For the final project in my Masters, the whole class had to collaborate in creating an online event hosting speakers from individuals within the publishing industry. We had to find people we would like to speak, create invites and the branding for the event. I was lucky enough to create the branding for the event and also be the design manager. This meaning the designers within my team would come to me for briefs as well as me creating timelines for when criteria needed to be met.
First of all I created three moodboards of different design ideas and we took a vote and decided on the branding above. From that point on I created a ‘brand bible’ which the designers can follow containing the typeface, different font weights, colour palette and motifs.
We had a shortage of designers so I ended up creating the templates for social media posts too. I created a batch of different styles with filler text so that the marketing team could easily fill in the text and replace the pictures.
Flowers for Failure is an experiment. It is a far-reaching zine, fun and free. It is a wacky compilation of people’s deepest fears and dumbest rants. It is the manifestation of what failure means in the big bad world— everything and then, at the end of the day, nothing at all.
Designed at LCC as part of my MA Publishing course.
Printed with Riso.
For Unit 2 of my MA Publishing wad to take a section of literature and turn into any publication. I chose Chapter 36 for the typographic poster representing the famous fire within the book. The typographic layout adds a modern touch to such an old classic. It is to be featured within a museums gift shop to accompany an art exhibition.
The book is designed to be a poetry book reflecting Chapter 23 where Mr Rochester asks Jane Eyre to marry her. The layout of the conversation reflects the rhythm of their talk meaning there is a lot of negative space. This poetry book is for those who love collecting specialist books.
For a week, I helped out Helena Traill Design (HTD) with their marketing and graphics. I created series of social posts about upcoming blogs, new job opportunities and webinar series.
I also created lots of collages that can be used on their website as cover images and mood boards for inspiration. I only featured the finished, best graphics from the week as a summary of what I produced.
Commissioned branding piece for Waterlane Coffee consisting of logo for stamps, front of store and a separate logo for window piece. The client is planning on more designs and branding more merchandise later on.
A collaborative workshop for designers and clients to use when starting a new professional relationship.
Based on the writings of Victor Papanek; his critiques of the myth of Design as a Profession and the myth of Design as a Commodity, it is clear the existence of design as a monetary career path does exist today. However can we change the way design is viewed within a Capitalist system?
Tangent aims to re-establish the dynamics of design work relationships, particularly in removing the inherent hierarchy that comes from a top down approach of boss to worker, client to designer. By changing the way we navigate design, we can meet the unique needs of both parties involved. To ultimately become more open in discussing the motivations behind why we are using design, without compromising on money or agency.
My dissertation was about “Is masculinity toxic or does society make it toxic’ which I then published in publication form.
Every chapter is a different sized based on importance. The smaller the publication, the less important it is and the larger the publication, the more important it is. The point of that is if the reader is in a rush they can read the largest one and still be informed.
Another factor is the paper stock which determines the heaviest topic. The heavier the paper stock (220gsm) the more heavier the topic is. The heaviest is chapter 3 ‘Masculinity in the Media’ where I talk about Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.
All these publications are enclosed in a case containing the bibliography for references to look up.
‘The Language of Art’ focuses on translation across all degrees at Kingston University School of Art. It features 4 students, 2 ex-students and 2 tutors from Kingston University and their top 5 books that help them in their field.
The aim was to see if any of the books overlap to find that common ground other than the same university.
88 pages and printed on A4 paper from GF Smith.
Printed with FE.Burman.
For my self directed project, I did a topic that is very personal to me which is breast cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer at age 20 which doctors first thought was a cyst due to me being “too young”.
This project is me challenging the stereotype that you can’t get cancer in your 20s and that it only starts with a lump. It can be many other things than just a lump.
I teamed up with 7 other women aged 20-26 who had/have breast cancer and embroidered their symptoms onto a bra for them to display in an exhibition. One woman agreed to be photographed in the bra and I did myself.
In my second year of uni, I took part in an extra project of publishing all the texts we read within the year. It was mainly lead by my tutor but I was selected to be studio manager. I was in charge of making sure production went smoothly and that there wasn’t any issues.
I also took part in copywriting the text, creating the image layout and creating the front cover by using the letterpress.
This book is now featured in bookshops around the UK and America.
Starting from early January to April 2020, I worked as a Graphic Design Intern at a fashion company called Lone Design Club. From these past months I created all their graphics for their socials, website and emails.
I have created their graphics for London Fashion Week in June and September, as well as graphics for events they have each month.
There is a common theme of handwriting on top of photographs which is an element I brought in and they instantly loved it. So now they want to incorporate the more natural look as well as bold text.
Another project from my Publishing Strand was a group project working with a specific archive. Our group chose The Foundling Museum because it featured such a heartbreaking history which shouldn’t go unnoticed.
The Foundling Museum is a museum based on The Foundling Hospital which was first opened in the 18th century as a place for mothers to leave their children to get adopted. These mothers would have done this due to being poor, unmarried or ill. They were asked to leave half a token with their child and to keep the other half so that the hospital could match them up if the mothers came back to get them.
We wanted our position to focus on the mothers perspective of leaving their children as we are all women and really sympathise with what they went through. We wanted a place to respect them. Therefore we created two very long concertinas that were placed in a box, representing a memory box or even the box that important archives are kept in. The left concertina featured poems or hand-written notes that the mothers left for their children, with their name and date on the back. The right concertina featured the physical tokens they left with their name and date on the back. However, some of the backs are empty as their names were never found.
A publication called ‘The Unspoken Name’ I made for a Publishing project, supporting a type installation all about women writers in the 19th century who used a male pseudonym. It features many different women writers and their background of being a writer and the rejection they went through in order to be an author. They all had to use a fake cover by using a male name in order to step into a publishing house. Each writer has a spread sheet dedicated to their life and their career so that the reader can get an in-depth view of what it was like to be in their shoes.
This publication is a place to celebrate this women and to also spread awareness of what they had to go through and what women in the 21st century still go through. The front cover consists of a portrait of the Bronte sisters but with their eyes covered to represent their true identity being hidden. In police mugshots, they cover the prisoners eyes if they publish the pictures to keep their identity hidden, which was my inspiration to cover the Bronte sister’s eyes.
There is also a supporting type installation which would ideally be featured on top of the publishing house in London where the Bronte Sisters first got rejected from being women. I chose this place as that is the origin of where using a male pseudonym started. It was somewhat a way to get revenge back on them as they of course were the most famous writers of our time.