Countdown the seconds

I made this typeface, as I have a university interview this week, and want to show off that I can do things.
I already made one similar, but it wasa scan of a hand drawn one, so this one was made much tidier, in a very similar style, to link with my development etc. The brief was 'Urban'. The concept was always that the city may look strong, but it is infact a broken, fragile mess of a place.



In other life news, which I feel I should share on here, I'm currently still wearing the pyjamas I woke up in this morning. This is the first genuinely relaxing day I've had in months, and spending most of it with one of my closest friends scoffing all that bad stuff we're supposed to worry about eating as females, was an awesome addition to it. Fun times!

I found my good final so I deleted the old post of this.

Aha! Pesky hider, I found you! I remember being proud of this now.

Yes, it is actually quite good. Hurrah!

Last but not least.

I was briefed to create the imagery for an article on Body Dysmorphia, a condition where your self perception is very negatively warped. I had to choose which magazine to aim it at, choosing between Shortlist and Stylist, one aimed at men and one aimed at women. I chose to aim it at a male based audience, as the article seemed more aimed that way. This is what I came up with, using both photography and a graphics tablet in photoshop for the imagery. I used Adobe indesign to put it all together.

Any more for any more?

Posters on legibility. You may notice that with my mostly typographic/computer based design, my inspirations lie in the Bauhaus style. I love the functionality and angular style of it, I think it creates a beautiful image of words, in the simplest way. I like words.
So, the idea was that you create two posters advertising a lecture on legibility in type, the rules and whatnot surrounding it. One was to be highly legible, one was to be highly illegible, and also had to work as a set. So I made these, in the Bauhaus style, making good use of the grid system to manipulate and displace my type.

That was the illegible one.... if you couldn't tell...

And that one is legible, but still interesting to look at, which is important.

'Never mistake legibility for communication'

More work. Book pages.

These images are a few pages from a book I made about my relationship with the city of Leeds.
I have to say, this was fantastic fun to make. Used a mixture of illustration, pencil drawing, photography and woodwork to make the finished article, which kept it interesting.
Here are some of the pages:

All the pages have been printed onto a very thin newsprint, making the book feel very delicate, I don't know why I wanted to do that, I probably just liked the irony of the fragility of the pages against the subject of a city, which seems to be so strong. Hmm.