Stick-A-Thing

Stick-A-Thing (S.A.T) is a Berlin native who has been creating urban design and art since 2006. He is influenced by the streets, graffiti culture and contemporary character design. S.A.T arts and designs can also be found on your monitors, on Berlin streets, on t-shirts and as toys. He has designed album art for 1000names from Bulgaria and also done some live painting for a Levi’s project. S.A.T enjoys painting happy objects on the streets and don't mind if people customized his art along the way. His goal with his designs is to make you enjoy life and stay chilled and cheerful.

I love the illustration of S.A.T, his work is a big influence to mine and I will refer to some of his composition skills when designing the cover for Anorak Magazine.

Graphic Design - Xmas Cards

For the Tag: Pac brief, I am designing christmas cards which will be posted and emailed to various design companies around the UK. Therefore, an ordinary card design will not do, the audience is aware of design and the cards will require a high level of whit and knowledge only a designer would know.

Here are a few existing examples of christmas cards by graphic designers, both are witty and play on the link between graphic design and christmas.

Leeds Public Arts - Print finishes

For the print production of the publication, We looked at print finishes to add that extra interest and designers touch.

Skype - Packaging research

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Leeds Public Arts - Yokoland

For the brief, Angus and I are investigating photographing typography in an environment. Yokoland, a designer from Norway has many works of this genre, here are some which we felt worked really well. They have a colourful, positive vibe which I think is exactly what the public Arts publication needs.

PUBLIC ARTS - LEEDS

After an initial brainstorm, Angus and I have opened up some routes to take with the project. We are looking into printing finishes as the brief is fairly strict this limits our layout and overall design of the book, quality/additional print finishes will add that touch of class and distinction to the booklet.

Here are a few pieces I found which use print finishes, they are fairly simple additions to the job but add so much to the resolution.


This card uses a heat pressed gold transfer onto a thick board. The gold really stands out against the low quality stock, its cheap to produce and tests the limits of printing finishes.

The college 2009 prospectus is a good example of print finishes. The cover has an embossed title, and a laminate strip of yellow hanging over the top of the page. This really looks impressive in your hands, the light catches the laminate and the raised embossing, and you can feel the smooth laminate against the rough stock which works as a good contrast. This is probably quite an expensive book to produce, with the inside pages being full colour CMYK, the cover being embossed on a different stock and an additional laminte finish. However, it still uses only 4 colour plates; CMYK.