Rick Raby

workingzone: One completed portfolio

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:52:21 +0100

workingzone:

One completed portfolio

Working on two wall vinyls, this one still needs some people...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:58:54 +0100

Working on two wall vinyls, this one still needs some people buzzing around but not a bad start…

Current work in progress

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:59:14 +0100

Current work in progress

New Website

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:58:00 +0000

New Website:

My new website went live yesterday, full of new and exciting work, so give it a click and check it out!

Initial proposed poster and branding for Stockport College BA Photography Show. Created with Lisa...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:43:12 +0000

Initial proposed poster and branding for Stockport College BA Photography Show.

Created with Lisa Dale.

Working on this vinyl cover for Secret 7”. Rules are that...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:19:43 +0000

Working on this vinyl cover for Secret 7”. Rules are that you’re not allowed the artist name or song title on the cover. This is for The Don by Nas.

Original photography by Lyndsey Hall

Been making a wallpaper/screen saver this morning, may make this...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:29:43 +0000

Been making a wallpaper/screen saver this morning, may make this downloadable once my site is finished…

Couldn’t leave this in its previous colours, here’s...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:13:08 +0000

Couldn’t leave this in its previous colours, here’s a nicer version…

“Boston to Tokyo - A Dialogue Between Two Cities In a...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 23:34:23 +0000

“Boston to Tokyo - A Dialogue Between Two Cities

In a world which can be rife with disharmony, the Sister Cities programme forms societal relationships that allow communities to connect globally. The map plottings join together Boston and Tokyo via their Sister Cities and show how that in times of peace and discord, we are always together.

Boston - Barcelona - Sao Paulo - Tokyo”

More lovely pics of this once it’s printed and framed…

Been messing around with glitch graphics for a current project,...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 12:43:09 +0000

Been messing around with glitch graphics for a current project, not worked out how to gain a little more control over the images yet.

Current college brief I’ve been working on asked me to...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:48:00 +0000

Current college brief I’ve been working on asked me to introduce a city through a street corner, I chose Shibuya intersection in Tokyo.

The resulting interpretation is an A2 colour print onto transparent acetate, in a frame I made and painted.

Asked to respond to the word reality, we hosted a small...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:35:32 +0000

Asked to respond to the word reality, we hosted a small gathering so that people could watch paint dry. This was a metaphor for how boring life can be and how easy it is to get caught up in our own routine rather than exploring and enjoying new things.

A short film by Rick Raby, Lisa Dale, Catherine McConnell and Emma Johnson.
With thanks to staff at Stockport College.

Soundtrack - Track entitled “DMT” by XXYYXX

Selected work from internship at Future DC 2/2

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:06:17 +0000

Selected work from internship at Future DC 2/2

Selected work from internship at Future DC 1/2

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:01:15 +0000

Selected work from internship at Future DC 1/2

Don’t normally dabble in too much illustration but...

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:57:36 +0100

Don’t normally dabble in too much illustration but they’re arriving on the blog like buses.

This may or may not end up on bags and t-shirts at MCR Print...

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:16:00 +0100

This may or may not end up on bags and t-shirts at MCR Print fair in a couple of weeks time, but it’s entered in the competition so you never know.

Just over a month or so ago I was asked to design an EP cover...

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:58:03 +0100

Just over a month or so ago I was asked to design an EP cover for Of Wolves. Since then, they’ve had a name change and it all seems a bit up in the air as to whether this will get used or not.

Not wanting to leave it without seeing the light of day, here it is for all you lovely bloggers to enjoy!

Summer Placements

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:50:41 +0100

It’s been a couple of weeks since I finished now, but over the summer I was lucky enough to spend nearly two months doing work placements - a week at Vivid, as part of their Summer Camp programme, and six weeks at Future.

Off the back of my FdA going into the second year of a BA course, these were both great opportunities to gain experience in a working environment and learn new skills to use throughout the rest of my degree.

Thanks to both companies for all their help and advice!

The second part of my final project at TMC was to use the...

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:03:00 +0100

The second part of my final project at TMC was to use the typefaces I’d already created to brand two musicians and create their album artwork. For this I used SBTRKT and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Above is the cover for SBTRKT.

Rather than using a CD jewel case, I also designed my own CD case which folds out to reveal the CD.

For the past week or so, I’ve been working on a past...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:15:06 +0100

For the past week or so, I’ve been working on a past D&AD brief which was for Channel 4 to create and promote a new over 60’s TV channel. To do this I will be creating the name, logo and ad campaign.

So far, I’ve named my channel, created the logo and then determined how it will act on screen.

The channel aims to show quality programming which will predominantly be documentaries, dramas and arts. From this sentence my whole concept was born. Each colour of the logo represents one of the programming genres, this is then implemented during the closing credits - if there is more arts a yellow will be used, more documentaries then green will be used etc.

So far this is about half of the project, there is still an ad campaign to come…