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The British Museum ~ During our work designing the British Museum’s new web site i went up to take photographs of the space and of people engaging with it and the exhibits in the collection.

The photos were taken as part of a photography expedition around many of the museums and galleries that we work with, and have since been used frequently for various promotional purposes. The images featured are a selection from a much larger archive.

National Portrait Gallery ~ These photos were taken to kick start the design phase of a new project with the NPG. More info to follow after launch..

The Science Museum ~ General promotional photography taken of the space and of children using our interactives which have been in the museum since the dawn of time.

For more information please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/home/index.html

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The starting point of a wedding invitation for my friends who got married in June 2008. I bought a box of mixed wooden type on ebay and to my joy discovered that their names fitted in a perfect block. A typesetters dream.

Below are my favourite versions of the different designs that i created for them.

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Centre for Research & Development

University of Brighton ~ Faculty of Arts & Architecture

Project: Branding and web design for CRD, the department supporting research in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. After leading a branding exercise with key figures in CRD and the University to ascertain CRD’s brand values and stakeholder goals, i worked with other members of the design team on a series of design approaches which were developed and refined with regular steering group reviews from CRD. Limitations of the brief were that the identity did not conflict or compete with the Universities existing branding.

Brand: The final approach focuses on the ‘R’ for research in CRD refreshing and changing across applications. A set of Rs from different fonts were selected, the fonts were selected for the place in design history that they reflect. There was such an amazing body of work to bring forward from the researchers practice at CRD that we decided to keep the colours of the identity simple, black and white, so as not to compete with the work. The deliverable at the end of the intensely paced branding stage was a styleguide for the new identity (pictured above).

Web site: The website stage of the project kicked off with user testing CRDs existing site with the clients observing. I then proceeded to implement the identity we created using wireframes provided by Cogapp’s production team. Leading this part of the project on design the process involved frequent review meetings with the client. The resulting designs were handed over to the technical team who developed the site in Plone. The site launched in November 2007.

Professor Jonathan Woodham, Director of CRD: “Working with Cogapp has been a highly beneficial experience. We learnt, through observation of user testing, just what was missing from our old research website and, working with the young and flexible Cogapp team, have been provided with an excellent, original and efficient design solution that signals the imaginative research ethos that we required.”

To read more about this project please visit:

http://www.cogapp.com/portfolio/html/CRD.html

http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/

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Project: To create an identity for a newly renovated boutique B&B, camp site, holiday cottage and yurts. Then to follow on with stationery, other marketing collateral and a web site with a CMS.

Brand: The identity created was made to be flexible, built up from illustrative silhouettes taken from elements of the landscape and nature surrounding Graig Wen. I then applied this to letterheads, business cards, invoice templates, signage and adverts.

Web Site: A simple, phase one web site. My designs were implemented by two technical freelancers.

To visit the web site go to: www.graigwen.co.uk

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A collection of photos taken in Paris in 2002. I went for a week to research street artists, work which then went on to form the foundation of my dissertation.

On one long walk looking for work by Nemo (top line, middle row), my friend and ended up on a busy shopping street and noticed a seven story building that had been decorated with plastic flowers and a sign saying ‘Electron Libre’.. Upon investigation we discovered an artists squat, complete with indoor city farm featuring chickens and a sheep. In one window i spotted the ‘also women can paint’ protest sign.

During another days wandering we stumbled upon an exhibition by Bob and Roberta Smith entitled ‘It’s not easy being a famous Artist’. The exhibition consisted of a relatively small gallery space filled with handpainted signs which were all slagging off famous artists in a very puerile, but hilarious, way. A couple of favourites were ‘Degas is Mental’ and ‘Martin Kippenberger is a Twat’.

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A letterpress piece created in a one day workshop. The title of the workshop was ‘Message in a Bottle’, the messages were then put into bottles and cast out to sea for people to find when they washed ashore..

I decided to use old wooden type from a box of random pieces that was in the corner of the letterpress studio. I liked the idea that the old type was flotsam and jetsam itself and had been cast away and collected up again to use for this purpose.