Mr and Mrs Wright

One of my favourites from yesterday’s garden party to celebrate Phil and Kyria’s wedding. This one’s a bit of a nod towards Mrs and Mrs Wright by Gainsborough.

It’s June, it’s time for a new calendar

The academic year
I do a lot of work for the education industry, and these institutions insist on having a different year to the rest of us. The academic year is a curious object; in the Northern hemisphere it begins in autumn and ends in the following summer. Southern hemisphere countries like Australia, New Zealand and [...]

Science Academy’s magic invisible uniform

How do you take photographs of a school that doesn’t exist and a uniform that hasn’t been designed yet? Sounds impossible, but this is the second brief I’ve had like this, so I guess I’m now an old hand at making ties, badges, identity cards and school buildings appear from nowhere.
In the above picture you [...]

Digital or litho document printing

I think this was one of the first documents we published using an entirely digital process; normally reports like this would be litho printed. Considerable cost savings were made on this short run document  which then lead to more of the same in digital print. There are some compromises on the finish; this was printed [...]

Logo for Kettering Science Academy

This logo I created was chosen as the symbol for the Kettering Science Academy, which is a new Academy rising from Ise Community College in September 2009. More often than not, the simplest ideas are the best and this logo is a simple reconstruction of an uppercase “K” (the font is Minion), to incorporate a [...]