Why let drink decide?

One of this years D&AD briefs. The brief was to communicate to Britain's youngest binge drinkers and their parents. I did 2 posters, one about liver cirrhosis which was aimed at the parents of those aged 8-13 which played to their fears of not being able to recognise their child after they start drinking, and another poster directed at those aged 13-17 themselves about the connection between alcoholism and class A drug use.

Resistance

This was for one of this years YCN briefs, to illustrate the word 'Resistance' in any way we could. I chose to do 3 different conflicts; Israel/Palestine, Police brutality in Rio de Janeiro and Northern Ireland. These 3 are by far my favourite pieces of work so far. The term Resistance can be applied to the means and methods of these combatants, their choice of anonymity or resistance to their brutal acts. All of these conflicts can be viewed from one of 2 standpoints, either you think they're right or wrong, I'll let you decide.

Israel/Palestine

Police in Rio de Janeiro

Northern Ireland

Day in a life

This was one of the more open briefs we were given this year. The idea was to illustrate a day our lives, it could be as extravagant or as mundane as we wanted. I chose to show a very typical day of me just playing video games, but decided to transpose myself into the game, just an average day killing zombies, you know. I decided to apply it to a piece possibly from a game magazine asking the question 'are video games art?'

GQ brief

One of my latest briefs. We were given a choice of redesigning a magazine, including the logo, the front cover and double page spreads. These were done entirely in Indesign. I felt I learnt a lot about the software from this project. It was a long project but I honestly never got tired of staring at Gemma Arterton all day.

Front Cover

Double page spread

Comedy Store

Another project from early in September. These are some vector image cutouts of famous comedians to promote a new season at the Comedy Store, Manchester.

Harry Hill

Billy Connolly

Michael McIntyre

Leaflet cover/redesigned logo

Book Illustrations

Here are some book covers I did in early year 2 of my HND for a series of Penguin Modern Classics. I especially like how these 2 have came out. I used a lot of layer styles and custom brushes and combined them together for the first time successfully. Here we have 'You only live twice' by Ian Fleming and 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest' by Ken Kesey.