Archive for Personal Work
Week 3 Photo
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Sorry about the blurriness of the image. Conditions were freezing, my hands were numb and I was trying to take this photo while precariously leaning against some scaffolding.
Anyway, what the hell is this photo all about I hear you ask. Well, somewhere in that mess of high-viz and building materials is my new office. Not quite ready to move in to just yet, but hopefully by June, I’ll be filling up my little office with all my crap.
The building is the Creative Quarter which is situated in the very fashionable town of Hebden Bridge. In fact, you may not know this, but Hebden Bridge is the 4th funkiest town in the world.
Yes, according to the British Airways in-flight magazine highlife, Hebden Bridge is fourth behind Daylesford, Australia (1), Tiradentes, Brazil (2) and Burlington, Vermont (3).
What do you reckon to that then…?
Week 2 Photo
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Wife and I decided to have a little trip out to Blackpool on Sunday. Was gloriously sunny but very chilly – perfect conditions for photography if you don’t mind having cold hands.
Here is a photo of the ferris wheel on the Central Pier – taken from the newly renovated front between the Central and North piers.
Week 1 Photo
Posted by: | CommentsStarting today, I am setting myself a new assignment – upload one photograph a week!
Why you ask? No real reason, just a simple exercise to motivate me to take at least one photo a week – good or bad.
Some weeks, the photo may have some underlying significance though I’m pretty sure most weeks, it’ll just be a shot that I like.
This week’s photograph is entitled: Christmas Has Left The Building. It’s an iPhone photo of our Christmas tree lying on the drive, waiting to be disposed of.
Smashing, Great… SUPER!
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Each month I ‘art direct’ an internet marketeer’s newsletter/magazine called Marketing Dot Com. When I say ‘art direct’, this is actually a fancy way of saying I design the content of the magazine.
How it goes is the magazine editor provides me with all the articles and I design/typeset them for the magazine – this includes sourcing any relevant imagery to accompany the articles.
More often than not, I like to produce these images myself, whether it be simple pen & ink drawings, crisp vector artwork or full-blown Photoshop and 3D renderings.
This month, the main article (which is carried on to the front cover) is about becoming a Super Affiliate. The editor and I decided to go down the route of using superhero-esque imagery for the article and cover, something really bold and vibrant. Seen as though I’m a proper comic book nerd, this is was a brief I really wanted to have a good go at. I certainly have lot of graphic knowledge to call on in this field.
While I was producing the cover ideas in Photoshop, it inspired me to produce a piece of artwork for myself. A self-promotional, experimental piece if you will. Personally, I think this would work really well as a large screen print.
