Graphic Design Archives - OneFiveEight

Join the OneFiveEight DJs for a jumbled up selection of Disco, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Hip-Hop, House, Broken Beats and Reggae on Friday 26th February 2016 at Common.

As a celebration of Manchester’s rich creative talent, our friends over at one69a are running a design competition. Simply create an illustration of a worker bee that represents you or your creative collective using three colours; Metallic Gold, Black and Pantone 7450U. Here’s an example of a submission created by OneFiveEight’s Luke Breen: About the Manchester… →

A few weeks a go The organisers at Sounds From The Other City asked OneFiveEight to design and paint the hoarding of a Building Being Demolished by New Bailey in Salford. The Brief was to create an eye catching, bold and colourful design that would make people more aware of what was going on at… →

Hand Made Wedding Invitations Since learning how to screen print for my recent exhibition piece, I’ve been meaning to use the process for other artistic endeavours. When I was asked to produce a set of wedding invites for a family engagement, I took the opportunity to use my recently gained skill set. The Process The… →

For OneFiveEight’s third art exhibition we asked people to supply pieces of their music to provide inspiration to a range of visual artists from across various disciplines. The supplied tracks range from ambient experimental pieces to dance floor bangers by signed and un-signed artists alike. We randomly distributed the tracks to 24 different visual artists with a… →

So our most recent exhibition required some fresh artwork for the light boxes we usually have on display. This was the perfect opportunity to fire up the my studios recently delivered large format printer and print onto the pretty impressive transparency film. It gives a really good opaque black that really brings colours to life… →

Myself and James Hayes were tasked with putting the flier together for the forthcoming onefiveeight exhibition . With a theme that marries sound and visuals we were keen to create something that would encompass the two. After a couple of evenings at the far reaches of the internet looking at visual representations of sound from computer… →

Design and art direction for the album Galactic Structure by OneFiveEight’s own manchester based electronic music producer and DJ Outpost. A photographic approach was taken with the idea to make some artwork that relates to the lo-fi handmade nature of Outposts music. Listen to Outpost’s music below – full album release coming soon. Focusing on… →

  This is one of the latest in a long line of board Infections from Infected By Design.  Commissioned by Rusty of Blackpool for his daughter’s bedroom wall, the brief was simple: use baby pink and blue colours and make it pop! “It was a much bigger surface than the skateboards I’m used to painting,… →

On the 9th February 2013 the OneFiveEight collective held our first exhibition at Kraak in Manchester. The event consisted of an exhibition and music event showcasing the latest work from our artists, musicians and friends. A wide range of styles that represent a broad spectrum of talents were on show at the event. Artwork included Photography,… →

Getting ready for the big day so just thought i would show some ideas that didn’t quite make it to the exhibition. Here’s another load of pages from my sketchbook, no particular order. I played around with a few things but all initial ideas for T shirt design. —-XXXXX—- ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ———————————————————————— ————————————————————————… →

Iremember is a reggae night in Toronto, Ive been doing the flyers for them for a while now. They have just moved to a new venue and are upping the ante by throwing a Hip-Hop party upstairs called Drifted. “2 Rooms – 2 Sounds – 1 Love – Iremember meets Drifted – For the Heads… →

A few weeks ago a fellow onefiveeighter said to me i should stop being so precious with my sketchbook and get some work on the onefiveeight site, any way i went away and found a scanner, just a few bits and bobs form my sketchbook, Keep your eyes peeled for some of these designs being… →

Last Friday evening at Rogue studios Manchester saw the opening party for the annual open studios event. Onefiveeight were there to represent with some entirely new bits work from a handfull of it’s resident artists. Many thanks to all that wandered through the space it was great to meet you all. Apologies for the ropey… →

  Purple haze all in my brain Lately things just don’t seem the same Actin’ funny, but I don’t know why Exuse me while I kiss the sky    

This is a poster I designed for one of the members of Aether Talk a couple of months ago. The event has long since passed but be sure to catch other events at The New Continental in Preston. You’ll often find events involving bands and artists involved with OneFiveEight. The Poster has been created using multiple techniques… →

This is the EP artwork for Think Less. Feel More by Raikes Parade. The EP contains collaborations remixes and versions created by Raikes over the past year. For more information on all of Raikes Parade’s music visit his Soundcloud page. The artwork for this piece was created as a collaboration between Mike Newton and Luke… →

Bored on the rainy afternoon of the bank holiday I decided to try do something creative with my time. So I opened Photoshop and started tinkering with a few unfinished ideas I’d been playing around with. I was getting nowhere and the temptation to sack it off and go to the pub was growing. So… →

Lately I’ve seen a growing number of uber cool looking meat-heads stomping around town wearing t-shirts with prints of glamour models.  No classy ladies in sight, just pages of FHM photocopied over their gorilla on steroids chests, but enough about me noticing girls on man-beasts. This girl’s got her skull out and has issues with… →

Sam Hall – Manchester School of Art A selection of work from Sam Hall, again some really wicked type work here. Check out more of Sam’s work here

Emma Louise – Salford University Here’s more work from the graphic design course at Salford. Love the pattern work it would also be great to see a series of the leg stencil. Check out more of emma work here          

Phil Nicholson – Salford University A selection of work from Salford uni student Phil Nicholson Checkout more from Phil here. Great type work I’m sure you’ll agree.

Raikes Parade (Andy Blundell) is a producer and fellow member of OneFiveEight and he’s fast becoming one of the ones to watch in Manchester 2012. Raikes has recently finished a European tour with fellow Mancunian drone sorcerers Gnod and supported Ninja tune legend Amon Tobin at Manchester Academy on his ISAM tour as part of the Future Everything festival…. →

IREMEMEBER Flyer design by Jim Bestall    

Flyers We’ve done the odd flyer over the years, Here’s a selection of just a few. We’re available for hire don’t you know. Give us a shout.  

  Logo design for new record label; THE GEOGRAPHY TRIP by Jim Bestall The exotic beside the mundane; tin foil glinting in the magpie’s mouth. Old telephone boxes, the jackets of second hand paperbacks, ordnance survey maps and old postcards found in a charity shop. The South Manchester mobile-library sound. We specialise in tapes and vinyl… →

Flyer and Matchboxes for Toronto based reggae night IREMEMBER by Jim Bestall              

Flyer for clubnight; Home Grown – part of Canadian Music Week 20012 Design by Jim Bestall

Screen Printed Poster Give Away     I have a handful of screen printed posters to give away, word us up with your address and I’ll post one to you. It had been a while since I had done any screen printing I got pretty ambitious with the amount of detail in the artwork and… →

We are very excited about Paper Tiger’s Illuminated EP, hitting shops on 27th February. Following the success of their debut ‘Worldwide Takeover’ EP and ‘Send Me’ single on Jus Like Music in 2011, Paper Tiger join forces with Mind on Fire Records for their first full vinyl release. The Illuminated EP features three superb Paper… →

Herbal Sessions Presents: Mark Ernustus – feat Tikiman . Fri 17th Feb Islington Mill (Salford)

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