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  • My Design… No Opportunity Exhibition

    • Jun 22, 2017
    • By Andrew
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    The second of the two exhibitions where my work was featured, in June 2017, was the No Opportunity exhibition at the Veneer Gallery in Glasgow!

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  • I Love… Ivan Belikov

    • May 20, 2017
    • By Andrew
    • In Graphic Design, I Love…
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    Another artist whose work I really love and who inspires me is Ivan Belikov. Ivan is a Russian designer from Chelyabinsk, and is an awesome illustrator, who is skilled in digital and traditional mediums. He works mainly in Adobe Illustrator, using the brush tool, and focuses on nature motifs, with his illustration portfolio heavily featuring animals, both real and mythological. (more…)

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  • I Love… Orlando Arocena — Mexifunk

    • May 05, 2017
    • By Andrew
    • In Graphic Design, I Love…
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    An artist whose work I really love and who inspires me is Orlando Arocena, who’s known as Mexifunk. Orlando is a Mexican-Cuban-American designer from New York, and is a master of working in Adobe Illustrator. He works with the worldwide collective of artists known as PosterPosse, and designs mainly illustrative posters for movies and pop culture characters. (more…)

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  • I Love… Josef Muller-Brockmann

    • Mar 27, 2017
    • By Andrew
    • In Graphic Design, I Love…
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    Josef Muller-Brockmann was a Swiss graphic designer, author and teacher who was born on May 9th 1914. He spent much of his life living and working in Zurich and studied a wide variety of topics including design, architecture and history of art. He apprenticed as a graphic designer to Walter Diggleman, a designer and advertising consultant. In 1936, he opened his own studio, which specialised in graphic design, photography and exhibitions.
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  • My Design… Botany Posters Case Study

    • Mar 22, 2017
    • By Andrew
    • In Graphic Design, My Design…
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    I was asked to design two posters for a Botany Collection, a collections of plants and flowers, at the Natural History Museum in London. I was asked to create the posters using Adobe Illustrator and vector imaging. For this project I had to teach myself how to use the gradient mesh tool in Adobe Illustrator and manage my time effectively, each of these posters took many hours each. View the finished project here.

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