Summer Exhibition Poster Design: Woodland Typography

Brief: Design the Summer Exhibition poster for the University of Cumbria School of the Arts 2011 graduate's show.

I chose to focus on typography and based my ideas on summer flowers and wildlife in Cumbria and the Lake District.

Here are some of the letter designs:

Here is my final poster design:

And my design for the invite, (front and back):

Year 3 Summative Project 2010 (and some new mice and kingfisher illustrations)

Brief: Summarize what you have learned over the semester.

I started by making a note of things I have learned recently as well as the parts of my work that have become stronger and more refined. I started to illustrate each statement, however I soon decided that I wanted a long composition made up of a flowing diagram of my most successful illustrations. Because of this I chose to use a concertina-style booklet, including my new illustrations.

The final layout: (click to enlarge)

 

Puffin Book Cover for "James and the Giant Peach"

Brief: produce a book cover for Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach that would not look out of place both on the shelf of an upmarket bookstore or at the local supermarket.

I explored many idea pathways for this brief, starting with:
The Characters:

The Peach:

 The seagulls and the sky:

Developing the Cover:

Further work:

After receiving feedback, I was asked to go back to my nighttime peach scene. I worked more on this and produced another, completely different cover:

"Picturing Time" - Frozen Webs

After receiving feedback about the previous cuckoo-clock design, I was asked to go back to my sketchbook and work on the frozen web idea and use this as my final instead...

I ended up producing six new frozen web designs, allowing me to experiment along the way and chose the most successful as the final "picturing time" illustration.

 Later on, I made some of my favourite webs into Christmas cards: