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This is a Major project blog entry to kick off the switchboard media job we are working on at college.

looking at first impressions, we talked up the double barrel logo

first up

double barrel waves – pretty scary

the feeling was, try not to make it look like the Billabong, roxy or other surf brand logos

had a good idea based on the point of view of inside the barrel of a wave looking out over the shoulder of a surfer, with the sprocket holes along the top & bottom of the Icon/logo.

forming the Fibonacci or golden mean pattern from the curl of the wave.

double barrel shotgun idea. the two gun barrels made out of water… mirrored circular shapes. two bullet holes, no concepts looked that convincing…

two empty barrels bobbing in the water. again, nope…

Then toyed with the idea of using a set of old french curves (above) to make stylised waves, and using motion graphics to animate them simply to form the above static example, while stylised film frames and sprocket holes flicker from right to left across the base of the image. Maybe use the turquoise tones from the previous example as colours… or grunge it up even?

This is my favourite one so far…

just anchoring this link here until I establish a prettier one soon!

I had some spare time, and I decided to play with making a font which would look like some type of archaic magical runes…

The font given a style treatment in photoshop.

It actually loaded into Font Book seamlessly. It works in all applications on my computer.

A few Years ago, I had the opportunity to design and manage the manufacture of some cool novelty products

Stubby coolers, because we could, AND they sold out!
They were used for new store launches and retail store birthdays.

Skaven Dice.
there were also, Empire Dice, Dark Elf, Chaos & Lizardmen Dice. They were manufactured in the UK at http://www.dice.co.uk

Beastmen Dice. The challenge was to incentivise product purchase upon release, so a single dice was given away with the new release product… until they ran out!

Empire & Lizardmen Dice

Highly sought-after Elite symbol promotional pin (20mm diameter), designed from a B+W icon image and manufactured in Chatswood, NSW.

More Giant Robots, this time for a college assessment.

Early-stage concept designs for a mechs-based table-top miniatures wargame, along with Logo design.

All designs are Copyright ©2015 to Mack Martin, and images are used with kind permission.

ECHOWAR

An early design for ground attack infantry

Renegade Infantry

Heavily armoured infantry

First-stage plans for a six metre tall mecha.

A family portrait of different Mecha.

revised form and in a battle pose.

Rendered image

with background style treatment.