Adrian Shaughnessy Poster
Adrian Shaughnessy Poster.
The brief was to create a poster for the Adrian Shaughnessy Lecture at SIAD (Sheffield Institute of Art and Design).
The Solution was to include an opinion of the designer himself within the poster. Using influence from his previous book entitled ‘How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul’. This poster represents the letterforms as the designer and the counters (the holes in the middle of letters) as the soul within. The letterforms without counters are then questioning whether they are designers if they have no soul.
Lab 4 Living
Lab 4 Living.
Lab 4 Living is an experimental research sector of Sheffield Hallam University, their focus is on how design can aid human experience.
The client required a re-design of their current logo. The approach was simple; aim to get as much of the essence of the company through the brand identity. This resulted in the above proposal for a widget like motif. These two jigsaw pieces represent the client and the company (in purple) being the missing piece. The coming together of these two make for a completed whole. This ident was made to work on a variety of media from print to screen and video, shown below as a multimedia intro for presentations and promotional videos.
TJD Gets Synchronised
I have been working on managing the online presence of TJD, currently the following are homes of TJD ( YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace, Website), there have been some integration changes between FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, FlICKER & WEBSITE in order to make them more integrated. Now When anything is added to youtube or flickr it is automatically displayed within both facebook and this website. More improvements will follow as and when it is necessary and possible to implement them.
Paul Rand Poster
Paul Rand Poster.
This poster was designed as part of a collaboration between two other colleagues and myself. Each of us from a different specialism within graphic design. Myself with a keen eye for typographic detail and conceptual design and layout, Amandine Balestra-Pickett an illustrator and Robert Holt a graphic designer with a focus leaning to marketing. The brief for this poster was set by dutch graphic designer Jan Van Toorn and Simon Davies as part of a workshop at Sheffield Hallam University. Both versions of the poster are displayed above (detail of which is within the brief).
The Brief
Critical practice workshop
17–18 March 2009
Each group of 3 students will design two versions of one poster. The first will be presented on Tuesday morning at the beginning of the workshop and the second on Wednesday morning. The second poster can only be designed after the first presentation. Both posters will be A0 (portrait), the first as a print or original artwork and the second as a projection at scale onto a blank A0 (portrait).
The poster should comment on the work of a post-war graphic designer. Not just a registration but a visual statement about the designers mentality and its visual expression. We would like to invite the students to show us what they find important, good or bad, and to gain an understanding of the designer, the work and its context.
Simon Davies and Jan van Toorn
Exposed
Exposed.
Exposed is a project combining cutting edge image capture technology with the intention on exploring a hidden world focused around a competition project by iSTD titled 3 Minutes.
The Brief:
Produce a piece of work from an A1 sheet with the focus on 3 Minutes.
The above image shows a laser cut acrylic stencil, through which photographic chemicals will be sprayed onto the paper stock.
This project is a work in progress and as such this page will be updated periodically as required.
Pear Computers – Flyers
Pear Computers – Flyers.
Flyers to promote awareness and entice new customers to the rebranded computer repair company based in Sheffield Hallam University.
Pear Computers Rebrand
Pear Computer Rebrand.
The client asked for a rebrand after a change in ownership of the business. Key aspects were to improve recognizability, and clarify what pear computers actually did as a business. The decision was made to improve clarity to the customer, reposition the company as a service and most importantly improve awareness of the company.
MA Design International
MA Design Show
The MA Design International Show is an annual event at the Sheffield Hallam University. Showcasing unique exciting and best of the MA Design courses. Above is the ident for the show, based around the theme of illusions.
Russell Cobb Lecture Poster
Russell Cobb Lecture Poster.
This is a hand drawn poster for an upcoming lecture at Sheffield Hallam University. The lecturer is a renouned illustrator named Russell Cobb.
Repeat
Repeat…Repeat…Repeat
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana.
This is another quote project, this time experimenting with etching. The process is simple, etch into a aluminum plate, ink up and put through a roll press. Simple but definitely effect and marvelous. The sheer detail and very low reproduction value is amazing. Obviously the plate can be used thousands of times and will print exactly the same, if using only one colour. The experiment here was to try varied amounts of colour and more than one pressing. The outcomes are vibrant and have depth and substance which adds meaning to the quote. This one out of all has drove most of my project work this semester remember the past and improve upon it.