HN Werkman

During my  second year at Uclan, I was set the brief to for a cover and double page spread for a magazine named ‘Thinking Type’. The double page spreads were to be based on typographers who’s work we liked, to which I chose Vince Frost and HN Werkman. I recently bought Werkman’s book titled Monographics which highlights some of his work and has gives a brief description about his interesting life. His art/design work is best known for his innovative printing techniques which involved something called ‘hot printing’, a technique incorporating found materials as plates for pressing. Werkman was arrested and imprisoned by german police in 1945 and excited without trial just three days before the country’s liberation. To anybody who enjoys letterpress work I definitely recommend this as a book for the shelf.

Heres the cover I did in second year, placed in the SU shop(smooth), taking inspiration from both Werkman and Frost. Bit of a blast from the past is always nice.

Tib Street

Detail have recently moved to Tib Street in the heart of the Northern Quarter. Although it adds a fair bit to my journey when riding to work, I couldn’t be happier to be on the busier side of town, however when you work above a bar the Diet can take a hit. Here’s a few photo’s I took of the new studio that will be used in a project we are currently working on…

You can check more of my shots on my Flickr account (Yes another social network I have given into).

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I am currently in the process of updating my portfolio site and it should be up and running in the next few weeks, with hopefully a couple of new projects for you all to have a goose at.

Hard Graft

Lucky for me, I was given the iPad 2 for christmas, however this became a bit of a dilemma for myself during January as I didn’t know what case to buy. As there are so many out there I didn’t know whether to go for aesthetics or practicality as I couldn’t find any in-between. I the end I went with the Hard Graft iPad Case, and I couldn’t be happier.

When the postman delivered my package I could be more excited, and when I opened the Fedex case I knew I had made the right choice. The case had been beautifully hand wrapped with a key ring sticker holding it together.

After owning the case for 4-5 months and using it on a daily basis, I am still happy with the functioning and even more happier with the style. Was a little expensive but definitely worth it and I definitely got what I wanted for an iPad case, just need to get the wallet and bag now to match.

Museum of the Image

In December Detail treated us to a trip to Amsterdam to visit the MOTI for our Xmas do. I wrote a quick write up of it over on the Disciples of Design and you can read each post here.

Part 01

Part 02

Part 03

Paper 53

 

I recently got this App for my iPad and it’s not too shabby. The App allows you to scribble, paint or write on an unlimited amount of sketch books that can each be personalised with a different name and cover. Drawing using the App is fairly easy but I feel that the addition of a stylus will enable me to create some better images. For anyone who owns an iPad, I highly recommend this little badger as it is consistently being updated with add-ons, in which I hope they allow you to drop images onto the pages or even better, allow you to download you drawings as vectors, but I will have to wait and see.

Eric Kessel – D&Ad Talk

I’ll be honest and say I only came aware of Eric Kessels when he created the house of flickr images, but it’s only so often that D&Ad put a talk on in Manchester. Myself and Mike Kirkpatrick (3rd yr Preston student, working at Detail at the time) got ourselves a couple of tickets and headed over. After a couple of pints we headed in.

I’m back

When reading other peoples personal blogs I begin to get quite irritated when then post a message beginning it with ‘sorry I haven’t spoken in a while’, so I am going to be hypocritical and dedicate a whole post to apologising. Therefore I’m sorry. But why should you continue you to read my blog (if you ever did) after good 5 month period of zero blogging.

Well a lot has happened during the last 5 months (probably why I haven’t been blogging) which I think is quite interesting. From Detail Creative moving to a trip to both Amsterdam and Nice to Peter Saville talks, I’ve done quite a bit.

I’ll start with a post later on about the D&Ad Eric Kessels talk I went to see a few weeks back.

 

 

PacMan Vs Hilton

Most days when you look out from the studio all you see is a wet Manchester with a silhouette of the Hilton. However yesterday when taking a look we spotted PacMan running riot in the bottom left window.

Converted Chicken Farm

Last week I spent a couple of days photographing some of Details past work ready for the website with photographer Ben Spriggs. Over the couple of days, we made sure all the alignments were correct, and from this we have some great shots that you’ll get to see as soon as the site goes live. Ben’s studio is situated near Broadbottom and is based inside a converted chicken farm filled with random props/finding that Ben has previously used in shots for clients such as Addidas & The Philharmonic. Whilst there a farmer turned up with a random barrel asking of Ben was interested in it for a future shoot, and with little gestures like this there is no wonder Ben gets such great shots.

Had a great few days and look forward to working with him again on the next batch…