Magdalen || 2016-18

Throughout the year I have taken part in designing articles for our student magazine, the Magdalen. This has been interesting as it involves the designers being assigned an article that another student has written, and we have to create the visual for it. Over the year I have designed a range of spreads over a variety of topics, from Science to Crime Fiction. It’s been a great way at expanding my skills.

Hidden Typography || 2016

This is an up-market magazine based around the theme of ‘Hidden Typography’. I wanted it to have very strong photographs and typography, which I kept constant throughout the 5 pages we were required to design. I titled my magazine ‘Perspective’, and I found an article on how fonts can completely change and establish a mood, theme and identity of a city. 

Beauty In The Abandoned || 2016

I undertook a photography module in my third year of uni. It was very open, we just had to produce a series of images by the end.
I chose to theme my images around the theme of finding beauty in abandoned and old things. I visited a variety of derelict places around Dundee and these were the final ones.

Read All About It || 2016

Our university was holding an exhibition to celebrate author HG Wells. We were given the opportunity to create a 3 page A2 broadsheet highlighting a particular year in his life, where I got the year 1902. We also had to include inventions and news from our given year. 

The above was my final outcome. I wanted to contrast the black and white images with a pop of colour; the blue. 

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Magfest || 2016

 For this project, we were tasked with creating a magazine in groups of four. The magazine would then be given out to 350 people at Edinburgh's annual Magfest event in September 2016. The magazine could be based on any theme we wanted, so we decided on celebrating the 'Art of Print'. This project enabled us to interview artists and designers while highlighting the beauty of print.

Packaging The Creatives || 2016

 Our fourth project in second year was to pick an artist or art movement and create a product based around them. Research was to be our main focus for this project, we had to completely immerse ourselves in our artist or movement. I chose Andy Goldsworthy as i've always been really fascinated by his work. I decided to create a DIY terrarium kit. It would be a subscription box, aimed at students, in order to get them to inject more green in their homes. It would be seasonal, so there would be a summer, spring, winter and autumn one.