grace buckley about me
achievements
I am an extremely driven, hard working individual who isn’t afraid to try new things. I am currently interested in branding and packaging design. I like to work with my hands and manipulate hand rendered design digitally.
Student Starpack Commended Star Award
education
skills
BA Hons. Graphic Design Leeds College of Art (2012-2015)
Adobe Creative Suite Screen printing Idea development Illustration (hand rendered & digital) Type & Layout Crafting and hand finishing
BTEC Level 3 Foundation Art & Design Distinction Mid Cheshire College
Featured in the Dialogue exhibition, Corn Exchange, Leeds
A Level Art, Product Design & History AAB Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School 11 GCSEs including English, Maths & Science 9 A*, A, B Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School
norwegian fish cakes jump off the shelves competition
portfolio/professional contact behance.net/graceb gracebuckleydesign@gmail.com
This was a Starpack Student Awards brief to create a new brand with a strong Norwegian identity and then produce innovative packaging for two premium Norwegian fish cakes to make them ‘jump off the shelves.’ The packaging had to use
sustainabl e materials where possible, have good shelf presence and use food safe materials. This project was a winner of a commended Starpack award and is featured on the Starpack website.
nescafé azera competition This was a brief set by YCN to improve the perception of Nescafé Azera by creating a new product innovation, a social media campaign and an in-store campaign.
This response was a collaborative effort, with the main innovation being a coffee shot dispenser with other products that the consumer can take with them ‘on-the-go.’
two halves of print self initiated Fully screen printed book with exampl es of different print techniques that are possible to do at Leeds College of Art. It is a z-bind split into processes and finishes.
sochi 2014 highlights self initiated A Sochi-inspired pattern was created for this publication about the Winter Olympics in Sochi 2014, which runs throughout the book. Each discipline has a tile in the pattern with imagery to represent
goostree designs live brief the equipment used in that event. Each page is about a different event and features medal tables, brief descriptions of each discipline and highlights from the Sochi Olympics.
Logo and branding created for a client’s gardening business. A simple logo was created that would be easily transferrable across a range of media.
type factory self initiated Branding for a new museum about Typography situated in New York City. It features an exhibition focusing on the typographic work of Milton Glaser with an accompanying exhibition guide.
ancient egypt website self initiated This brief was to create a more user friendly website about Ancient Egypt for children than most of the ones that exist currently. I used scanned hand drawn images to illustrate the text in bright colours
to make it more child friendly. I proposed that it would be a responsive design to apply to phones and tablets as well as normal displays.