INFO: Caroline Sweeney, Winter 2014 This commission was for an online wedding flower and gift store with a focus on real plants hired out for the occasion so the logo needed to have a romantic and botanical vibe without being too cheesy. I thought the…
Tim Harper
Having come to the realization that I spend a ridiculous (unhealthy) amount of time sitting for the vast majority of the work day I decided in the interests of my lower back and/or possible future chiropractor bills to invest some time now in researching best…
Got a good few bookings made the last week so WB related visual stuff got put on the back burner till things quieten down abit. Not in too much of a rush to get the shop finished anyhow as I’d like to get the latest…
Had a quiet enough week commission wise so I took the opportunity to get a decent bita work done on the upcoming (for a good half year now) online store. Its nearly ready for uploading to the live site, I just have the individual product…
Since getting back to work after the festives I started in on a new series of short courses via alexanderpublishing.com. The series is based around the use of Athur Langes Spectrotone chart in the study of orchestration. Basically every instrument register (and in some cases…
Worked on an unusual commission during the week; a mock Vinyl LP cover for a client in Limerick. The briefing keywords included ‘compass, contrasting manic with logic/stillness, humour and Disco/Chic era’). I messed about with melting compasses ala Dali abit and abstract chaos’ish patterns but…
I had hummed and hawed over upgrading to the latest version of Cubase but after installing and testing it out during the week I’m glad I did. As I’d read in reviews the new GUI is abit of a shock at first but the enhanced…
INFO: Gillian Horan, Winter 2013, The Pudding This was a pretty unusual commission as Gillian asked for something ‘ying-yang’ but also ‘out of control/wild’. I initially thought about using silhouettes of trees in various weather conditions but settled on a mixed gender playing card where…
During the week I started work on drawing up a new orchestral MIDI template in preparation for getting back into regular composing/orchestrating in the new year. Blending sections from various sample libraries being the best practice I had considered picking up a copy of East…
