Friedbanana's Blog

Rock album cover design for EMI Publishing

2011-10-25T13:11:00.000-07:00

EMI Publishing approached Friedbanana for doing a rock album cover sleeve design (non-commercial) based on Mike Bennett's concept of a burning guitarist. A lot of retouching went into this but I'm rather pleased with the results..Think the red trousers made it...

Wishbone Ash album cover

2011-07-25T11:44:00.000-07:00

Recent cover design for Wishbone Ash - Psychic Visionary - The Complete Collection. The album was a collection of remastered trance & industrial tracks - idea was to portray an angel in an industrial setting with 'saw' as halo.

Retro album cover sleeve design

2011-07-06T02:57:00.000-07:00

"Think Syd Barrett..."

This was kinda the brief for Henry Parker's album cover - Henry Parker and his Magical World, all you really gotta do (a commission through Quite Great). A sixties retro font was required - I chose Mama regular as a base font but altered and tweeked font shapes to fit desired space. I added filters and a metallic gradient outline to finish off.

A nice touch was adding a little purple to Henry's Bellbottom trousers and some crazy illustration shapes and figures to the backround.

Shabbelt logo design

2011-04-22T04:09:00.000-07:00

Recent logo and branding design for Shabbelt luxury men's belt and leather accessories. Logo design brief was to portray a quality product with a fresh, modern and stylish font.

Other logo designs can be viewed at http://www.friedbanana.co.uk/logo_designers.html

Comic style flyer design

2011-03-04T02:23:00.000-08:00

A nice brief was to design some comic style flyers for Mia Serra's Belly dance instructors - X4 different flyers were designed, Tribal belly Dance, Commercial Fusion (Beyonce/Hip Hop), Classical dance and Belly Ballet.

A variety of photoshop filters were used to give that painted comic book style to the photographs - Belly Dance Power!

Havana - artist website design

2011-03-04T01:48:00.000-08:00

Just finished a website for pop singer Havana http://www.havana-artist.com

Brief was for a simple slideshow website, Logo branding - integrating her Social network pages - Twitter, Facebook and Myspace keeping same feel and design.

Everything was going to plan until we realised the music player wasn't working on the iPad - urgghh !*$! Anyway, solved the issue by using a jQuery music player for HTML5 http://www.jplayer.org/latest/demos/ you can now see the result at http://www.havana-artist.com/havana_music.html

Band logo pitch

2011-02-06T07:55:00.000-08:00

Recent logo pitch for the band - The Low Suns for AMP records.

Brief: Song driven Ethereal pop/rock with a soulful folk-twisted front man, backed up Gospel-esque backing vocals and iced off with some eerie synths- “Cyber gospel"

l kept it simple with space age typeface, 'low' sun rays and angel winged goddess above (anthemic representation)

Comedy poster illustration

2011-02-06T07:06:00.000-08:00

Comedy Sketch duo Yasmeen Khan and Sajeela Kershi (Asian Provocateurs) contacted Friedbanana about designing their posters and flyers for their regular gig night at the Quadrant in Brighton.

A few sketches and different character poses down the line we settled on the cartoon illustration (below) to showcase their night called 'Quadrofunnier' after the cult movie Qudrophenia.

I used a combination of vector lines and photoshop textures for the piece. They wanted the characters to look typically asian with the colours and feel from the original qudrophenia posters - the logo mimicking the mods target logo.

The Asian Provocateurs are being called ''the asian French and Saunders'' according to Latest 7 review. Their website is www.asianprovocateurs.com