Design experiments

A working space for early ideas, visual studies, interface sketches, motion tests and small creative fragments that sometimes end up in production.

2020

Loop Noise

Short motion experiments exploring looped noise systems in Cinema 4D, using procedural movement, repetition and simple forms to create abstract animated studies.

Tech stack

Cinema 4D
Redshift Render
ffmpeg
~8 Hours

2019

London Science Events

Poster and animated banner work for the London Science Events held across the Science Museum, Royal Society and Natural History Museum.

Tech stack

After Effects
Aroly Font
ffmpeg
Particle Effects
~4 Hours

2018

Server Skins

An ad hoc office request became a print study for two consultancy servers. I used the methodical structure of circuit boards to create a central reference point, then split the artwork so the two cabinets would read as one connected system.

Server cover print artwork inspired by circuit board layouts

Tech stack

Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Print Asset Compression
~2 Hours

Shiver studio set visual assembled from multiple assets

2018

Shiver Studio

ITV asked me to quickly mock up visual concepts for formats they were testing. One explored a battle-of-the-sexes competition, while another tested whether I could unify a set from loose assets such as a house, tree and beach into a coherent studio world.

Tech stack

Photoshop
Cinema4D
Octane Render
~5 hours

Shiver battle of the sexes concept visual

2017

Showreel

I was starting out as a motion and graphic designer, so I put together a showreel to showcase my early visual, animation and editing work.

Tech stack

Cinema 4D
After Effects
Premiere Pro
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~60 hours

2016

Einstein on the Beach

A typographic interpretation of Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach, using animated visuals for four Knee Plays and optical techniques inspired by Rufus Butler Seder and Bridget Riley's Rhythm.

Einstein on the Beach typographic cover artwork
Einstein on the Beach typographic visual test
Einstein on the Beach typographic test three

Tech stack

After Effects
Paper craft
Stencil lino pattern
~150 Hours

Einstein on the Beach typographic test six

2015

Dream in Color

Experimentation in Cinema 4D with overlays in After Effects to create a moving sequence of type inspired by Maya Angelou's poem Dream in Colour.

Tech stack

Cinema 4D
After Effects
Handbrake
~2 Hours

2014

Kinetic Type Tests

The task was to animate synonyms of a given word "Play". Short motion studies exploring how a word can visually perform its own meaning through timing, contrast and simple transitions. This was an exploration of playful typography.

Tech stack

Illustrator
After Effects
Handbrake
~3 Hours

2013

CNWL NHS Trust

A concept data visualisation for a dynamic clinical research spreadsheet at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, exploring how complex research data could become easier to scan and understand.

Tech Stack

Clinical Research
After Effects
Illustrator
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2011

Typographic Impression

A visual study responding to a given noun, adjective and letterform, merging character work with a typographic impression of Europe, Lady and the letter A.

Draft artwork for the typographic impression study

Tech stack

After Effects
Mixamo
Fuse 3D
Illustrator
Cinema 4D
Watercolor
~12 Hours

2010

The Flannery

I was hired to create a series of pyrography artworks exploring the interplay between heat, wood grain and line work to build an image of the pub down the road.

Flannery pyrography artwork board
Sketch for the Flannery pyrography artwork
Making-of photograph for the Flannery pyrography artwork
Flannery pyrography artwork detail on a coaster

Material

MDF Board x 1
Pyrography tool x 1
Coasters x 10
~80 Hours