Cups of Tea 1412 - 1423

Why hello all! Sorry for the absence, but in the light of once in a lifetime theater event that graced my home town, I had to go watch a Teacher get nailed to a cross! I refer of course, to Micheal Sheen's Passion, a 3 day episodic drama that took place in various locations across the town. I loved it. It was strangely serial to walk down a street I used to walk every day, accompany a beaten man carrying a cross... It was moving and made me miss acting a hell of a lot. A huge, huge shout out to Matthew Aubrey and Kyle Rhys, two people I've known all my life, whos performances were exceptional and are living proof people can make a name for themselves in this town. Kristian Phillips and Jordan Bernard were also wicked in it, have to tip my hats to them... God, it made me miss acting...

Anywho, on to design ;) I set myself a day project of designing an Energy Drink, purely because I wanted to use a tag line I'd come up with and want to continue the roll of solid logo designing. I used a technique that Gav talked about in one of our classes, writ down the first 5 ideas in your head, then rip the page up and start fresh. I did this and loved the finished result. No conceived notions of the design or even a name. Just a tagline (that could apply to any energy drink) and went for it.

Amongst the names brainstormed were 'Sledgehammer', 'Beat', 'Apollo' and 'Charge', before I finally went with 'Shift'. Then breaking this down even further into what shift could mean, settled on the idea of cars and shifting gears, which I believe led to a striking concept that then became the finished logo :)



The Font is a custom job, with the 'I' modeled on the idea of a gearstick diagram. Shoop shoop. While the can design is done, I want to print it out and photograph it properly, as I don't think it'll work as a flat image ;)

With this one, thoughts are not only appreciated but encouraged! See you guys and gals tomorrow, and thanks for reading / looking!

M x

Cups of Tea 1408 - 1411

Hello all, me again. So I've been getting quite alot of brainstorming done in the old sunshine today, I took full advantage of being away from the Mac so don't have as much as I'd like to show, but hopefully it should benefit me tomorrow if the weather isn't nice, as I'll have a lot to get on with!

However, I do have a new logo vectored for was is fundamentally going to be my LAST major project of my university career, scary times but hopefully it will be fun. This isn't to say that it will be the last project, heavens no... I've got another 3 small things I'd like to do (whether they get done for the May 9th Deadline is another thing, if not I'll just do them afterward) but this is the core of the next 3 weeks while I stress printing everything else!

Anyways, I digress. The final core project I will be attempting is a small blurb book on something I feel quite strongly about, mainly because if you asked those around me, I probably suffer from it slightly. Yes ladies and Gentleman, I am a shopaholic.

I jest, I don't suffer from Compulsive Buying Disorder REALLY, but it was fascinating to me that such a condition existed, but as it's productive to the cogs of Western society to keep buying, even if we can't afford things, I could find little on it. As I wanted to find out more on the subject, I planned the Stop Shop project, not only to warn of the dangers of CBD, but also as a general rule book of keeping compulsive buying decisions in check.

Over the next 2 weeks, you'll see a lot on it at this here blog, as well as the other 3 small projects but for now, here's the logo for it at least :) It's the first time I've tried anything like this and I believe it came out well :) Thoughts and opinions, as always, are Welcome!



M x

Cups of Tea 1404 - 1407

Hello again guys and girls, hello too to Twitter followers! I realized I should probably attack this whole self promotion thing on both fronts... so yeah, hi ;)

Again, another quick update due to the wonders of a 9 hour shift but here's the (approval appending) final stationary for Young Oliver Westicles, I tried to keep it as straightforward as possible after seeing some beautiful stationary on the weekend by Moving Brand (which I'll post up tomorrow). It just seems alot more effective to work



Hope you enjoy it! Tomorrow, I'm aiming to knock a whole project out of the park ;) At least the logo / stationary / a few designers for what they produce.

Exciting times! See you tomorrow :)

M x