If We Tolerate This, Then Your Children Will Be Next

 

Homage's are dangerous, homages happen because you love something so much you are willing to open up and rip it off. I love stonewall's campaign from what it actually quite a long time a go, "Some people are gay, Get over it" was short snappy straight to the point. The colours were striking, I have tried to match the typeface here but it hasn't really worked. 

I made these to target the people who assume that Muslim's are terrorists. It's not the Muslim's that are terrorists, no where in their religous texts I am sure it does not condone violence, killing and murder. Terrorists are the terrorists. People can say they are terrorists in the name of a religion but no religion kills in the name of God.

Last night a DJ Saved My Life

Have you ever felt so proud of a piece of work you want to shout it from the rooftops, well that is something that I have just made. In uni I got given the job of developing a TV ident for a new TV channel that I have made. It won't get to telly but hey I wish it was a channel.

I chose to make a TV channel of vinyl records because they are my life outside of graphic design. Style wise it was initially based on the google play logo it has turned into an MTV bright light show. The dots are my love of litchenstein, most of the elements are hand drawn and the bright colours are because I have a little soft spot for design that visually attacks your eyes.  In the words of Miss Sophie Taylor (my bro) "I like it but it hurts my eyes"

Rock the Kasabian

Rock the casbah, rock the casbah. Hang on...wrong band. I love Kasabian, new album not so much. but yeah their first album and third and fourth albums are all masterpieces of modern indie guitar music. Not quite that band are Kazabian, a tribute to them. They are playing at my local gig venue and I was given the poster. They are an excellent tribute to a band that are in such high demand in festivals. I am definitely going to this.

I chose to use the silhouette photo of the fake Tom Meighan because it is mysterious and also alludes that it could be the real man himself as it even had the promoter at the venue got confused. I am trying my best to avoid helvetica on these posters mainly because it is used by everyone ever. It is a beautiful typeface but over used so I am using Univers as a good replacement.

neon lights

Using the colours from the latest covers album by the great and mad The Flaming Lips and the title of a kraftwerk song I made this very pretty little ditty of a poster using some -gons.

Where's Your Head at?

Me and my Buddy have been given the job by the brickyard to redesign their regular indie night poster because it has not changed in over two years. So since the brief was given we have both tried different layouts and approaches. None of which have been confirmed so far. but we will get there eventually.

so  I have been Trying out new designs and layouts for this indie poster because no one is sure what they want for the end product. I have applied my current favourite type positioning to the idea of people losing there head over the music that they love. Collage has to be some where according to the brief that we have been given

My OLD obsession

 These are the last two posters of this variety that I will be doing. I actually quite like these ones and as an activity they can be quite soothing when you are just watching telly or drinking tea. mmmmm Tea and gingersnaps. mmmmm Ginger Snaps. One Moment, I will just pop the kettle on...thanks for reading, hope you like them and will be back after the tea break. Blogging is hard.

From the Starman

A late addition to the James Reay Valentines range. two David Bowie themed cards for the diamond dog in your life. Make someone special feel hunky dory when they open this up. Give one of these beauties to your heroes. Stop me, stop me please; before I crash this car.

All Punned Out

 I am a closet romantic, much like Damon Albarn in the one song he did for trainspotting. I don't really have a chance to show it, but in a small move to show it I made some valentines cards. or E cards. They were sent out yesterday to the great and the good of my friendship group. The response; all very positive. Made peoples days apparently.

As you can clearly see they are all puns. We love puns, We have a pun jar at uni to prevent us going overboard on them as a sum of money will be paid to the jar. The style is my illustration style. Yeah, I hear you said that "but James you are not an illustrator" and I know that. strange that people seem to like it. the lecturers like, my illustrator friends like it and I do. The text is just my handwriting which also seems to draw the tutors eyes.

happy "Lesbian Gay Bi Trans" love day

My NEW Obsession

  "Obsessions come and go weeks ago it was courtney barnett and now it is these posters. its helping my sharpen up my layout ability, as well as font choices and weights and colour. and important part of any design me thinks.
     It is an exercise that I created which is to simply use the date and the time as your header text and use lorem ipsum as your body copy and to create and interesting composition. now I have included an additional element: shapes and the may one day influence a final piece or just simply be there. I will be most pleased to see this having an effect on the way I work in the future. I am constantly striving to improve as a designer and/or as a person."

My NEWER obsession

 " Obsessions come and go weeks ago it was courtney barnett and now it is these posters. its helping my sharpen up my layout ability, as well as font choices and weights and colour. and important part of any design me thinks.
     It is an exercise that I created which is to simply use the date and the time as your header text and use lorem ipsum as your body copy and to create and interesting composition. the may one day influence a final piece or just simply be there. I will be most pleased to see this having an effect on the way I work in the future. I am constantly striving to improve as a designer and/or as a person. "

My NEWEST obsession

     Obsessions come and go weeks ago it was courtney barnett and now it is these posters. its helping my sharpen up my layout ability, as well as font choices and weights and colour. and important part of any design me thinks.
     It is an exercise that I created which is to simply use the date and the time as your header text and use lorem ipsum as your body copy and to create and interesting composition. the may one day influence a final piece or just simply be there. I will be most pleased to see this having an effect on the way I work in the future. I am constantly striving to improve as a designer and/or as a person. 

ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

 I have been cheated but I am trying not to get down hearted because I made some great work for someone but they just couldn't see it. I have been messaging various companies for work and this gymnastics club got back to me and were very interested in my work, but they liked NOTHING i did for them, not one logo had one redeeming feature. Above and below are my favourite examples of work which I am more than welcome to change the name and words to meet a request if any gymnastics club owners are reading this.

You must be out of your criminal mind

 We all think politicians are criminals, ripping us off via expenses, their pay and their lack of anything. So these hold them to account for crimes. As per usual politicians think that are above the law so now it is tiem to fight the power. In light of various figures in politics being arrested and charged the system is working. There is a certain satirical appeal to these pieces because under British law a lot of these aren't actually a crime but they should be. especially ed who as you can see if the worst offender of the lot of these mugs.

on another political note, part two of a conservative way to have fun, a publication I first made as a year one project with my associate Vincent, is due to be released soon with as many goofs and gags as the first one but without the help of my associate who is preoccupied with his other jobs to contribute. if you have not seen part one this is unfortunate but also maybe due to the about published were in limited numbers.

 

Teeange Art Riot

A beautiful photo taken of one of the most inspiration bands of all time. The band that changed the way that we saw instruments and tuning. I have been a fan for ashamedly not very long but still love them. This is a remade gig poster I made for a gig they did in 2001. The treatment on this image and text harks back to one of their underrated albums.If you are a fan dig out any LP and get rockin if not learn to rock out to the youth.