Julian Gallash - Ballpoint illustration

I find these illustrations very striking, the ballpoint pen provides an interesting tone of colour along with a high attention to detail. I also like the added splash of bold, vivid colours and repetitive pattern.

The REAL Christmas colour spectrum.

I've been looking into different colour palettes I could use for the Chrismas themed wrapping paper. Wanting to stay away from the obvious (red, green, gold) I came across this fun colour spectrum made up of the 'real' colours of Christmas.
From a competition on the www.boooom website each colour chip has been sent with its own personal meaning and here are the best.

Retail Promotions and branding

Although I don't particularly like this design, I have included this onto my blog to show an example of how a banner design can be applied through out a shop environment. Then further on to bag design, tag labels, vouchers and other relating promotions. This is how I can see my Urban Outfitters brief developing further.

Garry Milne

Spoke to Ollie this morning, after viewing some of the stuff on my blog he recommended I look at the work of Garry Milne.

His imagery is very similar to the hand drawn prints I've been looking at, however they are produced using vectors. In this case they have been applied to a calendar however I think they could also make an interesting t-shirt print.

Stylized animal heads

These animal heads are great. Perfectly symmetrical with a limited colour pallet they could easily make modern t-shirt prints. I think, the use of gradients and triangular shapes make them appear to form the shape of a diamond or jewel, particularly the gorilla.

Sam Thomas

I have managed to find some copies of the original drawings used on the All Saint's t-shirts. Sam has drawn the surreal subject matter beautifully which appear to also convert well to print. I was surprised to see the same prints applied to a large range of different products across the shop. (e.g The football headed skull print works well on a mans top, though I'm not sure its appropriate for 2 year old's top).







I love this bottom print, even though its made of sheep skulls and birds, I think the combination of monochrome, colour and symmetrical layout create an unusual striking print pattern.

Some more wrapping paper ideas

The print pattern below reminds me of a photograph I took on holiday in Spain (above)
Perhaps I could take elements from the photograph to turn into a style of wrapping paper.





this zebra pattern is quite impressive even though it is a bit of a strain on the eyes.

These three printed posters are grate examples of how effectively you can create a poster with duo tone and monotone. Even with a limited colour palette you can still create an effective clear poster.

Vintage style posters

Poster to title sequence

For this Narrative project, I am also considering the visual relation of the poster designs and the title sequence. "I am not crazy about war movies, but this is another amazing mix of drawing and pictures done by "The art of the title sequence" team."

Screen printed Movie poster

I like this striking movie poster. The unusual choice of screen printing has enabled the designer to create this poster out of two bold colours, red and blue. I also like the use of layering to over lap the two colors slightly and create a deep purple as depth to the image. This printing process is also a means of reproducing many more copies with the same hand crafted look and quality.



MARCUS WALTERS, UK
“I chose Spirited Away, a film I have watched many times. The image was drawn partly from my own memories of the film and used simple paper cut outs to construct the silhoutted iconic images. The use of red and blue depict the central characters costume and the water featured throughout the film both of which are applied in water-based ink eluding to the dreamlike narrative of the story.”

Interesting drawing style

I love these pen drawings! At first i thought they were vectors because of the solid blocks of black and white. But on closer inspection you'll see carefully hand drawn patterned detail to create textured hair and clothing fabric. Again I think these sorts of images can be applied to print to make a modern style t-shirt design. Perhaps I could adopt a similar drawing style to apply to my print designs.

Super hero posters

I think these vector, vintage style posters are great! Simple and clear.
Not to sure what the point of them is, but they work well as a set.