So today was super-productive. 2 shopping trips, an undisclosed number of pounds, a few doughnuts, a pasty, and 6 and a half hours later the D&AD Diesel Illustration brief has moved from planning stages, through production and we're now into post-production. I really wish I could talk about this project fully, but since I've been getting so many hits on my blog just from posts that talk vaguely about D&AD I'm pretty sure someone would steal the idea. So you and I will just have to wait. It's been a good day.
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label competition. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
D&AD Diesel Illustration/Be Stupid
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Thursday, 27 January 2011
More D&AD and Launch of Professional Project
I'm still unable to reveal any information about my D&AD project but we're onto a solid idea now. It's been knocked about and changed, tutorial-ed, changed back again, evolved, crumbled and started over but ideas are sorted, planning is well underway so we're finally at the stage where we can go into production. The illustrations are shaping up to potentially be really interesting pieces.
Professional project also launched today. It's been a day full of information and taking notes on what to do but I've got some pretty clear ideas of what I wanted to be aiming towards already. Essentially: self-promoting book design. These are the types of books that I love to own, read what artists have written about their work and their techniques and learn about them. They generally have the most imagery of any type of book as well which is great for reference. Got to write up a learning agreement first though apparently.
My hits have gone down since I stopped doing a picture a day which I don't like. I'll have to try and post more drawings/paintings again soon. Should be finishing one in the next week or so.
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Thursday, 20 January 2011
D&AD Illustration/Diesel Brief
So I'm working with Eddy Mac on my D&AD brief. We've been working on ideas generation for a while now and we're getting close now. The Diesel brief is to create two pieces of work inspired by two tracks of a chosen artist. The main idea is to be stupid as this is the rebrand of diesel that happened recently.
We had our first tutorial on this today and our basic idea was received well but it was agreed that we need to push it to connect a little more with the brand and possibly also with the musical side of things as this is heavily music based as a project. At this point I would upload some visuals but since it's a competition brief you'll have to wait.
We had our first tutorial on this today and our basic idea was received well but it was agreed that we need to push it to connect a little more with the brand and possibly also with the musical side of things as this is heavily music based as a project. At this point I would upload some visuals but since it's a competition brief you'll have to wait.
Labels:
Ben Mercer,
competition,
DandAD,
Diesel,
music,
stupid,
Uni
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