Zombie Prom Music/Club night leaflet

(Mini 3 week project experimenting with graphics, illustration and photography)

This project was to design a graphic based flyer for a music/club event in Birmingham to promote it. I used a range of techniques and different medias when coming to this final design as i felt it was important to experiment as much as i could for an interesting and innovative final design.

I sketched the main image and felt that leaving the women half human gave the entire image a prom based feeling that still had a horror effect that made the image look scary and that it was  going to end in disaster. I used pastels and chalk to create the decaying texture and a range of techniques based on Photoshop and Illustrator to get a professional finish.

My first or lasting impression of birmingham

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(Mini 3 week project experimenting with graphics, illustration and photography)

My photography brief was to photograph my first or lasting impression of my new home town Birmingham. i found this building just off Curzon Street and felt it reflected a great deal of my personal interpretation of my past and future in Birmingham.

the tattered, destroyed building represents how i used to feel living back at home. i felt my creativity was stunted and my life chaotic. The stairs in the photo represent my journey i hope to take. my way to climb to change and develop as a person and a designer and explore my creativity to the best of my ability. Birmingham to me in my first impression was my changing point, and journey i am excited to take.

Graphic Design Flyer idea for the "Blast to Zang Tumb Tumb" exhibition at the London Design museum

This Exhibition is based on the post Vortism movement and the destruction and horror of the First World War. The image present on the flyer is named "Rock Drill" and was sculpted by Epstein in response to his shock of the huge scale of destruction caused by tanks and machine guns, the new ‘machines of war’. The sculpture became a futuristic symbol of the new age and how technology will destroy us all.

For my design I experimented a great deal with textures such as water colours, newspaper, tea bag staining, acrylics and print to enable the image to look warn out and vintage, as well as giving the entire image a chaotic feel that screamed destruction by using sharp edges and explosions. 

However  researching more into Epstein's view of machines and his idea of how machines themselves where the cause of destruction, I decided to challenge his opinion in my design and add a smaller machine powered by a human attacking the Rock Drill to demonstrate the meaning of human influence in the destruction of the world through machines.

I gave the entire flyer a comic book feel using electric blues and a deep navy blue background with white highlights to focus on the detail and textures within the print as well as creating an atmosphere of darkness and gloom that was felt through the First World War. I made several different designs of this flyer but two stood out to me as being the most effective to demonstrate my opinion on this situation.

Borough Market logo Vintage Brand

This logo was made from a basic sketch of 3 different angles of bananas and a pear that i sketched from a fruit bowl. I then photographed the image after adding texture to the drawing by using water colours and a fine liner. I photographed the image and manipulated it on Photoshop using a range of techniques to soften the bananas on the left, but make the texture of the two other fruits rough and old. I then added text to the image changing the word "Market" to have a vintage look, by making the word look rusted and by adding a grain underlay with yellow and white highlights to each letter.

I also experimented with different text on the image that modernised the design.