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Design Your Future...

My old Ad course at the University of Lincoln got in touch a short while ago, and asked me to write a piece for the course. It'll feature in a publication to be distributed at the Design your Future Exhibition at Manchester & London Olympia. The magazine includes some interesting grads from a wide range of disciplines...

At first I loved the layout/ type treatment for the magazine. I'm not so sure now, anyway... judge for yourself. You can grab a full copy of the magazine here

(Click on the image to make it bigger - if you want).

TEED Poster Competiton:

So I mentioned a little competition in a previous post for Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs to design their UK tour poster in February and my own entry.

Here's a selection of my favourites...

Cartoon illustration meets real life photo. I think it's something about the colour and seriousness in the face in contrast to the playfulness of the feathers.

The dinosaur thing is a bit of a given, but nice geometric shapes, just got to say it's a little different.

Purely for it's simplicity. Big bold type and clever spacing.

One of the best in my opinion, love the abstract but ages texture. Reminds me of that Nord Express poster from France around the 1930s.

Love the handmade feel to this, not entirely sure where someone has put the time and effort in to scalpel this out, I'm going to go with photoshop & illustrator, but it is lovely. Total maximalist design.

A designer currently working at JWT, got to be all about the colours, really bright & fresh feel to it.

10 points for being a clever sod. Nice use of origami, I can't fold paper like this for anything, still think they missed a trick by not printing something on the origami. Nice thought all the same.

For thinking about the era of my childhood, stickers were immense! Slight contradiction in the peeling sticker, even though it's under a plastic cover, but nice idea.

Brand Nu.

@brand_nu an illustrator represented by Jelly has put out a free new poster... and it's very nice! Get your copy here: http://files.brandnu.co.uk/BrandNu_Three_A3.pdf

You can't throw a camera...

...but you can throw a ball. Amazing panoramic shots from where you stand.
Only trouble is you have to carry a camera around that's the size of The sun!

D&AD President's Lecture...

Inferno asked me to typed up some notes from Rosie Arnold's first Presidential lecture as the Creative head at D&AD, which you can find over on their blog here

This time round it was Jaime Perlman with her thoughts as an Art Director at British Vogue and a sneak preview into her decisions for the re-design of the British Vogue January 2012 edition.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs...

So here's my design for the competition TEED are running (my Sunday morning in the office)...

Any thoughts? (Click img for detail).