Secret Solstice Competition Entry

I have entered two designs for a competition on the Talenthouse website for Iceland's Secret Solstice festival.

The Secret Solstice festival is a brand new festival that will take place over the summer solstice in Reykjavik, Iceland.  The organisers have announced a competition for designers from the USA and Europe to produce artwork for the festival that be used on merchandise.

My designs are inspired by Norse mythology and feature a stag and a wolf. I have stuck the existing colour palette of the festival, which I think works well with the artwork I've produced.

I had some T-shirts printed with my designs to further enhance my chances of doing well in the competition and to just generally develop my ideas further.

If you like what you see, you can vote for my designs on the Talenthouse website by clicking on the link below. Voting closes on Wednesday 30 April at 18:00 GMT.  Thank you.

Vote 

NSS Poster - Art Deco

I have designed a poster for the National Student Survey 2013 poster competition. I have gone with an Art Deco style for my poster, which features an trumpeting angel with the title "Be Heard".

I like the bright colours that I've used and the simplistic nature of the Art Deco style. This is only the first draft and I may tweak some aspects such as the colour and the image/text placement.

Paul Smith Envelope Competition

Our group was tasked in creating a envelope design that could be featured in a new Paul Smith store in London. This is my entry for the competition:

Tigerprint Competition Entry

I have entered two design for the Female surface patterns competition at Tigerprint. The brief was to create a female friendly surface pattern that could be used on wrapping and gift bags.

I decided to choose pop art style pattern featuring women's eyes with make up, I think this is a different approach to the brief and will hopefully stand out from the crowd.

Book Cover Photo Manipulation

As part of my design project for the The Big Sleep book cover competition I created an image that show cases the design on a real book. I used Adobe Photoshop to over lay the design onto a photograph of a book with the same dimensions. 

I believe that this image allows you to see what the design would look like in the real world and works well to communicate the design message.

The Big Sleep Book Cover - Final Design

I have created the final design of the The Big Sleep cover for the Penguin Design Award and I have just submitted it to Penguin. I am happy with the overall design, even though I had difficulty creating it on Adobe Illustrator.

I now have to just wait for the competition to close on the 9th April and for the entries to be judged. Fingers crossed I get through to the next round!

You can view the full Final Design here.

The Big Sleep Cover - Silhouettes

I have created 4 possible silhouettes to be used on The Big Sleep book cover that I'm designing, I have photographed myself in appropriate clothing to avoid any copyright infringement.

Each silhouette is in a slightly different pose, I now have to decide which will look best on the cover...

Silhouette 1

Silhouette 2

Silhouette 3

Silhouette 4

The Big Sleep Cover Mock Ups

source: Penguin

I have made another step in designing my entry for the Penguin Design Award competition.

I have created 3 book cover mock ups using Adobe Illustrator, I am trying to determine which font combinations works best with the overall design.

The dimensions are to Penguin's specifications and I have included the Penguin Logo.

Click on the links below:

Mock Up 1

Mock Up 2

Mock Up 3

The Big Sleep cover design competition

I am aiming to enter the Penguin Design Award competition. This year, entrants are tasked with designing with the symbolic crime/detective novel by Raymond Chandler.

After reading the book, there is a few scenes and characters that could be used in a design concept.


Below are a few examples of previous cover designs, all have a common theme of guns and girls, it's my feeling that these themes have been used to death for this type of novel, so I'm looking to create something slightly different...

I have created a preliminary mock up of an idea I've had, as seen below:

I have used a very simple graphic image, with the main character  casting a shadow of a knight chess piece in a doorway. The Knight idea came from the running theme in the book of Marlowe (the lead character) being a knight in a dirty, corrupted world.

The deadline for competition submissions is the 9th of April, I have some more development work to do to be ready for that approaching deadline.