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I dunno I reckon its dance related? but mods u can trash or move if ya like??

Anyway this is a good resource for dudes who design dance/club flyers get ideas... get inspiration...
Post up what u dig!!
What do u think??

I stumbled across this guy.. OMG fucking amazing!!











http://supersilo.blogspot.com/

wow, there's some awesome work on that site.

i love vectors, really underused around adelaide i feel. obviously you often see bitmap images complimented by little vector graphics like vines/flowers/silhouettes/etc, but a well made vector collage has such a "nice" feel to it (the Andy and Bukem ones in particular). loving it.

That dutch guy's work is really cool, thumbs up for your own work too. 

cher bro ta!

 

Am I Cher? Or am I a bro? Either way, it is just plain WRONGNESS.

Sorry I dont wanna piss of Adelaide peeps

as the hilltops said...
I'm from the city of light, with a sky of vanilla,
Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer,
And in the summer it feels like a hundred degrees,

Sorry!!

cher is like a NZ salutation, kinda like cheers

Nah, sorry you got me wrong. I am not pissed off.  

But reminding us of how fucking hot it is will do the job!

Cher Khem; I should really know that. But my Mumsie and Nana are from the old skool, so I know the daggy slang. 

Yeh its a NZ thing (but Im not from NZ thank god)
I find it mildy amusing... its my phrase of the week

Why are you relived you aren't a Kiwi? *vein is starting to protrude from temple* 

Long story... till another time!

i like the oldstyle retro cartoon look my mate jamie did for our sentinelz show this friday

this is in the works

I likey. Where is that graf site?

dont think he has one atm

heres his myspace makes some cool tunes also

http://www.myspace.com/diodednb

Oopsy, I meant where that graf piece featured in the flyer was thrown up?

ah k got ya haha he made it his self on the pc

Awesome town.

here are a handful of mine...

i dig the plush one cos of the furry text... and i made all those lollipops myself too...

 

Remember, 'i before e except after c' Khem!

(Check the word receive on that Plush flyer)

copy and paste from the promoter

[thats my excuse and im sticking to it]

hahaha

Plus I thought it was "che" not "cher"

Nice work Khem!



thats really noice too... I like

Does this mean I'm going to need to host all mybloody designs so I can link them on here? Too much effort imo.

nah just post two or three.

people will get the idea.

put up that concord dawn one from perth josh, definitely one of my faves from you...

Carn flickr those mofos!! "less winging more uploadin" 

Here's a few I had up on my Facebook page. One day I'll get motivated to upload some more.

Love the cardboard King Unique flyer!

yeh same, you beat me to it!

Plenty of quality there, Fight Club one has always impressed me. All the random bits and pieces scattered across really do it for me!

This is a good mate of mine ~ really talented chap ~ most of his work is all done on a tablet.
All of his stuff is hand drawn/scanned and then coloured in photoshop

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Lovin the flyers. 
Bit of a graphic artist myself.. what programs does everyone use?? (photoshop I'm guessin) add-ons plugins?
Needing some new Ideas & Techniques for my works.


I dont really have anything to show here since my works were wiped from my drive

photochop and just started tinkering with illustrator

best bet for new techniques and stuff is to trawl the net for tutorials. just google what you want to do + photoshop tutorial and chances are someone else has done it before...

I used to use a lot of plug-ins but have been avoiding them in recent times.

Mostly they just add tacky effects which end up making a design look busy & detract from it. I'm definitely feeling that less is more these days.

yep.

keep it simple stupid. that's what i was always taught.

ROFLMAO

We've all made that mistake when first starting out.

love the artwork for survivals forthcoming album



i realise its not from a flyer or anything but i wanted to post it anyway.

a few of my posters & flyers:














nothing amazing but visible and thats the main thing

man If I was a MOD, Id so ban ur ass hard for that lol

Um u checked out BSE's Artwork? its pretty wikked styx
Id post, but my net is well throttled at the moe...

Oh this is nice

 http://www.typographicposters.com/allan-sommerville/

i was always a fan of the designers republic stuff about 6 years ago

http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

http://www.pho-ku.com/
>>click on work

I was obsessed by their designs in the late 80's. Was unlike anything else going round at the time.

Pretty sure its all over for designers republic now...
well thats what i read on a design forum, and Iam a nerd

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/the-designers-republic-is-dead-long-live-the-designers-republic/

think Type first when designing a flyer then the image...
For example



http://www.behance.net/Gallery/GMS-09-Type/184500

seeing some of these works depress me, I wish I could produce this quality.

especially that typography stuff.. how do you get into that stuff anyway? i wanna avoid downloading other peoples fonts.



oh anyone got tips or tuts for doing background rendering/textures?
the textures for this is sweet as, i wanna do stuff similar..



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just do it... "think therefore Iam"
nah download other dudes fonts and then just create outlines in illusrator, then create your own font!
otherwise u can create your own fonts here
http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
what 3d textures?

nah just like the backdrop. how you get that grainy/grunge effect

just google: grunge background tutorial

comes up with a few things which should help you get started

http://tutorialblog.org/grunge-photoshop-tutorials/
http://www.visualdesigncore.com/tutorial.php/photoshop/Trendy-Grunge-Background/?do=tut&tut=Trendy-Grunge-Background
http://www.photoshoptower.com/tutorials/grunge-background/how-to-create-a-grunge-sig-in-photoshop.php

  Poor Rene.

yeh or just use some photoshop brushes "grunge"
and tweak the opacity around a bit, piece off piss my man

thats cool.

thanks man

anyone know a good website for downloading plugins and brushes?

thers heaps around man

heres a link

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=free+photoshop+brushes+and+plugins

Photoshop
http://blog.800hightech.com/best-free-adobe-photoshop-tutorials/1297/
http://designerside.com/article/15-amazing-photoshop-text-effects
http://makeeda.isaacmurray.com/?p=102
http://sixrevisions.com/flashactionscript/flash_tutorial_websites/
http://nettuts.com/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-slick-tabbed-content-area/
http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/photoshop-lighting-effects/
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/resources/
http://www.themeslive.com/5-photoshop-effects-for-your-photos/
http://designm.ag/resources/freelance-designers/
http://www.paintbits.com/2008/06/27/photoshop-tutorials-you-should-see/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/41-nicest-photoshop-photo-effects-photoshop-tutorials/
http://dzineblog.com/2008/10/3d-text-effect-tutorials.html
http://psdfan.com/inspiration/25-amazing-photoshop-drawing-tutorials/
http://www.free-css-templates.com/
http://www.noupe.com/photoshop/1000-free-high-resolution-photoshop-brush-sets.html
http://www.creativecloseup.com/monster-size-selection-of-awesome-photoshop-tutorials

big upz Ambassador

(I was too lazy)

To many spelling mistakes on that one for my liking...



 

awesome use of promo photos...

that high contrast one is dope

Oh sweet. cheerz ambo

eh? ambo?

scroll - there is a massive bunch of links posted by ambo for tutorials

My new forum banner thing thanks to those tutorials 

thats cool man
fireworks or flash?

Photoshop and Image ready CS2

OK WTF

i'm trying to create stars and this keeps happening.

It looks perfect in the preview mode, but once I hit OK this is what I get.....

Preview mode

Outcome

Grab the eye candy plug in for photoshop.

Makes perfect stars at the click of a button.

Dunno man,

either DL the source file or maybe adjust brightness contrast?
Link the tute, I will do it...

Wow this shit is off the hook...You could do like Goldie as a tiger or
Fabio as a seal...Or Friction as a shark...you get the drift

just an idea







www.todayandtomorrow.net

Loved this club in Nijmegen, Netherlands

Love the typeface on this one...could be used for a flyer



http://yayeveryday.com/post/2813

just purley for layout of type on this one... Type is hard to look good on flyers IMO

Fuck I hate those fonts that are used on every electro flyer these days.

I've been guilty of it myself but only at the request of the client. Not a fan at all.

yeh the type is played out... just more of laying out or setting out type fro this flyer

Not a fan to be honest.

Would like to see another more basic font thrown in there to break things up a little. I just don't like single font type layouts.

Although the biggest crime is when people using a different font for every line on a design.

I don't like it either. Everything just runs into each other and it's hard to read. Nothing jumps out at you and grabs your attention.

It would look good under a blacklight in a club but.

thats hot

Could sooo work for a DnB flyer...really slick

great typography here..WOW...Do type based design flyers...who cares about image?? Eh EH!!

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Typographical/214142

Those kind of designs always look awesome and people like us mast over them.

But in terms of selling a product or event they are completely useless. Love the design though.

no way man, its attainable, its not that hard...
Start by modifying a font on www.dafont.com or go to fontlab.com and create your own?
an selling a product? it gives the flyer class! the effort spent on a flyer for tells me how much they (the promotor) cares about the party....IMO

If only other people felt that way. Most people pay very little attention to club flyers. They give it a quick glance at best and if they don't see something which grabs their attention in those few seconds they simply throw it on the ground. Unfortunately, easy to read text and a pretty picture are more important than good design or typography. Making the headline DJ's name impossible to miss is all that really matters.

yeh true, i hear ur point...guess that why we are designers!!
i love good design and illustration on a flyer, if it aint got that i dont pick it up!!

Heres a new graphic I made 

not sure whether to put this on my AM thing or keep my current one on.





this thread should be renamed to  Club Flyer & Photoshop Appreciation Thread 

hahah yeh man...nice work ~  what programmes did u use?

Photoshop Cs2 and Imageready

Image ready? Ol skool! havent used that in years! good work my son

yeah its a heaps good program for the animation side

poster i concucted for the reso show

tidy, i beleive there has been some appreciation in the reso thread already

Good poster DESH!

I thought desh's poster for the Reso show was pretty good but how much is desh and how much is the album cover?