B L O G

Thief, Warrior, Gladiator, King

2010-05-06T20:02:00.003+01:00

Third in my series of movie posters...

He'll Save Every One Of Us

2010-05-02T21:17:00.001+01:00

The second addition to my series of movie posters...

The Space Age Adventuress

2010-04-28T23:03:00.002+01:00

A work in progress. Part of a series of movie posters...

Don't Panic 'Resistance' Poster

2010-04-18T04:47:00.002+01:00

While I'm at it, another Don't Panic poster competition breif (set by D&AD Student Awards), this one of the theme of 'Resistance

Don't Panic 'TV' Poster

2010-04-16T12:09:00.003+01:00

Submission for Don't Panic's latest poster competition 'TV'.

I'd ask you to vote but votings now closed :( ...

Milkshake 'X'

2010-04-12T22:38:00.005+01:00

An illustrated 'X' for part of the Uni Degree Show.

Dimension Typeface

2010-03-28T02:09:00.004+01:00

A new typeface I've been working on for one of our final briefs, 'Flatterland', in which we have to reinterpret the text of said book typographically.

The shape of each character is determined by a continuous set of lines, a reference to the main character of the story 'Vikki', who is in actual fact, a line...

12" Album Covers

2010-01-19T22:30:00.010Z

Been so busy submitting old stuff lately that I forgot to submit the newer stuff...

One of our newer projects was to design two 12 inch album covers, one for an existing album (choosing from the Beck's Music Inspired Art list), and one for a completely made up album.

The exisitng album I chose was the 'Cut Copy' album 'In Ghost Colours'. If you haven't heard it then... maybe you should... it's a very good listen.

As for the made up album, I chose to call it 'Ballad of the Luchador' by made up band 'Luchador', a 3 piece garage rock band from NYC...

Still need to make changes to both album back covers so I'll upload them when (and if) I finish them...

Time Travelers In Film

2010-01-17T16:36:00.007Z

So I scrapped that last Time piece I planned on submitting to Johnson Banks and made something completely different which I'm alot happier with. It's more of an on going project than a finished piece, I plan on adding alot more characters to the list. I'm open to more suggestions...

So Far:

H.George Wells - The Time Machine
Taylor - Planet Of The Apes
Terminator - The Terminator
Marty McFly - Back To The Future
James T. Kirk - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Spock - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Bill S. Preston - Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Ted Logan - Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Austin Powers - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Dr. Evil - Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko
Frank - Donnie Darko

World Aids Day Poster

2010-01-17T16:07:00.006Z

Another piece fom semester A. World Aids Day poster for Positive Health Lincolnshire.

Do First Think Later Manifesto

2010-01-16T17:33:00.014Z

One of the first (of many) pieces of semester A work. A manifesto/notebook for me to use as a vessel to vent my creativity... or something like that...

Snow, Christmas, & Other Things...

2010-01-16T02:07:00.022Z

It's been a while, and theres a bit to report.

Other than getting snowed in, Christmas, New Year, and my Birthday were good, and Santa was pretty generous this year (giving me money and clothes mainly).

The work loads been very hectic recently, which is why I've neglected my blog. But my assessments over now (2.1, hells yeah!) meaning more free time, and alot more work to upload, so stay tuned...

Video Buggy: Test Run

2009-09-06T23:45:00.004+01:00

Mini DV cam strapped to my Tyco Ricochet, a test run for a piece I'm planning to submit to johnsonbanks.co.uk.
Gamers may notice the musical reference to "Ocarina of Time"... added for no particular reason...

Video Buggy Test from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Reading Festival 09

2009-09-06T18:54:00.010+01:00

A few snaps from Reading 09 (excuse the poor quality of the disposable).

Highlights:

Campfires
Drunken Shinanigans
Eddy as Spiderman
Radiohead!

Lowlights:

Dirty trainers
Back ache
Losing 50 quid

Antidote: Placement

2009-08-22T21:58:00.010+01:00

So, my 4 week placement at Antidote came to an end on Friday (not that I'd previously mentioned it on my blog).

It was a cool place to work, and I got the chance to work on some good briefs. Not to mention receiving a couple of quaint little antidote notebooks (which I filled mainly with incoherent scribbles and doodles of robots...).

Pocket Monsters 'Play Cards'

2009-07-11T00:53:00.031+01:00

It's been a while since my last post. I've given my blog a bit of a revamp, so I felt it necessary to break it in with a new post.

So I was tidying my room the other day, getting rid of the clutter my mum sticks in my room everytime I'm away at uni, and I came across something... awesome...

Pocket Monsters 'Play Cards'! Obviously purchased during my childhood Pokemon loving phase. And obviously not 100% official... I'm sure they brought confusion and dissapointment to all the kids who baught them...

Maybe it's the crudely drawn Pikachus, the randomly placed pokemon on each card, or the brightly coloured rainbow packaging... but these cards earn themselves a place on my shelves.

In other news I also found my pogs... but they're not nearly as cool...

Annual Report

2009-05-14T18:11:00.008+01:00

A re-design of Shelter's annual report for my Digital Design and Depiction class.
Printed on lining paper (£1 for a big roll... bargain!).

Scraps

2009-05-01T03:21:00.003+01:00

A quick doodle from my sketch book, with a touch of photoshop.

Nowt special, just slightly bored...

Bruised Beauties: Logo Re-Design

2009-04-30T20:15:00.003+01:00

Logo re-design for friends band "Bruised Beauties."

With 2 colour variations!...

Curriculum Vitae

2009-04-07T02:42:00.004+01:00

An assignment for my Applied Professional Practice class.

Channel Ident: AMP.

2009-03-17T18:09:00.011Z

For my Digital Design and Depiction class.

A couple of posts back I posted the "Kylie Minogue: Mood Board," I created with my group. Using this mood board as a starting point, we were then required to individually create a Channel Identity.
I decided to create an electro themed music entertainment channel (slightly obvious I know...) called "AMP."
For our channels we needed to design:

A logo
A sting
A viewing schedule announcer
A programme title card
A channel ident

Sting:

Untitled from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Ident:

AMP: Channel Ident from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Programme Title Card:

AMP: Programme Title Card from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Viewing Schedule Announcer:

AMP: Viewing Schedule Announcer from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

3 minutes with strangers...

2009-02-28T23:23:00.013Z

Entry for ISTD.

The project brief was called "3 Minutes," and was open to our own interpretations. My idea was a kind of social experiment, which involved me going onto the street and asking random strangers a series of impersonal questions for 3 minutes, putting to the test how well you can get to know a stranger in such a short period of time. Special thanks to Mark Bushall who helped stand by me during the interviews... even though he complained the whole friggin time...

The result of the interviews was an A1 poster displaying snippets of conversation from the 12 random people I interviewed.

The actual peice was printed on newsprint and folds away into an A5 booklet.

Kylie Minogue: Mood Board

2009-01-19T21:03:00.013Z

3D mood board created for my Digital Design and Depiction class.

In groups of 5 we had to randomly pick names out of a hat. From the name given we were required to research the character/person's values, and create a mood board that contained the following things:

4 People
1 Car
4 Colours
4 Surface textures
4 Patterns
4 Display fonts
2 Lifestyle Products
1 Animal

Me and my team pulled out the name "Kylie Minogue"...

YCN Competition: Current - Participate

2009-01-15T01:57:00.003Z

Rotoscoping animation created for a YCN competition.
The brief asked us to create an ad for the TV channel "Current" themed around participation.

Current: Participate from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Music: Robots In Disguise: La Nuit (Cut down and re-edited by me).

Old Animation: Jamping Jack

2009-01-14T00:38:00.003Z

An old animation I dug up, created for my first year studying Graphics with Illustration.
The brief was to create a short animation featuring a character that ran and/or jumped...so I made this little guy...cos I just dig robots...

Jumping Jack from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Made in flash, the original video seamlessly repeats itself.

News Article Poster: Week Three

2009-01-07T02:10:00.007Z

Week Three: ‘Cocaine users are destroying the rainforest - at 4m2 a gram’

An article about... well the title is self explanatory...

News Article Poster: Week Two

2009-01-06T23:56:00.004Z

Week Two: ‘Sorry, you’re on hold. All of our workers are off sick.’

An article about how customer service workers are almost twice as likley to take time off sick as the average employee.

News Article Poster: Week One

2008-12-21T23:11:00.007Z

News Article Poster Project for my Creative Expression class from last semester.
Each week for 3 weeks, we were supplied with a topical news story and asked to produce a response to it, according to our opinion of the article.

Week One: 'BBC battles to calm prank storm.’

This one was about Jonathan Ross and his recent blunder on BBC Radio 2, involving a prank that he took too far...

F*ckin' Remotes...

2008-12-10T13:35:00.002Z

Short film made for my "Creative Expression" class, put something we hated in Room 101.
I hate remote controlls that dont work properly...

F*ckin' Remotes... from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

"What's In The Box?" Summer Project

2008-12-03T01:17:00.014Z

Quite an old peice now... last summer's project for my graphics course.

The project was titled “What’s in the box?” The brief we were given tells a story about someone going through their seemingly mundane and tedious life.

It starts, “In the morning, I wake up in my sleeping box called a bedroom that’s in my living box called a house. I make my way to the feeding box called a kitchen so I can eat cereal from a box called Kellogs…” blah blah blah and so on, you start to get the picture…

The brief ends asking the question, “What’s in the box?” and we were supposed to explore and respond to the statement…

So this was my response, which is basically an pixel animated version of the story in the brief. The original video (made with flash) seemlessly repeats itself over and over.

Box Life from Stefan Falconer on Vimeo.

Music: Crystal Castles - Magic Spells

Installation: Ooh La La.

2008-12-02T22:08:00.006Z

Starting my new blog with a gudden, the installation project, a group project for my Graphic Design course.

Each week a group from our class is picked at random to create an installation for the window display of where we study. The group then have a week to prepare the installation, and on the following monday they are given the day to install it.

So this week it was my groups turn, me, Rob, Tom, and Paul. It took roughly 6hrs to make and another 5hrs to move it into the window display area.

The idea is that the words "OOH LA LA." can only be seen when you look at the display at a certain angle, in a similar vein to work by Felice Varini.

Here's the time lapse, edited by Rob:

OOH LA LA from SlickSixSeven on Vimeo.

Music: 65daysofstatic - Hole

Images soon to come...

My New Home...

2008-11-24T22:58:00.000Z

...is a bit empty...