Terry Coleman's Blog

New domain: terrycoleman.co.uk

Terry Coleman — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:47:17 +0000

This is an old address make sure you go on: terrycoleman.co.uk

New Blog : http://terrycoleman.wordpress.com/

Terry Coleman — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:28:56 +0000

Make sure you check out my new Blog domain name: http://terrycoleman.wordpress.com/

This will keep you up to date with my work and progress from now on so check it out…

Banksy does the Simpsons!

Terry Coleman — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:42:23 +0000

A bit of a quality effort from Banksy on a simpson title sequence! Not what i am used to seeing from him, a really creative sequence! Watch and enjoy… =)

Inspiration: Catch me if you can title sequence

Terry Coleman — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:55:22 +0000

I am a big fan of this title sequence. Its really clever how it uses typography and the sequence flows so effectively. After seeing this a few years ago it really started my interest in motion graphics and is part of the reason why i am looking to include animation in my FMP.

Inspiration: My visit to the De La War Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex

Terry Coleman — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:31:12 +0000

By coincidence i stumbled across an exciting exhibition in Bexhill by Japanese artist Tomoko Tamakashi and the sculptur artist Anthony Gormley. It was completely by chance as i was in the area to visit family and i visited the exhibition and managed to get some pictures on my phone…

Tomoko Tamakashi

Anthony Gormley

What I am doing for my final year…

Terry Coleman — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:48 +0000

This is my first blog for a while and that is due to the summer break. Over the summer i have been researching for my Final Major Project and reading books for my Thesis. I have enjoyed the summer break but i am now looking forward to getting back to college for my very important final year!

Final Major Project

For my FMP i have decided to do a series of children’s books and animations. I have decided to do 3 books and 3 animations. For this i will author and illustrate it all. I need to come up with 3 different stories for each individual book. I am also undecided whether to follow up the stories and turning them into animations or to have them as totally different stories.

I have chosen to do this subject as i have always had a strong interest in illustration and particularly children’s illustration. For a number of years i have wanted to do my very own book and i saw this opportunity of my FMP as my chance to do it.

My Thesis

My thesis is on Russian Constructivism. I am going to write about the real meaning of the Constuctivist movement and how it was politically motivated. I am going to write about how its power and significance of the time has possibly been lost due to the Constuctivists work being appropriated or in some cases plagiarised so much.

Self Authored Brief – Book Jackets design for the author Joseph Conrad

Terry Coleman — Tue, 18 May 2010 00:34:17 +0000

These are the final book jackets designs that i handed in yesterday for my Final Major Project. I have taken influence from many different sources such as Russian Constructivism and Collage Illustrations but my main influence came from previous Penguin Book designs. They influenced me in the way how they are hand made and abstract but still so effective. For this brief i wanted to create a series that is distinctive and iconic, whilst being appropriate to the stories within the books themselves.

Work Placement – Objective Image website proposal

Terry Coleman — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:39:52 +0000

Also on my work placement i worked on a website proposal for a photographic and print company called objective image. My brief was to come up with a concept and give an idea of what it would look like on photoshop (the logo is objective images new logo that was given to me) . My idea was based around using a camera lens, each page was centered around this idea.

I did a home, what we do, our work, our work: image expansion, clients, history and contact pages. I proposed the whole website and how it would look. The our work page is my strongest page where you can flick through images using the arrows. You can also expand the image and the image will fill up the screen. I enjoyed this project and the solution i come up with i feel i did well with. The proposal will be shown to the clients soon and i looking forward to hearing how it goes.

Work Placement – Smarty Pants school uniform company brochure

Terry Coleman — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:38:39 +0000

Last week i was on a work placement for this design agency in North London called Kube. One of the briefs i did for them was to produce a brochure for a school uniform company called kube. I incorporated the images she wanted to use and also came up with the layout. As the two main images had grass in them i thought of using grass at the bottom. In my heading on my front cover i also reflected the main image by having muck coming off of the text. After doing this spread the client then made changes to the images we used and we had to work on a new layout. We made the changes the client required and i worked with the team at kube to help them produce the final brochure for print. It was all good experience where i learnt how designers work with clients and i found this very interesting.

YCN Student Awards – Monster Munch Advertisement Finals

Terry Coleman — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:58:03 +0000

These are my final advertisement posters which i will enter in for the YCN Student Awards competition. I have printed my illustrations and then put them into my photo album and then took photographs of it. I then worked on the layout to make it fit in the strap line and the logo. I am pleased with how it has turned out and now i will go to the YCN headquarters either tomorrow or friday to enter the competition =)