Owen Phillips

I’ve finally succumbed and bought myself a DSLR. Canon 450D, with the 18-55mm kit lens. The infuriating thing is that at this time of year it’s too dark in the evenings to play with it, and I’m at work all day, so can’t experiment then. Some of the following are shot on my morning dog walks, others are the result of weekend-wanderings. I’ll be mostly confined to weekend experimentation until Spring and the longer days.

Again, HDRs seem to be the order of the day. Being able to shoot in RAW mode allows me to create HDRs, to  a certain extent, from a single exposure. The shots here are a mixture of those taken from one RAW shot, and three bracketed exposures as before.

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Cow Town poster

This month’s band are Cow Town. For some reason in my had that translated into a Saul Bass-esque redition of cow-parts. Here it is….

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The Jam Room - This way

We want to make the Open Mic a bit more free and easy – allow people to relax and not have to stand up in the limelight if they don’t want to. Anything to encourage the music. With this in mind, it seemed like a sensible idea to host a Jam Room in the back room at the same time, where people can just sit and play together.

Obviously, we were in need of some serious signage. I had to get busy.

There are three posters in this series, I’ve only included one here because they’re all pretty much the same. One just says “Jam Room”, while the other two variants are a right-pointer, marked “this way”, and a left-pointer, marked “that way”.

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Briggs and Oliver Antiques - initial design

As a result of the Open Mic posters, they guys at Briggs and Oliver invited me to have a crack at designing them an Art Nouveau style flyer. To the left and below are an initial concept, in a couple of colour variations.

Briggs and Oliver Antiques - initial design - alternative colourway

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Open Mic Poster - May -October

With a bit of a departure from posters for individual bands – mainly due to not being able to find the time to produce them – I decided to go for a single poster to fill a few months of bookings. Here’s the result.

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Open Mic No. 4 - Old Man Pie

Old Man Pie are are asking for a comedic poster design…

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Open Mic No. 3 - Breaking The Illusion

Band Number 3 is Breaking The Illusion, and here’s the next poster in the series…

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Open Mic No. 2 - Mi Mye

Another one in the series of open mic posters

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Open Mic No. 1 - Hexa

The first band-specific poster for the Open Mic Night

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