grafikmarka

Shooting in Holt Country Park

2012-01-06T02:01:00.002Z

Winter sun shining, camera over shoulder,
let's go walkies.

Shot with Nikon D60 by Mark Fuller
Model: @ToriCharlotte14
Location: Holt Country Park, Norfolk, England

Please request the use of these images first. I don't bite.

All images copyright © 2012 grafikmarka

Tag Center on Android Market

2011-12-28T14:06:00.002Z

Hope you all had an awesome Christmas!

Before Christmas, Tag Center was launched for Android devices on the Android market place.

We have seen success with the version for the Nokia N9 campaign in Dubai, so are eagely waiting to see how Android users will find the app.

What will 2012 bring?

We can expect to see more offers available in 2012 that will allow Tag Center users to interact with marketing campaigns through the use of NFC and get exclusive offers including money off vouchers for retail stores, games to win prizes and lots more that are in the pipeline.

As Tag Center is a relatively new application, I have the cool job of designing the user interface and am always looking for ways to enhance the user's experience.

Tag Center Twitter

You can find Tag Center on Twitter to get the latest update information. Our developers would also like to hear your views and ways that you would like the platform improved.

I wish you all a happy new year and hope you have a great 2012.

Cheers!

grafikmarka

Card No.2 TYPO by grafikmarka

2011-12-21T01:38:00.000Z

Another card from my series of TYPO cards.

Christmes Card

2011-12-20T00:53:00.000Z

A card from my series of TYPO cards.

Vivienne Westwood

2011-12-06T20:01:00.001Z

It seems like an age ago since I was at uni, but I have dug out an old project that I would like to share as I never posted the final piece before.

Direct Marketing by grafikmarka

Vivienne Westwood's 2010 Spring Summer collection reflected the theme of climate change and the concern for London being under water in just over 50 years time. This was my final project at NUCA - Graphic Communication.

The project also included usage of other design vehicles to help promote the Launch of a new store opening in London.

Cover design for the Spring/Summer 2010 MAN collection. Hand engraved aluminum.

Page layout design including the end of book credits with photograph of Vivienne Westwood.

Wristband and invitation printed on recycled paper and sealed in a watertight bag.

View the making of here from my old post in 2010.

Copyright ©2011 grafikmarka

Tag Center for Nokia N9

2011-12-03T23:21:00.001Z

I have been busy working on an exciting project for Proxama that is the Tag Center app for Nokia N9.
I am happy to say it is available on the Ovi Store now!

Tag Center allows you to collect exclusive money off vouchers, content and applications from your favourite brands and stores by simply tapping posters at participating locations.

The app makes full use of the up and coming technology that is NFC (near field communication). There is no need to take photos of QR codes, but to simply use the micro chip reader that is built into the phone to tap a poster and get content within seconds or less.

I worked on the UI for the application including icon design, illustration, colourways and user flows.

Tag Center - Launcher Icon

Splash screen for Tag Center App

The app is currently being used in Dubai to help with the launch of the N9. An NFC campaign run by Nokia is allowing N9 users to collect vouchers to get free popcorn and tickets at all Vox cinemas.

The users can collect vouchers on their phone then redeem at the Vox cinemas.

Proxama continues to develop more exciting projects that I will be lucky enough to be a part of.

Watch this space NFC is going to be BIG!

Thanks,
grafikmarka

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T17:20:00.000Z

Happy Halloween everyone, from Grafikmarka!

Kill Comic Sans by Agency Fusion

2011-10-18T12:02:00.000+01:00

Have a go at killing Comic Sans - a game by Agency Fusion. Play it HERE.

In the horizon

2011-10-09T11:21:00.000+01:00

2011 Copyright Proxama & Grafikmarka

Here is a little taster of what has been in the pipeline for a while. A project for Nokia that I have been working on. More to come after the official launch!

A sad day... Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

2011-10-06T10:26:00.001+01:00

Image source Apple Inc

This is great...

2011-10-01T00:22:00.000+01:00

Time for a photograph

2011-09-30T00:41:00.002+01:00

What awesome weather we're having. My Audi 80 Sport.

Recently grafikmarka has...

2011-08-05T01:06:00.000+01:00

Been away from the old blog for a while (not that I expected you to miss me).
I have been working on some very exciting projects with Proxama, leaders in NFC (or Near Field Communication for those new to it) - Oh and that, in a nutshell, is technology developing in mobile phones to allow the use of "smart posters" - posters with a microchip that your phone can scan and access content. Or you could tap your phone on a checkout to purchase an item from a shop. Technical stuff. What a geek you say? Well it's taken me about a month just to understand that much!

The possibilities go on...

(image below not in finished state, hence all the dodgy labels all over the shop and stuff like that.)

Some icons that I created to show the possibilities for NFC

Not a great deal that I can show you at the moment - it's all top secret stuff you see. Just so you get the idea, I have been working on the design for an online web service and an app for very large phone brand.
;)

Peace!

Happy Father's Day

2011-06-19T11:26:00.002+01:00

A day for Dad's

The Hat Is Too Big!

2011-06-15T17:06:00.000+01:00

Illustration #1 of a series, created for children by grafikmarka

IS TROPICAL | THE GREEKS - Music Video

2011-05-27T21:31:00.000+01:00

Directed by MEGAFORCE
Animation by 7 at Machine Molle
Produced by Jules Dieng at Elnino

grafikmarka for freelance

2011-05-14T10:13:00.002+01:00

Sorry to shout.

If you are interested in my work and would like to discuss a project then please email me at grafikmarka@mail.com

Touch the Rainbow - Skittles advert

2011-05-05T09:01:00.000+01:00

Got to be one of the best ads I have seen this year, looks like it's been shown in America since 2007.

Audi A7 Papercraft Model

2011-04-27T01:22:00.000+01:00

Stumbled across this video of a guy making a papercraft Audi A7.
Bloody insane patience he has!

Would love to see his paper airplanes...

Deckchair Design by grafikmarka

2011-04-27T01:01:00.001+01:00

I was asked to decorate a deckchair for Cromer and Sheringham's Crab & Lobster Festival. The festival raises money for local charities including the two local lifeboat stations.

Ninety-two blank deckchairs have been painted and decorated and set up at locations in and around the two towns.

JUST Sheringham sponsored the deckchair that Tori Walters and I created.
(she got the blue lines straight)

Find out more about the Crab & Lobster Festival 2011 by visiting:

Official Website

EDP coverage

Hovis Farmers Race

2011-04-12T10:53:00.000+01:00

Love this new Hovis advert and how it has a very strong British feel to it... Farmers racing! Of course.
Directed by the awesome Dougal Wilson

More than just t-shirts...

2011-04-04T10:44:00.001+01:00

Some recent SuperAwesomeYeah ideas are progressing. The brand is broadening from just selling t-shirts for charity. Very soon you can expect to see much more, including prints and hand illustrated objects. Exciting times! I scribbled on a guitar...

Hand illustrated type on an old guitar. By grafikmarka 2011.

Pancake day!

2011-03-08T12:05:00.002Z

Drawathon II

2011-03-07T22:00:00.001Z

Timelapse of our second Drawathon over at SuperAwesomeYeah.
We took the ideas of our followers on facebook and twitter and drew their suggestions as they were requested.

Check out our t-shirts for charity at superawesomeyeah.com

Music Caribou - 'Lord Leopard'
myspace.com/cariboumanitoba

Hairy Monster

2011-03-02T00:39:00.000Z

An animated short starring a very unfortunate hairy monster.
SuperAwesomeYeah

Yummy Custard

2011-02-26T16:55:00.000Z

I created this yummy custard typographic illustration for SuperAwesomeYeah.

Custard Doughnut design for SuperAwesomeYeah

Show me this on SuperAwesomeYeah!

SuperAwesome Drawathon

2011-02-05T00:44:00.000Z

Back over at SuperAwesomeYeah HQ I had an idea to bring people closer to the SuperAwesome brand and engage with our friends through the use of twitter and facebook.

We launched our new online game named Drawathon! We asked our followers on facebook and twitter to tweet and send comments of what they think is AWESOME. Myself and the team then sketched the suggestions and uploaded the illustrations live as soon as one was complete. There was a good interaction with the viewers as they could see their suggestions tweeted back at them as a nice illustration within around 10 mins of one another. The finished drawings were then put onto the SuperAwesomeYeah online store for people to vote for their favourite suggestion for which the winning image will be used as a t-shirt design! As another little treat we may well send the original winning sketch to the person that came up with the idea, all framed nicely too! (awesome)

Here are a few of the entered ideas, all in which are somewhat wacky to say the least!

A Custard Doughnut


A hamster with a Lightsaber

Full English

Rainbows

A Hula-hooping Bunny

A pot of Unicorn Glue

You have until Tuesday to vote so have a look and vote for your favourite! click here

Personal Photography

2011-01-24T00:37:00.000Z

Tori
Mundesley, Norfolk, UK
23rd Jan 2011.

Peek

2011-01-22T01:19:00.000Z

Here is a little peek at what I am up to with a piece of typographic design. I will post the finished piece when finished. A bit pink isn't it?!

Something odd on the shelf?

2011-01-17T11:50:00.000Z

Lush Stuff - a t-shirt by grafikmarka

2011-01-16T23:53:00.000Z

Here is the design printed in this lush purple.
The tee is available now on SuperAwesomeYeah - 100% of the profits made from all products sold go to charity. Awesome!

BALLS TO CHRISTMAS

2010-12-14T12:28:00.002Z

I had the privilege of working on Bloc Media's Christmas animation this year with Stephen Ong (Bloc east studio). The video is Titled "Balls to Christmas" and shows a progressive trail of destruction created by an ever growing snowball! Look out for some hidden gems.
For best experience, watch in full screen HD with some good speakers/headphones.

:)

Enjoy.

Merry Christmas!

GRAFIKMARKA - LUSH TEE

2010-11-19T10:21:00.001Z

My latest design is now available from SuperAwesomeYeah
Remember that all of the money raised from your purchase will go to
brilliant causes.

Go on, treat yourself! Or someone else for that matter!

LATEST VIDEO FROM SuperAwesomeYeah

2010-11-18T17:19:00.001Z

DJ Minionton from SuperAwesomeYeah released his debut single earlier this week. Here is a preview of the track that is from his long anticipated album which aims to be released early 2011.

All merchandise is available from SuperAwesomeYeah.com

INTRO TO SuperAwesomeYeah!

2010-11-17T10:08:00.001Z

An introduction to the world of SuperAwesomeYeah - the people that bring you super slick organic t-shirts and send 100% of the profits to charity!

www.superawesomeyeah.com

SuperAwesomeYeah!

2010-11-12T11:05:00.000Z

SuperAwesomeYeah.com sells original t-shirts and other apparel designed by the Bloc Media teams in London and Norwich. All profits generated by the store go to good causes.

The online store has been produced out of the new ‘Bloc East’ studio in Norwich, opened in August 2010. The in-house project enables Bloc staff to flex their creative muscles and raise money for good causes, including charities such as Cancer Research UK and Shelter.

A social media strategy augments the charitable offering with a strong presence on both Facebook http://www.facebook.com/SuperAwesomeTshirts and Twitter http://twitter.com/SuperAwesomeCo building a loyal fan base and allowing customers to collaborate in the development of the store.

Rick Palmer, Bloc Media’s CEO says “At BLOC we have a wealth of enormously talented creatives. SuperAwesomeYeah affords us the opportunity to use our collective talents to generate money for good causes. We get to have a bit of fun designing clothes and apparel whilst making a real difference to the causes we support. I hope that more agencies follow our lead and do more to make a positive contribution to society. Together we can make an enormous difference.”

SuperAwesomeYeah – www.superawesomeyeah.com http://www.superawesomeyeah.com/

Bloc Media – www.blocmedia.com http://www.blocmedia.com/

THE TETLEY TEA FOLK ARE BACK!

2010-09-20T19:47:00.002+01:00

Gaffer, Sydney and the rest of the Tetley Tea Folk are back! Watch as a single drop of steaming Tetley tea launches the comeback of the country's best-loved tea drinkers... Find out more at http://www.teafolk.co.uk

SHOEPER HERO

2010-09-20T00:14:00.000+01:00

For London Fashion Week; Selfridges has opened up the entire 2nd floor just for a giant shoe department (shoe galleries). Selfridges are currently running a campaign with the face of it all being a new breed of super hero... His name is Shoeper Hero.

Bloc Media got involved with this somewhat wacky animation that went live on Friday.

SAVE THE ARTS

2010-09-13T22:11:00.000+01:00

BULLDOG CLIP

2010-08-20T08:27:00.000+01:00

A short video I created at NUCA last year. It has taken me a while to get the chance to upload it.
Enjoy.

BLOC MEDIA

2010-08-19T11:32:00.001+01:00

I am currently working as a creative at Bloc Media. Bloc is an expanding digital creative boutique that works with some big clients to fulfill their digital creative needs.

Bloc Media - Ident from Liam Owen on Vimeo.

WHERE HAVE I BEEN?

2010-07-20T23:56:00.000+01:00

It has been a very eventful month, with graduation over I took no time to start job hunting and getting my portfolio under the noses of potential employers. I was lucky enough to gain interest from both the Norwich degree show and London's D&AD New Blood exhibition that has lead to me being offered a full time job at a London based digital design studio. They are opening a new office in Norwich and are looking to expand further in the future.

While I wait to start the job; I have been keeping busy with my commitments to a local football team - Erpingham FC by creating some pitch-side banners and some graphics for a new website that I am in the process of building. The inspiration for the site is based around the D&AD award winning site of Manchester City Football Club that has a really nice user friendly interface and navigation.

The Erpingham team has changed its kit colours back to the original maroon and sky blue so this graphic was created for the home page of the new site.

BLOODY GOOD SHOW D&AD

2010-07-02T11:50:00.000+01:00

(indeed ShellsuitZombie)

Wow, what a busy few weeks it has been, firstly with the NUCA show going up (very last minute) then the rush to get more prints of the work for the 2010 D&AD New Blood exhibition (Thanks Kerry for composting all the graduates work onto the grid format).

New Blood happened in the design Hub of London this year at the The Old Truman Brewery Shoreditch - this meant that it was on the doorstep of many creative agencies so the work could be seen by many more creatives in the industry.

After comments last year from exhibitors; I was slightly concerned that New Blood has high expectations for job opportunities or internships after the show and that the reality is that it is extreamly rare to have interest from anyone.
Well that didn't seem the case this year, in fact quite a few of my friends gained interest from companies wanting to meet up, this included myself which has opened up a great opportunity for me.

NUCA Graphic Communication stand:

Our stand got a fair bit of praise this year with the goldfish theme working well across the space. I look forward to Andy's ideas for next year. All I know is that it will be pretty extreme and lets say should get noticed!

All the best to everyone who exhibited this year and like ShellsuitZombie said on their poster design - Shit Just Got Real.

NUCA SHOW OPEN SOON

2010-06-22T01:22:00.000+01:00

It has been a while since my last blog post as I have been helping to prepare the Degree Show for NUCA graphic communication. There have been a few long and tiresome weeks preparing the year two studio space into a new and bright exhibition area. The room has finally taken shape with most of the work hung and even the fish tank has been set up in position. Our show is different this year in the way that we are hanging work with clips instead of using hundreds of pounds worth of mount board that will get thrown out after (doing our green bit). The other difference it that Graphic Communication is trying to differ from the sister course (graphic design) by incorporating its very own appearance and style. We have an interesting theme this year that pictures each one of us as a gold fish that is racing around looking to win a place into a job from graduating. All students are represented as a gold fish with their very own racing number and colour. The fish is a way of linking our work around the show space without just relying on people remembering a name or face. For example I am racing gold fish number 5 so all my work in the show will have that as a signature. We are also building in more digital work by using digital projector screen areas that allow people to explore more of what we do as a communications course.
Come and see for yourself! Private view Today (Tuesday 22 June) 5.30-8.00pm.

NIKE WRITE THE FUTURE

2010-05-22T14:23:00.003+01:00

Nike are preparing for the FIFA World Cup with their ongoing success through viral campaigns via the use of youtube and facebook. The latest ad campaign reflects how different nations would react to the result of their country's win or defeat in this years World Cup. The ads show both effects and some comical value is added through the reactions of each nation. All new-borns being called Wayne for example to the result of Rooney being the English hero. Over all the ads are well shot with intense lighting and nice camera angles, the little flick back to references to youtube videos is clever and just a documents what really does happen in the viral world that we live in. Well done again Nike.

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD - A CATALOGUE COVER DESIGN

2010-05-17T02:00:00.001+01:00

I have been working my socks off trying to get this brief to start revealing the 'end of the tunnel' and is now finally coming together. For this final piece of work at NUCA; I am creating designs to promote a new Vivienne Westwood Man store opening on Conduit St London. The finished outcomes will include a VIP store opening invitation, a goody bag for the open evening, a micro site to hold extra information about the event and a new MAN collection catalogue for 2010 Spring/Summer.

Here is the production of my cover that will encase the catalogue.
(excuse the poor camera quality of my iPhone)

...and yes, I am using metal for the cover :D

- cutting lettering out from the template that is covering the aluminum sheet.

- etching the metal by hand from the template.

The finished result - so far.

I am going to be bending into a wave shape next and then binding the content. I will upload more on this when it is all complete.

I best crack on, lots to do...

{GM

Thoughtful at NUCA

2010-05-13T19:06:00.001+01:00

Inspiration can never come too late in the term as a student. I am only less than two weeks from my final deadline at NUCA and was enriched with a positive presentation by James from Thoughtful (Manchester) that will help me push to the final deadline. James gave an intriguingly positive talk about the influences that have pushed him to gain the most from his design career with sharing thoughts from professionals alike. The presentation included videos of other designers giving some valuable tips for graduates that are looking for work from Uni.

Its difficult to speak in front on a bunch of students at anytime but to keep them engaged and not just talk about your own work was well achieved by Thoughtful - which was thoughtful of them.
It made a nice change to have a positive talk about the possibilities of a career in the design communication business and not be worried to death about recession problems in the UK and the chance that it will take many of us two years before we land a job after graduation.

The Five P's were mentioned in the talk.

Preparation
Prevents
Piss
Poor
Performance

- The guys made it clear by the presentation that they had considered this before hand. :)

And a final kind kick up the arse quote:
"Never, never, never give up!"

Thanks Thoughtful, from me and all NUCA students.

WEBSITE ON WAY, WEH-HEY!

2010-05-11T01:57:00.000+01:00

Its a rush to the end of a sweet three years at NUCA and the sleepless nights begin! Currently working on my portfolio website to be launched at the beginning of next week. I'm trying to compile the best elements from successful portfolio sites I have visited - and that's not saying that my site is cluttered with cool stuff, oh no, I'm going minimal to the max and letting my work speak for it's self. When It's up and running I'll let you know.

WEDDING INVITATIONS//

2010-04-19T09:55:00.000+01:00

My sister and I have hand crafted over one hundred wedding invitations for her special day. It was a nice job to take on board as I could really show her how a beautiful design could make all the difference. When you make something by hand it just feels that little bit more loved.

PHOTO MOMENT

2010-03-17T01:48:00.002Z

As you can tell by previous posts to grafikmarka blog; I love taking photos.
Here are two fairly recent and very contrasting images. The First was taken on a trip to London during the Chinese new year. The streets were full of beautiful lanterns that stretched across the roads.

The second image (above) was taken in an unused holiday cottage in Norfolk. The shoot was to test for any potential for using the venue in a project shoot. The shooting session turned out to produce this nice portrait of my brother.
copyright grafik:marka 2010 ⓒ

LAURA JORDAN-BAMBACH @ NUCA

2010-03-10T01:03:00.009Z

Laura Jordan-Bambach, Creative Director,
LBi London and founder of SHE SAYS.
I don't really like calling them lectures as the term makes it sound like a bore.

I like to see it more as an informative talk.

Tuesdays talk was given to NUCA design students by Laura Jordan-Bambach, Creative Director,
LBi London and founder of SHE SAYS.

Laura gave an informative talk about communication through advertising and how LBi approach an idea then go on to construct it into a fully working advertising strategy for their clients. Works shown included a piece made to promote themselves as a group of creative digital pioneers. The work was more of an art form that linked very strongly into the communication realms of design. It was a mobile mobile.

Mobile Mobile, a massive sculpture made of re-cycled mobile phones that plays Choir of the Bells when you tweet it. You can also play the blighter live like a great big circular piano gizmo thing.

Laura also showed a video of how the piece was built.

The talk continued with a deeper incite into 'the modern advertising' methods. This includes more viral campaigns that use technology such as social networking to help promote a message. The example given was of a piece of work created for the British Red Cross.

The problem: How can the Red Cross draw attention to issues of people being named refugee or asylum seeker due to loss of identity whilst entering the UK.

The Solution: Use social networking sites like Facebook by making people change their status in support for the cause in Refugee week.
click to see red cross solution

These low budget solutions are what Laura explained to be modern advertising; making television ads leaping over into the traditional advertising space along with print based solutions.
(both still extremely effective methods)

Laura also runs SHE SAYS that is to help promote female digital creatives into the world of design by letting them talk together and share information. (view link for more detail)

Thanks to Laura Jordan-Bambach for her incite.

4 DESIGNERS LONDON 2010////

2010-02-24T21:24:00.001Z

The beginning of the week saw the 4 Designers conferences take place in London's Leicester square. I went along with fellow Graphic Communication students.

This years 4 Designers conferences consisted of talks by industry professionals from various design studios and agencies. Here was the line up:

David Kester - Design Council
Stuart, James and Chris - wearethoughtful
Lise Brian - The Chase
Simon, Gary and David - SomeOneInLondon
Mike Dempsey - Studio Dempsey

Day 1
The fist day included talks by WeAreThoughtful who put together a brilliant entertaining presentation. The talk consisted of not only examples of their own work but many words of wisdom from other design professionals and a sharing of inspiration.

Lise Brian from the northern design studio; The Chase, gave an interesting talk about her life as a designer. She spoke deeply about her experiences and how she stepped into the graphic design industry from previously being an illustrator.

Day 2
The second day finalized the 4 designers conference of 2010 with the first talk by David Kester from the design council. He spoke about the importance of design in today's society with how it can improve the British economy.

The second talk of the day was by Simon, Gary and David from SomeOneInLondon. The three talked individually about what SomeOne is all about. They explained the importance of branding for their clients and how branding is more than just a logo design. They spoke of branding being more of a design world, meaning that for every branding project; they make sure they explore each company thoroughly to get a full understanding of how their design work can improve the company. SomeOne gave strong advise about creating an image for a brand and said 'don't forget the brand behind the logo'.
My favourite quote from the talk.
'Not a change of symbol but a symbol of change' - SomeOne

The third and final speaker of 2010 was from the man with the most experience of design from the lot; Mike Dempsey. He gave a talk about his own life into graphic design and his passion for publishing. He showed early works for publishing with creative book jacket design showing the movement in styles. He showed the changes of the grid system within design and how it became a lot more loose and contemporary. He gave 12 words of wisdom before finishing.

look- always look first
read- keep reading to gain knowledge
ideas- a good idea is more important
history- know design history to improve future
passion- show what you love
curiosity- its good to be curios
no- it is ok to say no
rules- know the rules before you break them
words- sometimes words are all you need
voice- keep tone of voice in mind and reflect it in the outcomes
ego- be confident and people will believe
rejection- don't dwell on rejection; it happens to the best

HELVETICA HIDE AND SEEK

2010-02-10T00:02:00.002Z

Personal pieces of work created from summer photo shoots in 2009.

SOMEONE TO LOOK 'UPS' TO

2010-02-09T03:32:00.002Z

BOSS GUITAR FX

2010-02-07T19:02:00.002Z

FRESH FROM THE OVEN

2010-02-07T04:00:00.002Z

BIRDY POOP

2010-02-03T23:23:00.003Z

PORTRAIT

2010-02-03T22:15:00.000Z

TYPE IN SPACE

2010-01-18T23:21:00.002Z

This started out as an experimental illustration using Photoshop CS3
I created numerous layers of shapes and brushes, adding gradient masks and different layer settings.
This is the final outcome.

copyright grafik:marka 2010 ⓒ

RETRO RUMBLE 2010

2010-01-18T19:28:00.001Z

Design for an event.
Brief: Create an image for a new (fictional) car event that specializes in showing off 'retro' cars.

GO FIRST AD'S

2010-01-18T03:23:00.006Z

Ad Campaign for First Group - Inner city travel.

Brief: Persuade drivers who commute by car in and around the city to use the bus.

With this first visual (top) my aim was to be sharp and to the point. Everyone hates the drive at peek times around large cities so placing a clear 'stress free' image to this particular copy line seemed to sum up most areas. I also tried a softer tone of voice by incorporating other reasons why one may prefer the use of a bus.

copyright grafik:marka 2010 ⓒ

BUSY BUSY BUSY.

2010-01-03T16:44:00.000Z

The end of my course nears. Projects being polished up to look their best for the deadlines.
As a re-cap of what I have been up too; I had a very productive week in November, where I produced an animation (personal work) with a friend at uni for an advert for Bulldog® clips. The task was set that we (students of Graphic Communication, NUCA) do something that we are good at or never tried before. We had a week, and could choose anything creative to show off skills and explore new areas of creativity. I chose to make an interesting short film that uses a stop motion technique with a difference. The motion is produced by individual frames that are arranged in sequence on a set that's held together using the Bulldog® clips. So the difference being that the individual frames that could be animated on their own were then animated in a different environment by being clipped up on the wall then changed for the next still shot. This process was then repeated through different scenes, building to the final outcome. I will post the video after final completion. Here are some "the making of..." snap shots grabbed on the week of production.

RECENT PHOTOS

2009-10-25T14:24:00.001Z

NEW PROJECTS SOON

2009-10-13T23:29:00.000+01:00

I am currently working on new projects at uni and will post images on here soon!

NEW BLOOD

2009-07-03T14:12:00.000+01:00

NEW BLOOD 09

2009-07-03T13:06:00.000+01:00

D&AD's New Blood show took place earlier this week and I went along to see what the standards are like in a hope to be exhibiting myself next year. I have to say that there was a very inspirational atmosphere around the show with a great bunch of work. The judges at the show chose the best new bloods to award them prizes. There was also a prize for the "best of show" which goes by the overall layout and the success of communicating the work to the audience within the space that the college or university had acquired.
Along with the judges were of course professionals from the creative industry ready to pounce on a graduate that they thought would be of benefit to there agency or design studio alike. Interviews could proceed that day with designated spaces to do so.
Here are a few of the shows winners!

Illustrations by Mark Boardman of Falmouth.

PERSONAL ILLUSTRATIONS.

2009-06-19T11:11:00.000+01:00

This is a small collection of my illustrations dating back to my early college years. You will notice a vast range of styles in which i was experimenting in finding what works best and what media i enjoy using most.

KOOL KENETIC TYPOGRAPHY.

2009-06-18T12:36:00.000+01:00

CHRISTOPHER PEARSON.

2009-06-18T12:02:00.000+01:00

After a visit yesterday to Heathrow's new terminal 5, I was reminded of a lecture given to us by the brilliant Christopher Pearson. He showed the graphic communication and design students of NUCA , pieces of work that had been commissioned to him by a vast range of clients and included some very creative moving projections that where designed for the lounge areas at
British Airways terminal 5.
I want to share this video of how the animations are just simply stunning! Chris said to create the moving projections, in order to be 100% believable, he had to build a replica wall in his studio to imitate the exact lighting positions so that the shadows could be made from the correct angles and the illusion of texture could be created.
Enjoy the video!

Take a look at Pearson's full range of work at... http://www.christopherpearson.com

HI-TEC REFRESH.

2009-06-15T21:22:00.002+01:00

I have finally finished my final brief of year two at NUCA (Norwich University College of the Arts).
The brief consisted of a refresh of the shoes brand HI-TEC, in creating designs for advertising the new fashionable line of footwear that would soon be released. Targeted at 15-30 years, with an urban street culture and a desire for 80's style hi-top trainers. I tackled the brief by thinking deeply about how I can bring back the 80's and communicate it in the most simple way possible.
Here are a few of my final outcomes...
copyright grafik:marka 2010 ⓒ

FRESH START.

2009-06-15T21:07:00.001+01:00

Its about time I start to get a little bit more serious about my interests in Graphic Design, also along with Photography, Typography and other sub-category's linked with the design industry. That's why I'm giving "Blogging" a go. I will use this to post examples of my work for others to enjoy and to share interesting things that I may come across that may well help inspire others like myself.

Hope you enjoy
GRAFIK MARKA.