Feed Member Mike

and now i wanna draw something

2008-08-12T14:54:00.000-07:00

World War - 3D Animation @ University Of Hertfordshire 2008 from Digital Animation Herts Uni UK on Vimeo.

Watch this

2008-08-10T14:27:00.000-07:00

Martin Greenfield a brooklyn tailor.

this is a beautifully shot documentary

Martin the Tailor from Ed David on Vimeo.

Seeing Sounds

2008-07-08T04:57:00.000-07:00

Sounds Are Beautiful

FMP Hidden Content concept

2008-06-14T10:40:00.000-07:00

Imagine three, 9 ft typographic poster based on my three separate brands.

The message in the poster will be unclear until you adorn the rose colored lenses.

The words inside the posters will be a reflection of the individual I chose to brand, with a strong insight into there individual personality. (Because on first sight you can't say you know allot about a person) It may be my own insight into that person or a quote from the individual that reveals allot about themselves.

Image for illustrative purpose only.

FMP branding Boards 3

2008-06-14T10:11:00.001-07:00

Brand 3: Suzann Jane Thomas / SZN

FMP branding Boards 2

2008-06-14T10:06:00.000-07:00

Brand 2: Logan Kyle / Conscious Ethos

FMP branding Boards 1

2008-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

Brand 1: P. Done / est. 1952

Print Techniques

2008-06-07T16:42:00.002-07:00

Stencil + Woodblock + DryPoint

Messing around

2008-06-07T14:31:00.000-07:00

Developing Ideas For my

Print assignment.

Beautiful

2008-06-06T16:59:00.000-07:00

Big Ideas (Don't get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

PORTFOLIO_photo_version

2008-05-16T03:45:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, I've been offered a place and Chelsea UAL

to study Graphic Design Communication.

Allot of It is down to my portfolio.

REAL_3D/because_i_can

2008-05-16T03:26:00.001-07:00

It's something I haven't don in years

But here's a model I'm working on.

It's loosely based on Tiki Masks

One of the best

2008-05-11T13:37:00.000-07:00

Ashley Wood is one of the reasons why I constantly draw, his work inspires me alot. If it weren't for his illustrations along side people like Jamie Hewlett, Shepard Fairey and Todd Mcfarlane I'd probably be an Illustrator. lol.

illustrating FEED Magazine 4

2008-05-07T15:38:00.000-07:00

We're making some amazing illustrations for FEED issue 4.

Here I am hardly working. :-)

Plan Lines

2008-05-07T15:00:00.000-07:00

People always ask me why do I draw with very ruff lines? And can I draw neatly?

The simplest answer is I don't want to have to finish all my lines, I like the look of my plan lines on paper and it seems a terrible waste to rub them out. If I need to draw "neatly" I can, but right now I like to draw quickly and expressively.

As a teen I would draw, draw, draw, paint, and draw, everyday. I would create my own comic books, with my friend Napoleon Beckford (aka Nappa). I'd draw all the plan lines and stories, and he'd do the hard work of making sense of my scribbles, adding fine lines and inks. And he'd do it so beautifully, he would make one of my A3 illustrations neat & coloured in 30 minutes, I'd take one hour.

In 2004 Nappa past away, and highly crucial detailed illustration became a style I would rarely use.

Justice - Stress ?????

2008-05-06T16:57:00.000-07:00

I just sat through this new music video by Justice & honestly I'm not sure if I liked it.

Whilst it had me gripped by the excellent direction and the feelings of movement and anticipation, at the end of the video I was left with nothing more than a conformation of what I thought when I saw two young black boys pull hoods over their heads within the first 20 second. I think that this video was meant to show the destructive nature of young teens venting their frustrations on french society, but what I also see is the same thing on the news at 10. So again I say I'm not sure if I like it, but It could be called powerful social commentary, made purposely to stir controversy.

Let me know what you think.

Suburbia

2008-05-02T04:50:00.000-07:00

I've always felt unsettled when I find myself suburbia

It's a sinking feeling of being surrounded, as unseen eyes follow my every step.

A few weeks ago I found myself in the suburbs of Aldridge Walsall, walking down a road of detached six bedroom houses, when the aforementioned unsettling feeling set in.

I noticed that every other window had someone peering through net curtains, watching me walk through the precious neighborhood.

I found this far more disturbing than the cars whizzing by with teenage passengers screaming racial slurs.

As I got home I created this painting.

FATHER_assignment/So_far

2008-04-21T14:48:00.000-07:00

I received a college brief about 4 weeks ago, it was not a written assignment, I was simply told I must make an animation based on the word father. It should contain 3D elements along with stop motion. Since then I've done allot of research, development, and production.

After researching my father extremely interesting life I came up with an idea, and presented it to my father. He said "BOI, you can do better. Use this as a starting point and think harder about your concept."

So after lots of mind numbing consideration I decided to take his advice, and use father as a starting point. And my thought process after that became a product of my fathers criticism.

I began my development sketchbook, thinking about myself being a product of my father, my father being product of his father and so on. So I looked at products in relation to the products that came before them, product packaging, product pamphlets, information etc... until I came up with the idea of a 3Demential product that evolves and develops.

and thats the short version of where I am with my father assignment.

Readymades

2008-04-18T13:59:00.000-07:00

Okay, In 1917 Marcel Duchamp created this instillation called 'Fountain'

the basic premiss was to shock and provoke the audiance by taking an obscure object; in this case a urinal, and exhibiting it signed R.Mutt.

At the time this was ground breaking, and fresh.

Skip forward to 2006, and Michael Ratulowski thinks this is a ground breaking stroke of genius.

Do you see what he's done their. He's taken the basic concept of the readymade and progressed it ever so slightly by adding a fro-back pop culture reference.

I love originality.

My_Showreel_08

2008-04-17T15:25:00.000-07:00

watch it

go on, watch it!

Michael_Clarke_Showreel_08

POSTCODE_B42_YATE

2008-04-05T10:50:00.000-07:00

This is the video that i made to coincide with my posters for my postcode assignment.

Help is Gone (IMEEM upload)

2008-04-05T09:59:00.000-07:00

The Video quality is better on IMEEM.COM I really recommend it.

But you do have to take in advertising whilst you search.

but worth it.

Aviation Revamp

2008-03-28T10:01:00.001-07:00

I'm still strenuously working on my portfolio,

It's hard graft, allot of self analysis going on.

Here's my aviation project revamped. It's getting there.

Help Is Gone - Story Board

2008-03-25T13:06:00.001-07:00

I found this very ruff story board I did for the Help Is Gone video.

BLUE FROG LOUNGE - MUMBAI, INDIA

2008-03-17T04:20:00.001-07:00

was designed by London Architects; Serie: Chris Lee & Kapil Gupta

check them out they're very kool:

http:www.serie.co.uk

Will This Replace My Mac?

2008-03-17T04:04:00.000-07:00

This is a New Laptop Computer called "Canvas" It's designed for artist and designers.

My work featured in FEED MAGAZINE

2008-03-08T14:45:00.001-08:00

My work is featured in the latest issue of FEED

www.thisisfeed.co.uk

KMD logo

2008-03-08T13:18:00.000-08:00

I've been working on a logo for a Birmingham based rapper/producer named KMD,

these are just a few ideas I've been playing with.

Its still a work in progress.

Atama Yama - Koji Yamamura (2002)

2008-03-08T13:15:00.000-08:00

very kool

watch and enjoy

Designer of Any-Thing

2008-03-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

I saw Marc Newson on TV the other day, he said:

"If you can't design any-thing, then maybe your not a good designer"

I'm not saying that he's right, but it's an interesting point.

He designs allot, from door handles, to interiors, to space shuttles.

I'm rarely impressed, but some of his work is quite impressive.

JUSTICE - DVNO video

2008-03-08T08:04:00.001-08:00

I'm loving this video

The video is based on tv production company logos.

you can see the direct influence in some of these clips:

Boy Soldiers Experiments

2008-03-07T12:30:00.000-08:00

Just Experimenting with colour before I resubmit my Design of Decent project.

UGLY LOGO

2008-03-07T12:28:00.000-08:00

Putting together my portfolio

I found this logo from last year

I love it.

Bookshelf solution

2008-03-07T02:12:00.000-08:00

Bookshelf in a Staircase, it's a simple idea that no one thought of designing because they assumed it was already thought of.

nice

Hewlett

2008-03-06T13:24:00.000-08:00

Jamie Hewlett on :: MONKEY

Interesting how his final illustration looks allot like himself.

Peter Saville

2008-03-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

Ephemera

2008-02-17T14:38:00.001-08:00

I found this in the office,

And thought it looked amazing.

(it's used to put labels on things)

POST CODE: B42_PHOTOS

2008-02-17T11:34:00.000-08:00

This is for the postcode assignment. It's completely different to my original idea, but I think it's 100 times better.

I went to B42 and reacted to it to see how it would react to me.

New Postcode B42 Response

2008-02-13T03:20:00.000-08:00

This is my new response to the Postcode B42 project. Its hand drawn and mac minipulated.

I will elaborate more later.

Design of Decent

2008-02-04T17:04:00.000-08:00

This is work for one of my assignment called 'the design of decent'

It took a while but i eventually got into it.

I chose to base my work on child soldiers (or the use of children in warfare) and these were a few of my outcomes.

AERODYNAMIC POSTER

2008-02-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

I'm quite pleased with it.

Word Illustrations

2008-02-02T13:38:00.000-08:00

This was a one week project I did late last year. Where i had to do come up with two illustrations for two different words, the 1st word being perturb, and the 2nd being nebulous. These were my final outcomes.

This one was based on the word Perturb, I didn't over complicate it because I only had one week to complete it. So i did allot sketchbook work then scanned some of it into my mac to create this collage built up of all things that i find perturbing.

For some reason the word Nebulous reminds me of old B-movies, it means unclear or hazy. But the word also can be use as Nebular which means a cluster of stars. So i came up with this retro b-movie style poster, with rather obvious title.

AERODYNAMIC...

2008-02-02T10:56:00.000-08:00

This is my very own DINGBAT typeface, it's called Aerodynamic and it's based on aviation.

"Numbers not shown"

Postcode B42 Animation.

2008-02-02T10:03:00.000-08:00

This is still a work in progress for my Postcode B42 assignment. But i Like where it's going.

The idea behind this is a kind of juxter position, I'm looking at the two elements of the postcode that stand out to me. The traditional things, like the old terrest houses, the pub and the Cathedral. With the more contemporary things like the powerlines, the cars with bass kicking out of the boot, and the and the multicultural environment that 10 or 20 years ago might not of been that way.

I didn't want to simply animate photographs that I had taken in the area, so I decided to represent the elements quite figuratively with symbols that imply the characteristics of the things that they speak for. I'm also working on a soundtrack that i think captures the environment in an equally effective way, and adds some depth to the animation.

Help is Gone

2008-01-22T16:41:00.000-08:00

This is my 1st music video.

The track produced by myself.

The video was written and directed by myself.

& I hope you enjoy it.

Take care.

This video one the 'This Is Feed' competition for motion graphics.

1 of my favorite

2008-01-15T11:49:00.000-08:00

This is "Pusher Man" by Curtis Mayfield.

Its one of my favorite music videos of all time.

I like it because of its style, which is allot to do with the 70s when it was made. From the cloths, to the camera, to the editing, the lighting and the angles.

I think it's beautiful. so Check it out

poscode B42

2008-01-09T16:51:00.000-08:00

This is my initial response for a very kool new brief I received from college yesterday. I was basically given a postcode and told to go there, and respond visually to that environment.

15 minutes of play

2007-12-28T13:56:00.000-08:00

This started off as a doodle on an envelope. I then recreated on A1 card. It took 15 minutes.

2007-12-24T03:37:00.000-08:00

Just something I saw when I was walking home the other night. Decided to take a snap on my phone.

Kesh Sketch

2007-12-18T12:20:00.001-08:00

My Illustration of Kesh

1 of the koolest girls on the planet.

Help Is Gone - screenshots

2007-12-18T12:02:00.000-08:00

Screenshots from my music video.

song produced by me

+ i writ and directed the video myself. (Not too shabby if i do say so)

I'll upload the video soon...

2007-12-16T15:35:00.000-08:00

The akai MPC is a beat making machine. And over the past few years they've been getting smaller and smaller. now you can have one on your iphone via the MPC500 project.

AMAZING!

2007-12-16T15:17:00.000-08:00

Takashi Murakami

one of my favorite artists.

2007-12-16T14:59:00.000-08:00

Couple pages from my sketchbook of development work for a new project I'm working on. The project combines my to loves, music and design.

I'm very exited about this one.