This is a yellow circle

Saw a 'Keep Calm' poster and thought I'd take the mick out of the so obvious style in which they are made, whilst implementing the simple design of each. So I made this quickly. The yellow circle has no significance, only to state the obvious like any 'Keep Calm' poster.

You can tell you're a designer when you can appreciate and breakdown another piece of design, and make it your own.

Please Don't Interrupt Me Whilst I'm Ignoring You

Saw this message on google, made me chuckle, made a poster for it quickly. I think it works.

Mass Effect 3 Poster

Another quick Mass Effect 3 poster...I'm going Mass Effect 3 crazy :) 

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Mass Effect 3 - A quick doodle of shephard's armour insignia.

Harbinger Design

Got bored the other night, so quickly doodled this on Illustrator. It is Harbinger, a Reaper from the Mass Effect series of games. I added the phrase 'They Reap what you sow', based on the well known phrase, and also as this is a Reaper's sole intention in the game series. The font is Airship.

It has expanded onto a few other variants, namely Harbinger's quotes in the series.

A Graph about Graphics!

As part of a new brief, in which we are learning and creating graphs, we were tasked with looking at the process of one of our design projects and create our own graph to represent what we do in that project. It begins with the client and the brief and leads on from there; from the initial first steps through to the research and the idea developments then through to finalisation and submission, and everything else I feel is key along the way. I have tried to show this through the use of a key to visualise the most important aspects of a the project's schedule. The chosen font is Airship. The orange quotes dotted about represent my personal opinions on the project over that part of the time spent on a project...I didn't add the part where I get stupidly stressed for obvious reasons.

Woman On The Edge of Time - Project book cover

Created in my first year of University, this is a book cover redesign based on the book 'Woman On The Edge of Time' by Marge Piercy. It is a very complex & disturbing book, but a good read, if hard to understand at times. It explores many themes, primarily feminism, racism & sexuality, and also hierarchy and superiority among classes of people, slavery, science & advancement.

I wanted to create a cover that showed how disturbing the book was, and showed how the female protagonist felt during the story, being mentally tortured, scarred and broken down by the asylum. I experimented with chalks, drawing tallies & portal swirls, drawing on my wall to achieve a realistic effect.

UPDATE: I have been in talks with the great designer & illustrator M.S Corley, see my post on him below, and he has given me loads of great tips on how I can improve my book cover. I need to make the writing along the spine thicker, so it's easier to read over the white background behind it. Among other tips, he really enjoyed the concept behind my design, and thought it was clever, which is ace to hear from a professional book cover designer. I really appreciate the time he took out of his busy schedule to look at my work & critique it for me. I will update it soon, and repost it; it is one of my favourite pieces of work after all
http://mscorley.blogspot.com/