INFO: Alex Meldrum, Summer 2014, grennanmill.net A signature feature of Grennan Mill Craft School is its yellow doors and windows. It made sense to use this as the background color and I converted a photograph of the the mill wheel into a vector image in…
Tim Harper
During the last week I’ve been mulling alot over ways to speed up and improve my composition workflow. The study I’ve done over the last two years has definitely sharpened up my awareness of harmony but I still find it slow going when filling out…
INFO: Occupy Space, Summer 2014, occupyspace.com This was an great image to build a design around. The original was abit busy for a poster thou so I reduced it to an outline in Illustrator which then allowed us a greater choice of background colors to…
INFO: Helen Faulkner, Spring 2014, helenfaulknerceramics.com This commission was straight forward enough to do as Helen already had a very clear idea what she wanted. Once I had a few pictures of the stamp she uses on her pots I just needed to figure out…
Having wrapped up the series of harmony and counterpoint courses I’d planned out for 2013/14 I’m finally getting back to some regular composing related work (two afternoons a week to be exact, more if possible). I started on two separate compositions: one uses a melody…
INFO: Occupy Space, Winter 2014, occupyspace.com The mock-up we ended up going with (sub divided single letters) ended up being alot more difficult to execute than I had initially thought it would. The background image was undefined and strong enough, color wise, to pop out…
Having been working out of the office for a good few days the last two weeks I came back to mixing down the latest electro tune with somewhat fresher ears and found the chorus sections to be still sounding too full and muddy. I muted…
INFO: Judith Lardner, Spring 2014, a href=”http://judithlardner.com/” title=”judithlardner.com”>judithlardner.com This brochure needed to be fairly restricted color wise as initially it was going to be duplicated on a domestic printer so ink cost was a factor. Due to the subject matter the typography needed to be…
I ended up having some extra time this week to finish off the KDMC site (see last weeks post) as a website booking was postponed till early May. I’m very happy with the way the site worked out, particularly the minimal logo and Instagram style…
