NS Natalie Shanks Graphic Designer & Book Artist
Natalie Shanks Graphic Designer & Book Artist hello@natalieshanks.co.uk www.natalieshanks.co.uk
As I go through life, I often find that I am loosening my imagination, so to speak. It is human interaction, chance and curiosity that play a large part in the ignition of my ideas. Influenced by my surroundings or witty flights of imagination, my work seeks to open your eyes, make you look twice or simply recall elements of your own personal experiences.
It is my belief that without notions of reality in design how an earth can you relate to an audience, make them feel what you feel or see what you see. Natalie Shanks
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Every Collection Tells a Story | Book Design
A series of hand bound books, exploring the intrinsic relationship between objects and stories. Each book holds a different narrative of collected badges and memories that are recollected through them.
Every Collection Tells a Story | Book Design
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‘In collecting, each of us can decide what merits interest and fascination, allowing us to create our own knowledge of the past, through an accumulation of the rare, novel and surprising’ 3
Every Collection Tells a Story | Book Design
Every Collection Tells a Story | Book Design
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An Information Assurance campaign, for the company CESG. Aimed at public and civil servants, to raise awareness of the importance of securing electronic data, without being dull. 5
Information Assurance | Advertising
Information Assurance | Advertising
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Information Assurance | Advertising
Information Assurance | Advertising
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Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach | Book Design
A hard bound photographic book, exploring a collection of marine molluscs. Elements of classification, organisation and typology are explored as the collection is displayed throughout the pages. Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach | Book Design
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An illustrative brief to encourage people to see the funny side to bad manners, with a set of hand bound flip books personifying a range of messy table manners. 11
Eat, Drink and be Messy | Illustration & Book Art
Eat, Drink and be Messy | Illustration & Book Art
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Hand crafted illustrations to give a humorous twist to bad manners, whilst still showing how rude and exposing they can be.
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Eat, Drink and be Messy | Illustration & Book Art
Eat, Drink and be Messy | Illustration & Book Art
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A billboard campaign for the furniture company Heals. Promoting extra storage space, by visualising the humorous indirect uses of furniture in the home. 15
Heals Furniture ‘Hiding your Unmentionables’ | Advertising
Heals Furniture ‘Hiding your Unmentionables’ | Advertising
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An interactive direct mail pack for the fictional company Food Friends. To encourage young children to eat healthy and learn about the vital benefits of good foods.
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Food Friends | Branding & Illustration
Food Friends | Branding & Illustration
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Food Friends | Branding & Illustration
Food Friends | Branding & Illustration
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A series of book covers for the fictional publishing company Circuit Break. The books are stories of a society that appears to be perfect but is in fact ruled by a robotic force. 21
Circuit Break | Book Cover Design
Circuit Break | Book Cover Design
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Circuit Break | Book Cover Design
Circuit Break | Book Cover Design
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Pockits | Product Design
Origami T-shirt folded stationary gift packs, branded Pockits. Small enough to fit into most shirt or trouser pockets, the product comes in a variety of patterns and colours with different pens. Pockits | Product Design
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NS Natalie Shanks is an inter-disciplinary Graphic Designer with an eye for craft, wit and tactility. Due to graduate in 2011 with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design, she has a keen interest in book art and the print/publishing industries.
Her work is inspired by everyday objects, people, and actions. She seeks to make you look twice and entertain your imagination. hello@natalieshanks.co.uk www.natalieshanks.co.uk
Index Pg. 1 - 4 Every Collection Tells a Story. Book Design: a collection of three books in a box.
Pg. 5 - 8 Information Assurance. (collaborative project with Luke White) Advertising: office media and posters.
Pg. 9 - 10 Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Book Design: a photographic book. Pg. 11 - 14 Eat, Drink and be Messy. Illustration & Book Art: illustrative flip books.
Pg. 15 - 16 Heals Furniture. ’Hiding Your Unmentionables’ Advertising: promotional billboard designs.
Pg. 17 - 20 Food Friends. Branding & Advertising: logo & interactive direct mail pack.
Pg. 21 - 24 Circuit Break. Book Cover Design: logo and book cover illustrations.
Pg. 25 - 26 Pockits. Product Design: a stationery gift pack.