My friend Shaun Wallace has set up a mobile recording business and he asked me to make him a website. It needed few pages and to look unique and fun!
I made him a ‘marvellous machine’ made out of musical instruments based on traditional travelling fair organs to keep the mobile theme and used bunting to show his name. I made a light background of rainbow colours focusing on the machine with a burst of brightness in the centre. Finally I used a ‘.pgn’ to mirror the machine as if standing on a glass floor, in an Apple store style. With Animation Shop 3 I edited the animation partials of the website such as the organ and amp lights. Below is a screenshot of the website, details, background and early renditions and stages of my design. See the site here: www.shaunwallace.com
I thought I would point out what I do with the Project Faust videos and how I make them. With this video I had some film from Wales of the coast. I had the idea to make it look like a WW2 film scene.
I made the video black and white, edited on a WW2 war ship, then added some reflections in the water. Finally I made the original video very red, before the black and white, this makes the black and white film appear to be night time with black and white film.
Album design for Beth Walthew’s CD ‘Lovers & Liars’.
Having seen some of my work I was supplied with the three images of Beth and her musicians and given the text in a word document and told to do whatever I thought suited the artist’s style, what was wanted was a rustic feel. I used some images from old printers example book and photoshopped other images and scans to make most of the artwork. The CD tray has images behind a clear tray and a butterfly in the centre where the CD is placed.
The main album type is done with the Fontin Family. You can see the text on the CD took some time to do but worked out great! You can buy the CD here: www.bethwalthew.com
Child Child’s second EP called ‘Tveir‘ is out for free download on SoundCloud now or .RAR featuring seven new tracks and one new remix by Jason Dragon. There are around 50 tracks recorded and we are editing them down into the forthcoming album ‘Cliff Child‘ to release in the Summer. Some of these make up the EP’s Einn and the new Tveir.
We can also announce the new book ‘Cliff Child Artworks‘ is now for full preview and sale via the microsite or Blurb for £12 in softback.
Cliff Child is Sjorn Björnsson hailing from Egilsstaðir in collaboration with Robjn who produced all the tracks, videos and artwork. All tracks by Cliff Child & Robjn. Production by Robjn.com.
Follow Cliff Child on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CliffChild
The Soft Machine is the title of a novel by William S. Burroughs, first published in 1961. It was originally composed using the cut-up and fold-in techniques, this inspired my design on the cover. Taking a photo of Burroughs, cutting it up and shifting the edits around. I think it is as abstract as the original [right], but still communicates the name and title well.
Another book cover here. Like before I remade the text header in InDesign and created the image in Illustrator, this time also using Photoshop. I left the 3’6 off as on my version of the book it’s stamped on. The image is a variation of some prints I had made. My version is on the left, the original is on the right with 3 and 6.
I took the book ‘How Children Fail’ and decided to rework the covers design. I created the original heading and typeset style to pelican books in Adobe InDesign then used Illustrator to make the images. I ended with two samples that I considered strong enough using images from wikipedia re-edited, working my own images into the designs. The Original cover is below in red.
Some print work I made with Illustrator for Coca-Cola advert mock ups. Using the bottle image I added liquid and bubbles as well as each countries flag and a colour scheme for each to test effects in Illustrator.
Last night I started to distort the Memphis LT Std Extra Bold typeface to see what I could create out of the type and how far could you push the type before it stops being legible.
After making a few other fonts I started putting the letters and numbers in the wrong order in the form like a code. This is why I named it Enigma be as you may type in English with this typeface it looks to come out as random data.
Task:
Web and Myspace design for the tribute band ‘The Rollin’ Clones’.
Being unable to use any copywrite logos or images of the The Rolling Stones I used images of the bands promotional and live photos to make posters of old tours to suggest Rock concerts and musical history.
Site link: www.rollin-clones.com
Task: To make a website for my band Laserlong and then to use consistent designs for other promotional websites like YouTube and MySpace. I made the book like image for the site to give the feeling of something that is crafted and has a history. Together with the hand written styled type on the menu and stamps with Franklin marks it has a more artistic look. The website type is Georgia. The images are contained into Polaroids as it means there is a uniform to each page and there can be different images in the Polaroids.
Task:
My Final Project at University was to brand an Ethanol Fuel Company in a new way that is apart from Fossil Fuel companies but make it look traditional. In the PDF below I show the whole process of looking at modern abstract logos to visually simple brands.
Download the full project PDF. Click here. [70mb]
Download the TV advert. Click here. [11mb]
Task: Make a site to display and download a set of songs, try to make it interesting and fast loading. i made it to look like a book with simple navigation as you get in a book. the artworks are either from old family photos, manuscripts and some digital editing. Web link.
