BTW, its going to be awesome!

Lady Gaga has reveled the stage for her next tour, The Born This Way Wall. Whats also exciting is that the stage has a monster pit, for Gaga's most dedicated fans!

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"To give you a bit of insight on the design of my new tour, the central area within the stage will be known as 'The Monster Pit.' 'The Monster Pit' is General Admission only, and Little Monsters unlock it when they arrive to the arena or stadium. Entry to 'The Monster Pit' is relegated to the fans who have arrived first, waited all night, + dressed to 'Ball.' Every night Haus of Gaga will choose fans from The Monster Pit to come back stage + meet me! These tickets are NOT more expensive. Reading your questions :) No dress code requirement. 'Born This Way' means anything goes."

The Pop Universe Imploded

So Lady Gaga posted on her twitter the above art piece inspired by the Telephone video. How amazing would it be to have Gaga not only see, but appreciate and share your work with all her fans? Im sure the artist, Yamino, must be delighted.


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(me and Gaga twittering at the same time, I see she has nothing better to be doing a saturday night either, see, staying in is the new going out. Even Lady Gaga does it.)

Bits & Bobs

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All Coked Up!

So in college we were given a brief by the Midlands Drugs Task Force to come up with an A3 poster highlighting the effects of cocaine. which is apparently not good for you... My idea came from the idea of slang words for cocaine, so i ended up picking snow cause its a good visual word.



After doing a bit of research into cocaine and addictions i ended up using the idea of recreational use developing into a full on addiction. the tag line A SNOWSTORM CAN TURN INTO A BLIZZARD RAPIDLY developed from this idea...

SPACESICK


SAUL BASS


OLLY MOSS


Visually i knew i wanted to keep the poster simple, yet effective. I've always loved Saul Bass's style and use of colour, and more recently i've been really digging SPACESICK and OLLY MOSS. Olly has an insanely simple style but when its done right it can be brilliant. Spacestick has a really modern looking vintage style, again not overworked or over designed! totally amazing.

FIRST GO


So colour wise i was really happy with the first mock up, the white lines on the solid black look good. i wanted it to look like snow falling, and the white sharp lines reference lines of cocaine being cut with a razor. then snow changing from white to red was echoing the idea of casual cocaine use becoming addictive and dangerous.


ROUND TWO


So this is where I'm at now, we have to present our first idea tomorrow, and then I'll probably get told to make a heap of changes. Type wise the jump out text is the bold red SNOW, the red snow has begun to cover the white snow. the N and W pointed, again giving the idea of razors and cutting. the body of text underneath is a skinny white font, all referring back to the idea of lines of cocaine.

I'll update this post with the finished piece once I'm done...

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BIG GULP!

Im all about the design of this editorial, GULP, in Velvet Magazine, shot by Photographer Damien Blottière. The choppy DIY mixed up style is great and totally goes with the clothing in the picturers. loving it.

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