Three people will win an A3 print of their choice (from this album). The giveaway is open to everyone who LIKE the three29design facebook page.

HOW TO WIN:

Choose the piece you’d like to win, either from the image below, or from here for a better look. Open up paint or similar basic art program, use canvas size of 800 x 1131 and do your paint version of the piece. The three which either make me laugh the most or look the most amazing win.

Upload your finished image to imageshack.us or Photobucket.com or similar and post the link to it on the three29design wall with a little message.

No cheating. I will be able to tell I will ship to anywhere in the world, just note that international postage can take up to a month.

I’ve created them in three screen sizes, just click the size you want and let it download. All I ask is you don’t re-distribute, they came from my site so link people back to this site if you’d like to share

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The Full Metal Jacket piece I created was chosen to feature in the digital Stanley Kubrick exhibition which ran alongside the Paris Exhibition. I also had several posters I created picked up by The Picmix Store and sold.

Locally, three29design has gained exposure, seeing as we did things the other way round by concurring overseas before the local area. I also was asked to work with my local Peugeot garage – this happened via twitter, so lets all bow to the mighty twitter and it’s powers.

On top of that, on December 2nd I won South Cheshire Chamber’s Young Business Person of the Year award sponsored by Bentley Motors. To have such a huge company pick my name to win the award was just amazing, thank you to Bentley and SC Chamber! I have 9 more years to enter for this award so let’s see how next year goes

I was involved in the artwork for Australia’s Heatwave Festival which will take place in January. What an awesome way to kick off the year. A bus has been driving around with my design on it, as well as a plug for the website, always good! That bus will also be home to Tech N9ne for a short while… I am a fan so that was pretty cool. There will be a fair few Billboards going up around Melbourne with my artwork on it (and logo) along with large format two color posters. This is pretty awesome, especially those on the line up are Kid Cudi, Tech N9ne, Obie Trice, D12 and more!! And this Festival isn’t happening in just one city, it’s moving all the way around Australia.

I was on local radio quite a few times, speaking about design the first time round, social media the second time then a mix of the two on the other shows. This was quite big for me, because I am shy and I’m not great at speaking, I’m an email and text person! Nerve-racking indeed, but it wasn’t that bad. So, thank you Redshift. In January I will doing my first exhibition stand at one of the Hub’s networking events too

I saw my work featured on various Kano + Mikey J videos – totally didn’t notice this for months but when I finally did it put a smile on my face. My first Halloween giveaway was successful and made the recipients smile which is always a plus. Many more in the future ladies and gents! Now, the iPad… I said I’d never buy one however, it eventually became clear it would be handy to take a portfolio around with me, so I welcome one into the business.

On top of those, I have gained many new clients, along with working with the clients who constantly return to work with me. Thank you guys Keep bringing me awesome, imaginative briefs in 2012!

-Liv

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Broo contacted me wanting both an illustration and a Soundclick layout for 3rd World Ent ran by him and his brother. He chose to go with a Gold package and requested a theme which kept the slums in mind. At first I thought of having images of actual slums on the layout however, I thought that combining wood, corrugated iron and his request of wires to build up elements for the page could look a lot better… and it did

In Melbourne? Well look out for these large format posters which’ll lace your city very soon! Take a picture of you by one and send it to the Heatwave team, they may have a treat for you. Let us see it too!

I hadn’t created a two color poster before but I think this came out pretty well considering that and the extremely tight deadline. I love Cudi’s orange eyes.

I thought it would be cool to walk you through some of the steps I took to create this album cover for Tuf Luv. This isn’t a tutorial as it only briefly goes through the main steps… all the work done between those steps is left out. Bare in mind, this is an album cover, not a mixtape cover which are too often is filled to the brim with cuts and glows. 

1. First we have the original image. The photographer has taken care of the lighting that they want on the cover along with a few effects. This is the picture I got sent to work on. Photo credit: @ShinesFresh

2. Now to open the canvas for the front cover and work out what placement of the photograph works best. I went for him to be in the middle. This was the maximum the image would shrink to and fit on the canvas otherwise I would have opted to show more of the image. One thing I didn’t like is the lampshade, it ends up looking like a black box at first glance, but more of this later.

3. Time to take things into illustrator for the text. I think things work better that way but it’s all personal preference. At first I was using a chunkier typewriter style font, but I found this one on my list of fonts which worked a lot better. I decided the name should be the most prominent bit of text so I go for the top version.

4. I brought that text over to Photoshop and try various positions. Naturally I prefer the text which covers the lampshade.

5. I like to send over a few versions for the client to look over, so I had the basic text versions down. Now to try something a little more with the text. So I cut down and put together various paper and newspaper to create a backing. Then I messed with different dark grays and blending modes to get a look that made the text look like it belonged on the paper. It felt like it needed a little something else… ah yes! Blood! Great.

6. Next I try out various places for the text with backing and settle for two which will be sent in the previews. I’ll only be showing the development of the one which was chosen.

7. Looks okay… but needs work! So I decide to place it behind him and the horns. Ah… better!

8. Now…. time to get rid of the blue. I saw his latest video, it was dark (like… horror/murder dark), so a red look to the cover will work better. He also asked for his logos on the cover. Let’s have those on the back wall they don’t need to be in your face on the front cover.

9. Done. Now… it’s too damn soft! Let’s grunge it up a little… it’s a gritty release. Few layers of grunge later it’s looking more like the part.

10. Next step… adding the final effects which will end up changing the final look quite a bit. Let’s make it look less flat.

11. Ah there ya go! Now… what else? Oh! The PA sticker! …and a couple more adjustments and it’s done. Sent for approval and a few hours later: ACCEPTED. Now the same thing needs to happen for the back cover.

- Liv

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So I’ve been working on the designs for the Australian Heatwave Festival and here are two of the many posters. The majority follow the same layout as the SA poster.I had to do a fair few illustrations of the main acts for the Heatwave artwork. Heatwave currently has an amazing line up, so if you’re into Hip Hop and are Aus based you’re in for a TREAT. Kid Cudi, Tech N9ne, D12, Obie Trice, Chamilionaire, Crazy Town, Bombs Away! and a hell of a lot more rock and dance acts for the other tents. Get yourself a ticket.

See the Sydney poster after the jump.

Trailblaza approached me knowing exactly what he wanted for his cover art, after seeing Effie’s ‘Lonely’ single cover. After a couple of mistakes which turned out to work great, this is his cover artwork for his latest EP presented by the prestigious clothing brand Oxyrotin. If you like your hip hop you WILL like this EP so stream or download it here.

The South Cheshire Chamber Business Awards were held at Crewe Hall, a truly amazing venue. I had never been to a black tie before, so to be honest, I didn’t know what to expect. The night started with me feeling quite socially awkward as the room filled up with faces I didn’t know, and dressed up looking glitzy.

After finishing the 3 course meal the awards started. I was slightly nervous… After seeing who I was up against I honestly thought I had no chance, after seeing a name on that list I thought they had it in the bag. As I started to hear Jo from Bentley speak about the winner, that oddly enough sounded like me, I was in a bit of shock… did, not, expect, that. After that everything is a blur lol. I went up on stage, collected my award and did a speech from the top of my head in front of 200+ business owners, had a few pictures and sat back down, still in shock. The nerves had gone but I was still shaking like crazy! After the awards were over, it was all go, pictures, interviews, networking, buying mum glasses of wine, the lot!

Well done to all those who won this year, including CTC Physiotherapy who I shared a table with, such a great bunch of people (we had the lucky table!). And to all those who were nominated, as Dr. Gav said to me before, you have already won by being in the book that so many business owners read through. There’s always next year

It’s a great feeling to have this type of recognition for my business. I did things the odd way round and started my business by working with clients overseas, mostly in America. However, I’m now trying to work locally, to make local businesses and individuals look awesome, in person and in pixel. This award will definitely kick start that!

I have a lot of people to thank, for giving me support and believing in me to get the job done. Firstly to all the clients who chose to work with me and trusted me with their hard earned cash – especially those who have worked with me from the start, throughout the price rises! Thank you to my parents and friends for backing me up and supporting me throughout. Redshift radio and the hub for getting me into the local offline networking that I hadn’t been involved with before. And finally to Jo and all the Judges from Bentley Motors, I’ll see you in five years to collect my Bentley GT

Liv

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