Fake it til you make it

Check out this Photoshop script called Lomoize - it makes ordinary photos look like they were shot with an old skool Lomo. Extreme colour saturation and vignetting around the edges - looks pretty authentic to me. That's the recently closed and soon-to-be-bulldozed Clockwork club in Stokes Croft. Bristol's vibrant subculture is slowly but surely being replaced by flats.

Somewhere over the Rainbow......

Been having a bit of a struggle getting into indie mode recently for this flyer design for a new alternative night in Birmingham. The pic shows my three concepts from the first to the most recent (left to right); you can see I've been trying to loosen up and go for that "undesigned" look. In all honesty there's been times when I've questioned the sense of asking a designer to make something look like it hasn't been designed.

But I think I'm starting to get it now - the third one works for me and it's been fun to do. It's gonna be a fortnightly event at The Rainbow in Digbeth, and the promoter is keen to do a new flyer for each night. Maybe do themed nights, like a wellies party on Glasto weekend, that sort of thing. Sounds like fun dunnit?

A5 Royalty

A bit of my more corporate stuff - this is what I do in my day job. Making reams of planning text legible, understandable and inviting. This one took the form of a colourful A5 leaflet. Came back from print today (big up Ripe) and I'm pretty happy with it. Rockin the American Typewriter for this one - check my flickr for a few more pics. 

Behancing on the ceiling

So I got an invite to this new creative network thing called Behance the other day. Seems like a fairly solid platform to host my portfolio from. Saves the hassle of learning HTML and CSS too (I'll do it one day). See what you think!

Let's get it started!!

It's not about blank blogs.......... so here's a bit of cover art swag I just knocked up for bad man DJ Jimbo's new mixtape. I'll swing a link up once he gets his act together and gets the mix on the interweb. Likes it does ya?