Identity

Keen to experience Graphic Design in the working world I have been creating this identity for myself to send out to various design and illustration companies. I went through a series of processes and design options beginning with a series of playful business cards leading onto direct mailer options many conveying characters that I had created. Branding myself and finding one specific identity for myself has been an interesting journey and in the end I decided I was not one thing, but many. So the mix and match series of squares I feel mirrors my personality. 

Vinyl - Student Zine Revisited

Looking back through my original zine design, as much as I liked the use of color during the design process, now its all put together I feel that the backgrounds may be a bit to 'eyebally' and the typography needs to be revisited.

No. Zine

As part of the redesign to my zine I also revisited the research I had done into the zine and I came across No. Zine. Here is the description of No. Zine from the website 

No.Zine is an independent arts zine, released in series and featuring a variety of young artists, designers, writers, photographers and illustrators. Each issue is conceptually centred around it's issue number.
Curation, illustration, design and art-direction by Patrick Fry with the help of many great contributors.

No.Zine can be found in many

small bookshops and art spaces

around London.

Here is my zine, revisited. I feel it flows a lot better, has a crisper clean feel to it, and the typography has been done to a higher level.

Design

It’s art if can’t be explained.
It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.

— Wouter Stokkel

Telegramme Studios

Telegramme Studios state they are the purveyours of fine design and illustration on there website, and im going to state 'agreed!' There work is interesting and constantly conveys a hand rendered approach. There a london based company who again use a lot of screen print.

http://www.telegramme.co.uk/

Monkeys, Ducks and Mice, Continued

The continuation of monkeys ducks and mice then lead me on to creating these fun cards. It was actually after some research into Aardman's work and these cards create a more comic image. I think there fun and quirky but they seem very photoshopped even thought the illustrations are hand rendered. I would like to try something with screen printing.

So after this i went on to create these 3 characters out of my illustrations but from using painted backgrounds to give them a more handcrafted look. I Think that the colors used on the monkey are the most effective and ive also noticed how the duck now looks more like a chicken!

Charley Harper

August 4, 1922 - June 10, 2007

Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations.Im particularly drawn into Charles's work because of the smooth perfect lines and the geometric form most the animals in his work convey. There simple but very effective. I also notice how the majority of his illustrations are of animals and nature which i connect with because I rarely draw human forms myself.

https://www.charleyharperprints.com/

Tom Frost

Tom Frost is an illustrator living and working in Bristol. He uses screen printing, acrylic paint, bits of wood, gocco machines, pencils, vintage Meccano and paper to create hundreds of beautiful prints. I really love his work and if you follow this link you will find his blog, also here is a small selection of prints.

http://theboyfrost.blogspot.com/