A Homage To The Beginning Of Consoles

So it's been a little while since I put anything on here, that's not to say I've not been hard at work planning numerous works to share with you all, but you know what they say about all good things! In the meantime, to tide you over if you will, for being so patient. A little something, in honour of all of the games consoles that started the trend, not the ones who have kept it going over the past couple of decades, but before that, before me! In homage to them, I create the work you see below. (I'd like to point out that yes I am aware they were not THE most original consoles, I wanted something retro that numerous people could still identify with that will still make them think "that's old").

More Playing With Silhouettes

So if you didn't guess from my post late last month, I've been playing with Silhouettes recently, tricking the minds eye into completing the image itself whilst using mere shapes for the image. This post is another very quick attempt at this. Based on one of my favourite movies, which I still think is not spoken about enough. Well done if you know what it is. I may do more along these lines, I'm currently undecided. Either way you will no doubt find out in the not-to-distant future.

#Hashtags Are Here

Recently in the East Midlands, a band was formed. This would normally be uncommon in any area, bands are formed and broken all the time. But these have been sneaking up on all of us for months, we just didn't realise. The most subtle (and completely illegitimate) advertising campaign ever brought forth the era of the Hashtags! Now you all know what I'm talking about, you can't go on any form of social media without seeing them, word of mouth spread fast! Their plan worked...


If only that were true! In reality, probably based around the phenomenon that is the "hashtag genre" the band was formed. I've had the pleasure of knowing the members for years.. being related to one of them helps with that. With this familiarity, came the opportunity to design the logo for them to get going and introduce themselves to the world. Based on a quick doodle from the band's Bassist (and my brother) Rob Iliffe, the logos has formed which you see here in front of you.

You should definitely go and check these guys out! They've only played a couple of gigs so far but have the talent to go so much further! You don't want to miss out! Just follow the link below to find them.

www.facebook.com/hashtagsgroup

Do NOT Talk About This Post

Okay, so I'm going to break my own title's rule and mention this post. I've gone over a week of not submitting anything to this page, not due to lack of activity but more due to many things being in limbo and others in the works. In the meantime, thought I'd do a quick idea I came up with just to give myself a break from everything else currently going on. If you hadn't guessed by now or don't know me at all then I'll let you in on a little secret, I'm a massive self-proclaimed geek and film nerd. I love comics, graphic novels, games, films of nearly every genre. Below is the result of one of these loves. If you can get what this is from, congratulations, you too are a geek. Okay, so probably not, it is a VERY popular reference used in many variations and I have been less than subtle in the referencing for this piece (in that the name is mentioned in the design.. Twice).

But anyway, I hope you like it, I will continue on my other works and hopefully have something else to share with you all soon.