Party Time!
Hodder+Partners party invitation to celebrate the completion of the move and the launch party for the practice’s new offices.
Printed on corrugated card with adhesive removable strip.
Our New Angle
Postcard designed at Hodder+Partners to inform clients and associates of the practice about the introduction of a graphic design service.
3 Minutes
A double sided, A1 screen printed poster mapping the highest ever scoring international football match between Switzerland and Austria during the 1954 World Cup in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the 3 minutes that changed the game. After going 3 nil ahead, Switzerland conceded 3 goals to the Austrians in quick succession who went on to win 7-5.
Every detail of the setting; the teams, their colours,the date and place, lent themselves perfectly to the structured, modernist, Swiss aesthetic style of the piece.
Time
My interpretation of the theme time explores making the impossible possible and how we are able to suspend or stop time forever in the capture of a single moment.
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This piece has actually made the top ten in the vote on the Don’t Panic website. Now it is down to the judges to make the casting vote, so my fingers are tightly crossed.
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Panic
Choose Life: A story circulated as the basis for the song is that days before recording the song, Marr and Morrissey were listening to BBC Radio One when a news report announced the Chernobyl disaster. Right after the report, disc jockey Steve Wright played the song “I’m Your Man” by pop duo Wham!. “I remember actually saying, ‘What the fuck does this got to do with people’s lives?’” Marr recalled. “We hear about Chernobyl, then, seconds later, we’re expected to jump around to ‘I’m Your Man’”. While Marr subsequently stated that the account was exaggerated, he commented that it was a likely influence on Morrissey’s lyrics.
C Magazine
The front cover for Corporate Culture’s biannual ‘C magazine’. The only stipulation in the brief was that the design had to incorporate the letter ‘C’. This issue focused on the future of sustainable design.
The typeface used actually lent itself pefectly to the design. The two letter Cs obviously stand for Corporate Culture, whilst at the same time illustrate the subject of the issue perfectly. The negative counter within the capital C acts as an arrow pointing ‘forward to sustainable design’ towards the image of an example of sustainable product design from within the magazine - which is also mimicked in shape and form by the lower case c; representative of sustainability as a whole.
Printed on 100% recycled green stock
Wonders of the Solar System
The incredible BBC 2 TV series; Wonders of the Solar System, fascinated me and the way Professor Brian Cox presented the themes within each episode inspired me to design this series of posters. They are designed to excite and intrigue people about the themes explored, but perhaps more, about the similarities on Earth and analogies made by Cox that make the subject accessible to anyone. The posters reflect this, taking some of the more familiar things talked about but representing them in a simplified and abstract way that means they don’t lose their scientific/astronomy ‘feel’.
5 x A2 posters and A6 postcards adaptations
Love Letters
Freelance project for a client wanting wedding invites. Working to a completely open brief (except for the cream/red colour scheme) I wanted the design to be innovative and creative whilst retaining traditional elements.
I think the response successfully achieves my intentions. An understated design plays on the theme of love letters, inspired by the fact the happy couple’s initials fall next to each other in the alphabet.
Subtle geordie slang cropping up within a classically British aesthetic added to the originality for the die-hard magpie-supporting couple.
A big thanks also to friend and peer, Ben Kither - for all his help with de-bossing and cutting. Ta pet.
Between 70 and 80 handcrafted invites with rsvp cards. Each one individually handmade; single colour screen print and de-bossing.
D&AD Football Fundraiser Zine
As a celebration of the success of the degree show fund raising match we designed these commemorative zines. Everyone who played in the game or who was involved was presented with a zine.
Each zine individually handmade and screen-printed onto coloured stock
D&AD Football Fundraiser
As a means of raising money for the final year D&AD degree show at Manchester, myself and friends (Jon Hannan and Alex Hoggarth) set about organising a ‘Five-a-side Footie Fundraiser’. Our goal was to raise as much money as possible in a fun and memorable event that would involve both students and tutors. In order for the match to be a success, we had to entice people to play and encourage people to come and watch…
The following images focus on the screen printing of the kits and the beautiful game itself; a selection of action shots that (in my case at least) make me look better at football than I really am. Photographs courtesy of Oliver Rew.
One Colour
A collaborative effort where my group had to respond to a hypothetical brief set by tDR’s Ian Anderson; branding the world with one colour. In a bid to win our pitch and convince the judges that red was the colour to go with, myself, Adam Brandon, Ashleigh Barron and Alex Hoggarth developed an elaborate background story and as supporting visual aids, a pantone book consisting of only one shade of the colour red - illustrating a whole array of different positive emotions and feelings red can represent.
The Learning Curve
These books were my solution for a creative, reflective and evaluative journal based on my last year of university. Each volume covers a different aspect of my studies, and each area has contributed to the ‘learning curve’ that is university and becoming a complete designer*. The poster illustrates how events were connected and the significance one experince might have over another.
A series of six handcrafted books printed single colour onto recycled sugar paper and screen printed A2 poster
One Hundred
A series of experimental posters exploring what ‘100’ means for graphic designers and visual communicators; it is the responsibility of the designer to correctly ‘design’ information in order to convey a message correctly and successfully.
The main element of the poster is a grid of 1600 small tiles. These tiles are rearranged across the series to distort and jumble the original message in order to help illustrate the point I want to make with the posters; that simply displaying 100% of the information is sometimes not enough to successfully communicate a message.
y= Silence
My interpretation of silence took me down a route where I developed the theory that it is a more visual experience, through light, than an audible one. True silence can only be experienced within a vacuum and vacuums exist in light bulbs. Considering the theme, the design and realization of a CD package could be considered ironic. But image and text support and explain the concept, and the sound of silence on the CD is in fact the hum of a light bulb.
