urban outfitters packaging

this is the oackaging that I had made for Urban outfitters.
I tried to stick to the type of packaging and feel that the brand offers its consumers, it has a natural and friendly feel to its packaging which is all 100% recyclable.

I made the net using graphic styles on illustrator and am very pleased with the final outcome.
I will keep the skills and experience I have learned in this project to further develop my own brand and its overall feel.

Decman business card

This is the business card I created for Decman Productions.
In my honest opinion I do no like it, I feel that it is unique and does stand out but not in a way that reflects a film maker, the pixelated squares seemed like a nice touch at first and it definitely was eye catching and filled up space but it seems to fit more with a video game developer or some one in IT than a film maker I will go back and re think this idea before I send it over to Declan.

Saint Kidd

Since the start of the course I have always taken a keen interest in independent clothing brands.
There is something about them that just seems different than generic highstreet brands, independent brands seem more original and seem to put a lot more love and care into what they do, it inspires me looking through different independent branding webstores and gives me ideas and inspiration when developing steamline (my own brand in progress).
Saint Kidd is one of my biggest inspirations the brand is unique and original and seems to really connect with their consumer, giving out free tote bags with every t-shirt purchase, hand wrapped t-shirts and keeping a blog showing you the best ways to integrate their t-shirts with the latest trends.
Saint kidd is definitely my current favorite brand and has inspired steamline a lot with my up coming designs.

Starship photo edits

These are a few photo edits I have done in my spare time, they were inspired by work I had seen on Tumblr in which imagery or scenery was overlaid on a body.
The whole process wasn't to difficult I just selected the parts of the body I wanted the imagery to focus on and then pasted the imagery in it then using blending modes created a nice overlay effect, I then edited the base image of the body adding saturation and blur effects to take away focus from it and put more on the imagery.
The left one is my favourite, it seems to give a really nice effect on the body like it was in the photo in the first place been projected onto the body.
The name starship doesn't really have any reference I just wanted a name that related to the galaxy theme of the images.

Saint kidd video blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qENGX6sb8g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jotOxtw63Gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDu_Tp9Y1WU

These saint Kidd video blogs are very interesting the founder of the brand Dougie Poynter explains the creative process and theme of each of the brands t-shirts. It is very inspiring to see how much work and dedication the Saint Kidd team puts into their clothing and makes me even more eager to get my own brand out there or work for one like this, the whole process seems extremely enjoyable and creative.

Printing

I have stumbled upon an idependant screen printer on the internet and have gotten in touch with him regarding my t-shirts, the website he runs is called vinosangre and it contains his full portfolio of print, most of which are independent brands like mine, I have gotten intouch with him to give me a quote on 20 t-shirts of the same print, I have been given the quote of £85 for the job which will contain 5 tees of each size. once I get the funds I will be ready to order.

Decman productions

these are all of the logos I put together for my friend Declan for his up coming independent film making company, Decman Productions, I did some research over the internet looking at other film makers logos such as fox and universal but also looking at lesser know agencies as well.
The lesser known ones were a lot more inspirational due to them been more simplistic and had an all round warmer feel to them than that of the more higher budget film makers.

this was really fun to do as I enjoyed playing around with the different fonts and type face and Declan had chosen one of the logos as his main one, this has overall given me experience in type and branding.

Claymore avenue logo remakes

                                          This is the original logo for the band ^^

I have decided to remake the logo for the band Claymore Avenue, I did this while referencing them in my portfolio. I noticed the current logo looked a little disjointed and I could clearly see where the C and A had been stuck together. This again is development in Digital design here it wasn't so much as practicing with anchor points and handles in illustrator to create the C and A I outlined both the letters and used the anchor points and handles to connect them accordingly without the letters looking warped or skewed, the process did not take too long, roughly about 30 minutes with some added logos that I may use as t-shirt designs to replace the ones I did for the band last year.

All over print

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQCb1t5dxA


This video contains a guide on how to create all over print t-shirts.

All over print tees seem to be massively in trend today,while I am prepping steamline up for a summer launch I am still coming up with idea's for prints an all over print is something I would definitely want to try maybe in vest form also. The video was a great help showing the process of the print and what to expect from the final product faults and all.
I will make some mock ups of an all over print.