Craig ward

After graduating in 2003 I worked up through a handful of ad agencies in London before moving to New York in 2009 to head up the design department at Grey. Since 2011 I have run an independent practice for design, specializing in branding and brand expression, working with clients including Aesop, The Wall Street Journal, Archer, Verizon, Calvin Klein, Dior and many others. I'm a contributor to several industry journals; a former ADC Young Gun (2008); recipient of the Type Directors' Club…

Craig Ward: Dangerous Unlike the other two typographic messages, this digitally made. The most obvious element of this design is the distorted letters towards the beginning of the word. It looks similar to a gunshot blood splatter which links closely to 'dangerous'. The closely arranged tracking of the letters help to produce the effect of a gunshot. Also, the strokes are quite bold which contrasts well against the background and highlights the effects more efficiently.

I was having a slow day waiting for some feedback and thought it might be nice to make some iPhone backgrounds using my work. Help yourself to the below; each has a lock screen and icon background …

The typeface and effect used for the word "dirt" is so realist. It does look as the artist drew individually each word with soil. Probably used clipping mask and the samp tool to recreate that natural "soil dirt" look. This to me is a great form of Graphic Design.

This is a selection of work by Craig ward, I have been looking at his work recently in reference to unit 35 words and image in graphic design which i have chosen for my metropolis brief. I love these pieces and i am going to experiment with the use of ink in typography.

Typography created to accompany a campaign for Secret Deodorant in the US by Leo Burnett Chicago.

As a continuation from last week, I researched more designers that use typography in their art work. I found the artist Craig Ward, whose work I really like as he uses interesting materials to enha…

I Brought Myself Down: Craig Ward

Words are Pictures. Typographic works (combining typography with processing) by Craig Ward. Craig Ward is fascinated by the notion of word as image. He