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UTS GRADSHOW
the branding for this years UTS Gradshow
Behance printed edition Featured projects Free May 2015 www.behance.net
LCA MURAL
interview with Joe Harrison about his most recent project
STEPH BAXTER
this years hand drawn type from Steph Baxter
hello! This is the first edition of Enhance from Behance showing the best of each months projects. Showcasing a range of handpicked work from students and professionals. Design matters, Behance has only ever been part of the digital atmosphere but now Enhance is showing just how great print can be and the different viewing qualities it has compaired to digital. Creativity in the art and design world prtinted for everyone.
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Steph Baxter www.behance.net/stephsayshello www.stephsayshello.co.uk/ @stephysayshello Stephanie Baxter, a freelance illustrator living & working in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Steph graduated from Leeds College of Art & Design in 2009 and since then has worked with a wide range of clients. Stephanie works both traditionally with pen, paper & ink, as well as digitally to create her illustrations. She is hard working and makes every effort to ensure the work she delivers is 100%. If you would like to commission her for your latest project, or simply chat feel free to get in touch.
Lagom Hand Lettered Cards A set of hand lettered cards available to buy through Lagom Design
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The Guardian: Cook Supplement
Jamie Magazine
A hand lettered cover for The Guardian’s Cook supplement, for August 2014.
Hand lettered elements for the Christmas Issue of Jamie Magazine 2014.
Countryside Magazine Cover
Mollie Makes Magazine
A cover illustration for the re-brand of Countryside Magazine.
Full page illustration for Mollie Makes magazine.
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Self Branding by Katie Rothery www.behance.net/katierothery @katiemayrothery A rebrand for myself, looking at my side profile siloute adding a K to the logo to symolise me. The logo works across a range of media and stationary.
Design Process by Alex Phipps www.behance.net/alexphipps www.alexphipps.co.uk Brief: The brief asked us to produce a leaflet that shows your design process. I wanted to create something which I could use to help me keep on track with my briefs - but also something that could help other designers too. It would therefore need to be split into defined; easy to understand steps. (I did this with five simple steps - showing the general format of a brief, and the process designers generally go through.) The leaflet would also act as a poster, so that it can be hung, to remind myself and others of the process. The leaflet therefore had to be visually appealing to a designer: something they would hopefully stick up on their wall/workstation. I chose an isometric illustration style to simply illustrate the process, using conveyor belts as a means to focus on the process.
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Modern Art Launch Exhibition by Sophie McDonald www.behance.net/sophiem @sophie_mccc For a college project we had to design our own websites based on research into a particular field. I chose to look into modern art movements. For the advertising of the website I chose to promote a launch exhibition that would kick off the website by displaying artwork from past and present modern artists.
Feathr Wallpaper Feathr have held a competition for up and coming artists to design wallpaper for them to put on sale on their website, these are my designs. The target audience for the wallpaper is stylish young home owners who want something unique on their walls They want something they can love and can talk about They are piece buyers, thrift shoppers, design aficionados, and savy story seekers.
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Billie Self Branding by Billie Meredith www.behance.net/billiemeredith @Ex_Stormtrooper My personal branding I feel is effective and represetents me well. I have a habit of the less time I spend on design the better it is. I incorporated by own handwriting alongside my interests. It was clear and concise and I feel represents me and my style well.
6 YCN Gap Student Campaign by Liam Bailey-Meagher and Alex Phipps https://www.behance.net/liambaileygd www.behance.net/alexphipps
Brief: Promote Gap’s 25% off for students. We used Gap’s brand typeface, Helvetica Neue bold to naturally convey the simplicity and cleanliness of Modernist Swiss design. The rigorous grids and flush alignment stays true to Gap’s image due to the modernism and traditionality it connotes simultaneously; highlighting Gap’s historic presence and its ability to stay above the trends in being timeless.
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UTS Gradshow
Oliva King www.behance.net/oliviaking www.oliviaking.com Olivia King is a designer based in Sydney, Australia. With passions for typography, branding, illustration and language, she’s a paper-loving challenge-seeker, who sees opportunity in everything and harbours a not-so-secret love of red wine. When not watching reruns of The West Wing, listening to The National or reading David Sedaris, she is currently working on a freelance basis and is always on the look-out for the next exciting project. Feel free to say hi, follow her semi-eventful Instagram or see more work at oliviaking.com.
In creating and identity design for the 2015 UTS Visual Communications Grad Show, we wanted to portray the fun, youthful and dedicated personalities of this year’s graduates, particularly with reference to the idea of “working our butts off ” and their “exposure” to the industry. Using a series of visual and verbal puns, a mark and identity was esablished across a variety of collateral including letterpressed invitations, screen printed posters, bags, book, website and exhibition mural. Designed together with the ever-talented Sebastian Andreassen, with help from Nina Harcus, Steph Tsimbourlas. Check out the website designed by Elle Willams.
“Culturally engaged, conceptual thinkers, this year’s well rounded graduates will be showing off their greatest assets at the 2015 Grad Show. With work ranging from information design, print, typography, motion graphics, apps, digital media and illustration, this exhibition showcases their wit-wielding, money-makin’ intellect and most importantly, their exquisitely shaped personalities.”
MURAL interview with
Joe Harrison www.behance.net/joseharrisones @joeharrison216
An interview with Joe Harrison about his most recent project a wall mural at Leeds College of Art.
Whats the project about? I have been developing my hand rendard type this year and I wanted to do something on a wall to work on a larger scale. I wanted to do a quote but didn’t want to do anything cheesy. This is a quote from Duglas Adams that I feel is very relivant to graphic design as every graphic designer looks forward to lunch, time to chill and time away from the computer screen. Who is the project for? Mainly for me to get better at hand rendard type and to leave something behind at the collage How long has it taken you?
What do you plan to do after graduation this year?
I have been doing it in little bits but I would say about 10-12 hours all together
I would like to work freelance for abit, I would like to get a job that allows me to be creative. I want to save for a year and go traveling for a bit. I would defiinatly like to do more murals.
What would you tell people that want to get better at hand rendared type? Other than practice, look at practice videos. Get more confident with your hand through practicing every day. I did drawing tests when I was younger doing simple activities such as drawning a stright line free hand making you more confident with your hand, also learning about your hand and wrist movement.
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Self Branding by Molly Goggin www.behance.net/MollyGogg @MollyGogg This was a personal project in order to brand myself and create an identity. I have drawn the logo by hand then later digitalised it for use on other platforms.
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Danielle Muntyan www.behance.net/daniellemuntyan http://daniellemuntyandesign.dunked.com “With a feminine, Nineties-inspired aesthetic and a portfolio of unusual lookbooks, this young graphic designer is set to go far, whether in her natural habitat of the fashion industry or beyond.” - Grafik Magazine, 2014. My style of work is a mix of feminine visuals combined with collage, vinyl and typography -creating an eclectic, diverse and engaging aesthetic.
Splash Branding and Identity for a design studio called ‘Splash Design’ which I have come up with for a current brief I am working on. The studio specialises in contemporary and alternative graphic design. The branding and identity has been inspired by digital collage and the concept of a ‘splash’ of colour, shape and form in their works. The collages have all been hand made using old cut up magazines and stuck together with glue. These were then scanned in and worked with digitally.
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Self Branding I want something which can be adapted as I progress in my career and become more specialised in the field I want to work in, Fashion. At present, for freelance work and meeting new/ existing clients, I need a basic letterhead, business card and invoice, as well as a working website. I also want to include a CD with a mini-teaser portfolio showcasing examples of my work relevant to the client and project at hand. By doing so, the content can be easily and quickly adapted to the job being pitched for, tailoring the portfolio as to what the client wants and needs to see. To resolve this problem, I have stripped the branded elements
back to basics, removing the need of printed portfolio books, and using a digital version to send to clients and employers instead. Opposed to having a complex range of branded elements, I wanted something simple yet impactful, therefore decided on having a range of interchangable and adaptable pieces of branded stationery. The bold, bright and playful aesthetic reflects the visuals, colour, typography and imagery used in my work, allowing for a fun, retro, feminine and 90s tone to be portrayed, as reflected through my completed works.
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Food in the Loop by Helen Street www.behance.net/helenstreet mothecreative@gmail.com The aim of this project was to create a poster range that raised awareness about sustainablility in the food cycle. Each poster targets a different problem within the food cycle whilst the overall design style remains the same. This has helped add consistency and strengthen the campaign.
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As it stands, 40% of J2O consumption is by those aged 16 and under. The current artwork design is not seen as ‘adult’ by many. We’d therefore like you to redesign J2O to appeal to a target audience of 25-35-year-old men and women. The design should make them proud to be seen holding J2O in bars, restaurants and at home, and should bring through J2O’s expressive, unpretentious and playful personality. Designs must be created for both our Orange & Passion Fruit flavour and our Apple & Mango flavour.
Changing the colours based on the flavours and toning them back is a detail which links to the images of the fruit, and gives the images more relevance than just being there because J2O said they boost sales. The bottles need to be able to stand out in bars, so the labels will be white rather than see-through, as this creates a strong contrast between the colour of the juice in the bottle and the labels without the stock affecting the printed colour. Using white labels rather than transparent ones also allows continuity between the bottle branding and the 4 pack packaging.
Eddie Perrote
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www.behance.net/eddieperrote www.eddieperrote.com Eddie Perrote is a trained illustrator, designer, and a Wisconsin transplant living and working in Brooklyn, NY. With a strong identity of personal style and an interest in visual wordplay, his drawings and paintings are dense and elaborate images dripping with hyper-saturated pigments: An intense devotion to technical craft and a large-scale imagination create an ever-growing holistic universe in which the viewer can become lost. Inspired by form, pattern, and color born from a love of all things bright and shiny - energy and enjoyment abound in a vibrantly acidic world: a decadent celebration in honor of the imagination: exploration into the deepest catacombs of the mind - and beyond, yield unexpectedly unique results.
FricotĂŠ Magazine A full page editorial illustration created for FricotĂŠ Magazine, a food and culture magazine based in Paris, France. The illustration accompanied an article which was a review of a vintage wine paired with a song from the same year.
SCATEGORIES SCATEGORIES by Leanna Perry, Eddie Perrote, and Bill Rebholz March 28th-April 11th, 2014 The Abstracted Gallery 1618 Central Ave NE Suite 110 Minneapolis, MN 55413 “With the invention of the internet, super phones and the abstract thought of “cloud” data, we’ve enabled our minds to perceive more information, decrease our mental clutter and externalize our memories. Through organizing the brain we present windows into the cerebral world of structure, chaos, habitual patterns, and seemingly infinite layers of content. It’s these informalities that create, vivacious energy, and eccentricities that feed the visual cacophony of information ever gathering within our minds. Scategories is a brain-to-hand graphic wonderland of illustration, analog design, and hand-lettering. Be dazzled by an exaggerated and extravagant landscape of psychedelic flair and twirling thoughts, motivated by the overwhelming desire to organize and decorate.”
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The Creative Chalenge Design a marketing tool that will promote the new Sirio Ultra Black paper range. My Solution I produced a series of intricate paper aeroplanes as a new marketing tool for the Sirio Ultra Black paper. The paper aeroplanes act as the body of a campaign which consists of dramatic photos which can be used across multiple platforms to raise awareness of the Sirio range as well as a mailer which can be sent to studios which features one of the said planes and a few stock sample booklets. The paper aeroplanes are inspired by the connotations of stealth that resonate with the Sirio range.
The aim is to present designers with a physical paper aeroplane with which they can interact with and then perhaps display in their studio space. The plane design is held in a secure position with two paper straps which allows the plane to hover above the contents of the box. This makes sure the designer receives the plane undamaged. Alongside it, the mailer features a series of stock test sheets which have been bound in a way for easy distribution amongst the studio and to create a simple, interactive experience. The completely black colour scheme keeps in tone with the campaign with a constant focus on Sirio Ultra Black’s darkness. The clean finish of the mailer is aimed to appeal to the high aesthetic standards of the modern designer.
YCN Fedrigoni by Ashley Woodrow-Smith https://www.behance.net/ashleyws mothecreative@gmail.com
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