On the following page is a 20 year archive of clients I have worked with. Work that makes me proud.
For me great work is happens as a result of collaborating with a client and to understand their aims and ambitions but to be able to think freely and to be given the space to think big and explore ways to achieve a result that might not be realised at the start of a project . Who would have thought that I would be designing a death walk in Kingston, or for Imperial College a series of seats. Floating Memories was about celebrating 150 years of brighton swimming club and work with so many people. When I do an illustration for New Scientist, its about taking a story about something I have no idea what it means, but its about being able to interpret it and try and visualise it so it tells a story. Working with Louis Franck - he has big big ideas that are very elaborate - for me its about taking these ideas and creating something that is beautiful to look at, but uses all his ideas to realise it. The reason I do what I do, is because I love design, it has value. Apple would be nothing if it didn’t have good design. Its aesthetic to detail and thinking beyond what is expected and
Areas I have worked in: Whether I work on a logo thats going on a business card, to a 180 meter walkway at Imperial College my thinking and design process is always the same. For an identity, my aim is to interpret a clients values and express their company, project through a single mark that works in black and white. Once an identity is created I then love the
I want this website to be a showcase for my work, but to also get people to understand who i am, my thinking, my skills, how i think, what makes me tick.
Designing an identities - for me this one of the
Highlights
Working with a trusting client at Imperial College
Designing seats
Science Museum, the fact its their for 25 years
Collaborating with Louis Franck
Eyestorm logo
Moby website
Penguin books - Pop! project
Ben Fowler at Marque
Floating Memories
Permanent display at the Science Museum. Wheel is archived at Yale University, New York.
150 year archive now stored at the Keep.
Little things we like quote
Clients I have worked with
Artists Andrew Kotting Sean Henry William Kentridge Musicans & Record Labels Mute Records Klitekture Records 4AD Mitek Moby Louis Franck Depeche Mode Publishers Penguin Dan Rose Music Franck & Stein Royal College of Art Technology ACM Vodafone New Scientist Wired Deutsche Bank Fortune Universities Royal College of Art Imperial College Kingston University Brighton University ESAD TV BBC ITV Channel 4 Art & Culture Serious Atlantic Waves Cine City Books that Fly CGF Heritage Floating Memories Kingston Wheel Fashion Farfetch Officine Creative Italia Museums & Galleries Science Museum Stanley Picker Gallery Eyestorm Furniture Marque NHS
Lectures + talks
Experimenta Design, Lisbon
Design Now, Vienna
Festival de Artes Digitais Olhares de Outono, Porto
Glug, UK
Storung 4.0, Barcelona
New Media Meeting, Stockholm
Sintensi Music Festival, Naples
Google Creative Labs, London
Beckmans Design School, Stockholm
Berghs School of Communication, Stockholm
Domus Academy, Milan
Liverpool School of Art
Manchester University
University of Brighton
Nottingham University
Royal College of Art
Salford University
University of Belfast
University of Dundee
External Examiner
2014 — 2017
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Dublin
BA (Hons) Visual Communication
2009 — 2013
John Moores University, Liverpool
BA (Hons) Graphic Design
2009 — 2011
Escola Superior de Artes, Porto
MA Communication Design
Clients
BBC
Deutsche Bank
ITV
Nike Foundation
Legal & General
Penguin Books
Channel 4
Imperial College
Science Museum
Louis Franck
Simon Fisher Turner
Moby
Andrew Kötting
