JUST A QUICKIE

EASY PEOPLE!!

Ok, so i’m at work on Tuesday and this dude i work with, who also happens to be a DJ approaches me with this problem he’s encountered with a designer who had promised to create a flyer for a New Years Eve bash he was organising with a group of promoters. Basically the designer had left them in the lurch for about two weeks with no soild certification of when his design would be complete. I was approached and asked if i wanted to take on the project. 

I was still a little burned out from the previous weeks deadline at SuperSuper, but at the same time i was excited to work on something that was quite different from the magazine and would take me back to my illustration roots; also i liked the idea of being in competition with another designer. See he was who they first approached, so they had time to sit down and discuss a general plan and creative feel for the flyer, i was told i had a day to do something eye catching and interesting that people would want to pick up, which in itself was a challenging incentive because with him they had a rough idea of what they were expecting and with me i had a short time to produce something that the collective wanted to back and would outshine the first designers’ initial proposal. 

I don’t know about u but i think i delivered. I knocked this out in about 5 or so hours Wednesday afternoon, quite an interesting brief as they didn’t want anything figurative (which is my strength) and i was restricted to only working in black and white. A challenge none the less, but an enjoyable one that was a pleasure to confront.

Preferred listening this time comes in the form of

TERRY LYNN: KINGSTON LOGIC

 

 

 

 

 

EASY!!

Another one bites the dust!!

Wha’gwaan People!! Issue 14 of SuperSuper is in stores now!!!

Phew….. that was a tough old deadline met with many an obstacle, let me tell you. A week of little or no sleep a diet of coffee and cigarettes (with the odd sausage roll in-between) and i’m proud to say, content wise we have produced one of the most engaging and accessible issues to date. Whatever your fancy SS14 has a page, feature, article ,tip waiting for you, go ahead pick up a copy tell me i’m lying

Very pleased with my contribution this issue, really wanted to raise the bar on what i had implemented in the last issue (check out last blog post) and i feel i have achieved just that. Took a few more risks with my layouts thought a lot more about structure and methods of guiding the viewers eye across a page in a coherent manner as well as injecting a bit of ViZCom spice off course and am happy with the results. As always there’s room for improvement, i was given more responsibility, and more pages to design this issue and i’m confident i met those challenges whilst still adhering to the SuperSuper ethos.

OK!! nuff chit chat let’s look at those pages right!

One last thing i’d like to suggest that whilst viewing these pages you take the opportunity listen to an album that really guided me through my work on this issue, relived stress, was a solid source of inspiration and will give u a brief insight to my mind-state as i put these pages together.(Who said work can’t be fun)

Tribe Called Quest: BEATS, RHYMES, and LIFE

 

 

 

ENJOY!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHOA!! heyheyhey….What do you think this is some sort of free 4 all? For more of my pages and a truely epic issue check out SuperSuper magazine issue 14 in stores now. 

HOLLA!!