Re-started my website…

I have recently decided I was unhappy with my original website something about it wasn’t quite the way I wanted it and it just didn’t seem fun enough. I therefore scrapped my entire design and started over. The idea for my website came from an image I saw in the magbook “The ultimate guide to graphic design” 2nd edition which was recently released. I then enhanced the idea and added unique sections like my about me section with a photostrip. I now have to pull the design together in flash and animate it to do what I want. fingers crossed.

new advertisements…

…and so the collection grows.

Hey…

I have been busy designing more advertisements based on my Perry Slingsby advertisements. I have made quite a variety based on the small collection of photos.

Creating a custom paintwork for a client

I recently created a custom paintwork for a client on their vehicle at work using their company colours and basing it on a paintwork they have had on their previous vehicles. I like the look of the effect and think its more visually interesting. The vehicle has now been built and the painting applied with a nice outcome.

Advertisements of my work…

I have been working on several prelim adverts for the company I work for. All designs are quite basic in theory and the text is nearly identical on them all as per the advert I got published. But I’ve been experimenting with a few different photoshop techniques and layout ideas and I think a few of them have worked quite well. I found an excellent tutorial on line to create an underwater effect.

Paperwork

I have now finished up-dating my cv, compliments slip, letterhead and business card.
I did this using a microsoft office template then added my sea header which matches my website, business card, and wordpress header.

Dvd cover and stickers created!

Woohoo… Today I ticked another box of my college to do list. Aargh so much work so little time. Well any-hooo I have designed a lovely case and sticker to put my completed portfolio in as on the task sheet it says hand in a cd so Ithought this would be a nice finishing touch. Bythe way if anyones interested dvd case sizes are 275mm width x 185mm length.The front cover and back cover is 130mm width and the spine is 15mm (10mm if you dont include the fold) this might save someone the time I spent messing around to get this right. Oh and avery do some cd stickers that went through my inkjet printer fine if anyone is wondering if they can do that.
Anyway here is my designs…

As you can sea I also incorporated the sea design used in my website and wordpress header. I also added my postage stamp design as a finishing touch.

My work has recently been published…

…woohoo. I have recently created an advert for work to go in ut-2 magazine for submersibles and since then got a taste for making technical designs. I have since been making technical adverts until they come out the wazoo but that’s a good thing as my portfolio is getting bigger and I have a better idea of what I can do and not do within these advertisements. Anyway here are a couple of my ideas so far.

website design update…

I have been buying web designer magazine for a few months now and the ideas in there are amazing and really inspiring and the tutorials are really clear to follow.
With this in mind and our current taks for college being to create our own website from scratch to advertise ourelves I started the epic task.
I searched through multiple tutorials from the site http://www.webdesignermag.co.uk/tutorials and would thoroughly recommend anyone looking to begin to start here and try a few of these examples just to get your head around what you want.
My main concern was that other designers website’s that I really like have multiple pages of client listings artwork collections etc etc all of which I haven’t yet aquired so my needs didn’t match up there designs.
Then in issue 168 of the magazine the published an article called building a single page website.
The website is very simple but quite design intensive but only really has two pages off links, about me and my works.
This is ideal for what I require.
I then began to play around with the design as I didn’t really want just blocks of colour so I uploaded my sea photograph (featured in my earlier ramblings) and started maniplutating that until I could get a nice layout that still had suitable buttons etc.
This also meant that the design would match my wordpress blog and my business and postcards that I have already designed.

On the blank spaces to the left and right the about me and the my works should open. The page is made up of 1250 x 650pixels and was created using photoshop and enhancing the areas that I required to stand out.
I have then loaded this into flash and I’m currently in the process of making the buttons work to open the areas although the actual guide was showing how to use jquery flash seems a quicker way of getting the same result.
To be continued…

beginning a new design…

I have recently been toying with the idea of creating a graphic novel and then selecting a few of the images from it to blow up into single artwork prints. This idea came with me after viewing a really interesting collection of comic book images on display at York College in Yorkshire.
However having the idea seemed to be the easy part…
I have now decided what my storyline will be (although this could change over the next few weeks) and have decided to start putting pen to paper.
However to give me a rough guide I created a little template for comic book layout as I couldn’t find any that where quite suitable for what I wanted.
Anyway in case anyone else has problems with this I have uploaded the blank template as a jpeg so people can copy it if they want too.
Enjoy

postage stamp design

While trawling through my images and folders and trying to put them in some form of order I came across some images I created using photoshop to highlight the fun activities you can do at the  great british seaside. These where  taken at the seaside town of Saltburn which is quite local for me and well known for being a social hotspot for surfers and windsurfers.

With this in mind I tried to capture interesting activities associated with the british sea that weren’t your average eating an ice cream cone, chasing away seagulls and lounging in deck chairs.

I was quite pleased with the outcome which I thought of as a design-with-a-difference. As we have just completed an assignment based on postcard design and I used my company designs which is a subsea engineering company they do kind of tie-in.

Anyway, without further ado…