This animation is the introduction to my Google Totem video.
I’m looking forward to adding some sound effects to this…
I needed a person to interact with my Google Totem to help explain how it worked, but I thought an animated character would be easier/more fun than trying to work out how to put a real person into my footage. Here are some early sketches.
I recently entered a YCN student competition set by Google. The brief was to package Google’s products. My solution was a conceptual repositioning of Google’s products in order to present them to people in a new way.
I didn’t submit a video explanation of the design in time for YCN submission, but this is the first moving version of the design that I have made in the past week that gives a run through of how someone might search for a cinema in the area near this totem. This one is being operated by a ghost.
On another note, Simon and I have finally finished the bulk of our work on the TALK website!! There are still a few bits of written content to add, but the majority of work is done and it is nice to put this project to one side after putting all of our energy into it.
We created the site as part of our final major project to brand the lecture series at NUCA and have a place to hold the Q&A sessions that we filmed and edited. Next, we plan to produce a printed element that brings together all that we’ve learnt from the lecture series in a format that we can give back to the students.
Lots more to do but a significant point in the project, I feel that we really pushed this on from the initial ideas and I’m looking forward to getting feedback from it.
Simon and I just finished work on this poster as part of our ongoing TALK project. The poster promotes an upcoming lecture from American graphic designer Lance Wyman who is speaking to students this Wednesday. His identity for the Mexico ‘68 olympics is currently on display in the NUCA Gallery, and I was lucky enough to attend the private view yesterday.
Lance is best known for creating simplistic and reductive logos as well as powerful wayfinding systems for cities and events. Simon and I drew inspiration from these and created our own set of Norwich Logos for our poster, I’ll put up some more detailed images soon…
I started this collaboration with my friend (ropesandladders) before heading home for the Easter weekend. I left it at a good point, with most of the hard work done, but I’m looking forward to finishing it off.
I really enjoy drawing bears.
I recently entered some work for the YCN Student Awards Google Brief.
Essentially a touch screen information point that makes Google’s biggest products available in public spaces.
The brief asked students to “create an imaginary packaging range for Google’s family of products”. As they are not physical products, and can’t technically be packaged, I decided to interpret the idea of packaging as the place where google products are found. I thought Google’s products would be more accessible if they were out of computers and smart phones and available for people to access more easily in public places.
I have been spending more time on another project, TALK recently and didn’t put the time into the Google Brief to get it where it needed to be for the YCN submission. I have got plenty of time to work on it for final hand-in however, and the YCN deadline did push it further (and force me to do some crude 3D scamps).
I would like to put more thought into the interface and I know a film would communicate the whole project a lot easier and better than these stills.
Overall, some good things to take forward and some bad bits to work on.
I recently put together a basic website for my friend Oscar who is doing great things with the rapeseed oil that he makes on his farm in Hertfordshire. I created the logo and packaging for him in August of last year and since then he has been working hard to push the product and turn it into a really strong brand.
The website still needs work but is live enough for now. It’s been a pleasure working on the project and I know I’ll have more work for Duchess in the near future.
Here are some screenshots of the TALK website (version 1) that I have been working on. The site is not yet live and is most definitely a work in progress! I’m also working with Simon on a printed publication to support the website along with the twitter feed which is becoming more active and hopefully helping students get a bit more involved with the lectures.
Simon Jefferis (right) and I have been working together on a project for university called TALK, in which we are trying to bring together all of the content surrounding the graphics lecture series at NUCA so that it might become a resource for students. We presented our work in Movember at Hot Source, a gathering of local digital design agencies that takes place every last Thursday of each month. It was a great opportunity for us to show the idea in it’s early stages and see if anyone could give us a hand.
Yes…those are attempted moustaches.
