2 day brief - record company branding & set of 5 vinyl sleeves

decided to set myself a 2 day brief of something fun because i was feeling slacky after doing loads of boring webdesign.

day 1: invent record company, do the branding / identity / concept etc
day 2: design 5 record sleeves and some basic promo material (business card, stickers, flier etc)

the concept _

the name 'isku' is finnish from impact/blow/explosion/hit or something along those lines.

logo is a pixelated earth being smashed by an asteriod.

all the tunes released are fairly dark weighty tunes, so wanted to go for some artwork which reflected that vibe. found some INCREDIBLE electron microscope images in the cambridge flickr 

(taken by dr. chris forman - cheers chris mate).

gonna get em printed and constructed on thursday! excited :D.

postcard layouts

stationary / promo stuff for final shows.

bussiness cards








bussiness cards

post cards (front/reverse version one/reverse version two) haven't decided which layout i'm going for with the reverse sides.







































me invoice design

identity for myselfffff

Designing your own identity is hardddd...

work so far (saved the best til last) :

swallow hill alternate business cards

does what it says on the tin.

swallow cards & business swallows

decisions decisions.... there's a folder with about 50 more of these.......

trying to make some business cards to fit in with the style of my new
packaging style. (but a lot more readable and less artyfarty)......

once upon a time business cards

 

cheeky sample of the progress on Swallow Hill's identity

awkward business cards ahoy!

Today I'm business cardifying myself. These are just just a couple of the experiments I've been doing. With these I wanted to see how minuscule I could make the type with it still being legible. I probably wont continue with this idea because visually impaired people might collect my business card and become confused and enraged while trying to read the small text. The visually impaired are not to be trifled with.