Alphabet Book_

I went to The Manchester Print Fair and bought this Animal Alphabet book from Lottie Pencheon. Lino printed and coptic stitched. Niice

To Do_Summer Project

Our summer project consisted of observing ourselves in macro detail. We were supposed to collect a large amount of information about ourselves daily that we could then collate and present in an interesting way. I decided to collect the information through 'To Do' lists. These lists are something that everyone does from time to time as a way of organizing their lives. I'm a keen list writer and it seemed the perfect way of recording what I was doing during the summer.

My lists were supposed to be written on any piece of scrap paper that I could find, just like they would be normally. As a way of storing the lists once I had written them, I made a notebook.

I went through the recording process for 24 days, by that time I had a number of lists featuring all sorts of tasks, some of which I completed, some I repeated and others that I avoided. I went through each list and took down as many statistics about them as I could. I then organized this information into a series of posters.

As a final part to the project, we had to create a teaser poster that could direct viewers towards our body of work.

Overall the project feels like a good way to get back into Graphic Design after a pretty relaxed summer. Ready to get started again, now that I'm a Third Year...

If I could be anyone _

Carlos Magazine _

I'm a massive fan of Carlos; an in flight magazine from Virgin Atlantic for its Upper Class passengers. Simple one colour blue print and a little bit of foil blocking on the front of the odd edition, no photographs, just illustrations. It's just a shame I was never rich enough at the age of thirteen to travel in upper class really.

Apple Shampoo _

I've managed to spend the majority of my year, when at Uni, dicking around. Spent a lot of time making jokes and not doing any actual work, leaving it all until I get home. When the theme is Pokemon, however, it seems that all of a sudden, I take things seriously.

I worked on this album sleeve with my good friend Jonathan whose part of the band Apple Shampoo. The album's called Celadon City so, naturally, the only thing to do was to go to town on the Pokemon theme. The album's designed to look like a Poke-ball, opening the case becoming similar to releasing a Pokemon. (I'm trying to make this sound serious). We managed to design the album, create a packaging concept, and make 6 copies of the album in a day, which for us is proper hard work. I was actually pleased with how professional the final outcome looked all things considered.

I hope we don't get sued for using that image of Jigglypuff on the DVD cover, that would be terrible.