Just a quick post to share some photographs that I took today whilst researching my self directed brief. Windows in Dalston. Really enjoy the colours and textures of these.
I am a recent graduate of the BA graphic design course at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London and am currently working as a freelance designer. This blog was used to record my day to day activity during my time at university and since graduating it has not been updated. To view my work please visit my full portfolio website at ross-tb-aitken.com or feel free to contact me by email at ross.aitken@yahoo.co.uk.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Windows
Just a quick post to share some photographs that I took today whilst researching my self directed brief. Windows in Dalston. Really enjoy the colours and textures of these.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Life Drawings
Its been a while since I've done any drawing and as such I was quite pleased with these, especially the figures in the second picture. Going to try and go to as many life drawing clases as I can some should be more of these in the future.
Sunday, 12 February 2012
Vintage Blues posters
Been getting some inspiration form these beautifully simple Blues posters for a printed artifact I am creating to accompany my Tiny Orchestra project from last year. I will upload the finished piece once Im done. More greate examples of these vintage posters can be found at - http://www.postercentral.com/blues.htm
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
NMC Competition Finals
After a long and varied process of development for this project, I was finally forced to settle on some designs to present for the final hand in. Below are the images I chose.
The final design shown here (above) was selected by the judges as won on 12 winning cover designs and earned me £250 prize money (plus royalties)! In all honesty, it isn't my favourite of the lot, but this brief taught me the importance of understanding the client and trying to actually create what they want to see, rather then just something you personally like the best. The design was based on one of the original crystal collages shown in my previous post with some paint patterns overlaid and blended using photoshop.
The final design shown here (above) was selected by the judges as won on 12 winning cover designs and earned me £250 prize money (plus royalties)! In all honesty, it isn't my favourite of the lot, but this brief taught me the importance of understanding the client and trying to actually create what they want to see, rather then just something you personally like the best. The design was based on one of the original crystal collages shown in my previous post with some paint patterns overlaid and blended using photoshop.
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
NMC Competition
This is my first post to this new blog, hopefully I will be a little more regular from now on. First of all, a project that took up a lot of time over the past few months but has been ultimately worth it was the album cover competition for contemporary classical music label NMC.
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My concept was based around the processes of layering in the construction of music, which I achieved by creating collages of natural objects (as with the crystals above), mimicking the layering processes discovered in nature. |
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After the initial crit, I was encouraged to looking into using other natural products in my collages. I created numerous designs in the development of this project, a couple of which are shown above. |
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