Odd Places

In Beijing, China. Mandarin, is used even to advertise common western products such as Coca Cola. Dressing up Dogs in Hong Kong is amongst the other weird things, I saw whilst travelling in the Asia.

In Beijing, China. Mandarin, is used even to advertise common western products such as Coca Cola. Dressing up Dogs in Hong Kong is amongst the other weird things, I saw whilst travelling in the Asia.

I was sent a YCN brief by Gala Slater, to have a look at. The brief was to create a visual identity for a exhibition at the Tate Modern, showcasing 20 cutting edge mixed media artists. We were asked to create an identity which was vibrant and playful. I gave myself half a day to create each identity, here are a couple of the results.
Whilst working in the UK, I started looking into QR Codes and playing around with these typographically. So I compiled the alphabet including punctuation marks in this 3 second clip. Putting the alphabet in a non linear format gives so much more flexiblity for interesting motion work.
Austrian pharmaceutical packaging also seems to be more exciting than its British counterparts.

Moving out to Austria has given me a chance to practice my other hobbies. After 3 days of snow, we had a sunny day and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to go out and photography the landscape with its untouched snow (more photographs can be found in at www.flickr.com/photos/40167535@N00).

This month sees the release of “The Creative Unity”. With this they have launched a book, available for purchase from www.thecreativeunity.com for $28.45. I was lucky enough to have some of my previous work featured in the premier issue.

Whilst freelancing at Sony in London, I started developing a typeface based on origami. I wanted to keep the shapes as minimal as possible whilst retaining their legibility. I also wanted it to be visually interesting.