Barthelona

Travel guide book covers. My guides are aimed at 20 somethings who enjoy skating and surfing in the summer and skiing/boarding in the winter; active, adventurous people who don't take themselves too seriously. I didn't want to make the covers too cliched, as in looking extreme/ energy drink-esque, so I tried to evoke the idea of movement through dotted lines. The lines represent paths of motion undertaken during a sport, i.e, the half pipe action on the Barcelona cover. 

My favourite aspect is that when the books are lined up next to each other the dots line up so that there is one long continuous line of motion.

The protective top cover of each guide is made of acetate to be water/snow/street proof...

now time for EASTER! Might lay off the graphics posts for a while...

1936 Olympics Book

rings v shackles

athletics symbol or swastika?

jesse owens

death march hidden by athlete olympic march

Berlin olympic stadium/auschwitz

ANOTHER graphics project, i know, but this is what I've been doing with all my time! For this project we had to pick a subject and an audience out of a hat which proved for some inneresting combinations! I picked "1936 Summer Olympics" as my subject and "businessman" as my targeted audience. SO I decided to try and sell the olympics to a businessman by highlighting positive things about it but leaving elements of the reality of what actually happened (The beginnings of the Nazi regime in Europe). It's always hard when you've got to design for a subject that is sensitive and still has certain taboos (Nazis/holacaust) but hopefully I haven't offended anyone!!

Unlikely Coalition II

A magazine insert/ fold up poster I made to promote the 'verses' festival. A mash up of bieber/swift/jay z/kiss.

unlikely coalition

This is just one of a series of outcomes for a week long group brief to promote an unlikely coalition. The week was crazy intense as we had to try develop a strong idea conceptually, visually and physically! We used the filter of an event to promote an unlikely coalition; a one time only music festival that would involve musicians of contrasting genres coming together to perform on the same tracks. For example taylor swift and daft punk! We managed to think of some pretty weird and wonderful collaborations, cliff richard and slipknot was a personal favourite of mine. We were inspired by musical mash ups (thank you Glee) and named the event 'verses' a musical play on words of 'versus'- musicians are kind of pitted against each other.

So this device to promote the event is essentially a stack of posters wherein half of the poster can be torn away to reveal posters underneath. This results in a mash up of musician's names reflecting the mash up of the festival performances! Some of the mash ups were pretty funny, I definitely enjoyed 'daft spears'.

Alice is Stuck!

Made in a compulsory book binding class, this diamond shape fold out booklet is from my foundation course last year. Once again it isAlice in Wonderland themed, very appropriate considering the film is released on FRIDAY! I'm ridiculously excited.

Yeah so the brief for this project was to cater to the book's format; I had to keep in mind ideas of spilling out, expanding, folds, compartments etc. What first sprung to mind was Alice taking an "EAT ME" tablet whilst in the White Rabbit's house. She grows so big that her arms and legs stick out of the doors and windows!

The square/diamond format is relevant to the shape of a house, and when opened, the folding walls of the book simulate the feeling of Alice growing and inevitably becoming compartmentalised and stuck.

Controversial Evolution Project

I made this little book for a graphics project that was titled "Controversial Evolution". The aim was to create anything that communicated the title. I chose the process of getting dressed for a cross-dresser. Conveying the idea in this cutsie, Julian Opie-like way made the book seem even more controversial as it looks as if it should be for children!