About
For many people electronic screens have already supplanted paper as the primary medium for gathering and absorbing information. This trend will only accelerate. That's a challenge for designers, for whom the hard-learned lessons of print are often not easily left behind.
Some of those lessons still matter, some don’t. I’ve been trained in classic graphic design disciplines, but I’ve grown up with screens. I taught myself core web programming skills before I left school, and in the last five years have been investigating rigorously how design really works in digital environments.
As a fully qualified graphic designer I can take a brief and develop it through to execution both in digital and traditional environments.
But I can also work with traditionally-trained designers to help them translate their creativity and insight in ways that will work in digital media. I’ve already been doing this for five years, working freelance while on my degree course at the London College of Communication. I graduated in 2009.
08 February 2010
This image is produced using an iPhone app called shake it. It produces a polaroid style photo. Right down to the colour fading in, increased by shaking it.
*update
The photoshop app also let's you do similar things on the fly. Shame the iPhone camera is lacking at low light situations. But then my G10 isn't much better.
07 February 2010
Since graduating in June 2009 I have been fortunate enough to have had enough work to keep me away from here. I finally had a spare afternoon and got around to taking the old site down and putting this one up. For now I plan to keep the site "blog" orientated for awhile. This is as I am sorting out some bigger things at the moment which will be moving away from the 2C2D identity. As a result I am hoping to push this site to cover more than just my work.
I have posted a few things retrospectively so that the dates on them have context to the work.
13 November 2009
The I AM LOCAL site launched on the 13th of November 2009
About
Working with artists across the region Club Shepway have produced an online mapping service for South East Kent.
The I Am Local mapping service provides a free online creative index and social network for artists, venues and organisations across the region. The map is a live online resource continually growing and expanding with new information and listings.
In conjunction with its online site I Am Local will be distributed as a paper version at key venues throughout Kent, defining the growing network of arts culture and becoming a valuable resource for arts development and audiences both locally and nationally.
Club Shepway invite creative individuals, arts groups, organisations, fanzines and events organisers to plot themselves onto the map contributing to the diverse creative network across in the region. So get on line and start plotting.
Design
The identity of the I AM LOCAL project came through the solution to the application problem. I had to produce a map that plotted galleries, events, shops related to contemporary art across Kent. The map would have to be informative as well as an item that could be used to promote the service.
By squaring the canvas and then dividing the number of items by the square root of page I created a very flexible grid for expanding the map as time went on. As more services are added to the map the squares shrink and the patterns become denser.
Over the time the project hopes to expand to more of an online social presence allowing those involved with the map to collaborate online.
www.iamlocal.net
26 June 2009
Other than completing my degree I had to design and build the site that held the entire years work. The overall identity was produced with other designers on the course which led to the printed cataloged being showcased in a yellow ring binder, with tabs separating the pathways.
With this in mind I took those elements and produced a catalog of all the students work that reflected the overall identity.
http://5to1show.com/