cmyplay

What you see here is the product of frustration. The therapeutic process I went through making this cannot be overestimated. As you can see in the graphic, my own body of work straddles the boundary between good and bad design. I like to think that I mostly only step outside the good circle when I’m pushed.

There’s little else to say other than, I am still on good terms with the client that inspired it. Hopefully we’re a little further along on their journey of education.

Starting work at Etiket in May has left me with very little time to contribute to cmyplay. Thanks to a guest post over at Miss Moss, my fires of self-expression are now rekindled.

One of the earlier projects that I worked on was a pair of TV spots for the Rapport newspaper. It was pretty hectic, like most AV deadlines tend to be. The 60 second spot was a week and a half of team effort from most of the designers at the office. This 30 second spot was completed afterwards, primarily by myself, over the course of a week. I have a new appreciation for the flexibility of Particle Playground.

I’ve just completed my 2009 showreel and uploaded it to my Portfolio page. For the music, I made use of a piece of the Munchausen By Proxy track Yes Man.

The section links next to the logo are no longer placeholders (at least not all of them). I have successfully uploaded an online version of my portfolio. Needless to say, this is the link that is now active.

As with the rest of this site, I expect it to be a work in progress, with items being added as they are completed – and inevitably posted on the blog as well. Please take a look and let me know what you think.

As you may have noticed, cmyplay has an updated interface. Said interface has given away what I’ve been working towards with on the site so far. An online portfolio is in the works, along with a retail facility. Now I don’t want to give it away just yet, but it should launch with a certain lifestyle product in mind.

The above is a poster image that I have reworked from a previous project that I completed. With Lost Season 5 set to start on South African screens only at the end of March, I’m willing to admit that the typographic treatment owes more than just a little to the greatest series on TV. The words are from John Donne’s Elegy XX. With my hands being so busy with things that are unfortunately not bearing any visible fruit, I felt that it would be quite appropriate (even though in context, the poem may not be).

I must be the only person in the country that doesn’t make use of bit-torrent.