Teasign

Absolutely zero work done today because of Family coming home so I shall make this blog post short and sharp, just showing the front of one of my packaging designs for the Cauldron project

Full packaging will be done tomorrow… shoop shoop!

M x

A day of Sighs, then a day of joys!

It took me an awful, awful long time to figure out how to set up an RSS feed so I could submit Twoddle to iTunes but after much moaning an groaning, I got it done (after 7 hours of complications…) and after that, it was time to play the waiting game for approval to have my podcast on iTunes, a process I found out can take a couple of days / weeks… But then took me less than two hours! I don’t know if it’s the short length or a low submission for the categories, but I was amazed and a little bit chuffed! A few people I know over on the View Askew boards have been waiting a week or more and heard nothing.

Anyways, so let me present Twoddle -

It’s called Twoddle. It’s nice and short,just over 6 mins. Weekly, it’ll deal with
Graphic Design, the ethics involved in it and topics that generally effect the creative process… This week the topic is ‘Incentive’ to design / create and I guess applies to a broader scope than just designers.

It can be found on iTunes here if you’d prefer, listen to it in Word Press… Which will only be used for podcast uploads

The Intro / Outro is the song ‘Push it Away’ by Seeräuber Jenny (who kindly let me use it.) You can check out the full version of that here.

Any comments on it, will be greatly appreciated! New Horizons and all that, so all feedback is welcome…

Hope you enjoy it!

M x

Quite abit of tea drinking today, what what! I’ve been a man on a mission, hence why I intend on curling up for an early night in a bit… For I spent most of my night cutting and recording. For what you might ask? Well, its what i’ve been babbling on about for the last few weeks or so… A load of Twoddle

May I introduce you ladies and gentlemen, to the next expansion of the Teasign online experience. The official Teasign, Graphic Design Podcast! Called Twoddle. It’s been in the works for awhile as I say. As some of you might know, I enjoy the SModcast podcasts and thought there was a lack of design podcasts available (the only one I know is Adrian Shaughnessy’s Graphic Design on The Radio) so thought it would give me an excuse to get some writing done.

Here’s the logo for now, hopefully the podcast itself will be available for download tomorrow (I need to get clearance on the intro track before I can legally put it on iTunes…)

Until tomorrow

M x

I’ve drunk an absolute shitload of tea and it has promoted a hole new change in attitude to alot of things after an afternoon of being lackadaisical, then complaining about stuff, then affirming my attitude towards stuff around two hours ago, I just designed something that has been abit of a mountain out of proverbial molehill for me to conquer and I believe I’ve finally nailed it.

In these moments, my attitude towards design is going to change. I’ve been trapped in a cycle of doing little work due to the amount of work I’ve had to do. I am correcting this. As of tomorrow (I hope…) there will be balls to the walls design. No stone will be left unturned for Teasign. No more talk, just design related action. The blog will become a daily update again and I am going to attempt to post a piece of something a day that I have designed, even if it (shock horror) design for designs sake, I need to get better. Of course, there will be a shitload of other cool shit from around the world if I find it… which could lead to two posts a day?!

Possibly… on some days, I don’t want to wear out my welcome.

Tomorrow something big will be going down, you mark my words Until then, I’m going to bed. Early to bed, early to rise and early to work. Well, that is after I record it. You want to know what it is? Well, I guess you’ll have to come back tomorrow

Until then two things. Thanks to my beautiful girlfriend for getting me this kick ass watch for our Anniversary. It has replaced my Fossil as watch of day-to-day choice. I love you <3

And number 2, if you haven’t already done so, check out Kevin Smith’s trailer for Red State. The man is starting a revolution in film making. Read about that here, watch the Trailer Here and buy a t-shirt / poster so we can see it somewhere near us soon here.

M x

Oh my dear God. Where did those two days go? I swear I didn’t even get that drunk and still the hangover yesterday compiled with lack of sleep killed me. Fortunately, I decree this here in ink (social network reference aside) that this is my last night out for the rest of the year. If I do go out (gigs, Spamalot…) I will be on the coke zero.

However that doesn’t really excuse today… but I did end up on foolhardy adventure to find a housemate a fuel cap and for myself acquire a copy of DC Universe… We failed on both fronts, but I did get a pull up bar and both Hot Fuzz / Shaun of the Dead for £7, which is amazing.

I spent the rest of the day writing… as for what, you will have to wait and see… suffice to say, it has a little to do with this -

Until tomorrow…

M x

The quickest of quick updates as I’m about to jet out to celebrate the 1st grade I got for a half-way dissertation mark! Winnah!

Not a lot really done today, did some writing for one of the future projects and some more research into another one of the up coming projects… Then realized I had to design a new Cool for Cats poster for a gig I though was on the 27th of Jan, then got a notice it was canceled, so now it’ll be launched to promote the 22nd of February show…

Client went with the same old ‘Pupcat’ font I’ve used for the last two but I also presented a few other alternatives (of course, I prefer the version with Uni Sans…)

So posted up the 100% finished flyer, and the Mock up with Uni Sans for your viewing pleasure!

See you all tomorrow for some serious work!

M x

Tea, oh Tea, oh Tea… I went without it yesterday and it kinda kicked my arse to be honest… I got home today from being at Gem’s and just thought ‘Shit, I really need a cuppa’. Cue me cutting up and making the below, it was kinda a stressful by the time I got one haha! Oh dear, how sad am I…?

Anyways, in retrospect, this has been a surprisingly lackluster two or three days in terms of productivity. But now I’m ready to roll… as of tomorrow, regular blog updates will start again and a shitload of work will flow through here as I steam train through what is possibly going to be the start of 40 projects in 50 weeks… But that will be intertwined into up coming projects that will be revealed hopefully in the next two weeks…

Onto what has actually been done! I finally got around to printing the Vinyl version of the SModcast project… it’s only No. #6 at the moment (I’ll possibly print #2 and #5 and make them up too… we’ll see!) but I’m quite happy with the outcome. The Artwork just looks sexy to me tbh… I’m tempted to milk it into a large scale poster for the project as well possibly, purely so I can put the sucker up on the wall… very strange as I’m not that guy with my work…

(Top: Front / Back. Bottom: Inner Sleeve Front / Back.)

I’m quite happy with how it transferred from small thumbnail to large scale artwork to be honest… Though I guess always in the back of my head I’d designed them to be blown up! I think I may have to edit the back panel… but apart from that I’m very happy! Just the labels of the vinyl to do now… and then that project is done and dusted!

On the Cauldron front, I think bugger it… I am going to show the logo as I’m also pretty happy with that! Stationary will hopefully be done tomorrow (as well as the aforementioned SMOD vinyl labels) and then I can dive into the packaging of it… HORRAY! Hopefully get most of this project finished by the end of the week so I can start the other two projects that are currently rattling around in my brain…

Until tomorrow, something for you to think about: alot of rich / famous people seem to be Scientologists…

M x

Again, a day of tea and a day of design… well, and quite a bit of procrastination haha! I’ve managed to draw out the illustrations for my vegi packaging, which are looking quite nice. Hopefully I’ll upload them tomorrow when I’ve vectored them!

Apart from that, got to see the green hornet in the cinema. I implore you to go see it! It did an ‘A Team’ on me… that is looked kinda crappy in the trailers, then turned out to be an enjoyable movie! Very funny and the 3D is some of the best I’ve seen.

I also picked these up in Smiths earlier… I loved the Sack Boy from little big planet and couldn’t pass the chance up to try and get a cowboy… got one in my first box hahah… which obviously for those who know me, encouraged me to buy more…

Oh dear.

Anywho… time to watch some hockey before bed! Night all!

M x