival art direction was done by Studio xiixii - http://xiiixiii.net/

Check out the Constellations Festival website where you can buy the newspaper! It's well worth it: http://constellationsfestival.com/

To entice you even more here are some images of the paper and our poster.

FOUND: Levis 3D Comic

2011-11-18T11:20:00.001Z

I found this in a box full of promo bits Red has received in the post from all sorts of people/companies over the years. It is literally so awesome and obviously way better in the flesh but it gave me a kick up the arse to go ahead with the 3D zine I've been thinking about making for ages.

I wish you could all see the effect of the images. Each panel comes to life with amazing depth. Only sections of the comic are in 3D however. To read the whole comic like that would be tiring I think but the 3D sections really draw you in.

11/11/11

2011-11-11T19:26:00.003Z

Amazing date today... why? Cos it's my birthday! Oh and here's some new work. See ya later, off to drink beer!

Glitch

2011-11-11T12:57:00.001Z

Didn't make the cut

2011-11-01T17:55:00.000Z

Part of some work I did that didn't make the cut. It wasn't right for what we were doing but I kinda like it. Kinda. Been done before I guess.

Death Metal Zombie Artists

2011-11-01T17:50:00.000Z

I had some work shown recently at the former home of the 'Centrefold Gallery' in Guernsey. I say former because it no longer exists. However, it was resurrected for one night only because of a terrible curse! The rent! Work was on sale and proceeds went to paying off the debt. I wasn't able to attend but it sounds like everyone had fun. I really wanted to put some new work forward for this but didn't have time so I sent a few of She Haunts The Roads screenprints I had laying about.

Constellations Festival

2011-10-31T09:36:00.002Z

Red Design were asked to contribute a poster for Constellations Festival happening in Leeds on 12th November and I got to design it! The brief was simply 'constellations' and it was up to us to interpret it in our own ways & unsurprisingly each poster is very different.

15 posters will be sold together in a limited edition 64 page tabloid newspaper that accompanies the music festival. It's available for £10 online (click here for the shop) and available for a reduced price on the day for ticket holders.

You can check out the work here and feel free to buy it and support us if you're feeling generous. There's some really great studios involved so it's exciting to be apart of it.

Josh

Plog

2011-10-20T01:22:00.007+01:00

A massive thank you goes out to Son Emirali and the Plog Mag guys for liking my FMP work and featuring it in issue 3. I'm really impressed with the work they're doing. Remembering these guys are only just going into second year makes this even more awesome. It's so good to see people who are passionate about their work and I wish everyone involved the best for their coming year. I'll be keeping an eye!

Check out Plog's site -

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2011-10-14T13:29:00.000+01:00

Scanner experiment.

2011-10-11T12:02:00.000+01:00

I Love 3D.

2011-10-10T00:45:00.003+01:00

I've been meaning to design this for ages! I've just got round to it and I'm quite happy with it. I'd wear one! ;) Might get a short run of risograph prints done too! Get in touch if you want one ;)

1955-2011

2011-10-07T00:39:00.001+01:00

RIP Steve. Thank you so much.

progress

2011-10-07T00:32:00.000+01:00

Doing a little more development on 1159 stuff. I am definitely preferring this a bit more. Using only red and blue and getting rid of the black was the thing I did. Totally freed things up. Still in the draft stages but I like where it's heading.

Semiconductor

2011-10-02T23:34:00.000+01:00

Still on at The Phoenix Gallery in Brighton. We had fun!

Oh Eight

2011-10-02T02:04:00.000+01:00

Best damned teapot I ever illustrated!

2011-09-28T13:28:00.000+01:00

In fact, the only teapot I've ever illustrated! I'm quite happy with it though.

defintion of frockney

2011-09-25T23:57:00.001+01:00

Some ideas for a small promotional publication that 1159 want to put out along with their release 'Ou est Le Tissier'. I have how I want it to look in my head and I think it could eventually be awesome but what I've done here isn't quite right. Just some initial experiments happening at the moment really but I'm excited to do some more on this soon.

Accidents.

2011-09-20T14:47:00.000+01:00

I love accidents.

Bad drawings.

2011-09-16T17:22:00.000+01:00

Never Means Maybe

2011-09-16T00:52:00.002+01:00

Thinking of doing a run of 50 of these to give away at a gig my bro is putting on soon. The band on the poster is the headline act who are going over to Guernsey from the UK. Kudos to my bro for breaking his balls to get some good music on the island.

Thinking screen print or maybe even lino cut. The idea for the type and symbols stemmed from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Maybe it would lend itself more to a hand crafted process? It'll all depend on time. It's crazy I even managed to fit this one in!

Unfortunately the band have had to pull out and reschedule the gig so I won't be making this print any time soon. Such a shame! I got quotes and everything! Now I look rubbish.

Stephen King's Memory 2D

2011-09-11T10:07:00.000+01:00

Here it is! My stop motion film from my Final Major Project. Shot in 3D but presented in glorious 2D for the internet! For those of you who have stereoscopic 3D screens I'll be uploading a side by side version in the very near future. That or Youtube 3D.

This stop motion animation was made as part of my Final Major Project at university. The film was shot in stereoscopic 3D and displayed in 3D at my degree show at Winchester School of Art.

The film is about horror novelist Stephen King. In the summer of 1999 he has hit by a car whilst out walking in Western Maine. He wrote about the horrific events in his part autobiography 'On Writing'. He describes what happened as something 'straight from one of his own books' as if his own horror writing was coming to life.

This animation is based upon the events of the accident and makes them come to life. The writing literally comes off the page to create 3D typographic sculptures which play out the narrative.

All the letters featured in the film were laser cut and all objects were made by hand. The animation was shot over a period of about a month. I am currently writing some music to be used with the film. This was the longest stop motion animation I'd ever done and it was also the most challenging thing I've ever done. This was also my first attempt at stereoscopic 3D and I was very happy with the results and got some excellent feedback.

Audio

2011-09-10T21:31:00.001+01:00

I made this GIF for the Red website. Nothing new really, it was based on the old one but added a new poster. Having loads of fun doing all kinds of work for them.

Oh, and the 2D version of my FMP animation is going up tonight. It's about time!

This is heavy...

2011-09-09T21:49:00.003+01:00

This has to be the coolest thing I've seen for ages. I'm in complete awe of the whole campaign and I'm amazed at the amount of buzz it's got. I don't even care that I can't afford a pair of these I just think it's been handled so amazingly that you've just got to look on and acknowledge the sheer awesomeness of the whole thing.

I am a massive Back To The Future fan and Michael J. Fox's performance as Marty McFly has to be one of the main reasons. It's always so heartbreaking to see MJF with his condition yet so heart warming at the same time. You see how positive he is about the situation he's in and how he isn't willing to give up the fight.

The teaming up of Nike and the Michael J. Fox Foundation makes this whole thing so good. It's crazy how we can get so hyped up about material things such as a pair of awesome shoes but it almost isn't about how the shoes look. Human beings go to movies and watch films to imagine they're someone else. They look for someone to aspire to, empathise with, care about, sometimes even hate but the fact is we see ourselves in these characters. For me, it's the attachment to the character of Marty McFly that makes these shoes so special and we owe that to Michael J. Fox.

That man is a real hero and if I could I'd put down ridiculous amounts of money to help him in his cause. He makes these shoes what they are and he deserves so much credit for making these so god damn desirable. It's times like these where you realise the power of film and the way it can speak to and influence the world. For all the people wishing these were dirt cheap and you could own them too I feel your pain but let's put jealously aside and rejoice in the fact that Michael J. Fox is fucking awesome and his foundation deserves every single cent it will receive from the proceeds of these auctions. I'm totally aware that other charities could do with funding, help and awareness too but there's a power behind this that we can't ignore. If only all charities had the backing of such influential brands like Nike.

I'm glad I wrote that. May have to do more social commentary in the future. It's my blog. I'll do what I want! ;)

Having a really fun time creatively right now. Loads of ideas, I just wish I can get to do them!

JGRF

2011-09-07T23:21:00.001+01:00

I made a new Twitter avatar and then it turned into a new typeface! I need to stop with that now and get on with the task at hand. I love experimental tangents in illustrator.

Courage Have Courage at Reading!

2011-08-29T20:37:00.000+01:00

It was an absolutely pleasure for myself and Victoria to be invited by Courage Have Courage to Reading Festival on Sunday. As a treat and a way to say thanks for the t-shirt design we did for them the guys gave us a guest list pass each for the day and we were able to hang out in the guest area behind the main stage and rub shoulders with rock royalty! To be fair.. the most famous band I saw there was Architects but that's still pretty cool! :)

We saw some great bands throughout the day, namely Frank Turner hailing all the way from the town of my former residence, Winchester!

However, the best part of the day was seeing Courage Have Courage play the BBC introducing stage in the afternoon. I've known the guys in the band for quite some time and to see them perform at Reading festival for their 10th ever gig as Courage was quite amazing. I'm so proud of my bros! Check out some footage from their set below and follow the link to get some more info on these guys. You need them in your lives I assure you!

Hopefully we can do some more work for them in the future. It's an absolute pleasure.

Courage Have Courage on the BBC

Red Hot

2011-08-29T20:25:00.003+01:00

Hello blog. Sorry I've neglected you for so long! I've been rather busy lately and I've got a lot of exciting things to talk about.

First of all I'm back in Brighton! Victoria and I have been living in our new flat for just over a month now and I'm happy to say we've finally settled in!

Secondly I've been at Red Design in Brighton now just over a month as an intern. I'm having a great time there and it's good to be getting involved with some really great projects they have on at the moment.

I'll be doing some new work for E-Si in Guernsey soon too so keep a look out for that. For the time being please check out Red's site!

http://www.red-design.co.uk/

'£$¥€'

2011-07-04T20:31:00.000+01:00

The last few weeks have been very busy but very amazing. The degree show went really well, got a great final mark for my degree, had a few meetings about my work and the London show was a great success. Much fun had all round!

I managed to sell a healthy amount of prints and get up into the next price barrier which was really cool so thanks to everyone for buying one of my prints. I loved the concept of the show and after chatting to my fellow grads we're keen to do something similar together in the future!

Thanks first to Hato Press for the prints, they turned out amazing and I'm in love with risograph printing. Thanks to Chris from Super Collider for the talk on Saturday, really inspiring stuff and really into what he's up to with SC so I'll definitely be keeping an eye on that. Thanks again to Let's Recuperate for putting on the show. Most of all WELL DONE to everyone who had work in the show and all those who worked hard promoting it. Here's to the future!

Also check out #pdye on Twitter to track the whole journey!

(I'll get some more photos up soon. Trying to get a Flickr group together so watch out!)

PDYE is ready to roll!

2011-06-22T01:10:00.001+01:00

Hey guys, really excited to announce that the work for WSA Graphic Arts London Degree Show is now up on the PDYE site!

The work is looking fantastic & I can't wait to see all the prints. Getting really excited for this one now. It promises to be an awesome week with talks, book crits, hang outs, meet ups, drinks, prints and fun times.

Check out the site here: http://www.pdye.eu/

Here's a picture with my work on it next to Grant's.

Winchester School of Art Degree Show

2011-06-19T15:52:00.000+01:00

The WSA 2011 Degree Show is now open! We had the private view on Thursday night which went very well. I met lots of nice people & I really enjoyed talking to them about my work.

If you've been to the show and picked up my card, hello & thank you. I am currently working on updating my portfolio and website so please keep checking back.

If you liked what you saw at the show and you are interested in commissioning me for any graphic design, animation or illustration work please contact me via jiraffemail@gmail.com.

Courage Have Courage Tees Available on Monday!

2011-06-11T18:29:00.000+01:00

It's been a long time coming but the shirts I've been working on with Victoria (http://www.thepaperbandit.com) for AWESOME band Courage Have Courage are finally coming out on Monday.

The shirts will be on sale for £12 from their Big Cartel store which you can find at http://couragehavecourage.bigcartel.com/product/wild-game-series-tee-1

'PDYE' London Show

2011-06-11T18:21:00.000+01:00

Today we had a workshop for our London Show at the Rag Factory in Shoreditch. We've been set a brief called '£$¥€' or 'PDYE' which is based around the idea of value. We'll be creating A3 prints where a print run of 50 will be sold at the show. The cool thing is that the price starts off low and goes up each time as someone buys a print. The first person could buy one for 50p and the last for £50 (if all goes to plan!).

I'll be working on this brief then over the next week as we need to submit the work next Friday. Thanks a lot to Recuperate (http://www.recuperate.eu/) for coming in and doing the workshop today and giving us the brief. It's really exciting and can't wait to see all the work up at the show.

Come along if you can. Details are on the flyer.

Massive 3DTV for my degree show.

2011-06-11T17:57:00.000+01:00

It all seems to be coming together now & I'm really looking forward to the private view next week. We tested out the 60" 3DTV yesterday to make sure it all works and luckily it does! It wasn't too hard to get it working. I have the video playing from a Mac Mini with a HDMI output to the TV. We set the resolution on the Mac Mini to 1080p after a few tries and looked great.

The show isn't fully set up yet though, still need to add a shelf to the front of the screen where my models from the animation will be displayed.

Dragon Stop Motion

2011-06-06T09:00:00.000+01:00

Dragon Stop Motion is very good, but it's also quite glitchy. That isn't such a bad thing though because sometimes it does things like this:

Everyone else is doing it so I might as well.

2011-06-04T11:36:00.001+01:00

Degree show is very soon. The official invite can be seen here: http://wsa.soton.ac.uk/make/invite/

However, Grant has made this rather splendid alternative, many claiming this one is far superior. I'm a fan and I'm in it. Going against all safety rules here too. Sorry Adam.

Put it on a postcard

2011-05-23T00:08:00.000+01:00

Kat has been organising a Sauce Collective mail out pack to promote our degree show which is very cool of her. We have 3 each. This will be one of mine.

Shots

2011-05-17T01:15:00.000+01:00

I'm having a lot of fun with my animation now that the backdrop is sorted and I have some decent lighting. This is mainly down to Kat's expertise with studio lighting, so thanks Kat!

Here's a few test shots/screen grabs from what I've been doing recently. I'm still doing stuff based around the book you see in the images but I tested some of the type model stuff just so I can get a taster of what it'll look like. I'm really happy with the results, I think it's going to look great in 'proper' 3D (none of this anaglyph nonsense!).

Car Boot

2011-05-17T01:00:00.000+01:00

We've been going to the big car boot sale in a car park somewhere in Winchester recently (still have no idea what most of the places are called here!). I haven't really been buying much but I've been taking photos of things that are catching my eye instead. Mainly book covers & pieces of type that I like. Thought I'd share a few with you guys. My favourite is probably the book about military vehicles. Two colours, simple type and simple illustrations.

Frockney in twenty lessons?

1159 Returns

2011-05-15T17:23:00.000+01:00

More to come about these guys but mocked some things up recently for their demo packaging design.

The Rig!

2011-05-06T00:28:00.000+01:00

I've finally got my 3D slider rig sorted after mucking about with DIY solutions for a number of weeks. I wish I'd got this sooner but I have to thank Victoria for suggesting to look online again.

Most of the rigs I had come across were pretty expensive so I was a bit put off but with further research and looking on ebay I found this thing called a 'macro slider' which works a treat! Does the perfect job for what I need. It comes with 2 rulers on each slider too which is perfect. That way I'll no exactly what my interocular distance will be. I'm actually so thrilled to finally have this. I can't wait to get started now!

It was pretty cheap too (about 35 quid) and I got it from a company called 'Suntek'. Check the product out here if you're interested in buying one!

Pride and joy.

More type sculptures

2011-05-05T23:23:00.000+01:00

Hey guys! I'm having a lot of fun with these at the moment and gearing up to starting my animation.. tomorrow hopefully! I'll keep you updated with how that's going no doubt but for now here's some more type sculpture stuff for you to check out. Hope you like them.

Cheers!

Type Deer


Type Glasses

The cover of the book that starts off the animation.

A special treat for any of you with anaglyph 3D glasses

Things...

2011-05-01T23:42:00.000+01:00

...have been up and down recently. I feel I've progressed quite a bit over the last 4 weeks but it's been difficult and I probably could have done more had I not had to deal with few a technical hiccups and personal issues. That's life I suppose.

I'm not in the most ideal situation right now, i.e. nothing is animated yet, but I don't like to rush. The point is, I'm not actually in the position where I'm be able to animate anything yet anyway & I'm not going to do some just for the hell of it to please someone else. I'm almost at the stage where I can start and that's fine by me.

Here's some things that I've been doing recently. It's all preparation work at the moment but I'm really excited to see these things come to life!

oneonefivenine

2011-04-12T11:53:00.000+01:00

I've been working on some design for 11:59 again recently and I'm having lots of fun with the style. All the work finally starting to come together which is really exciting. I'm working on designs for their website at the moment but I had a few ideas for some t-shirts which I got really excited about and I thought I'd share them.

I haven't proposed it to the guys yet since everything else needs to be finished but I might make some DIY t-shirts for myself to wear anyway and show my support for Frockney!

KICKARSE!!

2011-04-08T17:23:00.000+01:00

Some Friday fun. We're having a film night over at my house (dubbed Cinema 64) and I decided to go all out and make tickets for everybody attending!

Things like this are the things I remember wanting to do when I was 14! Living the dream.

Type Scultptures

2011-04-05T23:01:00.009+01:00

These are a few ideas for props to be involved in my animation. The idea is to kind of make a book come to life with typography escaping the book and forming objects and scenes to visualise the story that's inside. I wanted to find a spin on the kinds of book art you see regularly where sculptures are made from the pages of the books. I think I've found it with this.

I'm having a lot of fun making these and animating them come to life is going to be tough! I want to capture them growing piece by piece and I'm beginning to think that construction will take place while I'm shooting! I'm looking at other ways to accomplish the same look but it might look too fabricated. I like the fragility of these. Being able to see the joins is part of the charm about them in my opinion.

I did a few short animations to test these things out too which I'll be putting up soon. Cheers!

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2011-03-21T23:45:00.000Z

Not giving too much away. Just wanted to post this because I'm having fun doing with this project for CHC at the moment. Not finished or anything or perhaps even part of any final designs but I quite like it. Vic and I are slowly making progress on the project. So much going on at the moment!

Ingo Maurer

2011-03-19T21:56:00.007Z

Found some of Ingo Maurer's work in the Winchester School of Art library today. His sculptures are based mainly around lights but the images I'm showing here are slightly different to that.

I find these images really get across a sense that cars are potentially very dangerous pieces of technology. They're almost like full size exploded diagrams of the all the parts of a car which highlights how many things could go wrong with them. The spikes are just scary as hell.

Have Courage

2011-03-08T18:44:00.001Z

Hey guys,

Victoria (http://www.victoriaulrikkeiles.blogspot.com/) & I have been working on some merch designs for my good friends in Courage Have Courage.

We're still fairly early on in the process but we're having fun and getting somewhere! I'm a bit reluctant to show any drafts of what we've done so far because they're no where near finished but the image below shows some of our working process.

This is mine & Vic's first collaboration so we're pretty excited about how it's going to turn out. I'll keep you posted!

P.S. Make sure you check out Courage Have Courage's new track 'All Night Long' below and have a browse on their Youtube channel. Loads of cool updates and a rad music video by Sitcom Soldiers.

World Book Day programme

2011-03-02T22:37:00.003Z

Hey guys, this is the World Book Day programme that was created in collaboration with Grant Killoran. Grant put this together this afternoon under extreme time constraints and he's done a good job.

Things got a bit crazy, lines were left in on the print and the copies were a bit squiff. The things were a nightmare to fold and become the thing you see on this blog (there were 100 to do!), but we got there in the end! So cheers to Grant, Mayhee, Amy and everyone else who helped fold them and cut them!

Looking forward to tomorrow, it should be good fun!

Also cheers to 'WikiBooks' for their wiki on single page zines. I totally forgot how to do them and found it was a good resource for zine and book making so check it out!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zine_Making/Putting_pages_together

Cheers!

'Multiples' final poster

2011-03-01T18:15:00.000Z

Trying to make a poster for World Book Day

2011-02-28T22:15:00.001Z

I'm trying! Spending far too much time on it as well. There's been countless drafts and I've been experimenting with loads of different approaches just to get to this one and even still be unsure. I need your help people! I need to get it sorted pretty soon. I think I'm close and I may even admit defeat and just put it out there. Maybe I need to? Comments would be appreciated though guys! Cheers.

Multiples for World Book Day

2011-02-23T19:24:00.004Z

We've been asked (as Sauce Collective) to organise a stall for featuring Graphic Arts students across all 3 years for World Book Day next week. Students are asked to create 'multiples' such as; books, zines, prints, postcards, greetings cards, that sort of thing. I was thinking of doing a few A5 prints and zines and things to sell on the day. I've included a few images of what I've been working on so far. Not sure if they'll sell but it's cool to experiment and hopefully I can get some feedback from people if all else fails.

Cheers!

Edit: Just printed some stuff today and they seemed to have come out well. Check em out below. I also printed onto some silver card, which you can't really see, but in the flesh it looks awesome.

She Haunts The Roads stickers!

2011-02-18T19:50:00.001Z

My logo design for She Haunts The Roads has been turned into stickers courtesy of my sign writer buddy, and current drummer for the band, Neil Etasse! He's done a fine job and I hope they kick ass at their gig this weekend. I'm sure they will!

Sauce Collective and Print Matters

2011-02-18T01:23:00.000Z

I thought I'd share this with you guys for the benefit of those that don't go to Southampton University. If you do you should totally check this out! Basically, Print Matters is an exhibition of Artist's books, publications and zines at the Hartley library, Southampton Uni Highfield campus.

Myself and the rest of Sauce Collective were lucky enough to have our zines exhibited in the show. We had both individual and collaborative zines featured and even a bit written about us in the catalogue. Very cool!

I'm delighted to have my 'For England' zine featured in the exhibition. Although England ultimately failed to live up to expectations in the World Cup it reflects my passion for the team at the time. It's an example of the belief England football fans have in their national team. I really enjoyed making that piece of work too so I've no regrets with that one!

Have a browse through the images but please try and make it down if you can! I've also included the text from the catalogue for you to read. Cheers!

3D Tests

2011-02-17T02:34:00.001Z

My final major project is all about 3D. The plan is to explore making 3D objects, 3D type, making stuff in spaces, taking over walls; that kind of thing. I've been testing a lot though lately with stereoscopic photography and today I've been working with After Effects.

I should mention that this is basically my first foray into AE and I'm pretty happy with myself. I seem to have picked up the basics fairly quickly.

For the time being I've gone with Stephen King's Dreamcatcher as a basis for adaptation. I'm interested in all the images we get in our head when we read books so I want to make our imaginations come to life and let it live in 3D space instead of our minds.

You'll need a pair of anaglyph 3D glasses to view some of the images/videos in 3D.

Edit: The videos are now available! Here they are:

2D Version

3D Version

Latest one for 'The Future Shock'

2011-02-16T13:51:00.004Z

Completed a poster over the weekend for The Future Shock Live in Guernsey. They're a gig promotion group run by my brother Jack and my mate Tom (Shinfo).

It's giving me some nice creative freedom at the moment. Not my best work but it gives me the opportunity to try new things and see what works. It helps getting rid of the fear of doing something wrong.

Be sure to follow them on Tumblr! They've got some cool gigs coming up soon including one with 'Verses' who Jack and I played on the same bill with when we were in My Last Victory. http://thefutureshockmusic.tumblr.com/

1-1-5-9

2011-02-07T17:43:00.001Z

Some progress on the demo covers for 11:59. Some are a bit wild and overlayed, will probably end up a bit simpler. I'm looking to get some wooden blocks cut out once the final designs are done. Then I can print with them which should produce more of the hand made look I'm going for.

She Haunts The Roads screen print

2011-02-02T21:19:00.002Z

Some work...

2011-01-22T21:23:00.000Z

Posting some work that was part of my D&AD projects this year. They went badly but I had fun experimenting in them. I didn't get short listed by uni so here are some of the experiments from the EON brief.

Website Sneak Peak

2011-01-08T23:35:00.000Z

I've been working on my 'portfolio' site recently. Well, it's more about having examples of my work all in one place really rather than bits spread across a blog. I'm having fun with it and I'm getting my head around html and css again (first time since first year, oh so long ago!).

Undecided whether to have all the banner stuff at the top or the side. When you scroll down to see the rest of the work the branding and stuff disappears. In a weird way I kind of like having the connection between the images and my Jiraffe logo. We shall see! Thoughts would be appreciated.

Cheers!

She Haunts The Roads & 2 Minutes 2 Late Poster

2011-01-06T01:10:00.000Z

Did this recently for my Bro's band. They're doing a gig in Guernsey in a couple of weeks and Jack asked me to knock something up. The poster is okay I guess. I got more excited by making an elongated version of the typeface I had already made for the band and my manifesto project. Got me thinking about making font families. Lovely stuff.

The poster also features a photograph of a genuine snowy road in Stavanger, Norway which I took on my travels over the 'holiday season' (thanks USA). Cheers! Oh, and Happy New Year!

Have yourself a Saucey Christmas

2010-12-12T18:44:00.000Z

We had the annual Christmas do last night, this time at my new place in Winch! We had a laugh and we ruled the food. I can't wait to go back to Guernsey for Christmas now, it got me right in the mood!

Boom.

2010-12-10T14:08:00.000Z

Sort of, almost related to my project. Just having fun in the studio today really.

Snow Have Snow

2010-12-02T17:41:00.000Z

I spent a few hours doing this, not sure why, but it was fun. In reply to the Courage Have Courage snow man tweets. Enjoy.

The Disappearing City

2010-11-19T14:16:00.000Z

We've just been given this years D&AD briefs and we have to do 2 this year! Will be stressful but I kinda get why they've decided that. I've chosen the Umbro brief so far and I have about 5 maybes for the second.

The Disappearing City from Josh Fletcher on Vimeo.

Forget that boring stuff though. This is something I made for LAST years competition for the 'onedotzero' brief. I forgot that I hadn't posted it online. Was kind of reluctant to put it online, I couldn't take the rejection after being unsuccessful with my entry (yeah right!). Here it is though. The process to make this was so stressful and took about 5 hours to create 15 seconds of film!

Payback Vans

2010-11-15T13:52:00.000Z

The 'What's the payback?' renewable energy seminar took place on Thursday 11th November (also my Birthday!) and apparently it was a great success which is good to hear! The videos of the event will be going up soon so I'll link those as soon as I can.

Trying to get together all the bits and pieces my logo features on so I can do a full post but I was sent some pics of the E-Si vans with the logo on the back so I thought I'd share. It's very cool having a logo you made this big on something so loads of people can see it.

Flag(s)

2010-11-09T12:18:00.001Z

These two combined would be cool:

Last week.

2010-11-08T16:38:00.000Z

This is what I had at the end of last week (amongst some other things). I wanted to take my experiments with flags a little further except I think I've lost something with it now. I think there are too many shapes there and I need to edit and pair them down so I have maybe 4 basic elements that suggest flags. At the moment things seem to be a bit random and confusing.

Thankfully, I've had a cool weekend seeing my favourite band Avenged Sevenfold and some of my favourite people. It's helped me get away from my work a bit and I've come back with more of a plan of how to take this project forward ready for the crit this Friday.

What's this then?

2010-10-26T19:03:00.000+01:00

This is the first time, other than the 'payback' post I made in the summer months, I've posted something from the 'What's the payback?' campaign. Done loads of work for this and I really plan on doing a massive post about it all at some point but I don't have pictures of all the printed material yet.

Having said that, I'm itching to show you guys what I've been doing so here is the front of the invite that will be sent out for the public seminar on renewable energy in November. The invite features the 'What's the payback?' logo I created which I'm quite pleased with.

http://www.e-si.com/payback.html

She Haunts The Roads

2010-10-25T11:47:00.000+01:00

'She Haunts The Roads' is my brother's band. I got bored and used the type I 'bastardised' for my Manifesto project. I have to do a poster for him for a gig they're doing with a band called Verses in Guernsey in January. I think this type could work for them as a band logo/font/identity though. I've got loads of ideas as to what they could do.

The name gets me thinking about so many different things, I've started to build up my own story about who 'She' is. I want to keep ticking things over and write ideas down for them because I'd really like to have a go at doing a massive project for them when they get some music together.

Why I love Star Wars.

2010-10-13T19:38:00.000+01:00

I love everything about Star Wars. I love watching the films but I'm just as amazed about how they were made. Vanity Fair recently posted an article with behind the scenes photographs from the shooting of The Empire Strikes Back (my favourite Star Wars film) and they are some of the best behind the scenes shots I've seen.

I particular love the image above, the filming of the opening title sequence. I have always wondered how they did that back then without After Effects and computers. Seeing a process like that gets me excited about how I can make my own work and that you can always find a way to do something.

Check out the full article here.

Manifestations.

2010-10-12T11:26:00.000+01:00

Really struggling with our Manifesto project. I mean, I can write about who I want to be, the kind of work I want to do and all that quite easily. The hardest thing for me has been translating that into some kind of imagery/posters. I'm a bit stuck. I don't feel like I've raced off to a great start this year which worries me slightly but then I also have to consider that we're only a week in. Perhaps I'm just a bit rusty. I also moved in to my new house last Wednesday and it's been pretty stressful settling in. I'm hoping that over the next few days I will hit the mark at what I'm used to setting myself.

From my frustrations I just decided to make things. They aren't the best things I've ever done & the 'Tools' poster was just done to get it out there. I don't think it's a particularly ground breaking idea and that style of work isn't really me.

But alas! I've had a tutorial and I think I know where I'm going. Something that suits me way more plus a scale of working that I'm more comfortable with.

The wall of awesome.

2010-10-09T18:35:00.000+01:00

Trying to gain some creative momentum so I started putting things on the wall in the rotunda. A few bits of type work up there you might recognise and I've put up an A3 sized white board so we can doodle/write something new on there everyday. I don't just want my work up there either, anyone can add stuff!

It's all about getting it off screen and putting it in the real world! One of the frustrations I'm having with my work at the moment!

Using the saying 'pictures say 1000 words' I'm considering setting up a Twitter that doesn't use words at all but instead contains links to images of this board:

The 'tweets' will be whatever it says/illustrates on the board. This way 140 characters becomes obsolete and not only will the messages be online but they will be in a 'live' space for people to interact with and change if they please.

Maybe.

Jason deCaires Taylor

2010-10-09T17:28:00.000+01:00

I went along to 'Heft: Weight and Touch in Contemporary Sculpture' today at The Discovery Centre in Winchester and I saw some really awesome work. One thing that really took my attention, along with many other pieces, was a film by Jason deCaires Taylor of his 'underwater sculptures'.

The film itself was a great piece of work. I felt really immersed in this underwater world where all these sculptural forms were so still and the water and sea life around them were moving and carrying on with what they do. As humans we rule the land, but we become totally different creatures in water. For me the sculptures mirrored that and it made me think about the whole other world that's down there. The human like sculptures standing there are, in a way, fulfilling our dream of being immersed in that kind of world. Sure, as humans, we have the technology and apparatus to view that world but we will never truly be apart of it like these sculptures are.

The following videos aren't the one I saw in the gallery but they contain similar shots. Definitely worth going to the exhibition if you're in Winchester to view it context with the other pieces. I was really impressed with the other work their too. Artists of note were 'Sophia Olivia Clapham‏' and 'Noemie Goudal'.

Jason DeCaires Taylor Underwater Sculpture from Christian Sandino-Taylor on Vimeo.

It's a nice change not to be so self-indulgent on your own blog. Sometimes you get a bit too involved with trying to develop yourself. Taking a step back and reflecting on something you've never seen before is an amazing way to get yourself in a good mood and inspired once again.

Josh

Time to change.

2010-10-03T21:20:00.000+01:00

Some new type stuff and a bit of progression from my last couple of posts. I really wanted to do something awesome and different for our summer brief but I've been spending so much time working for Dad and trying to find a house over the last couple of weeks I've neglected it a little bit.

Still, I'm pretty sure I'll be doing as much of my own unique type this year as possible.

Hello again.

2010-10-01T19:11:00.000+01:00

Listening to Lostprophets again for the first time too so the title seems relevant!

Been back on the summer project stuff again after almost sorting out where I'm going to be living this year!

Looking at combining a technique I found over the summer with some of the type stuff I've been doing. The plan is to make a couple of posters based around the theme of the Renewable Energy industry and the Energy industry in general. I've learnt a lot of new things and come back to things I already know so it seems relevant right now.

Also having spent a large chunk of the summer working on a campaign for a Renewable Energy company, why stop now? I've lived the last 17 years of my life with my Dad building up his company and I've learnt a lot that I don't think many people my age know, so I've got to get my knowledge and opinions out there!

Enough gabbing. The following image features the 'Hello Hell' type I've posted already but I've been messing around with some transfer techniques, scanned the image in and inverted it to get this rather awesome aesthetic.

Dad.

2010-09-22T10:58:00.000+01:00

A silly one from yesterday. Shooting photographs to go along with a press release for Dad's campaign at work.

Hello Hell.

2010-09-15T22:49:00.000+01:00

Another of my type experiments. Moved slightly on from my 'get off' post. Started making one thing which turned into something else and ended up with this, I like going on tangents.

Something will be made of this...

2010-09-13T21:50:00.000+01:00

Just making nice looking things at the moment. I have a few topical themes in mind to explore, one being the occupation of Guernsey.

I've been interested in the aesthetic of Scandinavian & bits of Nazi german type. I like the way the words and letter forms themselves are beautiful to look at but I prefer the English language ;) So maybe combining the 2 could create something unique.

Might take the bicycle out this weekend and go on a research trip to some of the occupation museums. Been quite inspired by poetry too recently having gone to a few poetry nights with my Dad. So hopefully some of that can come into it too.

Workspace at work.

2010-09-13T17:34:00.000+01:00

This is where I work and this is what I have been doing for the last 2 months. Almost complete the design and the entire campaign for my Dad's Renewable Energy Engineering firm E-Si. The campaign launches on Friday (hopefully!).

It's been a great experience and I plan on doing an entire post about the campaign and the work Kat & I have been doing on the E-Si website this summer. It feels really great to have been working and getting paid on a live project. The whole experience has given me a lot of confidence, especially with talking to customers and suppliers on the phone as well as organising printers & freepost account for the company.

That's enough for now though. I'll be posting more soon!

Josh

Payback.

2010-08-31T18:23:00.000+01:00

I'm working a lot in black & white at the moment. Mmmm.

Drafty bits of some type stuff I'm working on for a big campaign at work. Had a week off so I'm keen to get back into it! More coming soon.

Modified Futura medium to fit the project. I like that font & the places you can take it.

get off

2010-08-09T22:10:00.000+01:00

Why get off? I don't know... just the way the shape of the characters were going and I haven't made a whole font yet. Thought I'd have a bit of a mess around on a Monday night. Needed to flex some creative muscles!

Kinda feels like the Norwegian type influence is coming through a little.

Monday.

2010-08-09T22:05:00.000+01:00

Lots going on. Working for my Dad this summer and I've commissioned a re-design of his company's website. Wrote the brief and now providing feedback and notes on each stage of the design. Working towards getting it ready for 7th September when the company's latest marketing campaign gets on the way.

I'm also involved with designing material for the campaign as well updating some business cards and eventually I'll be working on designing a brochure/booklet for the company.

I'll have more on this in the coming weeks, thought it was worth keep you all updated. I'm very grateful to have been given such responsibility from my Dad and it's awesome that I'm gaining some real world experience as well as earning some money!

My work on Grant's blog.

2010-07-26T17:02:00.000+01:00

It's a post for the sake of posting but some of my work pops up in a post by Grant Killoran. Check it out...

http://chl0rine.blogspot.com/2010/07/level-2-degree-show.html

Something to expand on.

2010-07-20T21:16:00.000+01:00

Initial experiment.

Norge.

2010-07-20T20:01:00.000+01:00

It's been a long time! In that time, I've been to Norway! It was great! I have a job for the summer! Lot's of things happening!

More to come from me over the summer months I think. I've had a little break but it's time to be creative again.

I present to you, a few pictures (mainly just of type! but I'm loving the Scandinavian style!) I took on my travels to Norway to see Victoria. I visited a town called Stavanger where Vic is from and it was a lovely place. It actually reminded me of home in a way. It had a lovely harbour and town, cobbled streets and cool looking buildings.

Type from the Oil museum! So commanding yet very beautiful to look at.

I liked this sign. Lovely type and I love the crossed out bits. It's funny that someone has created a typographic image that I admire without intending on doing so!

I love what's happened here. Another great accident that has probably only been admired by myself but this definitely got me thinking. Definitely going to pursue visually fucking with type for the rest of this year. (I'm in that kind of mood).

Again. Brilliant. Another thing was just the look of Norwegian words. I love all the special characters and I was always getting the pronunciation wrong. I definitely felt inspired being there though. Had a great time away and hopefully some of these ideas turn into some kind of summer project.

2010-06-08T18:27:00.000+01:00

Illustrator and web design magician Grant Killoran aka @chl0rine has just posted up the new WSAD website design. Over the last few months Grant and I have been working in tandem on projects related to WSAD. I've been working on some promotional material to launch the site around WSA and beyond and he's been working on the website.

It's good to see the final design up and now we can hopefully build on spreading the directory further around the web! I shall be tinkering my designs for the promo material too ready to be handed out at the beginning of the next school year. Exciting times ahead!

Check the new site here:

http://wsadirectory.org/index.html