Work in Progress*

Further developments from the post it’s all about the music. Here is the final MT arms logo, all pending review.

Info: here I used the white space and keyline around the characters to suggest ‘empty/MT’ and the Phono Connector to make the connection to live music.

Business Cards:

Variation

Logo variations:

COWRAN ESTATE | BRANDING
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Today Marker uploaded some of their most recent projects to the creative network Behance. Their website is currently being designed so watch this space for any exciting new updates!

Here is a small taste of what they have to offer:

Fine food, produced naturally, is the ethos of Cowran Estate, a local producer.
The typographic treatment really compliments the delicate illustration.

Marker are currently advertising for a Creative Director.

CHANGING ‘The Look’
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As a designer i feel i could change my identity everyday; i always find something new and more creative. But when is enough ever enough? It is true about designers being their own worst client - i am considering actually just going for ‘The Logo’ and adapt it when i come across a new font or concept.

How do you change and adapt your logo identities and are you ever happy with the final outcome?

A reader suggested creating the logo as a pure bold logo type. Here I re-worked my existing design, even changing some letter forms to make the composition feel more comfortable. I am pleased with the final outcome, as an identity it does stand out - bold is beautiful. The diagonal vectors worked well, but as an identity it appeared a little washed out. It may even be worth trying to combining both styles just to cancel that option out too.

The typeface was based on the font used by ‘Self-Service‘ Mag.

Yesterday there were talks of a logo for the Whitehaven Snappers group. So i spent some time today creating the identity below.

With the group being open to any photographers living in the Copeland area or anyone taking photos of this north-western part of England - i decided the best approach was to incorporate a camera lens isotype into the typography. In the letter form of the S the circle could have a rotation of scenes taken by the snappers, this image could constantly change with each application therefore giving each snapper the chance to be featured within the logo itself.

This is an initial vector, the full name of the group could be placed underneath the logotype initials, possibly in Leiture Display.

Having a fond love of typography, I made an attempt at designing the logotype for the collaboration project myself and 14 other creatives are involved in, Creative Cumbria. All the creatives have the opportunity to add their own design for the project identity, this will help immensely with the projects self-promotion and for approaching exhibitors and venues.

The traditional newspaper headline meets a modern hand-rendered swash.

Post Updated: 30th April ‘08
The swash manipulation:

Typeface: BuccardiSchwash

Yesterday, I began a work placement at CN Group Studio. Being there for only two days, I have learned so much about their company. I fully understand why experience is a must when it comes to applying for jobs, the industry pace and standards was unknown to me. I am looking forward to the following days ahead, having live projects in my portfolio, and furthering my understandings.

It is so exciting gaining my experience from CN Group, I have never been so enthusiastic about my future career as a Graphic Designer and Visual Communicator.

Below is a small example of a typographic header I produced for an advertisement template, whereby multiple Garden advertisements will be inserted. The logotype was created in Illustrator, for some reason the quality is not as sharp on the internet.

The Zine collaboration has hit it’s first hurdle. A fellow artist, Omar, found that there is already a magazine called anti everything which has had a blog since November. Silly as it sounds, this should of been the first protocol, checking that the name was not already in use. So we’ve been contemplating a new name. Myself and Omar think that the Zine should just be named ANTI (adding a keyword/theme to every issue), therefore with each issue the name could be adapted as appropriate, the first being ANTI-LOVE. This should be quite easy to achieve with the logo as a sticker placed on the cover.

The A5 format should still involve typography experiments, illustrations and collages and presented fully in Black & White.

The founder is Thom and the contributors are Omar, Sam and myself.