The Tree of Life

This poster is beautiful and clever – my favourite combination. I’ll be adding it to my mental wishlist of nice prints for my future home.

“This unique poster aims to highlight the responsibility we have in letting animal species thrive in their natural environment—we have a choice whether or not to preserve nature and let it grow. Specially designed to assert this crucial message, it forms the basis of social attitudes towards Mother Nature for the many people out there who want to make a difference in our world.” – Tree of Life by Gary, Aaron & Khairul

Screen Actions

“Screen Actions is the extraordinarily talent-rich youth bash that has sprung up beside its parent event, Cornwall Film Festival, and is run in partnership with Falmouth University’s School of Film and Television. This young person’s festival does what all the others try to… it makes a school trip extremely cool.” – Screen Actions, 2013

Having worked with Cornwall Film Festival to produce their branding and promotional materials for 2012 and 2013, I was asked to design a logo and create a visual image (to go on posters and the programme cover) for Screen Actions. I had good fun playing with pictogram-style imagery. There may be more to come…

For some reason the pink won’t show the right colour, despite being saved in RGB. Hmmph.

 

 

Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere

Today I went to London with Harry, who is a big Radiohead fan, to see Stanley Donwood’s latest exhibition at The Outsiders in Soho. I’m not particularly much of Radiohead fan – I like them well enough but don’t own much of their music – but I am a fan of Donwood’s art/design. And obviously, I particularly like his latest series of works that almost all feature trees.

“Radiohead's in-house artist Stanley Donwood returns to The Outsiders London with a haunting and hugely appealing exhibition of artworks in September 2013. Far Away is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere showcases Stanley's ambitious ink and pencil pieces featuring hidden country footpaths, known as Holloways, and other arboreal scenes.” – The Outsiders, London

And some of my own poor iPhone photos:

The Real World

So, I’ve been in the real world with a real world job in graphic design for a whole year now. And I love it. Thanks emc design!

Rebranding Feminism

I read this article on Creative Review today on my lunch break – “Elle magazine has approached three advertising agencies – Brave, Mother and Wieden + Kennedy London – and asked them to rebrand feminism.”

Obviously, as a female, I support feminism – are there actually any women out there that don’t? But it’s only recently, I think in the last year or so, that I’ve actually really considered myself to have some quite strong views regarding it. Although I say strong with a bit of a ‘pinch of salt’ because it’s not as if I’ve campaigned about it or anything. Mostly I just get more and more annoyed by the lyrics in songs that are played on the radio…

Anyway, I don’t read Elle or follow what they do at all but I appreciate this. Wieden + Kennedy’s interpretation is the best in my opinion. But why oh why did they use pink?

“Wieden + Kennedy and Vagenda have created a press ad that addresses the many stereotypes that women have to field, cliches that are arguably propogated most by women's magazines, which of course include Elle.”

The chough is back… again

And this time he’s eating 2013… or holding it in his beak at least. Either way, I’ve designed a poster – in a selection of colours – for this year’s Cornwall Film Festival. Following on from the Call for Entries design I did earlier this year. This year, the festival is taking place in two venues – Redruth and Newquay – visit the Cornwall Film Festival website for more information.

 

The white space at the bottom of the poster is for sponsor logos, by the way.

Ingela P Arrhenius

Ingela P Arrhenius is a Swedish illustrator, she describes herself as having a quite naïve style and love[s] the design of the 50s and 60s. I saw a lot of her work when I was in Stockholm at the weekend. I bought two postcards (the first two images here) home with me – it was hard to choose only two, as she has so many lovely illustrations. I’d really have liked a poster but my bedroom is lacking in wall space.

Redbubble

So, errrmm, I started a Redbubble account so I could make my Monkey Island Cannibals design into a t-shirt. Mostly just because I want one myself but, y’know, if anyone else wants to buy one that would be pretty awesome too…

BUY IT HERE!