A.S.S
Logo concept for our awesome cool society. Probably won’t get used, but who knows.
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Category: Makings
It was cold. Very cold. Still sunny though and we went to a good few agencies, all with their own little “thing” that makes them different from each other. The agencies I went to throughout the trip and the main speakers were;
Concept Farm – Griffin
Exposure – Tom
What If! – Gareth
R/GA – Courtney
Cunning – Lara
Naked – Paul
Rapp – Camilo
JWT – Renetta and Andy Clarke
They were all very nice people and I was quite surprised how many English people there were in the agencies (some even from Bucks!). We even randomly met one of the founding four of ZAG on the street outside Concept Farm who gave a few of us an impromptu talk about the industry. Thanks Georgia ;).
Overall it was a good trip, plane there was good, plane back was a fucking nightmare, but you’re reading this so it wasn’t that bad.
Now on with the pics! This isn’t all of them, and they will all look different from each other because I was pissing about in photoshop.
I have to start with this one because it’s by far the most globally relevant, the rest are just holiday snaps whereas this is porn frozen into the middle of Central Park’s lake – epic. The next one is of a taxi on fire… sort of.
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Norman Hurtz
I’ve set up a website for my illustrator vectors under the brand name of Norman Hurtz. The main reason behind the alter ego is because people love exclusivity. One man who no one really knows who he is (except you) making these, in my opinion, pretty awesome vector artworks of people. It’s not batch made, or illustrated with hired help, it’s one man, every single piece is original and they can’t be obtained on a willy nilly basis.
Plus, I also made the logo a couple of years ago and wanted a use for it.
Here’s some of the work thats up on site. Norm is also on Twitter.
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Tutor Shooter
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A Team Awesomepants Production (Facebook Page)
This is the product of a ‘feel good’ brief in which we have to make people feel good. We targeted the Advertising/Graphics students at Bucks New Uni – what better way to make students smile after a bad crit than blowing up tutors heads… right?
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Sympathy For The Devil
I’ve just come across an old collage I did at college. The brief was simple – make a pice of work to a song the the tutor sets. I got Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones.
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You Fat Bastard!
After that random doodle I did the other day, I thought it would be cool to make the fat guy into a vector. He’s not eating a baby, but instead he is looking like he’s about to hit a piñata or something.
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Portfolio/Scrapbook
I’ve been going insane trying to figure out how to do my portfolio for the site. What should I and shouldn’t I put in it, should it be a different design to the site, should I use flickr, I don’t really know. I’m thinking that i’m just going to make that ‘Portfolio’ button you see at the top of the website into a ‘Scrapbook’ and just link to my scrapbook category. It’d be easy, feature everything i’ve done and would be implemented into the site perfectly. I may end up changing it, but for now it’s all gravy so please excuse me while I dump some old stuff i’ve done just so it’s in this category.
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Susan Boyle Does Pin Up.
She’s hot right? And to top it off she’s got such an awe inspiring voice!
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GeekTool and Me.
I’ve been introduced to Geektool, which is basically an application that lets you run Terminal scripts on your desktop as well as images and files.
After a day of learning the commands I’ve finally positioned my desktop how I like it with live news feeds from Yahoo, time, date, IP addresses, and with help from Yahoo Widgets I’ve managed to get my current battery life and the weather. Of course most of this is unnecessary and pointless, but it looks cool and I like it.
Here’s my current desktop.
A bit of a long winded title for such a tiny book, but it does the job. I was at a workshop with Leah Klein (Wired Magazine), which, in my opinion, was quite good. The workshop brief was to write, illustrate and make an A-Z book on anything. So I did it on Zombies.
As a pre-warning; this thing may be riddled with spelling mistakes as it was put together quite rapidly and I didn’t get a chance to proof read it, so if you spot anything, just leave a comment and I will correct it at a later date.
Here are some photos I took on my (not so good) camera phone so I apologise for the lack of image quality. Also, i’m on Twitter so follow my ass!
You can read it in full below.