Pixies’ ‘Minotaur’ box set earns Grammy nomination for best packaging design

I worked on this beautiful boxset with Vaughan Oliver as Art director, Simon Larbalestier as Photographer and a group of fellow students in 2009. See previous blogposts for more Minotaur news.

More about the Grammy nomination here.

Amelia's magazine and Shelter Update

Here is one of my images for a competition run by Amelia's Magazine in aid of homelessness charity Shelter on the Facebook page. Much more info in the post below. My work being chosen to feature on the Facebook page doesn't mean it will be included in the quilt Amelia is making but it means somebody likes it, always nice. Have a look here for mine and many many other wonderful entries.

Amelia's magazine and Shelter

I've just sent these photos off to Amelia's Magazine as an entry for a competition. The winning entries will be included in a quilt which Amelia is making. The quilt will then be auctioned in aid of Shelter the homeless charity. The brief is to create artwork which represents the two of hearts.

I have cut out hearts in the shape of a two and used light and shadow to create images and photographed them. I couldn't pick one to enter so I sent all of these.

Faber Films

Here are a few of the final book covers for the D&AD Faber Films typography brief.

The brief was set by Faber & Faber to design book jackets for the Faber Film back catalogue. The design works across the whole range of books as well as identifying each book category. I used the idea of feeling of design to create an overall look. My recurrent theme was paper and unique processes with type. Each book category had a different way of using paper and type. 

The design had to be simple to reproduce other titles to work with new Print on Demand technology.