Workshop retail design research.

Ollie &Tom look as if they are doing really, really, well for themselves with their company: Workshop. So first off, really well done guys!

These are two projects from Workshop : One is a loyalty card for  A Barber (Barber & Mack). It is nice because it is just simple design with the foil logo on the reverse. The foiled idea I like alot and still want to persue, but it has made me decide the loyalty card I have made needs another look at. Theres like 3 bits of ingormation of the workshop design, which is really effective, and direct as a piece of design.

Auburns retail environmental design and branding: The signage is simple and effective. With the logo taking dominance over any other information, which is the way it should be.

Sam Green - Editorial

A submission for Popshot magazine by Sam Green. Popshot is a publication that combines poetry with illustration across double page spreads. Again, some outstanding craftsmanship using only pencils, but this is somehting I should be starting to think about in terms of how an image relates to type. The high quality of this illustration also scares me into beleiving there is so much room for improvement with my illustration. I will get there, eventually.

great type treatments

Artist's Sketches

Some images I found on behance of an artist's sketchbook. The intricacy and precision of these illustration is a bit on the mind blowing side, Im also very jealous as I would love to be able to do this by hand. The images would work very well as vector images which would then be scalable. It makes me glad that I have decided to produce vector artworks for this rebel pin up brief because it does mean that I can apply my illustration to a range of formats with no limitation to scale at the highest quality consistantly.

Vector junkie

I love the way this illustrator deals with line and block colour. Everything looks juicy and oily, but then also gets complimented by tasteful gradients and blending techniques. Makes for a really effective and vibrant image.

Promotional design for miss selfridges

Less is truly more. Beautifully executed typograhy co exisiting in harmony with illustration that is amazing. I want to be working towards my range of promotional products coming together something like this using bleeds, block colours with type and tight margins on documents. it works very well indeed, and the multi coloured papers gives it that sublte breath of life it has. Beautiful stuff, This has got me fired up to keep developing my layouts until theyre hitting a similar standard.

Painted Mural

I Found these images on the Behance network, but failed to get the name of the illustrator at hand, so i apologise for that, but I love this illustration, the rendering is amazing in the way that it transitions from simple block colour in the clothing of the character into tonal beautifullness for the face. Proper rad image making skills. The double outline is also really working well - alot of the time I dont like a double outline on characters but this works well in this instance. I need to start considering what is out there in leeds in terms of art on wall space and how it works in a variety of contexts to help inform my own mural for rebel pin up.