Postcard design for my own wedding invitations. Based on the Moulin Rouge DVD and book designs (as was the wedding!) The design was printed without colouring onto a fibrous paper, dipped in tea, left on the washing line (note the peg marks in the top corners), then left in the oven, and finally returned to the scanner. The additional colouring was then overlaid onto the scan.
Although I originally preferred the image without the large amount of type, and found the logo to be too simplistic and rather ugly, I began to like how this design turned out. This was a lesson in working with a client who wasn't shy in offering criticism - something I enjoyed when training, and I came back to appreciate and value this in later projects.
An experiment to find a style for my own website theme. I'm not sure why, but I found the generated feathered backdrop intriguing, although I now regret the paper ribbon foreground. Always best to second-look at a new design after a good night's sleep!
Detail from a programme sleeve for CC07: Africa project. The sleeve was constructed from multiple overlays of the children's African prints, paintings and collages.
A design for the Hear By Right DVD sleeve. The background texture comprises of the group's collective brainstorming plans and research for the film project. And the rabbit? The rabbit is a key character in the film storyline.
A frame from the DVD menu for the Hear By Right promotional film. Each chapter introduces an element of their best practice guidelines, and each of the chapters came from a member of the group who wished to recreate a scene from their favourite film.
The older UKYPGlos logo followed a squares grid-based theme. The squares would become a feature of future elections promotion designs.
Postcard design for UKYPGlos elections 2006. This was my first project for the UKYP Elections - a project which returned right up until 2011.
One of the first UKYPGlos elections poster designs. The arrangement of squares features throughout future designs.
A poster design for the launch of the GoGoGlos positive activities website. The elements are taken from the animated sequence created to introduce the site to visitors.
A postcard design for my friend's wedding invitations. The illustration is by the groom's brother, Rev Walsh (www.revwalsh.co.uk). The colour effects used a combination of half-toning and offsetting to achieve that turn-of-the-century fairy book effect!
A postcard design for my friend's wedding invitations. The illustration is by the groom's brother, Rev Walsh (www.revwalsh.co.uk). It was traced, then colourised, and additional textures (including, of course, tea-stained paper) were overlaid to create the final effect.
The backdrop from the CC09:Amazon programme sleeve. The design consists of an array of artwork created by the pupils - jungle designs, headdresses, pattern designs. The pieces were chosen at random by an automated script that composed and superimposed the images to create this final piece.
A simple folded design (and suitable tagline) to accompany a youth participation leaflet for Gloucestershire Youth Participation. Also my first foray into setting up depth of field effects in Blender.
This is the front of a design for my sister's wedding invitations. She wanted to capture the feel of a wedding by the sea (Bridlington), and the photos were from my dad's own collection.
The table plan for my sister's wedding designs. Each table was themed to represent each stage of their proposed honeymoon destination. The graphics were generated from a combination of Google Earth aerial views and 3D models.
The background of this wedding menu is a tiled crop from a photograph of sand on a Bridlington beach. The pebbles that separate each section were found on the same beach. As the wedding was to take place in Bridlington, this all seemed quite apt!
An A4 poster design for the first of several rounds of funding for YOF YCF. I'm particularly proud of the tag line on this one!
For the 2008 UKYPGlos elections designs, I wanted to illustrate how, through the process of democracy, patterns of support and leadership can emerge from clusters of individuals. The use of these squares follows on from the previous years' election design.
UKYPGlos elections 2008 design. The postcard used one of my first attempts at combining dynamic data visualisation with static design. Future experiments became a little more ambitious!
The flyer design for the 2009 UKYPGlos elections.
Promotional poster for the UKYP 2009 elections. The backdrop is a comosition of multiple 3D rendered views. The 3D model used is a visualisation of the previous years' voting figures. Each square proportionally represents an area of Gloucestershire, and its extruded height represents voter turnout. The colours are purely aesthetic!
This 2009 UKYPGlos elections poster highlighted the rise of Twitter journalism, as the website also took on new features to allow MYPs to announce their progress and recent news.
Proofs for the official Kaleidoscope whole-school project logo. As with most school arts projects, budget is always a concern, so these logos gave the option for single colour, full colour, greyscale, and stiched/vinyl signage options.
The 'official' logo for Somers Park Primary School's Creative Connexions Kaleidoscope project. It's a combination of roughly 20 to 30 of the children's butterfly pieces, overlayed to create a textured painterly effect.
This CC10:Kaleidoscope was used for the performance programme sleeve, as well as in the performance itself as a backdrop for scene changes. The background uses elements of the Kaleidoscope logo, while the foreground figures are surrounded by their own light-based photographic work.
A disk label I sent out with most of my later DVD work. As all the work had been created with free and open source software, all of the work carried a Creative Commons license that allowed the school's pupils and youth groups' young people to share and remix the work beyond the life of the project.
A design for the 2010 UKYP Gloucestershire elections. The orange was chosen by the MYPs, who also wanted to somehow feature on the promotional material. Each of them is represented here in silhouette form.
Orange was the theme for this year's manifesto design. That, and the MYPs request to feature their portraits somewhere in the design.
The 2009/10 UKYP MYPs for Gloucestershire released a manifesto which unfolded into an A2 poster. This is the poster design introducing each MYP and DMYP, and linking them to their district in Gloucestershire.
The programme sleeve design for the CC10:Oceans whole-school project. The background waves are a combination of several of the children's wave painting superimposed over output from an automated script that created a blocky abstract texture from the same collection of paintings.
A experiment to find a 'look' for Bristol Youth Participation's new website. The colours were voted on by the young people, and further designs can from this initial experiment.
The new MYPs for Gloucestershire wanted their own silhouettes to feature in this year's print-based material, as well as to accompany their online profiles on the UKYPGlos site. As with previous designs, their portraits were taken in an area with limited light, so difference in shadows and lighting made each silhouette pretty unique in its construction.
A lighter version of the previous year's UKYPGlos manifesto pull-out. The new silhouette designs directed the choice of background colours.
In my experiments to find a theme for the 2011 UKYPGlos elections posters, I tried several data visualisations using the previous years' voter turnout numbers for schools in Gloucestershire. This heatmap shows the locations of the highest numbers as a bright orange, and was created with an automated script. I find that scripting a graphic allows for finer control over the final image in comparison to a manually created design.
2011 UKYP Elections Gloucestershire graphic that features prominently throughout the promotional material. Like my previous use of data visualisation, this design is based on voter turnout in schools across Gloucestershire.
This backdrop for the 2011 UKYP Elections was created using a generative script that cropped and overlayed multiple copies of the same explosion pattern (see other designs).
A flyer design for the 2011 UKYP elections promotional material. The explosion graphic to the right features prominently throughout the designs. As with previous designs, the colours and silhouettes were supplied by the current MYPs!
The poster designs for the 2011 UKYPGlos elections featured the explosion bars in previous designs overlaid onto the abstract composition that started the design process.
The backdrop for a leaflet advertising the Election results event for UKYPGlos.
An op-art experiment using concentric circles, ribbon curves and abstract shapes - more of an experiment with Inkscape's interesting Pattern along path effect.
An experiment to find a visual for Creative Connexions promotional material. The shaded ball appears in navigation throughout website, and in this detail of a larger 3D render, depth of field guides the viewer across the graphic.
A possible design for the promotional material for Creative Connexions. This image was created solely in Inkscape, employing blurs and gradients to create a depth of field. I felt that a vector design would allow me greater scalability if I felt the need to crop to small areas of the image. In the end, however, another simpler design was chosen!
Another proof for the reverse of a Creative Connexions promotional flyer. The ink patterns were generated with Alchemy, then duplicated and overlayed onto a generative piece created from a lighter range of photos than the previous front flyer design.
A proof for a Creative Connexions promotional piece. The ink patterns were generated with a fantastic piece of open source software called Alchemy, and then duplicated and overlayed onto a generative piece created from a range of photos and children's artwork used in previous school project pieces.
A mockup for the JG Gardens promotional website - Alex wanted a simple and accessible gallery illustrating his landscaping work.
A design for a promotional flyer for the Creative Connexions web service. Each of the circular designs represents a feature of the service, and are displayed as icons on the website itself.
A test image for the Map of Memories website theme. Using the official UN Peace flag colours, I experimented with contoured surfaces to see how the colours blended with one another. The intention was to create a visual that could be used as a starting point for the main website theme.
The final Map of Memories website backdrop. I decided on a simple vector-based rainbow pattern. This file can be split across the horizontal white centre to create a header and footer graphic. The intention here was to create a graphic that could easily be recreated in collage form by the school children I was working with.
A mockup of the Map of Memories website layout - the icons are from the Tango Icon Library, and the header background images are composed from my own childhood photographs.
The logo for the Map of Memories project at Stanley Road Primary School in Worcester. The project aimed to collate the school community's memories and pin them to a map. This logo was used throughout the promotional and web-based material, with points from the compass used as memory markers on the integrated map.
My first foray into experimenting with the open source freenect drivers. This pointcloud was captured by the Kinect, and I imported the mesh from Nicolas Burrus' RGB Demo into Blender.
Another Kinect experiment using the freenect drivers. Using input from the Kinect and Nicolas Burrus' RGB Demo, I exported this mesh into Blender. This time, the captured pointcloud was converted to triangles giving the model a more sculpted feel.
Testing current open source face recognition software for the games console research project.
