Concept and Brief
I designed the cover for the fiction novel “The Ghost at Brooklands Museum” which is a novel primarily aimed at an audience of children between the ages of 9-12 and young families.
The novel (written by Mark Richardson) is based on Brooklands' motoring and aviation history. The museum has also had many ghostly sightings which have been reported over several years and in part inspired the novel.
For the novel’s cover design Mark wanted to reflect a scene in the book where the main character (Jake) dramatically spots the Brooklands ghost (Sir William) for the first time. The novel is about how Jake and Sir William become friends and embark on a important mission to preserve a vital part of Brooklands history.
Outcome
The book is available as an e-book on Amazon, and as a physical copy in the Brooklands Museum shop. In December 2016 the book reached Amazon’s Top 10 Bestseller list in the category “Children’s Time Travel ebooks.” The book cover has also featured in the Classic Car Weekly magazine. During the launch the book cover design was printed onto T shirts that the author used to promote the book.
The design is a competition entry for a Talenthouse competition to design visuals promoting Fantastic Beast’s latest film “Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grindelwald.” The colourful spotlight placed on the main characters in my poster design reflects the films question to the audience “who (which of the main characters) will change the future?”
The colours of the poster, and the wand in the foreground, were inspired by the colourful wands and magical scenes in the film footage that features in the trailer of the film.
Mahindra Racing (a Formula E motor racing team) asked me to design some posters to feature on their social media for some of their 2022 races which include Diriyah their first Formula E race of the 2022 season,Berlin and London. The posters received a high engagement on their social media channels especially on Mahindra Racing’s Instagram account.
This is a self initiated project illustrating iconic Formula 1 and Formula E locations, drivers and racing teams. I put these on my own social media accounts such as Instagram and twitter to promote my creative and design work. For most of the poster designs I was inspired by the classic racing posters of the 1930’s and 1950s. I was also inspired by the colours schemes of racing drivers and their cars, for example using Senna’s helmet colours as the backdrop of the posters/designs of his black Lotus F1 car.
Social Media Interest
Some of the projects have gained interest on social media from racing teams and drivers such as Aston Martin F1, Jaguar Racing’s Formula E Team and Formula E driver Mitch Evans.
Following on from the posters in 2022, Mahindra Racing (a Formula E motor racing team) asked me to design some more posters to feature on their social media for their 2023 races in Portland and Berlin. Once again the posters were posted on their social media pages.
I worked with design agency Glassup & Stoski on coming up with Brand and logo concepts for their client Restauro (a classic car company).
A kinetic typography piece promoting BBC Radio 5 live's F1 coverage. The piece represents Lewis Hamilton's thoughts on driving an F1 car through kinetic typography and photography. All photographs taken by me.
I created the piece using a combination of After Effects and Photoshop.
Logo and Audio belong to BBC Radio 5 Live
I wanted to make a fun and quirky illustration to celebrate the launch of my Redbubble store (where I sell products featuring my illustrations). The drawing is based on a real cat I saw about 10 years ago that made a very amusing meowing noise! Which reminded me of DJ’s at parities and festivals. Since launching the illustration at the end of 2019, DJ cat has been popular, with products featuring the illustration selling in United Kingdom, Canada and the United States on my Redbubble store.
If you would like to see the design on my Redbubble store please visit :
KOAS (Kingston Altitude Orbit Satellite) is an new organisation that works in collaboration with Aerospace firm Airbus, on satellite projects in the UK. KOAS commissioned me to design their branding and Mission Patch for the satellite project they where working on. I designed a mission patch and logo that reflected the idea of the satellite orbiting the earth to calculate the earth’s altitude. I also thought it would be interesting to bring the mission patch and logo to life, by creating animated GIFS. I also created a logo for KOAS that was more simplified to use on smaller surfaces such as mobile phones.
*Image Credit - Earth CGI image (used as backdrop image for the logo I designed), is from commercial free image site Pixabay.
Concept/Brief
This is an identity I created for a start up film production company, Third Iris Films. The concept of using camera viewfinder brackets stemmed from the client's research that when people hear the name 'Third Iris Films' they think of the camera's iris acting as a person's third eye.
Third Iris Films wanted the branding and identity to be simple in order for it to be clearly seen at the start of their online films, on their website and other promotional material such as business cards. They also wanted the branding to be used in both black on white and white on black.
Overview
These are social media posts/templates, I designed for the Central Saint Martins (CSM) campus which is apart of University of the Arts London (UAL). As the services UAL provided to students moved to online due to the pandemic, UAL wanted me to design engaging social media templates and posts that would promote UAL’s IT/Media services and remind students that services were still open to supporting students and staff remotely.
This lead to me designing Top Tip Thursday which was a social media post designed to provide students with a quick IT/software tip every Thursday e.g. basic Photoshop tips and encourage them to get further IT/technical support from UAL staff via the online chat service. Working on the project also gave me experience of scheduling tweets on Twitter’s tweet deck website.
Image Credit : Image of Laptop used from UAL’s Image Bank
Concept/Brief
Photographs of the Red Arrows display team that I took at the 'Wings and Wheels' Festival in Surrey.
