project - McLAREN MP4-12C

Hello folks,

I'm not back, just thought Ill post the finished article regarding a very old project.

Design may begin to flow again since I'm changing careers, and my new one will allow my design work to grow...

as always click to enlarge:

FINISHED! OVER 2 YEARS LATER

 

assalamu alaikum 

project - PEER POINT INTERNET

Hello folks,

I am back! Its been a very long time, I've been away concentrating on my career in sales management moving up the ladder and forgetting about my penniless design ventures. Its been fun hard work, but then most things in life are hard work at the moment.

Well anyways long story short, my good friend asked me to help him design a logo for his new ISP company, he was let down my a designer and has always championed my design work, so I accept his request. It was not easy to jump back behind the drawing board, but I got there and to be honest now I am back I think I will start working on projects once again! and to be honest its about time I stop wasting my true talents... on to the work

My mate is starting up a new Internet service provider that deals primarily with business's and provides heavy duty network solutions, he explained that fibre options had to be integrated into the logo and that it had to colour the colours he chose and be very professional. easy....

It took overall about aweek from the first meeting to implimentation, and well considering that I work full time, we got it done fairly quickly....

BEGINNING

MIDDLE

END

OUTCOME

 

The site will be overhauled soon, after I last logged in my logo was adapted and my style evolved. So eventually things will be changing....

Speak soon!

project - BIG MOUTH (AN UTTER FAILURE)

assalamu alaikum

Last month I was approcah by a fellow member of my local masjid, he explained that my services were recommended to him and he invited me to do some work for him.

We planned a meeting early October (a very busy period for me), firstly he was very late and left me hanging around for quite some time, not good! When he did arrive, he laid out the brief, package design for sweets etc.... but first requested I come up with a design for their brand 'BIG MOUTH'. ok fair enough....

When the subject of costs arised he pulled out the oldest line in the book "shoe string budget" and that "a friend is helping us probono!" Therefore to capture his buisness I offered to 'knock out a few idea's' prior to development so that he could choose who he wanted to go with and that payment can begin in the development stages.

I worked on a couple of ideas, all requireing development blah blah blah, but then I was working for free so I was only going to show concept proposals!
Boy did I get the wrong idea....

I received an email a few days after my submission, from this email I found of that I was infact bidding on the project? Against not 1 person but 100's....

If fact what the client did was go onto 1 of those websites that provides hundreds of designs where the client picks 1 and only pays the 'winner'. These kind of websites take the piss.... we designers should not have to provide work for free for the prospect of possible payment. It devalues our work and makes our profession worthless, infact I'm better of working in a retail shop than design this way!

In the end the client hated my work saying it was unoriginal and under-developed when compared with other submissions! Well I disagree with unoriginal if you considered the 'other submissions', and under-developed... well durrr what did this guy expect.

well rant over...

Well here are my unoriginal and under-developed proposals.....

Working with people like this, makes me believe that design is not the way forward for me....

assalamu alaikum

project - SPEECH BUBBLE COLLECTION

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I'm not going to lie, I'm still struggling creatively! I don't know whats happening to me, maybe I'm working at my day job so much and using all my creativity in that work that I'm out of steam when it comes to design work in the evenings or I have lost my mojo???!!

Well despite the block I managed to get some stuff done during mid October, the post being part 1 of what I got upto. This little collection of cards were done over a course of 3 days and well they  basically a bunch of birthday celebration cards tailored to perhaps the peculiar audiences.... maybe.... I dunno!

The 18 year old who thinks he/she is still a kid

The northern musician

The vintage / bird cage lover (you know the type!)

The designs above required a 2 things, inspiration from library books and recycling old work! But in the end not bad simple and easy to understand, the negative space works well in the last 2 I think.

That's it for now, another post may come tomorrow!

Cheers...

assalamu alaikum

project - I HAVE AWOKEN! + BITS & BOBS

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Well well well.... Its been a fairly quiet couple of months on the design front, but a very busy period for my day job and well what pays the bills gets my attention! But I've now promised myself to get my act together and crack on with showing the world with what I have to offer!

To be honest the main reason for the lack of updates it that I've been struggling with one hell of creative block... I just haven't managed to get the creative juices flowing. Which is fairly evident in the following projects.... So with that said its time to clear house!

First up the completed Ramadan completion celebratory cards.... this was a continuation of the project RAMADAN which I posted a couple of months back.

Secondly one of my oldest mates recently had his first born so I knocked this simple yet self explanatory card for him and his new family! I really battled against my block on this 1!

It was recently my mum birthday, and well the card was a less creative affair, but then I tried a different route - the photography direction.... using slim captions as snippets. I think it worked well but was still very below par for me standard!

& well lastly this was a bit of fun really a little poster to advertise the 50th year of the Jaguar E-type, I think I did this after watching that episode of Top Gear with the E-type party at the end!

Well that's all for now folks.... I am going to try and firstly finished projects that I have previously started and then go from there!

Oh Yeah as you can see I've made a temporary change to my logo, gone for the organic feel for now, will speak about that next time.

assalamu alaikum

project - RAMADAN 2011

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The blessed month of Ramadan has arrived once again... and its going to be a difficult 1 this time round, long days of sunlight and high temps will certainly add to ones personal trials. I've just complete day 3 of 30 (approx) and well today was defiantly easier than the last 2 days, I truly hope to god it gets easier so I can maximise my days.
Well anyways abit of education.... Ramadan is usually about 30 days.... why? well each day represents 10 days therefore once a person completes 30 days he/she would be rewarded for 300 days of fasting. To complete the year a person has 30 addition days to perform 6 more days of fasting, so for 36 days of fasting you can be rewarded as if you completed 360 days! Bargain if you ask me.... (The 6 additional days are optional)

Now those 30 days are split into 3 segments....
first 10 - the days of mercy from Allah
second 10 - the days of forgiveness from Allah
third 10 - the days of salvation from the hellfire 

The information above is not known to everyone, even some Muslims! so I've been trying to design a simple and minimalistic poster to illustrate the above facts. I wanted to make it as basic as possible using as simple arrow shapes and bold colour to represent each section.

The way I broke down the meaning behind each segment is like this

first - man seeks mercy from God (i.e. praying towards God)
second - God forgives man for his sins
third - man seeks to avoid the temptations around him thus avoiding hell

For the little project I've taken inspiration from the cover arts to the ''The Lords Of The Rings'' novels. Which show progression from complex illustrative covers to simple forms and bold colours.

I will be developing this idea for the nest few days and hopefully it will be form the basis for this years celebratory cards that I shall be handing out at the end of Ramadan.... I guess there is no harm in educating a few without them knowing it!

Inshallah there will be more to follow

assalamu alaikum

project - SCRUM

assalamu alaikum
Tough times these days working 60 hr weeks, no spare time blah blah blah.....
In literally 30 I knocked this card up for a mate who was turning 21 a few days back... The theme was rugby due to the fact that he loves to play etc.... simple 1 really nothing fancy just clever bold design.....

THE TEMPLATE

THE FINISHED ARTICLE ON THE MANTLE

I have more too show but need to get it sorted so stay tuned for another update this week.

assalamu alaikum