I came across this typeface today called ‘Cubano’ which has been designed by Chandler Van De Water. I’ve been playing around with this font in Adobe Illustrator and I think this is a gem of a font! Cubano also comes as a ready webfont which im sure looks very nice on websites.
Overall, Cubano is visually pleasing at making text appear fun and fresh and a typeface for many designers to add to their collection of fonts.
This means I should try catch up with all my Uni work. The list to do so far is;
Obviously, im not going to start the essay first, that’s just wrong!
As it’s Valentines Day, I was looking for something interesting to post on here and stumbled upon some of Katharine Asher’s illustrations. I had to showcase these lushious red lips to suit it being Valentines day and all!
Katharine Asher has said:
I have worked as a freelance within illustration and design for many years, specialising in figurative work. My early formal training at Harrow College of Art focused on strong traditional drawing skills, the ability to think in three dimensions and a thorough understanding of anatomy and movement. This has proved to be the backbone of my skill base, enabling me to attract work from a wide variety of commercial sources from publishing and advertising to film.
I really like the strokes in her drawing and also the dashes of colour that overlap and run into each other. If you like these illustrations you should definitely search for more of her stuff. I couldn’t find an official website for her but if anyone knows it I would like to know, thanks!
A week project for Uni was to create a logo for an oxygen bar in London called ‘Oxygen’. After researching the actual bar via their website, it was clear that there wasn’t much information regarding having a pure ‘oxygen cocktail’ that I was first briefed with. I decided to just forget about incorporating bubbles or anything cliché that would represent oxygen in the logo and tried to create a fresh and ‘trendy’ looking logo for the bar.
I loved designing this logo however, it was weird because all I could see was the design being cut out of metal as if it was for a sign that would go outside of the bar. If I had lots of money, I would have loved to presented this logo to everyone at Uni with a heavy metal sign I imagined so much when designing this!
So Channel 4′s digital channel More 4 re-branded their identity in January 2012 and what a good decision it was. The new logo is ‘flipping good’ if you will excuse the pun.
Original More 4 Logo
New More 4 Logo
The new More 4 identity has been designed by ManvsMachine who said:
The re-brand is centred round a bold, flexible logo that morphs through a series of flips, folds and reveals. The colour palette reflects the vibrant nature of interiors, food culture, fashion and other contemporary lifestyle programming.
I really like the new design, even more so when you compare it to the original More 4 logo. I can’t see this logo being changed anytime soon and is definitely a good step forward for Channel 4 and More 4.
Today I presented my first piece of design work from semester two titled, 'Don't Panic Its Just A Needle'. The theme was "Panic" and so I came up with the idea to target people who panic when they have to get a vaccination or blood test. The arrangement of text is slightly inspired by the 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters that have had interest to many over the past few years. The text has a wabble effect to represent a worrying patient. The flowing circles in the background represent white blood cells but also look visually pleasing. Finally, the cool blue tones are meant to make a patient feel relaxed and at ease when looking at the poster. I think when I presented my poster to my class, it went down really good. Everyone understod the concept and liked how I have placed it all together. A suggestion was if the injection at the bottom actually had to be the scale it is and maybe it would look more effective if it was smaller. What do you think?
It’s always difficult knowing how to start a blog and what the first post should be about. All I know is that I have started this blog to try and document and showcase things that go on in my life, more specifically towards graphic design. Afterall, I want to be a graphic designer and make a good life for myself and family.
I’d like this blog to be updated with posts showing what designs I have made for university and to also show other peoples work that captures my eye. There might also be random pictures of my cat called Joey, who knows, lets just see what happens!
