Monday 30 November 2009
Inspired by Eddie Izzard
TV Posters
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Saville designs gift wrap as part of Manchester Christmas campaign
Manchester’s creative director Peter Saville has designed a limited edition gift wrap as part of the city's Christmas campaign.
Only 5,000 tubes of the multi-coloured wrap will be made available through the Tourist Information Centre, Manchester City Art Gallery, Urbis, Visit Manchester’s Christmas market stall in Albert Square, Vinyl Exchange in the Northern Quarter and online.
Saville said: “When I was approached to design a gift wrap for Manchester I thought it was a fantastic idea and something I have never done before. Designing a successful wrapping paper is not easy but working together with colleague Howard Wakefield, who lent his technical expertise, we’ve come up with a great result.”
Kate Harrison, chief executive of Cityco, the city centre management company, added: “This stylish gift wrap looks amazing and is a refreshing departure from the usual Christmas designs.
"It’s been cleverly created so each piece has a completely different look and even colour when wrapped round a present. Not only is it the first time that Peter Saville has created a wrapping paper design but as far as we know, it’s the first time a city has designed its own Christmas paper.
"The sheets have been cut to a size so that this stunning design can be framed, making an affordable and attractive Christmas present in its own right. This is yet another initiative that will help make this Christmas the biggest Manchester has ever seen.”
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Nottingham Trent Students Participate in YCN's Eureka Project
EUREKA is a new, intensive four week long creative programme hosted by YCN at 72 Rivington Street. Sponsored by social mobile company INQ, EUREKA sees six disciplinarily diverse graduates work collectively on a series of live creative challenges, make regular field trips to external places of note and be stimulated by regular guest visits and presentations. All the actions are charted online at the YCN blog, by the six, using the latest INQ handsets.
It is great to see that students from Nottingham Trent participate in worthwhile projects. Of the six graduates chosen for the project 2 are from Nottingham Trent University. Matt Ivey and Luke Fenech.
Wednesday 10 June 2009
What the font for iPhone
- Snap a photo right within the app
- Choose saved photos from the Photo Library
- In-phone image processing optimizes upload for speed and accuracy
- View font details in Safari or e-mail a link to yourself
Poladroid
It is a fantastic new application that coverts your JPEG images to polaroids at 400dpi actual size. It uses a filter to create a colour cast, vignette and blur. Since poplaroid film is no longer being made it is a greta way to fake the effects of a polaroid. It even gives you the texture of the paper!
Just like a real polaroid you can only take 10 photos, before you have to relaunch the software. It is a simple drag and drop process and it even develops as you watch.
I have found it very addictive. You can download it free of charge for both the Mac and the PC here. http://www.poladroid.net/
Have fun. Here are some of my photos.