First Post for a new Course!

SO,

This is my first ever blog post, so apologies if its pants, I've been sat thinking about how to do my first post inventively, but unforunately I'm a little dry on the ideas front right now.

Anyway, I'm going to use this blog to record my life for the next three years I suppose , which I probably wouldnt have thought about doing if I hadnt have joined the BA(hons) Graphic Design Course, so that's cool. Im going to get straight into it and lay some of my most influencial artists down to give a bit of an insight into what I'm into...

Jeff Soto.

I've Followed Jeff Soto's work for ages now, and i really like how he puts across what he's thinking onto surfaces. His use of colour really appeals to me, and his images have a variety of text and image, which work really well when used together.

Soto's Work is very sleek and polished, and appeals to me because of its strong visuals, the image below, "One night Show" Is a satirical image showing a zombie tupac. The colour really gives this image character. The red and green emphasise the images rotten feel..

Gary Taxali

Recently I found this artist and what he's doing really appeals to me because of its vintage, 1950's look. Despite its vintage look, Taxali's use of graphic design still manages to keep his work looking contempory. The First few images are commission based works done for an author and a musician.

Taxali's work varies from vintage design to Contempory type design for companies, like the one below...

EROSIE

Erosie is a Dutch street artist. I love Erosie's work simply for the fact that the guy is obsessed with bicycles, he draws bikes with such character he really should get more credit.

Ice Cream For Free

Amber gave us a presentation on some various graphic designers, she mentioned ICFF, a Dutch graphic design company and said how they're pretty good at designing event flyers and things like that. Their style really appealed to me, so i thought I'd have a look for myself.

For Nike:

I'd wear this stuff if i could find it on a t - shirt, its really tactile and interesting... Here's some other stuff by ICFF that I thought was interesting.

Sleeve graphics for albums looks really good in this style, and is something ill have to look into more later.

g'night!