Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Barambo Wood Block Type

Barambo is a woodblock typeface inspired by indigenous African cultures. It fuses legibility of the West with the symbolic style and traditional beauty of the African language.

Film Piracy

The UK film and video industry is the most important market outside the US, employing over 40,000 people. In 2009 UK film production lost £614m due to illegal downloading, copyright theft and distribution of fake DVD’s, burning all aspects of the film Industry. This is a poster highlighting the issue.

Cameroun

Using traditional materials native to the continent of Africa I re-designed the cultural music CD Cameroun to a new target audience of the western market.

Typewriter - Codes

Typewriters are a tool that helps us produce typed documents, but within the mechanics it has a unseen code. From dismantling a typewriter we found many of the components created letter's and shapes. Me and Tom Digby set about creating a "Working Typewriter Mechanism" typeface to show some of the best kept coded secrets of a Typewriter.


Creative Review - Kingston Degree Show

Recently The Creative Review team blogged about our Kingston University Graphics and Photography degree show in central London. This is the first time the Graphics and Photography Students have held a degree show in central London and they have decided to acknowledge a few of the students who work caught there eye, including my wood block type again.


Pictures from 'Creative Review Blog'.

Thought For The Week

Michael Johnson from Johnson Banks recently came into to externally examine our university's work. A few of his favorite pieces he decided to talk about on his 'thought for the week' blog including my wood block type piece which has added a bit of publicity towards my work.


Michael Johnson is just finishing his fifth and final year as external examiner on the Kingston University Graphics course.

Pictures from 'Johnson Banks thought for the week'.

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Chilled Creamy Oat’s

Designing a new packaging for Quaker new product ‘Chilled Creamy Oat’s’.
The packgaing was designed to be simple and eligant to appeal to the
target audience of the young women between the ages of 25-35.


It's not Big and it's not Clever

A short film showing the risks of driving like a child. Using a well known toy car and television show character, we filmed a dangerous drive round a park resulting in a serious accident.