The InCiders: T-shirt Designs

So some friends of mine collectively known as The InCiders, ( http://www.theinciders.com/ ) a local hardcore/punk band (See previous sets of concert photos) asked me to do some shirt designs for them. I was supposed to do the album cover but I did something else instead.

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Black Flag. 

There's a lot of mock Black Flag shirts going around and it annoys me a little bit because they're all just using the logo with different typefaces and it's become really cool and stuff. You can bet half the kids wearing the shirts have no idea who Black Flag were. So in this case the logo's turned to coffins and straight outta the InCider's lyrics "You Stood Back And Watched It Die". The songs about the hardcore scene being taken over by scene kids. Just in the same way that the t-shirts were taken over by hipsters.

.2.

Coffins.

Nowhere near as much thought in the processing of this one but I think it looks pretty cool. Just took the Black Flag coffin pattern and extrapolated it, changed the position of the type at the bottom.

.3. 

Welcome To The Age Of Stupid.

Another line straight out of The InCider's lyric book for the latest E.P. It's either the line before or after references the dawn of the dead which is where that hand came from. Birds are just for effect. Enjoying the jumbled up letters with just "stupid" standing on it's own. Let's see if that confuses anyone.

Design And Art Direction Awards Not Quite Final Piece

 

So here's the half of the video that Eddy Mac and I got finished before we succumbed to illness and had to drop out of the running. We're both really disappointed we didn't get to see this one through because on watching this back just now we we're both really pleased with the outcome. If we'd had more time there would have been some additional footage on the third screen section and ideally the same process completed for a second song.

I think that the succession of food being hit with the hammer is a really effective portrayal of the notes and makes for interesting watching, especially with the changing of speeds that comes with the chorus and the faster sections of the song it creates various lengths of clip which give a different effect. I think that the middle section is also very effective as the speed of the movement juxtaposes with the slowness of the third screen. I think that the 3 different speeds across 3 different screens works really well and the addition of some stop frame work on the third screen would have brought in an extra element to the video which would have completed the set. 

D&AD Diesel Illustration/Be Stupid

 

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.

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.