NON STOP GRAPHICS

 

NON STOP GRAPHICS is basically a blog that Ive recently become very interested in, they are a American based company that specialize creating custom made hand-painted signs, business logos, Muriel's, T-shirts E.t.c. they take pride in creating all their work using only traditional methods such as painting, and printing. and with high claims of the best quality products, their aim seems to be set of giving customer satisfaction. I will be sure to keep you posted on any intresting work that comes from them.

Album Cover "ATG" part 2

This piece is just the back of the album cover that i have posted previously i just basic petals flowing in the wind to tie in with the rose image that's on the front. Once again i have used GIMP 2.0 to create this image. I like what Ive done but to be honest I'm not as happy with it as i was with the original cover and i would really love any feed back that anyone would like to offer. Finally if anyone would be intrested in me desiging any band artwork, album covers E.T.C let me know and ill gladly help out.

Album cover. A Traditonal Goodbye

This piece of work is something done in my spare time for a friends band, to be honest I'm quite proud of it and it's a definite improvement on the bands previous album cover which had been blatantly scratched up in about ten minuets. Also I'm proud to announce that this piece of work hasn't been done on photo shop or any professional software of any kind, which just goes to show you don't have to pay big money for good results. Instead of photo shop i used GIMP 2.0 which is a free editing sowtare which you can easily download from the internet, GIMP all in all is bassically a slightly downgraded photo shop and slightly less complex but at the end of the day, its great to use, ill probably do a review on it anouther time. Enough about gimp, bassically when the band approached me they origanlly had a vision of a traditional goodbye reprsenting a buriel, but unfortuantly they had gone the totally wrong way about it and designed a cover with loads of grave stones and crosses, this would be fine if they were a hardrock/metal band but they're more of a indie sorta * i loved you and now you broke my heart so my life is over but i dont need you blah blah blah* band. So instead of the morbid approach i went the other way and used the simple symbol of a rose to represent death and all the other wise morbid things that the previous album showed. This is my first piece of proffesional work, and i would be grateful for any feedback. thanks

Greenwash- advertising genius or blatent lie?

The word Greenwash comes from a play on words from the word Whitewash, which usually means to cover something up, Greenwash is exactly the same in some ways. E.G the government would cover up a conspiracy or "whitewash" it and a company would cover up its products failings by "Greenwashing" it. The purpose of Greenwash is to basically make consumers feel better about buying a company's product due to it be "Eco-friendly" this term is a ever more common way to express that the product is helping to save the planet from global warming, these claims usually used by things such as car adverts about their lower fuel emission's or possibly some company's might say that they're using less packaging to reduce waste, but all boils down to the same thing "buy our product because we are nice to the planet, in theory this is a amazing advertising scheme, in practice however this technique could be cataclysmic to all "save the earth" campaigns. At the end of the day, Greenwash could create two things, a world where everyone is happy little snow flakes and only buys products that effect our planet as little as possible or, the public will realise that most Greenwash claims are total jargon and are simply there to sell the product and make the company's money, there for having a negative effect of genuine "Eco-friendly" products and screw up our planet even more. Bassically no matter how you dress it up, a diesle engine will still pump out Co2 into our atmosphere even if it is slightly less that a older engine, this does not make the engine "eco-friendly" this is once gain jargon to help sell the product to a consumer.