Monday 30 May 2011

stanley donwood, creative short stories.

Stanley Donwood is the artistic mind behind all of radioheads artwork and merchandise, designing every album cover artwork and basically everything since the first album. Being a massive radiohead fan i first heard these stories when they were included within a promotional film for the album 'In rainbows' the film was called 'scotch mist' where they played each song from the album live broken up with artistic montages and cuts between songs, where these stories were included. Since hearing them a couple of years ago i have pretty much become obsessed by them, the way stanley donwood is able to describe a locations so poetically and perfectly in a way you would never expect to hear making it sound as if this story was going somewhere however just ends with a blunt strange often humorous ending. The best example of this is within the story 'Midsummers day in the graveyard', the story is only short mainly consisting of beautiful descriptions of his surrounding, really painting the image in your head of where he was and what is going on, however just ends with, 'and i wasn't their for very long before i thought, that i should leave.'








Wednesday 25 May 2011

design is about doing. squid and wale






















design is about doing, squid vs whale.

squid vs whale, battle of the mighty titans of the sea, blood thirsty rivalry between squids and whale.



speaking from experience - illustrators














looking at some of my favourite illustrators for inspiration for my illustrations.

zenvironments.
http://zenvironments.com/

speaking from experience - illustrators

mitch,
possibly my favourite graphic designer from our class, just love his illustrative style and never ending ideas, he is able to just sit their with a pen and come up with some amazing illustrations off the top of his head in like 10 mins.





speaking from experience - illustrators

 Jonny Packham, 3rd from college of art, become really obsessed with his work recently and tried to work within a similar style with my illustrations.