Nuit Blanche

I Visited Toronto last October and went to the Nuit Blanche Festival. The festival of light goes on all night. There were some pretty impressive art installations.

Brazilian Designs

We recently did some work for our Brazilian friends at the Mizen Head Hotel. They organised a charity event for the victims of Haiti and we have also done some promotional stuff for their dance classes.

New Logos

Just thought I'd post a couple of logos that I've designed here at Fantasy Prints. One was for a customer that does Bowen Therapy. I tried to capture the circular movement from the treatments that Angela does. Also we have done a new logo for Niall Whyte for The Real Firewood Company .

Vehicle Graphics

At Fantasy Prints, we recently wrapped a Land Rover for Blair Drummond Safari Park. Well it was a half wrap, but it still added an extra bit of colour to a work vehicle.

Whenever I travel, I usually end up taking photos of the impressive graphics that I see when I'm walking around. I visited Toronto last October and noticed that they have wrapped all their trams (Street Cars) Good use of advertising, I think, because they were otherwise boring. I also really like the City TV vehicle graphics in Toronto. I think you can really make a commercial vehicle look really smart by putting some impressive graphics on it. It is good advertising, but it can be done in a tasteful way too. I also really liked the huge billboards inside the Eaton Centre, some cool bus wrap and the view from my hotel showed the corner of Dundas Square as the sun was setting. I walked through Dundas Square this time for the first time in a few years (Last few visits I must have just not went that way) but I think they are trying to make Dundas like Canadas version of Times square...only better of course!

View from Hotel, corner of Dundas Square

Rendering

I've done some Photoshop rendering work recently, so I thought I'd paste them up onto this blog. I should really try to do more of this work, because I am often required to do these wee jobs as part of larger projects for Fantasy prints. The bottle image was a personal project where I'm just trying to see if I can replicate a photograph of a plastic bottle. I've shown it in three stages, but this bottle could be used to add a packaging label that I may have to design in the future. I have found that presenting graphics on a rendered image has a nicer feel to it that a placing it over a photograph.

AFS Country Store

I recently designed a leaflet for AFS Country Store in Alnwick, Northumberland. They are a traditional family based business with a modern outlook. They suplly and sell country attire from equestrian equipment, outdoor clothing, local knitwear, bespoke furniture and they also have a large range of animal feeds and other agricultural supplies. They offer a very positive and personal service. My task was to create a style for the leaflet that had a traditional feel as well as a modern look. I chose the wood effect, which suggests a refined quality, but I also used the rounded image boxes which gives the overall effect a modern twist.