17 Blind Fists of the Invisible Tiger: A 60 Second Martial Arts Film

THE 17 BLIND FISTS OF THE INVISIBLE TIGER AND THE ANNIHILATING EAGLE CLAW POWER OF THE MYSTIC SHAOLIN VERSUS THE DEADLY CMYK SHADOW NINJAS, CHILDREN ON THE DRAGON TAIL MASTER. PART 2.

A SHORT FILM TO ANSWER THE BRIEF OF CREATING A SIXTY SECOND FILM THAT REPRESENTED THE MARTIAL ARTS GENRE AND THE WORD ‘CMYK’.

BY JOE MANIA, TOM BRUSHWOOD, OLIVIA TYTHERLEIGH AND YOURS TRULY.

WITH A BIG THANKS TO SERDAR FERIT & JOEL DEVENISH @ WRITETHISDOWN

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Forty seven first year Graphic Design students at Chelsea College of Art & Design were given the task of creating a sixty second film.

Each film had to be based on a randomly selected film genre and graphic design related word. The word had to appear in the title and the film had to express it’s title. The couplings came out looking like this:

Science Fiction / Brief
Musical / Layout
Western / Typeface
War Film / Lowercase
Film Noir / Pixel
Horror / RGB
Disaster Movie / Laptop
Martial Arts / CMYK
Road Movie / PDF
Romantic Comedy / Client
Action Blockbuster / Print

Each film also had to include three recurring props:

A Cat
An Egg
A Ladder

And three recurring lines of dialogue:

“How much for the little one?”
“See you next Wednesday”
“The most important thing in life is………”

The word ‘Chelsea’ also had to appear somewhere in each film.

Each and every aspect of the film’s production was then down to each group. They had to write, produce, design, build, storyboard, act, shoot, direct, digitise, edit, composite special effects and everything else! A highly demanding and restrictive project designed to teach every aspect aspect of film making.

…AND HERE IS US HEPCAT’S ACCEPTING OUR AWARD FOR BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP. BECAUSE US BOYS REALLY HELPED OUT ON OLIVE’S GEISHA GET UP….SORT OF….WELL NOT AT ALL….BUT IT LOOKS GREAT HUH?

Oscar Night

The infamous GDC1 Oscar night is fast approaching – so the past few night’s have been spent scouring the internets dirty drawers to find the perfect tux. Nearly all inspiration is coming from this cat below.

That last picture is a prize. I found these clips from an old TV clip of Elvis and Frank Sinatra performing together in 1960. Good stuff. First person to let me know what that interesting bow tie variant is on Elvis’ neck wins a pack of Monster Munch.

New Languages: Interactive Light Maze

To answer a recent brief of creating new languages through technology, Jean and I devised an Interactive Light Maze that changes it’s course randomly whilst the user is inside. The diagram of the maze is projected onto the floor whilst the smoke that fills the maze space creates ‘walls’ around the participant.

Below are some photos of the maze in the making:

Grinder Brand Sheet [Updated]

Have just given the original brand sheet a bit of a tarting up, which now also features the promotional handout material. All is ready for a’ printin’. After an eventful day of photographing the items placed on an A1 whiteboard, the photographs ended up being pretty dark and shadowy in places, plus the text was a bit hard to read on certain stuff. I decided to just recreate the physical layout digitally. Thanks to Sophia Ray for all the fun and work involved with creating all this!

Grinder Music Television

Branding for a new music channel – Set by Peter Chadwick of Popular Design. In collaboration with Sophia Ray

Grinder is a new music channel, featuring the most exciting bands of now, hottest bands of tomorrow and seminal groups of the past.

Spawned in the heart of London; Grinder offers a huge video database of post-punk, electro, r’n'r, dirty pop, hip-hop, new wave, no wave and more.

Viewers are invited to create their playlists online, which are then submitted to feature on Grinder’s day-time broadcast. By night, Grinder offers an extraordinary schedule of exclusive shows.

Grinder brings you the talent. You choose what you want to see and hear.

I Like Your Type

I Like Your Type is a guerrilla campaign, celebrating the beauty of ‘bad’ Typography.

Our campaign is designed to draw public attention to weird fonts, poor layouts, laughable grammar and exquisitely atrocious design, which gloriously litters our surroundings. By distributing stickers that read ‘I LIKE YOUR TYPE’, you are invited to place this comment wherever you come across offending type.

Your findings and sabotage can then be photographed, uploaded and rated online.

The postcard sticker packs can be found within student bars, independent shops and other interesting establishments in the London area. Alternatively you can email us at: stickers@ilikeyourtype.co.uk to recieve your free postcard pack. Please forward these stickers to anyone who you think may be interested in our campaign.

To get involved, follow these simple instructions:
Seek and find bad typography
Choose sticker from selection
Place sticker in appropriate place
Photograph your work and send to upload@ilikeyourtype.co.uk

Project in conjunction with: Alison Coggan, Didi Blackhurst & Katie Black

Grinder Music Television [concept logo]

Logo draft/concept for new music channel. Part of a new brief to design and brand a new music channel. Set by Peter Chadwick of Popular Designs.

This logo was put together as a brainstorm. The lovely Sophia Ray then took this to work her illustrated magic on. Results to come soon…

Dieter Rams Principles of Good Design

Really not my finest of moments. This is a short film representing Dieter Rams infamous principles. I must admit that by overstretching my initial ideas, I eventually created something that I really wasn’t very happy with. If anything, I have learnt that the formula to good design is; a simple idea, executed well. This project turned out to be the complete opposite. Ah well, lesson learned.

p.s: this is also only 7 of the 10 principles. Maybe, i’ll finish it off in the near future – but to be honest i would rather finish it off in the trash can.

Word Play [Progress/Draft]

Work in progress.

Word Play [3D Type] pt.2

Brief: Create a piece of 3D typography, inspired by your given word [design].