Friday 29 January 2016

Visual Identity

This is my idea for my own company. The company would sell custom computer parts like cases, ssds and things like that. The logo is is a hammer hitting the name (bit strike) The name is like a weird play on words. A bit is the smallest form of computer data and its being struck like in metal forging. The idea behind this is we are forging a new path in to the future. With the business cards are envelop I used straight diagonal lines to communicate the speed of which or company is moving forward. Im really satisfied with the way the logo and card came out I believe those are the 2 best pieces in the set.














Wednesday 27 January 2016

My Personal website

http://crawfordnew.my-free.website/
here is a link to my website if anyone wants to take a look.

Friday 6 November 2015

Movie trailer mash up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXWAEX2jlg

The movie I will be mashing up is Fight Club. I plan on changing it in to a romantic comedy about a couple who just has to make it work. I will be doing this by changing the clips used in the trailer with clips from the movie. I will also change how its been cut to make it appear much slower paced. Finally I will use new music seal in the feel of a romantic comedy.

AMD infographic


These are my two infographics I created. I collected the data for these by creating a survey and posting it online to /r/AMD and /r/PCmasterrace

Thursday 30 April 2015

Basquiat- "What are they really doing with all that data"



The term I chose to work on was layers. I chose to take this term very literally as I used layers in PhotoShop to create this piece. I thought the best way to show layers would be by actually layering pictures and imagine on top of each other to create on singular piece. The issue I chose to express through this piece was mass data collection. The idea of this piece was more to poke fun at the idea of mass data collection and what they do with it. My idea came from watching an old cartoon. In the cartoon Scrooge McDuck dives in to a pool filled with his money so that got me think what if that what all these agencies but instead of money it was users data. To show data I used old floppy disks as they are probably one of the most well know holders of data. I borrowed one of my friends and got him to pose as if he was driving in to a pool. Once i had taken the shot I cut him out and layered the floppy disks under him to make it appear as if he was diving in to them. For a final visual I found an image of green zero's and one's which is what data looks like to a computer. I then placed that over the top of the imagine and used a layer tool to give it a fade effect. Once that was done my final step was to find the MS DOS font and use it to write "you really think it just started now" on the screen. This related back to the floppy disks as people seem to think that mass data collection has only started in recent years when it has actually been present since the beginning of computers. Over all I was mildly satisfied with this work. For most of the project I had a very hard time coming up with and idea of what to do. After a long time spent not really doing anything I figured out what I wanted to do and I think it turned out quite well. If I was able to figure out what I wanted to do much sooner I think it would have went much better and a lot quicker. 

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Logos (WIP)

sun microsystems logo

This is the Sun Microsystems logo. This logo has been a staple in the computer world for years. This logo is simple and very memorable. The interesting thing about this logo is that no matter what way you look at it the logo will always spell the word "sun" which is the name of the company. This logo is visually interesting yet simplistic. The use of line in this logo is what makes it so interesting. It uses a lot of straight and curved lines. The simplistic part of the logo is the fact that its just the same thing used over and over again but rotated in different ways. This is what allows it to read "sun" what ever way you look at it.