Jigsaw earrings

Some more earrings.

Flower Earrings

I've had a try at putting together some of my own earrings. Here's the final product!

Acoustic Gig Poster

Just a quick evening project I set myself to make a gig poster. This is just the first stage, making a mock ticket with the info on. I'm going to print it then photograph to make a portrait poster, which will look a bit more interesting than the flat ticket below.

CMYK Colour By Numbers

I've been looking at colour by number sheets (check my research blog here) and decided to have a try at making my own. This is only my first attempt and has taken a lot of tweaking to get it right.

I created the colour by numbers to be completed using CMYK values. It's not a very complicated design but it is more challenging than the common easy ones for children. When trying to come up with a style for the whole sheet, I debated between the typical title and number code and something a bit more suitable, like the printers marks I decided upon. I wanted to fit the numbers, colours, image and title together rather than just being separate parts of the page.

Motivational Team Tea Posters

I've been really busy recently, but managed to create a couple of quick motivational posters. The general idea is that a team is made up of many individuals, and in workplaces, these individuals have a certain cup that they drink from. A cup can say a lot about you, whether it's a present from a special person, or a free cup received with promotional material from a company you haven't even heard of, each has a story. A team doesn't work without variety, different views, opinions, and ideas.

I like tea with 1 sugar, or if I'm thirsty, green tea with mint.

Winter Ice Snowflake

Icy snowflake. A little project to pass the time this morning whilst I recover from Christmas day festivities.

Glass Light Photographs

I've been playing around with photographing light for the past few days. Through things, over things, shiny things, sparkly things.

Christmas Envelopes

It's Christmas and that means lots of envelopes! I love variations of colour and texture.

I like paper in general.

Christmas Sparkle Photos

Trying to get in a festive mood. My house is now filled with lights, shiny things and other Christmassy things! Here's some photos of the sparkles in my house.

New Research Blog

I've started a research blog which I can easily update with any interesting articles, photos, companies, typography, design, studios or just about anything I find interesting!

I'm searching for jobs and placements at the moment so I'm finding the blog a good way to keep up to date with recent happenings and trends in the design world.

Feel free to follow, comment and enjoy!

Crescent Chocolate Packaging

Crescent is a luxury new dark chocolate collection from Nestle. I took the moon as a concept and showed it throughout the whole design. The box is covered in varnish constellations, a silver foil logo, and inside is a menu card where the lighter the chocolate, the fuller the moon.

Reveal 2011 Branding

I was chosen as one of 4 people to brand the Northumbria University design degree show, Reveal 2011 and the Stuff symposium. it was a big task as we had control over almost everything, including invites, maps, directions, wall vinyls, flags and more.

Each course in the design school starts a brief with an idea, and that is what our concept was. We wanted to show how that idea progresses and evolves.

We chose vibrant citrus colours to brighten up the white walls of the building. All the material for Reveal was green and all Stuff symposium material was orange. This made it easier to distinguish between the two events.

The front glass panels of the building were covered in black vinyl which showed the reveal 2011 logo through white dots. A-Boards were used to direct visitors to the entrance.

Altogether for the stuff symposium and degree show there were 7 different invites. The logo was a spot varnish which gave a nice effective shine and a slight texture.

An award winners wall was created so that the free dots could be filled in with students names as each year new awards would be won.

Flags were attached to the lamp posts which ran across the main bridge to the design school.

The logo was applied to the lights at the front of the building.

The directional vinyls were placed around the building showing clearly where each course was exhibiting, the toilets, stairs and lifts, and also the no entry areas. A flyer was also created for containing this information.

A video was also created and can be viewed here.

Stuff Symposium Branding

The Stuff symposium was related to the Reveal 2011 branding I worked on. The invites were following the same design as the Reveal ones, but were a bright orange colour instead or green.

A conference desk was designed for people to sign in and to get more information, and to collect the schedule of debates.

Set Slice Branding

 

Set Slice is a typographically themed restaurant based on the Typographer Justus Erich Walbaum. Walbaum was a pastry chef before becoming a professional typographer, and I wanted to celebrate this by creating a German style Konditorei (bakery).

Body Book Illustration

I created a number of illustrations for a project based on the body. I took the phrase "if the wind changes your face will stay that way" and used a fineliner to draw my face after it had been squashed onto a scanner. A concertina book was then created as I wanted the faces to blend into each other.