The winner of the ‘Pentagram & Indigo Mile’ Emerge Best of 2011 Gradute Showcase Award. After being invited to the Emerge ‘Best of Graduate 2011′ London Design Week exhibition, I was asked to create a B&W Typographical poster based on the city- with this unique backdrop in mind, I was told to explore a piece of writing and typographically express it onto parts of the city itself. To begin I…
The New(er) Testaments is a self-initiated project which started after I found a Holy Bible littering the street- the predominate force which kept our society civil for generations now an outdated relic littering our streets. After inspecting the Bible it was clearly once a cherished and loved object, which had been badly mistreated and forgotten about during its lifetime; the previous owners inscription on the tattered inside cover, lovingly relating…
I was asked to create a design for the TATE Liverpool young artist exhibition labelled Young Perspectives. The exhibition itself was a platform for young emerging artists to have their work shown at Tate alongside artists Wolfgang Tilsman, Sarah Lucas and Olafur Eliasson, with the brief to base your design around ‘a young perspective’ I based my design around drug abuse within society, which is somewhat of a passage of…
Art of Craft is a brand which aims to change the bespoke-object market, which has become endangered due to growth of today’s ‘Flat-Pack Culture’. This project which was formed when I was set the challenge to reinvigorate a dying object/artifact/item- which having seen first hand the effects of our countries outsourcing of manufacturing I decided I would focus the project on carpentry. To begin I had to look at why…
Diana was a symbol of her generation, both a Fashion Icon and Queen in the making. On the cusp of her child’s marriage (William) I was asked to created a visual representation of her relationship to Prince Charles. To begin with research was needed to form a basis and opinion on the relationship; which led to me focusing on the divide which had formed in the relationship between the couple-…
A set of portfolio shots for a tailor-made, bespoke fashion designer within the UK. We decided to label the portfolio as “Faceless Fashion”; this was done to reaffirm the designers hands-on, local appeal in contrast to the conglomerate corporations which at present dwarf the market. This was then applied to her selection through the photography; by manipulation of the models faces to retract from the present day bravado that its…
Spectroscopy is a publication based around how we see through visual light and its properties. The book discusses the properties of visual light and how it is broken down into the visible colour spectrum through to how we see through the reflection of white light and the absorption of colour on said surface. This is replicated throughout the production of the book, each colour dedicated to a chapter on the…
A YCN competition entry to create a brand identity and trailer for the 20th Century Fox prequel ‘Rise of the Apes’. The film is explains how the advancement of genetic engineering rapidly evolved apes to the point where they were strong and organised enough to overthrow the human race as the dominatory species. This genetic experimentation is the focal to the brand, from the subtle syringe running vertically through the…
Hugo Tracks is a new initiative by Hugo Boss to highlight rising talent in the music sector; to do so Hugo have released an online music player which selects 5 songs and mixes them. The brief was to replicate this in a single, A4 sided spread to be printed in I-D magazine. The advertisement was created from 5 cassettes and over 50m of coloured ribbon intertwined to replicate the effects…