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Red as remembered

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 12:55:59 +0000

I have a thing for personalised cards. I’ve always loved sending them as thank-yous or to commemorate events. I think this is partly because I earned my first monies as a graphic designer through selling handmade cards at my high school fete.

The act of creating a card reminds me why I like being a graphic designer so much. The card making process has evolved (or degenerated, depending on how you perceive it) from a handmade process to an entirely digital enterprise. Due to the crazy life I lead, I allow myself no more than 30 minutes to create one. Its like speedy-dating Hallmark style.

This is a little card I created for the wonderful Jasia Reichardt and Nick Wadley (whom I met through their Themerson archive) for the wonderful lunch they had for us in January 2011. Its called Red as Remembered.

Kitchen door, 12 Belsize Park Gardens

Fridge door, 30 Overstone Road

Chilli powder from my sister in Chennai, India

Chinese New Year

Will Self, Dr Mukti book jacket

My wedding sari

“Graphic design __________”

admin — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:45:57 +0000

I ran this as an introduction brief for my third year students on the BA @ CSM. It was a short one-week brief and a simple, effective way to get students comfortable with bringing their own perspectives to their practice.

Here are three very different results:

Ben Lee

Louise Naunton Morgan

Guglielmo Rossi

Virtual Faces

admin — Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:07:54 +0000

Virtual Faces [Typographic Portraits] was an exhibition of word portraits inspired by emails sent to me by friends over the period of a year. The exhibition was held in The British Council gallery in Chennai, India.

Using their own words (excerpted from emails), the concept of the exhibition was to reconstruct the personalities and individuals which had been erased or ‘flattened’ by electronic mail. Virtual Faces gave the words of the emails, a new graphic dimension. Friends were envisioned as PCO (Public Call Office) posters, postage stamps, business cards, books, and other graphic objects.

Unfortunately, due to a stolen portfolio situation, I have very little visual record left and will have to try and ferret more out when I head to the archive in India. For now, here’s one friend ‘Hitch’.

Culture Cafe

admin — Thu, 18 May 2000 20:04:36 +0000

One of my first clients in Chennai was the British Council. The British Council is a charity organisation whose aim is to create ‘international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide’.

The Council was an interesting, challenging and really fun client. Due to the range of activities undertaken by the Council, each brief was unique in itself, requiring a different approach and thinking. The projects I did for them ranged from invitations to plays they were hosting to maps for their library. Due to the lost portfolio incident, I have very little of the work I did for them. Here is a leaflet used to advertise the services offered by the Culture Cafe, a forum for young people interested in the visual and performing arts to exchange ideas and share experiences.