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Book Cover Design

A self-reflective project. More to come.

The Good The Bad And The Ugly : Part 2

My film score analysis has eventually taken shape in the form of a concertina book. (with a clam shell box for safe keeping; this is literally my pride and joy at the moment..)
The pages are made from Rives BFK paper (beautiful mouldmade 100% cotton rag paper in tan; expensive but oh so worth it) which I have sewn into to detail the score's progression.
The sewn lines incorporate the number of instruments, the duration, decibel level and tempo of each piece of music throughout the entire film. The front and back covers as well as the detail on the clam shell box are screen-printed with a light gloss on black Colorado bookcloth.

Tattoo Design II

Another custom tattoo design.

Procrastination

With a number of weeks to go before my final hand in of all time, I took a few moments out to do some illustrations and gain some perspective.. The result was stranger than I anticipated..

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly : Part 1

The start of my latest project.. visualising film scores. Three experiments of representing music graphically. This is the theme song of Sergio Leone's 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly' by Ennio Morricone.. I hope to eventually document the entire film's score.

God's Cookbook

"Out of the 6,700,000,000 people in the world, 6,700,000 own a computer."
"If the world were 100 people, one would own a computer."

Which quote has more impact?

In an attempt to scale down and humanize world data, I have created 'God's Cookbook', a recipe book for a 'God' detailing how to make each continent on Earth from scratch if there were only 100 people in the world, for example:
To make Europe you will need 12 Portions of food for one, 11 Primary school places, 9 Mobile phones (and so on..) and this will have to be enough to accommodate the continents 12 residents.
The statistics hit home when you discover that only 5 houses are allocated to Africa, which has to accommodate 13 residents.

Explaining the LHC to GCSE students

My poster designs explaining the ins and outs of the Large Hadron Collider to GCSE students.

I (heart) the FSC

These are my trees. I did this years ago for a project promoting FSC standard paper and wood, and to raise awareness about global deforestation.

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Redesigning the Royal Bank of Scotland Logo [University Project]

I rediscovered this project a few months ago from my first year of uni, and I still quite like my final outcome. I wanted to give the bank a more organic and environmentally aware logo, as many companies are striving to prove their eco-friendly values.

Recycle For Money

Collaborative work with Richard Corr. We wanted to break free from the constraints of a 'logo design' and came up with this strange geometric puzzle.. For a 'recycle for money' scheme.

Logo Design for Melissa White

I wanted to represent curling, flowing, floral elements without being too cliche. I ended up with just a delicate, sexy logo for a sexy girl.

Can be found at www.melissawhite.co.uk and here www.myspace.com/thekeytolife.

It Lies At The Roots

I decided to try and illustrate the development of society's collective naivety and intelligence through the use of fairy-tale imagery. The Pinocchio character in the corner represents a company who's beliefs rest in dishonesty and lies. The company then grows from these initial lies, shown by the transformation of Pinocchio's nose into a fully grown tree. The elves in the tree represent the public, and these elves are making books of information out of the tree's branches. The elves are seen reading and then eventually burning the books as they realise it only contains lies, which originally stemmed from the company's dishonesty at the start. Today it is much easier to unpick companies and reveal their true motives, there's no hiding behind closed doors in society today.

Setting foot in Vienna

On a recent trip to Vienna, I was given a nifty little Wien Moleskine to customize to the theme given by my tutors. My theme happened to be shoes.. rather lame, but I ended up creating an interesting set of line drawings of shoes either side of me at various locations around Vienna. As my fellow classmates and I did such a darned good job (yes I feel I need to toot my own horn here), we are now sponsored by Moleskine for all our future excursions. You can visit our website here, which contains an archive of all the sketchbook contents.

Potential tree hugger?

As part of a university project earlier this year I decided to investigate the origins of FSC certified guitars as used by members of the band U2. I ended up creating a new album cover design for a hypothetical acoustic U2 album using only FSC certified instruments.