Franco Grignani

Love love love this designer, his work is pure beauty. He really pushes type and transforms it into wonderful illustration.

Unknown Artist

Came across this artist by accident, and I cant find her name anywhere on the site! But I love the layering of text and image she uses to create her story telling artwork.

Stina Persson

Stina Persson is an illustrator based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her Work just makes me want to draw and paint again immediately.

Journal.. the story of my life

A module we have to do for university every year, where we record projects, lectures, exhibitions, work placements, artists we've looked at - basically everything we've done in the year. So this was mine, 92 pages and over 15000 words. It took an unbelievable amount of time and also cost alot of money... a right pain!

Jodie Hurt

Came across this artist in my book Handmade Graphics, her collage work is so exciting, quirky and eclectic.

Alton Towers Halloween Event

We had to design a new campaign, including a new name, posters and tickets etc. Inspired by one of my favourite films, The Labyrinth, I decided to call my event Goblin City. I wanted to draw upon the more fun, creative side of Halloween, rather than the scary aspect of it. My idea was that the Goblins have taken over Alton Towers, and are causing chaos, so enjoy the ride!

I wanted to make my posters look chaotic, like the goblins had made them. They do need more work as they do look too messy - its hard to achieve the right balance of chaos and a hand made feel, while at the same time being well designed!! The first poster is a photograph - I had "Goblin City" made out of wood. The other 4 posters are all hand made collages - a mixture of drawing, painting and cut outs, which I then scanned into the computer. I also had the goblins made out of wood - I thought these could be placed around the park. I wanted the campaign to seem almost gothic, while at the same time being natural - all made out of natural materials. The four crazy posters advertise what the park has to offer.

I ran out of time to finish my campaign, but the tickets for the park would have a picture of a goblin on the back of them, and would say their name, what they like, and where they live. For example, Magical Marvin, featured on the Magical Mayhem poster, lives in Cloud Cuckoo Land - an area within Alton Towers. Risky Ryan likes fast rides and can be found in the Forbidden Valley, Wacky William likes the dark and can be seen lurking in the Gloomy Woods, and Weaver the Water Goblin likes splashing water and can be spotted in Katanga Canyon - this way kids could try and spot them all.

Final book Covers.

Final book covers, printed on heavy weight textured paper.

After Affects Experimentation

So this isn't very good, but after a workshop in After Affects to learn the basic tools, this is what I came up with. I worked with a previous project, which maps data about the song Superstition. I then made it move... dosnt really imply any deep meanings but hopefully it looks a little pretty at least.

Stonewall Project

This was a project where we had to create a campaign for Stonewall to encourage people to vote in the general election. We came up with the slogan "An election is the time for reflection", and had this engraved into mirror. We thought mirror could be placed anywhere in the environment, in bathrooms or outside etc. and would always attract attention either because someone wants to look at themselves, or because the mirror is shining and unmissable. We also wanted to remind the people who usually do not vote, that they are involved with the election too, which we hoped would be implied when they could see themselves, literally, within our adverts.