Pick Me Up London 2014

This weekend I said a final farewell to Pick Me Up London. Here's my small selection of my favourites.

1) Cat Island by Jessica Das: each piece was cat themed and full of cat-filled goodness. Cats!!
2) This Frida portrait by Lou Taylor is made from finely delicate paper cut pieces, it's a wonderful homage to the Mexican painter.
3) Neon/fluro colours have been my new favourite thing ever since I invested in fluorescent gaffa tape. Which I think is why I love Annu Kilpelainen's use of neon colours, I'm always envious of any illustrator/design who can use such a luscious colour palette well.
4) Beautiful lettering by Jordan Metclaf, I love the way the strokes on the letterforms fade with that gradient, it's almost like the words are submerged in the page.
5) Paper stock is half the design and this is personified in the Jessica Das's funky fluorescent piece.

Riso

Last month myself and fellow designer, Charlotte, decided to visit Bolt Editions and set ourselves a short two-day project, we wanted to use their Risograph to really experiment with the printing process. I created a fluro pink poster fold CV as a nice little send-out and we both collaborated on a hand lettered poster.

Update: I've loved my time at Ravensbourne, but one thing which I felt I really missed is printing and traditional processes (like letterpress, screenprinting and risographing), so this poster is highlighting that, as it's risographed (which is sort of an old school technique compared) that and this is sort of an in-joke between us Rave alumni. I can assure, I'm a Ravensbourne-er through and through! ;)

Open Quote Initiative

Contuined from The Open Quote Initiative The book encapsulating the discoure of the gender imbalance within the design industry. After a long night of binding the project is really coming together.

The Open Quote Initiative

A little snapshot of my current project focusing on the under representation of women in design. The Open Quote Initiative aims to create a discourse within the design community, capturing some existing conversations already occurring in our industry on the gender disparty.

Each pull quote from the book has a corresponding number which links to The Open Quote Initiative Forum where the debate continues and provides a platform for designers and thinkers to further engage in the issues highlighted.

The book is set in Mrs Eaves, a typeface which pays homage to one of the many women in typographic history.