Putting a contemporary urban twist on MRK1’s previous artwork designs using an imagery of virus spreading mosquitos and bringing to life an unseen dimension in dubstep artwork design using typography, depth and perpective.

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After securing funding from the Youth Opportunity Fund a group of young people based in The Meadows, Nottingham, started a music project called ‘My Shout’.

During the first six months of 2009 the young people of ‘My Shout’ have recorded a multitude of songs and made their first music video, and the project, co-ordinated by MC Spyda, has supported the young people, helping them to express their creative talents.

The aim of the project has encouraged the young people to write positive lyrics, engage with others and create songs that will appeal to a wider audience. In addition, the project offered confidence building, recognised accreditations, hands-on studio experience and ownership of a project as a whole.

‘Somewhere to Go, Something to Do’ is the result of the young peoples dedication and perseverance, and Splurj is proud to have been involved in such a positive movement in urban music and congratulates the young people of ‘My Shout’.

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Everybody wants for their website to appear higher in Google’s search results rather than appearing on page 104! The fact is that their websites are lost in a sea of other websites all competing for the same search results to get traffic to their site and not the competitions. Professional SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) services are the way to go if you want to improve your search results, and Fluid Creativity have specially trained staff to help rescue websites from drowning in Google SEArch.

This graphic was designed as a call-to-action for the Fluid Creativity homepage to help inform and direct people to learn more about SEO and the services that Fluid Creativity offer to help improve companies digital marketing strategies.

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“The Love of My Life” appears tenth on the track listing of ‘hip hop jazzers’ Us3’s seventh album “Stop.Think.Run” and this is our latest video featuring Ayesha Varnnard from London and Brook Yung who was shot in Los Angeles.

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Manchester rap artist Lyrican interviews D12 during their European tour in March 2009. We met up with Kuniva and Swifty at the Manchester Academy as part of an Urban Bass TV production, also in connection with RKP.

Our job was to film the interview and the event, create the 3 introductory idents and the end title sequence design, add visual effects to the composited video, and post the video around as many online and social networking sites as possible to try and generate traffic. The video has currently generated 2,804 hits on our Vimeo channel as of 19th June 2009.

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Inspired by the illustrative work of Si Scott we wanted to try out some flourish effects in the style of Indian henna which is symbolic of traditional Muslim marriage, and so, we dressed our subject in a traditional Indian sari, tied her hands up with rope and made her squirm a little bit as we recorded the live action on green-screen. Once we’d added animated vector graphics, subtle colour grading and background texture, it set the scene for an informative documentary production by Holyk Films in connection with HOPE Training and The Princes Trust.

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Being that the Suicide Girls were one of the main attractions of the event the only option we had for this flyer design was to digitally slaughter the imagery, apply grimey styling and bold type to get across the theme of this hardcore event!

This was the first part in a series of journeys into Fluid Creativity’s new workspace. It was important that we captured the working environment and used elements from the new building (based at Hyde Point, Hyde) whilst also getting across the creative aspect of the business.

We used Graham (Fluid’s chief developer) in a bedroom scene, being woken by a contemporary Salvador Dali-style melting clock, which oozed ‘fluid’ from it’s face and activated the alarm - waking Graham from his dreams of code and sabotaged grammar, which was all shot, edited, designed and produced in-house.

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A high impact title sequence designed for Scorzayzee’s hip hop music videos for use on the official Scorzayzee website and YouTube Channel. Created using a stylised 3D logo, explosion footage,

For the release of the new Showtyme Entertainment website designed by Jason Mayo this attractive video ident was produced to compliment the look and feel of the new site when they upload their video media.

Shape, form, space, corporate styling and colouring, as well as depth-of-field, played a major role in this development, and the use of subliminal graphic devices, type and glow effects added interest to this eye catching video ident.

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A short introductory title sequence that focuses on new musical talent, bands and indie music in the East Midlands for use on the BBC Nottingham website.

A collaboration with Holyk Films brought to life with a virtual camera creating an Earth zoom effect and the musical talent of Where’s Strutter?.

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In this second part of Fluid’s viral videos after ‘Slime’ we put the in-house greenscreen facilities and working environment to good use again. We continued the journey into Fluid’s workplace with Wayne (Fluid’s head creative) visiting the bathroom who unexpectedly found himself at the center of a game of human-pinball - demonstrating Fluid’s creative imagination and development of ‘high impact visual’ services.

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After a really long, hard days work shooting Cassie and Candice’s hot bodies I went home and started work on a couple of pieces of artwork as a compliment to the girls. I think that this was the moment in my life when photographing random objects, scenery and trees, cars and buildings just didn’t have the same appeal as they used to!

I used to design a lot of model cards when I worked in the print industry but wanted to do something a little different than the average blocky layout with a photo and text of the models stats and this is what I came up with.

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I snapped this photo of a clownfish while I was at Chester Zoo. Good job I liked it so much that I decided to go away and have a play with it in Photoshop because it was later featured in Computer Arts Magazine issue 150 (June 2008).

A vector based illustration of a stereotypical New York gang scene complete with a drop-top Caddy and beeatches! “Yeah bwoy!!”

This concept of slugs competing in a high speed track race was something that just came to mind after I was messing about with the camera in the garden taking pictures of slugs.

One night whilst doodling, this illustration was created, I have no idea what I was thinking at the time but later it was colour corrected with additional typographic elements and ink effects and named ‘Til’ Death Do Us Part’.

I had sci-fi tendencies in mind for this beauty of a job, with high impact visuals effects, three dimensional bullet action and subliminal vector graphics to bring the scene into another dimension and to visually enhance an existing unedited photographic image of Zara Phythian (actress, action performer, fight choreographer and 13 times world martial arts champion) for Combat Magazine.

This piece was part of a typographical project that I started using photographic imagery of CCTV and digital camera elements combined typography to produce an promotional advertisement for Nikon.

Any good designer can find inspiration in their surroundings and enjoys reinterpreting things into something new and unseen. After I saw this road sign I just had to take a picture and draw this character in the scene.

This self promotional poster was designed using manipulated photography, vector graphics and typography for the 2006 HND Multimedia end of year show at The University Centre Oldham and represents of all the things that Splurj loves and enjoys, paying close attention to detail and information.

Featuring the front end of a Saleen Mustang (one of Splurj’s pipe dreams), these matte laminated, full colour, double sided business cards were produced in vivid and eye catching colours.

Design concepts and colour schemes were developed together with the client and the final product was produced in matte laminated, full colour, double sided business cards in the new company colours, complimented by an image of hair changing colours like a ‘chameleon’. What gave this design a more personal touch for the business was that the model used was a valued client of the company who was more than happy to model for the photograph.

This identity and business stationery was designed to suit the clients specific requirements. It had to be up-to-date, professional and fresh, and get the message across about what the company does without any explanation. A series of logo designs and branding solutions were developed through good communications between Splurj and Urbanise Developments.

This poster was designed to promote the new ‘Design for Digital Media & Computer Game Art’ courses at The University Centre Oldham. It incorporates appropriate colouring for the brand utilisises the 3D robot that was created for the Zero Tolerance game trailer but with added subliminal graphics and typographic elements to give the poster an energetic feel to get young people joining the new course.

A series of promotional brochure cover designs were produced for Stratstone Ferrari using photography that was shot in the main showroom and edited back at Splurj headquarters.

Speed was generated in the first image by giving the Ferrari 360 a motion blur that was colourised and saturated in areas to give the impression that ‘this car is so fast it leaves the colour behind!’

Armed with a bunch of still images of Kelzo, his work and landmarks of Hulme (the town where he lives and breathes graffiti art) I set about creating an interesting graphic image that represented Kelzo and his artistic background. I then added depth to the scene by adding the flow of the spray paint coming from the can which appeared to be glowing hot as it was being fired out of the spray can.

The animation which is on www.kelzo.com was produced by also using layered still images and incorporated the flow of the spray paint traveling around the scene. If you look closely you can even see footage of Kelzo on one of the walls along with more of his work.

This project was designed to be a graphic and metaphorical representation in the effects of advertising and how marketing strategies ‘entice’ the consumer in the same way as a bug is attracted to light. Close attention was payed to the typographic approach and animation of the type, the composition and movement of the 3D praying mantis, the overall film grading and atmospheric scenery, but I feel the overall message was lost within a barrage of graphic splendor!

But at least it got into Computer Arts Magazine!

The aim of the game is; the player is a cyborg police dog that has been sent to rescue the presidents daughter who has been captured by some hostile droids and save the day by blasting your way through a series of levels. The trailer featured footage that was shot in Luxor, Egypt and the 3D scenery was modeled around that. The game itself was never put into production, this was just a simple modeling and animation exercise that got me some exposure in Computer Arts Magazine.

The brief for this character animation was set by the D&AD to portray a characters personality through animation within a time limit of between 10 and 60 seconds.

Lil’ Don Rapski is one of those kids who admires celebrity figures, particularly rappers with big personalities - he want’s to be just like them, and after watching his favourite TV show ‘Wanna Be a G’ he starts freestyle rapping about his day to day activities which include nothing more than toilet humor and misinterpreting hip hop slang. He obviously has a lot of growing up to do before his next music video!

The name Don Rapski came about from a dream that I had as a teenager when Method Man turned and said to his homie “Don’t you know who that is? That’s Don Rapski,” and the name just stuck in my head for years until I decided to bring the name and the character to life in this animation. You can also see how the Lil’ Don Rapski character was created by downloading these Illustrated storyboards which include FREE desktop wallpapers!

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For two months in summer 2008 a small student flat in Cardiff was transformed into a 24 hour creative studio where ideas, ink and the occasional DTox branded thong were thrown around. Lyrics constantly looped over and over embedding themselves deep into my brain along with the constant hum of MacBook fans working overtime as Pro Plus boxes and Lucozade bottles reached closer and closer to the ceiling. I wouldn’t have traded that moment for the world!

One of the main challenges was that the opening verse featured B.Yonest who lived in Columbus Ohio, USA and whether or not we would get the footage we needed began to worry us ever so slightly. But we love a challenge, and we love taking risks, and it just goes to show that in this technological age geography is no longer an issue when it comes to us getting the job done.

Mark Coleran (screen, interface, motion and graphic design for film and television) who has worked on visuals for films such as Bourne Ultimatum, Domino, The Island, Mr & Mrs Smith, AVP, Blade II, Tomb Raider and Deja Vu, said: “If I had to make any comment I would say that there are perhaps too many variations in styling and graphic looks throughout the promo. Selection of a few that worked well together might have made for a tighter look and feel. Overall though they were all executed superbly.”

From the start of the project we had decided that that was exactly what we wanted to do and although we had worked out a storyboard for the idea, developed the look and feel for each character, hand-created every single prop, from the detailed DTox hoodie, right down the the false teeth and even the Jigga’s cigar, it would be completely experimental throughout in terms of styling, effects and graphics. A range of varying styles and media would keep the audience guessing what’s coming next and keeps them interested throughout.

Mark James of the Ffresh Awards committee also made a comment that the DTox ‘Make You Cry’ video is: “Very strong visually from the start, captivating. Cutting edge design, direction and overall style. As a pop promo it’s at a very high standard. Excellent work.”