I stumbled across the website of a designer this evening, of which I had seen examples of work before, but never could put a name to the designs, so now, I feel better for knowing and thought I would show you some of his work.
You can find more of his work on his website;
I was recently asked to design a poster for a Ravensbourne Students Union night called ‘Rubix Cube Night’. The concept was for everyone to wear different coloured items of clothes and then the task was to swap your clothes with other people by the end of the night so you had an outfit of just one colour.
Half-way through the design process, the event was unfortunately cancelled, but I was really happy with how the poster design was coming on.
Each year, Derby College holds a summer exhibition of their students’ work.
Last year, the people in charge decided to call it ‘Showing Off’ (God only knows why!), but we were handed the task of designing entries to compete for the prize of having our poster being used around the city to attract visitors.
My simple entry was based purely on ‘Showing Off’ and creating visual impact when placed beside other advertisements around the city, and seemed to do so enough to be declared the winner.
…Here it is, my first EVER piece of graphic design.
We were asked to produce a poster for an exhibition for the Design Museum titled ‘Digital Type’, and despite this being 4 years old, and without having any knowledge about typography like I do today, I designed this piece of work, which to this day I still love for it’s visual presence.
I know it’s purely aesthetic, and a complete rip of the movie-classic ‘Tron’, but it will always have a place in my heart!
Back in my Derby College days, I was asked to produce a ‘visual C.V’, to show my skills rather than simply listing them on a Microsoft Word template. Despite having a fairly short turn-around time, I created one of my favourite pieces of work, a large A2 biro illustrated piece, all totally hand-drawn using Bic biros.
…You may be wondering why on earth choose to use biros?
Well. I decided to go for this ‘can-be-found-in-any-desk-tidy’ tool to show how I can be creative with absolutely anything, and the fantastic quality with a biro is that you can see every single stroke applied to represent the amount of detail I put into every aspect of my work. Also, each stroke left an indent in the paper, which gives a real ‘final’ feel to the piece, and shows my will to try and leave my mark with every piece of work I produce.
…enough said!
…Love it.
Our latest project at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication was entitled “Communication in Context”, we were each given a different subject area (e.g. music, photography etc), and were then told to produce anything at all, design related, that was in context with the subject area.
My subject was engineering, and I chose to look at the precision element of engineering , and how without it, the problem set hasn’t been solved. Through researching this heavily I noticed that we designers have to use precision in our work too, in typography, page layouts, colourways etc, and how without it, no matter how good the piece of design may be, it can be ruined by a poor consideration of the key elements.
To put all of this into my work would’ve taken an extremely long time-period, so I chose to look just at typography, and in particular the Helvetica typeface due to its neutrality and popularity amongst designers.
So my poster (In the style of a blueprint), shows the complete break-down of the type-form, complete with every single angle, measurement, and perfect kern, to give the designer all of the tools needed to produce a fine piece of work.
To check this out at full-size, to fully be able to appreciate the sheer accuracy of this piece, I have included it here for download.
…hope you like it, please feel free to leave some feedback!
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