more influencial artists

During the 2 year period of the ND Graphic Design course I have looked at many artists who have produced so much amazing work and some really cool designs. Here is a little list of my favorite artists and designers and my views on them.

Firstly the Illustrator Gerald Scarfe, throughout the whole of my narrative project he was my idol, his work is absolutely amazing and his style is very original that many others have utilized his style in their work.

The works to the left are my favorite pieces from him the top one because the colors used are so dark and so eery also because of the amount of expression shown in the piece, it's very strong and gives of the sense of pain and suffering.

The Teacher was another of my favourites as his characteristics make him very scary, the structure of his body, the long fingers, wide face and lifeless eyes make the teacher very intimidating.

During the narrative i followed the same sort of style emphasizing the features that I wanted to stand out, in doing so I created a very intimidating looking alien.

 In terms of type I really like the work of Stefan Sagmeister and David Carson, during the course of the FMP I found that a mixture of the two were really effective, combining Carson style of layout and typefaces along with Sagmeisters was really nice as they meet in the middle, Carson has some really great type but makes the viewer work an awful lot to find out the message whereas as Sagmeister are are handwritten but he makes the type readable yet busy.

I really like all the different point sizes in this piece, I wish I had seen this piece during the type project as I think the style is wicked, I did however create something very similar to this piece but it was more vintage and had a lot of different typefaces.

While I was trying to come up with poster ideas I was heavily inspired by Whitechapel, Suicide Silence and Behemoth, these are 3 Death Metal bands whose promo posters look really cool and posses a very dark mood. Here is a piece of work from each of them.

I really like this piece, the different angles of the model that the designer has used and Photoshopped to make look machine-like looks wicked. The use of texture is immense I love all the metal and rust textures, it gives the design a darker feel opposed to if it was made to look shiny and new.


I really like the handmade typeface, its very unique to this band and works so well.  The tea-stained background looks really nice too , it makes the image look old. Finally I really like the liquify effect used on the model and on the black strokes coming from the mouth.

This is a real favorite the Photoshop usage is out of this world, I love the script background it makes it look ancient, also the symbology looks really neat, this also adds to that ancient feel, it also makes it seem as though t has meaning as symbols always have meaning and when you see ancient looking writing you feel as though they must have a purpose.

Looking back at the FMP

When I first started the Fmp I set out a number of target these included looking for plenty of inspiration for some really nice style of Heavy metal designs as I wanted my outcomes to be unique and original.
I also wanted to look at a few Photoshop tutorials to learn some image manipulation techniques and to increase my knowledge of Photoshop.

I didn't plan on it but I got really good with type usage as I looked at a really neat artist named Stefan Sagmeister who's work was very original, also i liked how he lays out his type, it's very busy and there's lots going on, this I think makes it interesting.

As the FMP progressed I created heaps of experimentation, this ranged from, image manipulation to what materials I used for creating different textures such as inks, acrylics, oil pastels, watercolors.

I attempted quite a few artist styles. I tried to do an illustration in the same style as H.R Giger however I found it extremely difficult to mimic his style as it was quite realistic even though his works looked very surreal. I really liked Charlie Anderson's style of work too, it wasn't dark or scary but for experimentation purposes it was really nice, he would paint an existing image then collage it up but by painting, so basically he made i look like a collage but without it actually being one.

As my FMP was to promote my band i looked at other bands designs I particularly took to the style of Whitechapel, Suicide Silence and Behemoth as they used a range of photography and image manipulation to produce their work so I went in the same direction and attempted to produce similar outcomes.

I feel that I produced a lot of work especially computer wise, I managed to produce several different poster designs, I completed a really nice type flier where I experimented with various backgrounds also I produced Cd Case Graphics; front cover, back cover and a booklet.

I'm really happy with my outcomes as they look nice, I got a lot of positive feedback on them and I'm glad that I kept to my action plan and followed the targets I set for myself, it has proved to be useful that I independently set my targets as I got what I set for myself done, not only that but because I was motivated and very enthusiastic on this project I was a lot more self driven and I knew what needed to be done.

Overall this project was extremely good I really enjoyed it and accomplished so much.

Fmp Project

All of my finals are complete all I have to create now is a Final Flier design I have one design which involves a compilation of type but I want to make one with some illustration on it so I was thinking I would illustrate one of my bands songs then turn it into a flier design.

This is my type design I have created.
I really like it and i put a lot of effort into it so I'm glad it has come out well.

Fmp project- Possible finals

 I am not set on a final but these are what I have come up with.

This design I like as it has a dark feel, looks eery and also the logo placement between the horns looks really neat.

With feedback from classmates this has been the most popular but they wanted to see more in the background. One suggestion was to add blood splats to it so i will try that and see how it looks and to see if people like it.

 This is my album cover design I have had good feedback from this design and i am set on having this for my final Front cover Album cover Design

For the poster this design was the second most popular so I may use his one as I really like the layout also I am proud of the cross that I made with the heads.











This is the design i came up with for the back cover I really like it as it fits with the design of the front cover also i like the texture effect it makes it look grungy.