Amyibalien

BA(Hons) Graphic Design Student. Twenty One. Aspiring Superhero. Avid Tea Drinker.

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New Blog

Slowly but surely I am moving blog location over to Blogger: http://amyibalien.blogspot.co.uk/ I'll probably be in and out of updating it as I go on through this year at Uni, pre-warning. :)

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3D Calligraphy by Tolga Girgin

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Logo Making By Editing Existing Fonts

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The 10 Commandments of Typography.

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Rap God

Aside from recently scoring tickets to go and see the beauty that is Eminem at Wembley Stadium, London on July 11th, I've also decided to start learning how to draw figures properly - starting with the Rap God himself. It's not the best and in fact this is going to remain a WIP until I get familiar with digitally painting in Photoshop (Paint Tool SAI fan, me). Watch this space.

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Let There Be Zombies!

Mine and Laura's Zombie Books are now completed. They range from £4.50 - £5.00 depending on the copy you get.

Email me at: [email protected] if you wish to purchase one of these fine books.

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Zombie Book

As the final few weeks of uni come to a close, the Zombie book is starting to take shape. With pages on what they eat, how to kill them, different types of infection and maps on where you can find them, the book is about ready for information and printing!

The book should be on sale starting this friday (02052014)! Prices yet to be discussed, but if you're interested, why not drop a tweet to @Amyibalien. :)

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Sex Sells

It's funny, but whenever I listen to Jedward I have this need to draw. Here's a few sketches that may or may not see light one day. We'll see.

Sex Sells

Black Widow

Mental Health

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Frutchenko.

A book about Aleksandr Rodchenko and Adrian Frutiger is finally here! Hold onto your seat belts, folks.

It's handmade by yours truly and all content is handmade too - no printing here. Too cheap for that! So, without further ado, here's my finished book!

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The Day I Gained A Gangster

A year ago today (22nd April) is the day I gained a gangster. The day the hip met the hop. The day that Eminem married Kim for the umpteenth time.

The day that marks mine and Jordan's 1 year anniversary. For those who are unaware, my boyfriend is an aspiring rap artist. 'Ah that all makes sense now!' I hear you say. I decided that I would be somewhat creative and create him a card, mainly because I R Student and I have no money, but also because it's sweet and romantic and stuff (Or so I'm told!) It took me a little while to come up with an idea, but after listening to Eminem Religiously since the drop of his latest album MMLP2, I thought of something pretty quick.

The image represents the name of the song - Space Bound and the insert represents the artist and the style of music - Eminem/ Rap/ HipHop. Perfect.

Give the song a listen here:

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Mary Berry, Zombie Overlord.

New Project. We have 100% creative freedom with this project and I think me and my partner, Laura, are enjoying it way too much! From cakes to Zombies and then Mary Berry, we have came up with a book about infected cakes that cause the Zombie Apocalypse and Mary Berry is the evil genius/ Zombie Overlord behind it. Subject to change. Sorry guys.

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Typography Take 2

So here's my recent Typography Project:

We had to create two posters in different file formats using 1 colour and all the shades of black. We were limited to one font for one of the designs and two fonts for the other. I've used Beatnik SF in the top poster and Beatnik SF and Franklin Gothic in the bottom. Edits are still taking place, but here's my finals for now!

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Hospitals

Have you ever wanted to meet Yoda? Get trained or treated by him? Well, this is a good a time as any! The NHS have signed him up and he will soon be out to see you.

Lincolnshire. A wonderful countryside full of cows, sheep and horses. Not only is our countryside full of these wonderful creatures, but so are our hospitals! Nothing says 'Welcome Home' quite like a cow canvas print...

Look at cows and keep calm, you will.

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Logo Designs

So another Partner Project is a go, but this time I have the pleasure of working with Deanna. For this project we got to select 6 logos to design from a series of made up products (or what we're made to believe!) We chose to design our logos on the following products: - A Meat Based IceCream - An Abusive Sat Nav - Wigs For Babies - A Dating Site For Goldfish - A Pram/TV Combo - A Bag for Chihuahua's So here's the 3 logos I designed out of the six (Deanna's logos soon to follow): However, after arriving home I grew a huge dislike towards the 'Baby Curls' logo and as a result I ended up redesigning it. It has yet to get the Leeds Lass approval, but here's what it currently looks like: That's all your eyes can see for now, I'm afraid! However if you stay tuned, you will be updated with all 6 logos, finished and printed.

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Two days. One Camera. £1.99 budget. Masking Tape. Two lessons of After Effects. So, this isn't perhaps the most 'music videoy' music video out there, but it is one that both me and 'Tazz' put together in two days with the equipment listed above. This was used as his entry for Funk Volumes 'Don't Fu[n]k Up Our Beats' contest 6.

Check it out, give it a listen, subscribe, share, comment on how beautiful he looks in masking tape, whatever. To keep updated, follow/like/subscribe below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theofficialtazz Twitter: https://twitter.com/theofficialtazz Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/tiggzydee Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theofficialtazz

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Typography - Part 2

As you may or may not remember I recently posted up a few Typographic thumbnails. Well this is the outcome to those! I decided to scrap all of the designs I had for 'Century' and just start again from scratch. As for 'Kabel', I really should've played around with this a little bit more, but I was so focused on redoing 'Century' that I neglected it until the very end...

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Typography - Part 1

A recent Uni project includes using type in a creative way and create two A3 posters - One in Black and White and one in Colour. We must chose two contrasting fonts out of a selection we were given from our Uni and create A. An image out of the type we have picked and B. Two A3 posters. I have chosen to look at the fonts Kabel and Century. So without further ado, here's a few digital thumbnails I've rustled up over the past week:

The last time I studied typography was 2 years ago back in Stafford college, so I'm really kinda just stabbing in the dark with this one, but thankfully I have received 2 new Graphic Design books to help me on my way! Stay tuned for the final pieces.