Handmade and Bound 2009

'Handmade and Bound' Exhibition I am exhibiting at on Sunday 1st November 2009. It is on the corner of Eversholt Street and Phoenix Road, London NW1... Feel free to come along!

Arjowiggins Recycled Paper Brief

The brief was to think about one tree that means something to you, then, using the template provided in which a number one forms the basis for the tree, illustrate what the tree means to you.

D&AD New Blood Exhibition 09

"Afternoon Tea"

This was for my Graduation Project entitled 'Afternoon Tea'. I wanted to illustrate how as a nation we have a great love for Tea and the conversations that goes with it 'A little Tea, A little Chat'. In this project I wanted to put a 21st century spin on British tradition by using everyday conversations that really occur over a 'cuppa'. To do so, I used sayings I had overheard in British Tea Rooms and Coffee Shops to produce a 'nostalgic shock'. I used the objects surfaces and shapes to reveal the information therefore making the viewer interact with the item. Furthermore, despite some of the quotes I heard being quite shocking, I still wanted the information to look as if it belonged on the object, therefore I had to ensure I captured a sense of nostalgia and luxury through the use of delicate details and 1950's colour palettes.

Contextualising ‘Afternoon Tea’

Embroidered Doilies

These are also part of my 'Afternoon Tea' Project. I wanted to experiment with more traditional techniques in order to make the conversations appear much more part of the original design.

Doily Design

Also part of my 'Afternoon Tea' project. I wanted to design my own doilies to enable the text to be part of the actual object.

Business Card

In addition to my traditional Business card I wanted to produce something that was more unique and in turn related to my Project. Therefore I printed my information onto these Tea Stirrers and I am really pleased with how they have turned out.

Badges

These were produced to hand out at my exhibition. They are made from screen prints of plate patterns and sections of Doilies over fabric.

1950's Survey Book

I produced this book to display the surveys I conducted about life in the 1950's in order to contrast how the era's have developed. I used screen printing to produce the images and weathered the pages in order to make it appear more authentic.

SOYO latebar - Sheffield

A short project that involved a Group Illustration for 'SOYO' latebar in Sheffield. The design was printed and used as wallpaper on a feature wall.

'Memories' Poster

This poster was produced to support a book that I created on the subject of 'Memories'. I wanted to create a series of images that related to a memory I had for each year of my life. The images are linked together by the subtle use of a date in each design.

Book Brief

This was a book I created that coincided with the poster below. The images in the book are produced using a range of techniques such as line drawings, collage and stitch.

Postcards

These designs are a response to a one week brief entitled "If you could ask God one question what would it be?". I decided to ask "If Heaven really exists, who is your favourite person there?". To illustrate this, I designed a range of Postcards with a selection of famous people on with the intention that they could be posted back with the answer.

Rolling News

This illustration was for a one day editorial brief. The main concept I picked up on from the article was how the new published in Newspapers; despite altering daily, it still has the same general concepts therefore the reader can almost predict what is coming in the following weeks such as politics, knife crime etc. In this illustration I exploited the high publicity associated with Barack Obama and used it to stitch a dot-to-dot which subtlety reveals the image. The numbers also act as a calender suggesting over weeks the image will develop.

Penguin Book Covers

Book covers for two Penguin Books entitled 'On Beauty' and 'On the Road'

Template Gothic 'Book'

This brief was to produce a 'book' that contained information on a selected typeface, Template Gothic. After considering the brief, I felt that, as long as the information was available and clear, the actual book format could be anything; in this case I used an old washing machine as this is what had inspired the font in the first place.

Map

The brief was to illustrate a map for a selected destination. I worked with the notion of a 'secret map'. I wanted the map to represent a route that was personal to the owner, directing them to somewhere that was special to them. As a result, I wanted the design to be printed somewhere hidden. To do so, I printed the maps onto the inside garments; this image shows the inside of a pair of Jeans.

'Feel Good' campaign I worked on; the idea was if the customer can not get to the shop... the shop would come to them to help spread the 'Feel Good' feeling during the day.

Domestic Violence Campaign

I wanted to focus on household objects that are often used in Domestic Violence scenes. I made up my own face to look bruised and used it within the reflections of the selected objects to produce these powerful images (these are only photographs taken of the posters therefore they are slightly distorted)