Website

www.scottycross.co.uk

What's Scott been doing for the past month or so?

Fuck all. 

Well, not completely fuck all - I've been busy with my camera amongst doing other things, nothing worth talking about though. Here's some photographs taken from my Flickr page. 

Enjoy.

Type Specimen

 

My most recent project that i'm still working on is to create a type specimen for a typeface of my choice. I chose Helvetica Neue after completing a 3000 word essay on Helvetica, i felt that looking into Helvetica Neue more would give me a wider knowledge of Helvetica itself as it does generally interest me. 

The theme was Swiss Design as you can see above. 

Comments welcome :) x

Another, 'i want this'...

Awesome. I would love this sitting in my living room-if i had one- and i'm pretty sure my Mum wouldn't approve having it in ours. 

Ah well, it's still fucking amazing. 

It's all in the personal work...

At the moment I am totally uninspired by everything I am doing at Uni, not one of the project gets my creative juices flowing. I needed something to pick me up, get the passion back etc. So I picked up my bible, Splatter, Shapes & Colours by Radim Malinic (Brand:Nu) this guy is simple a genius with digital illustration, so I decided to give it a go. The result is above.

Photography by Josh Vosper.

Oh and happy new year I suppose. 

N*E*R*D

How cool is this album cover? I love it and thought i'd share it with all your lovely people. Sadly i haven't heard the album but i'm sure it's awesome, i'll report back after i've had a listen. Need to actually buy it first. 

Hope you all had a splendid Christmas and got lot's of nice things and drank way too much that you didn't even know it was Christmas. Have a good new year and all that jazz. 

Upper Space

I don't know if you've ever been to Upper Space, if you haven't then why not? It is/was the North West's first Street Art Gallery based in the centre of Manchester, full of inspirational, stunning Street Art and other beautiful things. It's now been shut down for ridiculous reasons and they need a new home...

Click here and join... 

Photo-shoot with Josh Vosper

Models - Me & my good friend Kayleigh James...

We did this shoot back at the beginning of Summer, maybe mid-Summer actually, i can't remember, but it was awesome. All photographs copyright of Josh Vosper, you can see his more of his work here.

Flickr

Scotty

You'll find my photography work on there, you might like it, you might not. It's all good either way. You should definately check it out though, i'm quite proud of some of the stuff i've produced. Really need to get back into it though, left it on the back-burner for months now and hardly done anything and it's depressing.

badlyframed

badlyframed

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Graffiti & Girls...

I found these old photos on my external hd. I love them. Pretty much sums this post up.

This table...

Anyone want to buy me this? Or make it for me as it's not actually in production yet...

Thanks. 

Fused

Fused Magazine

Go check it out, my favorite magazine of all time, it isn't a well known magazine and is completely under-rated, full of inspirational work and always feature some real good bands/artists...

And HOT models... (Chloe Huntley to name one... )

Brands A-Z: Adidas

Bought this book earlier and with me being a huge football fan,  Adidas have never failed to impress me with their football Ad's so i can't wait to get my hands on this to read up on them.

Awesome...

First year - Wallpaper.

This brief for this particular piece of work was to create an End Sting for a brand/company that we picked out of hat. I got Wallpaper* Magazine. 

For me this was the best piece of work that i produced throughout the first year gaining a grade of 74, a 1st. It's pretty basic stuff but we were only asked to story board it, but i felt that i had a strong enough concept to go ahead and make it. So i did. 

Yes please...

FreshBump

http://www.freshbump.com/

Some really inspirational, amazing, beautiful etc. work on there, have a look. When i lose all motivation and inspiration, random bits of design work, photography, architecture - the list could go on and on but you get my drift - it picks me up and inspires me to work my ass off...

MPA Roses 2008/9 - 'Piss Up'

A couple of months ago we were given 8 briefs to choose from for the competition, MPA Roses. We were told to work in pairs and tackle one of the briefs, so we went with Brief 4, titled - 'Piss Up'

Brief - Create a brand/or produce an Ad Campaign that markets “responsible teen/twenties holidays”

For the first month or so we had no idea of what we could produce as we had to create both a brand and an Ad Campaign, not one or the other. 

After gathering research into current holiday companies we decided to produce a brand extension onto Virgin Holidays as they currently don't offer holiday packages for the younger generation and we felt that by capitalising on this we would gain more marks in the assessment as well as producing some quality work. 

First things first, a name and a logo:

Virgin Med - We felt that the name Virgin Med sits perfectly well into the brand extensions that Virgin currently have, Virgin Blue, Virgin Holidays and Virgin Atlantic as Virgin Med could be seen as slang for Virgin Mediterranean and considering this is a brief based around holidays, we thought it was suitable.

 

The concept for this design was to make the logo attractive for the younger demographic, a sleek and contemporary yet clever design that sits nicely with the other holiday related brand extensions of Virgin. We feel we did this.

After covering this section of the brief, we moved onto the advertising side of things. 

We really struggled with this because we wanted a campaign that stood out and didn't fall into the mainstream, typical alcohol related Ad's. 

We decided to focus on a small aspect of holidays abroad, something that would relate perfectly with our target audience, cocktails.

In the end, after alot of research into cocktails and asking our target audience and socio-economic class what they wanted from a teen/twenty holiday, we came up with a concept that consisted of 2 main elements, 1, an attractive, eye catching background image to grab the viewers attenton and to entice them into reading the text and 2, shocking body copy that makes you realise what alcohol abroad can do to you. 

Below is one example of the set of 4 advertisements we created. The other 3 will follow in a few days. 

The copy reads:

START OFF YOUR DAY WITH A BIT OF RELAXATION AROUND THE POOL

LAY OUT YOUR TOWEL ON THE SUN LOUNGER AND LET THEM UV RAYS SIZZLE AWAY AT YOUR SKIN

INDULGE IN SOME ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

LIE THERE FOR A FEW HOURS UNPROTECTED UNTIL YOUR SKIN CELLS ARE SLOWLY DESTROYED

WHEN SKIN IS BUBBLING WITH BLISTERS JUST ITCHING TO EXPLODE WITH PUSS, PROGRESS TO VOMIT HYSTERICALLY

AFTER BURSTING YOUR BLISTERS, ADD A SHAKE OF THE CHILLS AND A STRAIN OF STINGING

KNOCK BACK A FEW MORE BEERS TO SOOTHE THE PAIN

FINISH OFF WITH ABIT OF PREMATURE AGING TOPPED WITH A SCORE OF SKIN CANCER

HOT STUFF...

We realise that there are aspects of the design that need to be improved, which we intend on doing at a later date.

We feel we successfully answered everything the brief asked and ended up with a grade of 66, which is a 2:1.

Small Amp

www.myspace.com/smallampmusic

Recently released their debut single - Cinematic, i did the photography for the cover. NOT the design work. Can be purchased from HMV and other music stores as well as iTunes...

Fenchurch

Check out the intro to the Fenchurch website. We're creating something similar in Multimedia at Uni, didn't interest me that much until i saw what could be created...

www.fenchurch.com