I have had the urge recently to try and expand my portfolio beyond projects that I do on a day-to-day basis at work. I feel like I need to do this for many reasons, the main one being yearning for a new creative challenge and I feel the best way for this, is to enter as many competitions as I can.
I have started with the poster competition posted on Don’t Panic for the brief titled Virtual Reality.
With this poster I decided to do something quite abstract as my regular work doesn’t often afford me the opportunity to explore that style of work. All I have gone with the idea that the concept of virtual reality is one that strives to recreate a world that already exists. The better the virtual reality experience, the more normal it should be.
Whether this artwork achieves a loose idea of that to the outside or not, I enjoyed creating this and am pleased with the simple imagery that I have ended up with. Let’s see if I get any votes…
Everything Everything – Man Alive
From the eighties synths to the unpredictable peaks from the vocals, this album truly does keep me coming back for more.
There has been some great albums appear this year that I hold in high regard, whether it be Bombay Bicycle Club’s Flaws or my firm favourite, Foals‘ Total Live Forever. Everything Everything have stormed in with Man Alive and given some of the competition a bit of a shake up.
The album oozes confidence and I am going to have to jump at the chance of seeing them if they squeeze in an album tour later on this year.