Répondez s'il vous planes (3)

The RSVP exhibition finally came around! If you're not sure what I'm on about then check here. Here are a few photos from the exhibition, which was a huge success.

A trail of planes led the viewer to my work.  

The posters the viewer was faced with gave instructions on how to respond to this particular piece.

Many viewers responded to the piece by folding and throwing paper planes.

A marriage of interests

This is a piece of work created for one of the toughest clients I've had to deal with. He's pernickety, awkward, and expects me to work all around the clock.

Of course, I couldn't get away with NOT designing the invites for my upcoming wedding, nor would I want to. A slightly different design to things I often work on - far much more emphasis on prettiness, pinkness, and girliness, really. A bow was added to the final invites, which was tied around the middle to hold the other bits which went with the invite. Here it is...:  

Please don't spend too much time analysing - I'd hate my client to notice a mistake, or a way in which is could have been improved...

Threading some more

As well as working for the Student' Union during my time at Uni, I've also done some volunteer design work for the SU newspaper and radio team, The Thread. I posted my logo design-y stuff a long while back, but for one reason or another haven't shared anything else! Here a some bits and bobs that I've created for the team to use. The first is a Facebook cover, and the other two were designs for 60x40in posters.

I've also done bits and bobs for the website, but most of the praise for how that's looking is down to my good friend Ash, who also volunteers and maintains the site. It's at www.the-thread.co.uk if you fancy a gander.

CU Round-Up (Spring)

...exactly what it says on the tin.

Branding danger

A self-directed project which allowed me to try my hand at rebranding the Hazardous Materials department at West Midlands Fire Service, this brief took me to and from the drawing board more times than I care to mention... So I'll keep this brief.

The first problem comes with the issue of "branding danger". What these guys do is serious stuff, but is also about teaching and training firemen and women to avoid and diffuse dangerous situations.

The angular shapes come from the Hazardous Materials classic diamond shapes for identifying hazards, and the colours are (of course) representative of fire, with a cheeky flame shape thrown in for good measure.

Overall, the chosen logo is adaptable in a variety of colours and outlines, and an example of how it can be applied is shown below in some experimentation with business cards.

Gentletude Typographics

Finalised typographics for the aforementioned "Gentletude" brief:

The designs are created for smartphone-sharing, so had to be fairly simplistic. I added an interactive element by linking the designs into Twitter - the idea being that the hashtag would be a link, and a blog reel of these "thoughts for a better life" could be easily accessed and shared hassle free.

Time management

Something that I spend my time doing is working with the Christian Union at University. Being a designer, I tend to take on responsibility for publications such as these:

January - May 2013

I've blogged these earlier, but thought it'd be nice to see them all together.

September - December 2012

September - December 2011