Hiatus

I'm backpacking around Europe until July 10th, so no updates for awhile. It'll hopefully be a fruitful summer though so keep watching...

More Good Men

Had the final meeting this term for A Few Good men where we settled on the pieces I'll produce over the summer. First there's the two large posters that will go up around 2nd week Michaelmas, one of which will be based on that 'field of stars' image a couple posts back and the other on the image below. I'm going to have to be very careful to make that table work.


Then there's the teaser poster to be distributed 0th week, for which I have no mock-up but it'll be a wide horizontal image with Lieutenant Jessop and his marines lined up with slogans taken from the text above them, such as 'UNIT, CORPS, GOD COUNTRY'. Apparently they've cast a real US marines lieutenant to play the character.

There's also the flier that will have a variation of the teaser on the front and the star field on the back. Then badges, t-shirts and hoodies that will use a a logo based on the star field with a man collapsed on the star set into a roundel. To save some money we're going to use stencils for the clothing, which will look good I think but it means I need to make the stencils and post them to England before I get back.

Finally I'll post a couple reject concepts. At the top is a subtle riff on the Oxford Playhouse logo with a star in the 'O', but they weren't too keen. Below there's another poster layout that was much too busy, and at the bottom we have a totally different idea with a bloody hand smear that didn't win out.

Some magazine stuff

Another 6th week, another Isis. I spent much more time coordinating people and working on the overall look of the magazine than doing illustrations this time but I think it's paid off. Once the issue's been printed and distributed on Friday I'll up a few photos of layouts to show that.

For now, we have the designs that the table of contents, editorial and 'Isis Icons' were laid out on. We were trying to go for a sparse, geometric, modernist look, so came up with some shapes I liked and rendered them in vector. It takes a little time but ideally this kind of stuff would be used throughout the whole magazine.

Above is the left-side table of contents, below is the editorial etc.

I also did a quick illustration for an article on doing a road trip in Oxfordshire. The article was cute, but a bit dull. My illustration follows this.

Hey and guess what, my steampunk illustration ended up being used.