Sunset Boulevard - Theatre Poster

Here's my poster design for the theatrical production of Sunset Boulevard. If you haven't seen the film or the musical yet, its well worth checking out.
This was part one of a brief from Semester 2. We were required to produce a new poster and an invitation/promotional invite for a current theatrical production.
The main image in the poster was created using blue/black ink in water. The dark colours of the ink are similar to the actual stage colours and lighting. The ink swirling around in the water is also similar to the smokey atmosphere on stage due to the amount of cigarettes consumed during the performance.
It's a dark poster for a dark, but funny production. There's also a bit a of a hidden gem in the poster too!

Baseline Magazine DPS - Eric Gill

It's not all Gill Sans!
Here's three double page spreads and a front cover for Baseline Magazine from Semester 2. The brief was to design the cover and three double spreads incorporating the work and typefaces of Eric Gill.
The front cover was influenced by some of the "Monotype" type specimen sheets from the first part of the 1900's, and has been created to look like one. The borders have been recreated using small detail work from type glyphs and wood engravings by Eric Gill. The "Joanna" typeface was used for the main body text on each of the spreads, with "Perpetua" italics used for the notes etc.

Give It Some Personality...

Lost it...This was the results of a 'Personality Project' from Semester 1. We each had to interview a fellow student and then visually describe an aspect of their personality using an ampersand, question mark or an exclamation mark. I chose to focus on forgetfulness combined with the fact that my interviewee was also prone to losing things too.
I ended up making a 3D helvetica question mark out of screwed rod and loads of post-it notes, thanks to 3M who kindly supplied them. I made a huge Post-it note block out of wood for the base and changed the branding slightly! It was good fun, but it weighs a ton...

Pessimistic Pop Bottle...

Here's my take on a pessimistic pop bottle from Semester 1. For the brief we were each given an object and characteristic/emotion to visually communicate either 2D or 3D. After much research about pessimism, Pepsi diet cola seemed the ideal choice. I set to work and created a completely new label based on all things pessimistic, and renamed it Pessimus die. For the final photos, the bottle was also half filled (half full or half empty?) and placed in hopeless situations...

Blues Brothers meets Cooper Black...

Moving type - another exercise from Semester 1. Our brief was to animate a piece of type to a short piece of film sound-track. We chose Cooper Black and Gill Sans with an excerpt from the classic Blues Brothers film.

Express Yourself

Here's an exercise from Semester 1, where we let the words visually express themselves...

Futura Poster

Here's a "Type" poster design from Semester 1. The brief was to design a poster to promote a type exhibition called Fontarama using a classic typeface. I used Futura by Paul Renner circa 1928. I submitted the red one as the final poster

Natural Type..!

Here's a selection of photos taken in Semester 1 for a Type & Image project. We had to find naturally occurring letters and numbers (some more natural than others!)