RE-MADE MY BLOG ON TUMBLR

http://chardychardy.tumblr.com/

SO GO ON IT.

10 Things About Me.

Self Portrait

I hate drawing myself because quite frankly I am appalling at portraits, so here's a photo. It might look like I have a bit of a wok eye but I actually don't. I don't really like it but I am not too bothered about it because it is my face and I have to live with it for the rest of my life.

I also need a hair cut.

Things I Won't Miss About Home..

I will not miss being the only one in my house to ever do the dishes, as I somehow feel the need to be nicer than I should be and do everybody else's. This will change.

In 10 years time..

This is where I go on Sims and build my dream house and take lots of screen shots of me in my amazing house right next to the beach in Australia earning shit loads of money as graphic designer. But as I can not be bothered installing Sims on my laptop right at this moment in time, here is a photo of what it might look a bit like...

and here is the path down from my house to the beach...

I will also have a pet husky, an owl to bring me my mail like in Harry Potter because it is real and not made up, and a red panda.

ilikethese

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Anything zombie is automatically cool. Fact.

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Here is a Harry Potter bunny.

Eating his carrot.

Things on Tumblr that I find and like.

Places/situations I have ideas in?

There's a constant blur of ideas running through my brain at all times and sometimes it's really hard for me to go back and un-blur them so most of the time I ignore them. But most of my ideas come to me after midnight when I should be sleeping and my brain is still working. This normally results in me either grabbing my macbook and being up for the next few hours in a desperate attempt to extract the image from my brain, or trying to put a pin in that particular idea and hoping that it hasn't re-blurred by the time I wake up.

Designers that float my boat and their current affairs.

I don't really have 3 favourite designers, there are just a lot of designers that I like, or like some of their work and maybe not like the rest. As for designers from whom I have drawn influence from:

• David Carson, who was one of the first graphic designers I ever looked at thanks to my GCSE art teacher, and was one of the reasons I fell so irrevocably in love with typography, so I will always have a place for his work, no matter how "out dated" his work is perceived as.
• Josef Müller-Brockmann was a designer I started looking at in my foundation year, as I started branching out my style a bit more from Carson/Brody type rule breaking "grungyness" and started looking at 60s post modernism/swiss design. I love the clean cut designs with the whole grid system. Perfectionism. 
• Saul Bass because I think his posters are beautifully timeless. 
• Noma Bar, i love clever posters
• Olly Moss. AMAZING. 
• Hans Schleger "Zero"
• Abram Games

Olly Moss, who I found back in about March at the beginning on my final major project, as he had designed the alternative film posters for Black Swan and there was an article in Creative Review about them, also showing his awesome Star Wars film poster prints.

He did his first solo-show in 1988 Gallery on May 7th, with like loads of silhouettes of pop culture icons. Looked amaaaaaaaazing!

He also did the illustration for this month's Empire Magazine's August issue:

Along with creating the propaganda posters for Captain America with Paramount Pictures..

...and Insomniac and Sony asked him to design the box art for the new Resistance 3 game, as the game trailer was greatly influenced by his style.

As for what he is doing RIGHT THIS MOMENT IN TIME PRECISELY, well I have no idea.