DESIGN TYPE INK PRINT - EXHIBITION

A selection of my work from DESIGN TYPE INK PRINT exhibition.

DESIGN TYPE INK PRINT

Hand letterpressed invitation for a letterpress exhibition at Camberwell college of Arts

Unknown Land

Brief: Design a Country. For a full coverage of the project go to www.unknownland0.blogspot.com

Stamps

A competition entry for Gibbons Stamp Monthly. They wanted a cover for their annual conference leaflet, to be held in london in 2010. I went for a design intended to graphically represent the construction of stamps as simply as possible, to give a sense of sophistication and style to the conference. Ultimately, however, the contrast between this design and the aesthetic of the magazine itself meant that I didn't win the competition. 

Letterchair

Images from a project that asked us to create a 3-dimensional chair from a typeface. I chose Bell Centennial by Matthew Carter as I found it's adaptability to technology fascinating, and as I was trying to achieve something similar with an ampersand, I thought it would be appropriate. The final design takes the latin version of &, ET, and masks the negative space by placing the ampersand behind it. The final shape is then simply extruded.

A Minute Of Your Time

As a group, we were asked to produce a one-minute unedited video. The physical structure of a minute was of course very important, and we also became very interested in ideas of value and time (as it is the language of consumption and value with which we talk about time most often), and so we took two people who make a living from valuing their time, a chatline operator and a removal van driver, and chose to force them into a dialogue together, simply to see the results. The visuals filmed live with the audio, and were intended to simply be an abstract visualisation of the ongoing conversation. 

The Imperial War Museum

A make - it - yourself morse code machine designed for the imperial war museum. The pack came with a set of instructions set on a typewriter. 

A poster designed for the Barbican Christmas £3 bazaar. The design was simply based around the idea of the number '3', and depicts the three fates from Greek mythology in terms of punctuation and language. Each one was printed by letterpress. Unfortunately out of 20 I only sold two for £1 pound each. Should have made some christmas cards or something...

Image: The Science Museum

A folding prism viewer for the science museum. The instructions are laid out on one side, whilst the fold lines themselves are on the reverse. The idea very simply was that the user (a child) could make an object and see physically how light behaves. 

London, To Be Precise

This is a design for a poster to accompany a series of 10 book covers that were intended to show the 'secret side' of London, to savvy travelers. I didn't want to get overly conceptual with this project, as I saw it as a chance to concentrate more fully on the intricacies of layout, something that I felt I hadn't really focused on before. The result was an attempt to produce a layout that would look sophisticated and subtle, whilst still retaining, in the rivers of text at the side, a feel of the original, meandering walk that allowed me to initially explore the area.