happy new year

A poster I created Interpenetrating the quote "the love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned" after doing this as part of a group brief i really wanted to explore the project both visually and conceptually. I wanted to explore the quote in a more personal way.
"Happy New Year" is a project based around my 2010 new year experience, the idea that I love going out but that love never seems to be returned. Each colour represents an event, the colours are created by putting the day, month, year and time from each event into the C M Y K values. these events are numbed and listed in the bottom three 'empty' squares.

Octopus on roller skates

A post card Corrine and I created for the stonewall competition brief, this was to create an A5 post card design that would encourage people to vote. our design plays off the idea that if you don't vote you could end up with something you weren't expecting, in this example we looked at transport and, used two 'sane' examples of transport, and one not so. The 'octopus on roller skates' is a light hearted character to drive a strong message. We then developed this into a campaign as part of an extended brief for uni.
After entering this into the competition i received an email informing me our design was selected as one of the 12 finalists but was not selected as the winner. I guess we cant have everything.

The Square, formerly Ian Anerson

A poster I created for 'the Ian Anderson brief' the idea was to come up with a new name for Ian Anderson and design a poster to inform people of this change.
For this design I took inspiration from lyrics of the queens of the stone age song 'turning on the screw' more specifically the lines "the world is round, my square don't fit at all". I interpret these lyrics as being so different from the rest of the world that you 'don't fit' and need to make your own way, which I feel Ian Anderson has done. Therefore the name I choose for him was 'The Square'. I took Visual cues from the children’s shape toys (the square fits in the square hole, the circle fits in the circular hole). I played around with a few colours but in the end I stripped it down to black and white leaving only the edge of the shapes visible. This created an interesting visual and was a little harder to understand requiring more thought by the viewer.