HEY HEY IT'S TIM DENEE

There are so many sites you have to update when you finish a project now; twitter, facebook, flickr, personal portfolio site, livejournal, and then submitting links to various design sites in the hopes of getting a link. Exhausting!

Anyhow, I've finally put my major project online. This was the final project of my degree, and also my submission to the International Society of Typographic Designers. This project is a reaction to the plummeting sales of physical books and the current digital publishing revolution. It seeks to present important literary figures to a new audience, reinvigorating classic literature through good design.

Click here to see the project!





Thanks!

To finish off my degree I had to take one more paper alongside my major project (speaking of which, that will be posted soon! It's really large and hard to present all at once, and I want to present it just right), so I did a second year marketing class. Quite interesting, if a little tedious at times. Anyway, the second project was to create a brand of iceblocks to compete in New Zealand with FruJu (the country's giant in that product category). Here are the results! From first concepts through to final result.

(I should stress that this project was a collaboration with the aforementioned Josh Barr, and he did a lot of the work)

(I should also stress that we were both working on our major projects at the same time as this, so this project was a bit of an after-thought and doesn't represent our best graphic design efforts)



( see the rest behind the cut! )

My friend Josh Barr suggested that I center the text, to play into that Jason Munn vibe. I think it looks a lot better! Unfortunately they've already printed off a run of the first version at A3, but they're doing a more extensive print run at larger sizes closer to the time, so they'll use the final version then. I'm pretty pleased!

For the Cuba Street Night Market, a new initiative for the coolest street in Wellington. The fountain is the Cuba Street Bucket Fountain, an iconic landmark of the street. This is a response to a call for free posters, which I'm usually opposed to, but the market is a cool idea and I'd be thrilled to be a part of it. No idea if it will be used.

This was a fun little procrastination project yesterday; illustrations/code-names for the development team here at work.

Originally it was going to be the five stages of the development cycle, with an archetypal emotion for each developer (in order for the images, from top to bottom: apathy, pessimism, rage, quiet suffering, and disappointment). But the seed idea was an A-Team style commando team so I stuck with that. Codenames were off the top of my head; Widow-Maker is a typography joke in case you didn’t catch that.

Because I am a gigantic nerd, I spend far too much time imagining the development team as a crack commando squad in dire conditions, so it was nice to get this out of my brain at last.


( click for the other four! )

Click for bigger! (click the "all sizes" button on flickr)

One week to go! By next Monday everything will be finalised and printed.

For this project I'm only designing one book fully (Ernest Hemingway) but it's part of a hypothetical series of ten books on ten different authors. So I'm designing two other covers as examples of how the design might extend; I've chosen Anton Chekhov and Virginia Woolf as the other two to keep Hemingway company.

Getting there!

A two-page spread out of about 40 pages that I've done so far (I'm aiming for around 50, and then I'll go through and finesse it).

Bit of fun! A sample of some of the icons/illustrations for my Hemingway project. It's a typography project so there's not a whole load of illustration work, but I've tried to squeeze in a little bit.

Just a quicky.

It's a shared experience between us.

"OK. OK. Wait. Grreenh. Follow me. "

"Hello. Hello. Wait. Grreenh. Yoyoyoyoyo."

How exciting. Needs a new ink ribbon, but it looks and works great. Got my beard, got my typewriter; Hemingway here I come!

Got into InDesign tonight and started properly designing for my major project, at last. Hooray.

In the above screenshot you can get a peak at my twelve-column grid and rejected design scraps off the artboard. Ooooh.

I'm doing this little 200-level marketing paper alongside my major, to make up the final points for my degree. The first assignment is due tomorrow and is an extensive brand analysis in the form of a dossier; although it's a theory paper and not a design paper, I get excited about the opportunity to make a nice report. So I spent $100 on stationary (nice black holepunch, nice gray boxcutter, etc).



( a few photos behind Cutty from the Cut )

This guy on a forum I post to put up a request for some fake logos for a game. Not for money or anything, just a little favour. I thought it would be fun so I gave it a whirl!



( The brief given and my results under the cut )

This is probably my favourite of the three; I feel like I'm getting closer with each one to an illustration style that I can use for this project. Practice makes perfect I guess!

These are just quick experiments though; most of my time is going into conceptual development, research/content-writing, and typographic decisions. Still, I've had over a month doing the theory part of the assignment; very soon I'll start getting into the actual designing, which is rather exciting.

That typeface is Archer, by the way, and it's really lovely.

The one where you take a random title off wikipedia, the end of a random quote, and a random photo off flickr and create an album cover... I did a few of those today for some reason.



( couple more under the cut )

Cool motto though.