Coerced Confessions || 2018

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. 

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.

What, When, Where? || 2015

As the V&A opening is hot news in Dundee at the moment, one of our projects in second year was to create a double sided A2 broadsheet promoting an exhibition that would be held there. We had to pick a subject or art movement from the 20th century that was considered a classic. I chose to explore 50's and 60's fashion as I felt like those years were a real turning point in fashion, with creations such as the mini skirt, shift dress and leather jacket, to name a few. These are now timeless classics in the world of fashion.

It was our first real introduction to grid systems and layouts as a designer, which were difficult but also rewarding.