• B A L L •

2010-11-17T18:54:00.001Z

Woh wah woo wah. Updated website

I was looking for a job and then I found a job…

2010-07-25T18:44:00.002+01:00

I've just been offered a job as a real graphic designer by Stuart and Ama at Northbound. Needless to say I'm ridiculously excited and look forward to starting.

Also a lot of thanks go to the Show 10 website which is where they originally saw my work.

4BALLS

2010-07-16T01:28:00.001+01:00

4BALLS is the name of my Spotify playlist if you're even remotely interested.

SLEIGH BELLS

2010-07-16T01:25:00.000+01:00

If you're a fan of Poison the Well or electronic music, check out SLEIGH BELLS. Sort of like M.I.A. I suppose.

2010-07-16T01:22:00.001+01:00

I think everyone needs to add this toolbar to their browser. The best thing to cure boredom and repetition of the same old sites on the internets. Best thing ever to grace my browser. Stumbleupon.

2010-07-16T01:15:00.002+01:00

Thought I'd mention that my new website is up and running.

2010-07-13T20:55:00.003+01:00

Hmmmmmm. It appears I haven't posted for nearly an entire year. I suppose thats what being a third year does for your motivation to write pointless blog entries that nobody is going to read. But what a year it has been. Now it's all over, however, I feel it is perfect time to recall and reflect in between finding and getting a job. I'm also going to be using this place for what I originally intended and share random thoughts and things I find on the internet. Although I'll probably be content with finishing the layout.

site change

2009-08-05T23:33:00.003+01:00

Changed my website cause I hated how white it was. Going to keep it like this for most of my third year probably, but thats what I thought about the other one. Too Le Gun haha. No doubt I'll get bored of how indexhitibty it is. Have a nice concept for any site changes in the future which I'm going to keep previewing with my little enter pages.

Work Experience

2009-07-08T19:03:00.002+01:00

Just sent out my blitz of C.V.s to agencies near to my home. Slightly redesigned and refined, with added bonus CD portfolio. Hopefully should hear back from some places. Fingers crossed.

stephenballdesign.com

2009-07-01T23:16:00.003+01:00

After about two weeks of solid work I've finally got my website uploaded. Still needs some tweaks to the images as I forgot to change the resolutions! Idiot. This is why I'm not a web designer. Oh and heres the link, click!

Online Portfolio

2009-06-27T16:24:00.003+01:00

Just purchased my domain name for my new online portfolio. At the moment there is just a title card, showing a little snippet of the style but I still need to complete some of the other pages. However, it should all be up and running very soon :D

Take a look and bookmark it! www.stephenballdesign.com

Things I've learnt from being a 2nd Year…

2009-06-03T16:56:00.003+01:00

* Typography can be fun

* I love making books, old cameras and ellipses

* There's much much much more to design than I first realised

* MacBook's are lovely things

* The beauty, and the devil, are in the details

* More handmade, more tactile = more interesting work

* I don't write enough

* or post updates enough

* or use my time wisely out of projects

* Inspiration is everywhere. Or mainly out of my room, away from the computer.

May

2009-06-03T16:41:00.004+01:00

So May came and went, I finished my second year and the summer lays out before me. The month has been a mix of stress, deadlines, sun and relaxation. The first two weeks were preparing my portfolio for assessment and finishing off any work as needed which is no easy thing with the collapse of all available printers the weekend before handing it all in. Ah well, it's all finished, I've been to France, took a lot of photos on my trio of 35mm cameras and about to start earning my way this summer. Before all that though are some photos of my favourite pieces from my portfolio.

Final Major - Boundaries

ISTD

A very long overdue post on my ISTD award entry. This is my redesign of the piece and is still not finished! Maybe over summer…

His Flying Machine E.P.

2009-04-12T15:32:00.000+01:00

lomography

2009-04-07T18:45:00.002+01:00

curriculum vitae

2009-04-05T16:37:00.003+01:00

2009-03-24T22:06:00.000Z

2009-03-23T19:32:00.002Z

2009-03-23T15:05:00.002Z

ISTD

2009-03-23T13:28:00.003Z

Heres a little snippet from my ISTD work. I'm not ready to show all of it as I think it can be improved a hell of a lot more.

Some old photos

2009-03-20T17:44:00.005Z

Stephen Ball Poster

2009-02-03T17:45:00.004Z

Why is water wet?

2009-01-17T22:13:00.004Z

The Case

2009-01-17T17:45:00.004Z

My article for the Case magazine.

Mr. Urquhart

2008-12-23T01:08:00.008Z

Interesting article that follows on from Robert Urquhart's lecture, and also a couple of the others I've had this semester.

Young adults naive about their working future

Face:Face

2008-12-22T16:25:00.003Z

Sperm

2008-12-21T22:40:00.007Z

A re-design for a poster project at uni. We had to create a poster based on our opinion of a recent news story. This poster is for an article about conservative views on inbreeding stopping the number of families one donor is allowed to father being increased to make better use of the existing donors, or something like that. It was hard to have any sort of strong feelings one way or the other. This re-design replaces the god awful mess I had to show at the crit.

Home

2008-12-15T19:10:00.006Z

Heres a photo I took on my first day back not far from where I live.

Festive Feelings

2008-12-14T15:44:00.003Z

Semester A

2008-12-12T16:15:00.010Z

Well, it's practically the end of semester A and so a recap of the time since September is in order:

1. splashed out on a Canon SLR camera utilising the magical invention of the overdraft
2. had a lecture from Craig Oldham from The Chase, Jonathon Barnbrook, Robert Urquhart from Grafik and Si Scott.
3. completed 10 projects
4. set up a blog
5. became a type perfectionist

6. printed 150 annual reports for free
7. worked on my first live briefs

8. had two free lunches

9. completely covered a piece of 2m x 1m MDF with doodles

10. felt pride, confidence, jealousy, shame, embarrassment and a lot of stress

The Void

2008-12-09T22:40:00.001Z

1st Year

2008-12-07T23:06:00.007Z

Just some random pieces of work I've found one my computer. The first is a box which I pulped in a blender and the second was a concept, for one of a series of posters for a 1st year project, which I took a fancy to. Oh and a photo thrown in for good measure.

2008-12-06T17:19:00.006Z

Heres some music that I've been listening to a lot lately.

Huoratron

Bass, blips and beats.

Asteroids Galaxy Tour

Trumpets and funk.

Bat for Lashes

Seriously underrated. Below is one of my favourite videos from last year and also a great song.

Whats a Girl To Do

Daily photo

2008-12-06T16:45:00.006Z

Heres a photo I took over the summer.

And heres a poster/sticker concept that popped in to my head one sunny day in August. It's going to be developed in to album artwork at some point in the near future. The switch appears at the size you'd expect it to be thus creating the joke.

Images

2008-12-04T22:01:00.012Z

This is really just a selection of cool images that I've collected over the past year. Some of it is just nifty and others are really inspiring and formed the basis of some of my graphics work.

2008-12-04T16:06:00.008Z

Heres some photos, one newish, one old.

This was taken on Christmas Eve 07 at like 8 in the morning.

This photo was taken in August 08.

I'm going to try and add a new photo everyday.
Also, give these guys a listen:

New Look

2nd year work

2008-12-03T23:23:00.011Z

Heres some of my graphics work to counteract all the music I've posted so far:

This was based on a piece of text written by my tutor about a fictional way of how jellybeans are made involving regular and irregular nanoquarks being sorted before being bombarded with chemicals and compressed in to jellybeans. To illustrate this I created a fictional machine that supposedly made jellybeans. I bought a second hand hoover to act as the "suction" device to harvest the nanoquarks from the air. It would also double up to make the orange liquid bubble in the chemical tubes. It was such a fun project to do and made lots and lots of noise.

This shows all the journeys I took around Lincoln in one week in November.

So I went...

2008-12-03T20:50:00.005Z

and did it and got a blog with this being the first post and I'm not going to pretend that the reason for doing this isn't because the man in the lecture today told me to. I blatantly am. So heres a few songs I like:

Kelis - Milkshake (Man Eat DJ & Jizm remix)

Beastie Boys - Intergalactic (BlackDisco remix)

Justice vs. Simian - We are your friends (Cold Blank Somos Tus Amigos remix)