Client: K.W. Doggett Fine Paper.
Project: Promotional calendar.
Concept: K.W. Doggett create a promotional calendar every year and in 2010 it was given to the AGDA student council to complete. The calendar was a collaboration between Tahlia McBride, Alicia Grady and myself, along with our industry mentor Jodi Edwards. My responsibilities included; retouching the images and designing the front cover. The concept was to look at paper and its role in an environmentally sustainable world. With this in mind students from colleges and universities in Queensland used their ingenuity to recycle paper and make new works of art for the calendar.

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Client: Tina De Graves.
Project: Identity and packaging.
Concept: Gifthorse is a boutique gift store that sells artist made gifts, vintage home wares and bespoke stationery. My concept was to consider gift giving and how it connects people. There is always a story that accompanies a piece of artwork. This story can change for whoever has the gift; the maker, the giver and the receiver, thus it connects them all. The colloquial word for story is yarn, and Gifthorse becomes the ball of yarn from which many strings reach out to embrace those lucky enough to receive it.

For the website only five web pages were required: home, browse, about, paper and one product page, for the ahoy card, you can view it here.

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Client: British Interior Textiles Association.
Project: DL brochure and poster.
Concept: Reflecting the client’s association with the textiles industry, I wanted the stock to look like fabric, not paper. I photographed the backgrounds of the fabric along with a few vital tools, pins, needles, tape measure and thread. I embroidered the logo for the front cover to continue the hand made, tactile theme.

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Client: Orhan Pamuk.
Project: Restaurant identity and website.
Concept: Haz Almak is a sophisticated restaurant specialising in fine Turkish cuisine. The brief stated they needed to stand out from the myriad of kebab stores and budget Turkish restaurants. I incorporated the concept of Turkish tea houses as a place for people to come together, while using the old Ottoman script letters of ‘H’ and ‘A’ to make the mark.

The support graphics illustrate the paths of many different people as they go about each day, sometimes crossing, or even joining.

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Client: KeiKan Japan’s largest sake brewer.
Project: Identity development, including a custom logotype, support graphics, packaging and labels.
Concept: White Snake is a sake and green tea infusion, which is aimed at the ready-to-drink beverage market. The brand is to appeal primarily to females ages 18–25.
My branding concept was based on the legend of the white snake, the story of a snake demon who turns into a woman. To keep an Asian influence to the design, I used simulated hand rendered strokes, a wood grain texture and earthy colours reminiscent of early Japanese wood block prints.

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Client: Brisbane Marketing.
Project: Programme, Billboard, Graphic Standards booklet with DVD and website.
Concept: The Valley Fiesta has been around for 15 years and is Brisbane’s biggest street party. The idea for the design was to appeal to all demographics and ages. I chose to use a retro cartoon theme to make the identity look friendly to families as well as party goers and revellers. The vintage theme encompasses vector graphics as well as photographs, and sprouted from the heavy use of illustration, often with a nostalgic feel, that is used on many concert posters today.

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Client: Australian Type Company.
Project: Type specimen poster.
Concept: This poster is a type specimen to showcase the font Perpetua. My concept was to represent and layout the poster like a scientific specimen sheet. I chose to include the most unusual glyphs and characters which were particularly beautiful. By looking at type in this way the viewer can appreciate individual forms more clearly than when viewed in a series of written characters.

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Client: Bloomfield Lodge.
Project: Promotional booklet.
Concept: Bloomfield lodge is a luxury resort in North Queensland which offers seclusion nestled between the beach and the rainforest. This brochure design includes photo treatments using a mix sepia tones and full colour photographs, giving the feeling of escape whilst still retaining a sense of reality. The photos are displayed at large sizes to show the beauty of the environment. White space around the text enhances the feeling of privacy and seclusion from the outside world.

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Client: Cotton On.
Project: Sub-identity and stationery range for kids.
Concept: Popular stationery store Typo have grown so rapidly they are ready to branch out and create a range of unique stationery for children. The mark mimics the bold black of the Typo logo, but retains a feeling of child-like wistfulness. The graphics were influenced by retro designs of the 60s, utilising large simplified shapes and muted colours to appeal to kids of any age. I chose easily recognisable ‘friendly’ animals arranged into a pattern, created with lino prints, then digitised to achieve a softer hand generated feel.

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Client: Wynyard Plaza.
Project: Identity development, support graphics, stationery set, door hanger.
Concept: Wynyard Plaza is a boutique hotel in Sydney, catering to a sophisticated and celebrity clientele. The hotel was built in the art deco era and, after a refurbishment, still maintains some of its original mouldings and period furnishings.

The identity uses art deco design as inspiration. Peacocks feature in many of the period’s work and this became the perfect symbol for Wynyard Plaza, as these creatures have always been associated with wealth and grandeur. The logo became a very stylised open peacock’s tail and used the animal’s colours of blue and gold. The door hanger also carried through the form of the support graphic and became an elegant peacock head.

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Client: Brad Salsbury.
Project: Identity, website and direct mail piece for a print production manager.
Concept: Salsbury Production is a company that handles print production for designers and studios. They needed a brand that represented the owner, Brad Salsbury and his personality. Brad is quintessentially Australian, a hard worker who also loves to have a laugh.

My inspiration came from thinking of a print job as a maths equation. There are many elements that need to be added and subtracted for the job to be completed. To tie in with the maths theme, graphs and information graphics were also used in a humorous way to explain what it is that Salsbury Production can do for their potential clients.

Direct Mail: Salsbury Production wanted to target specific companies with their direct mail out, so a personalised piece was a must. The most important thing Salsbury Production can offer is saving their clients time.

The concept was to mail part of a clock, missing some hours in the first instalment, which was then followed up with the rest of the clock directing them to a web address. The landing page is personalised with the recipients name and gives a little information about Salsbury Production, prompting them to click the button and enter their email address. This lets Brad know they are interested and he can follow up their expression of interest with a phone call.

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