Oh dear, you seem to have caught me red-handed.
I’m in the middle of refreshing my website. But here’s a selection of my recent animated and design work.
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Portfolio
DRIVERS
Out of college hours, I was commissioned to animate a set of sequences for a TV documentary about drivers in the film industry. The sequences pay homage to the stylised titles of North by Northwest, Monsters Inc and Catch Me If You Can (with a pinch of Pink Panther) and both support and carry forward the documentary's narrative.
Project showreel coming soon!
Myst sketchbook
Not technically ‘work’ – this is what I do in my spare time. Myst! Yes, I’ve installed the decades-old game on a Windows XP Virtual Machine on my mac, and these are a few shots of the inside of my Myst notebook – a trusty companion I jot my ideas and progress into, along with maps and sketches of the amazing worlds I'm visiting.
bob idents
My initial second-year animation project – With ten days to animate literally anything I wanted, I decided to create a series of idents for the fictitious TV channel ‘bob’. Taking cues from recent Honda and Bupa adverts, I used simple shapes and block colours, along with realistic sound effects and nostalgic iconography, to create a real character for the brand.
Wired radio
As Wired’s design manager for two years running, I’ve designed the station’s logo, posters, and of course, website. Each page loads randomly using one of three complementary colour schemes (referencing the three core aims: to be the sound, voice and community of Goldsmiths), while a PHP and MySQL backend drives the show schedule, review/interview upload archive system and local events listings.
Grandma’s Teeth
Last year, I was given a day to create an animated opening sequence for a second-year BA fiction film. All I had was a title and a chattering teeth toy. So, I created this short but sweet stop-motion animation.
Gold Dust
A year ago, I was chosen to design the website, publicity and handouts for the Gold Dust festival at Goldsmiths college. The central image – I hesitate to call it a logo – aimed to express a few of the many activities on offer. I especially like the ‘dusted’ treatment of the logotype, which pulled off surprisingly well across all media. The single-page website featured AJAX tabs, with information, an event schedule, and an online booking system.
more that unites
more that unites, an initiative aiming to tell the stories so often ignored by the mainstream media, needed an online presence that would promote, but not overpower, their photographic exhibits. As such, the website features a muted colour palette, subtle animation effects and a gorgeous AJAX gallery system, to keep the focus on more that unites’ photography and ethics.
Glow
I worked with Zappia & Zappia Design to create this website for Glow, a duo of award-winning beauty salons in Wrexham and Chester. The aim was to achieve the aesthetic of a Flash website, but with the extensibility and search-engine optimisation of XHTML. Using javascript effects and ‘panoramic’ Flash movies, I hoped to recreate the calm and luxury of the salons themselves.