Recently i had the amazing opportunity to ask British Graphic Designer Jack Crossing a few questions about his life and career. I found him extreamly inspiring and helpful, check out his website for more at http://www.jackcrossing.com You studied and graduated from Bath Spa University in 2008, what were your next steps? Did you apply for […]
Pretty much every human in the world would have seen Leetes work or a homage to, at some point in there life wether they realised it was him or not. This is a very big statement, and he is one of very few who this can be said about. With this said, considering he worked […]
Tim Allen is an English, stop motion animator. Not to be confused with the American Comedy Actor! Animation wasn’t always in his sights, he hadn’t even heard about it until attending an open day, when the lady called for the Animation course he thought to himself, I can do that. He attended the University of […]
I really enjoyed my lecture on design hero’s mainly who have worked with music artists on albums and posters etc. As I am currently working on a brief to create a CD 10×10 album cover and extras I found it very useful research. It was inspiring to see how existing artists have developed styles fitting […]
Peter Chung is a Korean animator who attended California school of the arts in the 90’s? Upon leaving there wasn’t a wide variety of jobs or at least styles of jobs, they mainly surrounded Disney or children’s animation there hadn’t been much animation for a different target audience. One of his first jobs was on […]
In Birmingham City center this run up to easter Lindt have collaberated with artist to create The Big Egg Hunt 2013 which showcases a number of decorated eggs roughly around a meter in height placed around the centre which children can use a map to find. These are also being exhibited in other cities around the […]
The 7 Key principles of Information Design which should be considered when thinking about information design or any design for that matter are: Grouping information – Lines/Space/Type. Consistency – Language/Layout. Typography – Audience/Message/legibility. Grid Structure – Clear/Consistent/Navigation. Graphic Elements – Bullet Points/Icons/Lines/Rules. Spacing – Alignment/Consistency/White Space. Visual Hierachy – Type Size & Weight/Colour/Lines/Space. Erik Spiekermann […]
Today’s Lecture on Matt Pyke has been my favourite so far, I’d never heard of him before even though I have seen his work on MTV. I’m glad I’ve been introduced to him now as I have had no idea of what motion graphics was, feeling like it was quiet complicated and hadn’t got any […]
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