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Earlier work, hobby projects and university pieces. Kept for the record rather than the pitch.

Cooper Black A to Z

Every letter of the alphabet answered with a brand whose logotype is set in Cooper Black. The marks belong to their owners; the collection is the piece.

Pop Tiles

Cartoon characters quartered, mirrored and repeated until the face disappears and only the pattern is left. Each one is run at three repeats to find where that happens.

A four-way tiling pattern built from Bart Simpson, his head quartered and mirrored into yellow, red and green blocks.

The same Bart pattern at a tighter repeat, the faces resolving into a symmetrical green and yellow lattice.

The Bart pattern repeated smaller again, now reading as an allover textile print.

A tiling pattern from Lisa Simpson, her spiked yellow hair mirrored into star shapes on red.

The Lisa pattern at a small repeat, the heads packed into a dense red and yellow field.

A looser Lisa repeat, the spiked heads spaced out as yellow rosettes on red.

A tiling pattern from Jessica Rabbit, mirrored into magenta hearts on a maroon and violet ground.

The same pattern quartered, four hearts to a tile.

The Jessica Rabbit pattern at a small repeat, reading as a magenta and purple print.

A tiling pattern from Rick Sanchez, mirrored into a pale teal and cream kaleidoscope.

The Rick pattern at a tighter repeat, the faces resolving into teal medallions.

A large-scale Rick repeat, two heads and a spiked collar filling the tile in teal and cream.

A tiling pattern from Bender, his visor and head mirrored into pale blue arches and eyes.

The Bender pattern at a large repeat, four heads around a cream flower.

The Bender pattern at a small repeat, an allover pale blue field of eyes.

A tiling pattern from Patrick Star, mirrored into a pink pinwheel on green.

The Patrick pattern quartered, four pinwheels to a tile.

The Patrick pattern at a small repeat, reading as a pink and green allover print.

William Hill

Stat cards, head to heads, accumulator units and racing markets, all inside William Hill navy and yellow.

A William Hill stat card: Virgil van Dijk in a Liverpool shirt on navy, with his games, wins, losses and clean sheets in yellow, and a seventy-five million pound price flag.

A card marking the fewest games needed to reach one hundred Premier League goals, Mohamed Salah beside a ranked list of five players.

A card showing Romelu Lukaku reaching sixty goals in ninety-two caps, listed against seven other international scorers.

A line chart comparing Harry Kane and Romelu Lukaku on top-flight league goals scored since the 2012 to 13 season.

A head to head card: Mohamed Salah and Patrick Bamford in shirt graphics, with games and goals beneath each.

A Didier Drogba card noting he is the all-time top scorer in League Cup finals, with three figures beneath.

A combined Liverpool and Chelsea eleven laid out in formation, each player as a shirt with a surname.

Romelu Lukaku's first debut eleven against Norwich in 2011, and Thomas Tuchel's most likely eleven, shown as two team sheets.

A Manchester United Premier League debut scorers list beside the question of whether Jadon Sancho will join it.

Antonio Conte photographed with a trophy, beside a three-row league table from the 2011 to 12 season.

A Wilfred Ndidi defensive coverage card: a heat map of the pitch beside his tackles and interceptions totals.

A William Hill promotion titled Jamie Vardy's Guide to Winding Up The Opposition, a tiled pattern of the player on blue.

An Aston Villa graphic, two players cut out against a dark ground with the club name set large in white and yellow.

A Gonzalo Higuain card marking his loan from Juventus to Chelsea, with his record as a number nine beneath.

A William Hill Double YourOdds unit: Wolves and Manchester United both to win, the price moving from two to one to four to one.

The same Double YourOdds unit in a portrait build, Newcastle United and Brighton both to win at fourteen to one.

A five fold accumulator card, Liverpool at two to seven to beat Southampton, with a shot map beneath the reasoning.

An Acca Freedom card in navy and yellow, headed with an average payout of thirty pounds more on most ten pound five folds.

A card counting the trophies Jurgen Klopp has won since joining Liverpool, one of each, with Klopp photographed waving at an empty stadium.

A William Hill horse racing enhanced special, three named rides to win, priced at nine to one.

A racing market card for the York Ebor Festival: three runners with silks, jockeys, prices and form.

An order of play card for the William Hill World Darts Championship, four evening-session matches listed.

Logo Collection

Ten marks from eight years of small commissions, kept together rather than spread across pages that no longer exist.

Resonate Presents

A poster series for a Manchester techno promoter. One frame, black with a red diagonal, held across a season of bookings.

A Resonate Presents poster for Ben Sims back to back with James Ruskin and Kirk Degiorgio, black and red with cut-out portraits, shown on a red ground.

A Resonate poster for Cleric: a black sheet with a red diagonal slash, the artist photographed in low light.

A Resonate poster for Dax J, the artist in monochrome behind a red diagonal and the date beneath.

A Resonate poster for a DVS1 three hour set, the billing in a red block over a dark warehouse photograph.

A Jeff Mills poster in a different register: acid green and blue over a duotone portrait.

A Resonate poster billing Jeff Mills, Cleric and Freddy K, names stacked in white and red over a colourised portrait.

A Resonate poster for a Keith Carnal four hour set, black with the red diagonal.

A Resonate poster for Mark Broom, the artist photographed against a dark ground with the supporting bill beneath.

A Resonate poster for Pfirter, the artist in monochrome behind the red diagonal.

Design-A-Day

A brief a day, answered in one image. The constraint is the point.

Day one of a daily design practice: an animal mask drawn as a single white curve on black.

Day two: a dream drug, rendered as a white capsule standing on a pale grey ground.

Day three: space, an orange disc with a faint dotted orbit on black.

Day four: a hoverboard, the word HOVER set in black capitals with the O replaced by a board.

Day five: the numeral thirteen drawn as a single black form casting a long shadow.

Day six: a Croatian stamp, a red and blue design set inside a perforated frame.

Day seven: an ampersand built from concentric black rings.

Live Darts TV

A mark built from a dartboard, and the places it had to work: an app, a broadcast backdrop, YouTube and social.

A broadcast backdrop: a repeating Live Darts TV pattern behind an interview, with a lower third quoting Glen Durrant.

The Live Darts TV YouTube channel on a desktop, the banner and video grid in purple and orange.

The Live Darts TV Facebook page with the branded cover image in place.

A Live Darts TV social post in a Twitter timeline, a player photographed in purple and orange.

Passmate

A landing page and two product views for a driving-test booking service.

The Passmate landing page on a phone, held against a bright teal ground.

The full Passmate landing page, a long blue scroll from the hero down through the feature sections.

The Passmate job view on a desktop screen, a blue interface with a listing and its detail.

The Passmate options view on a desktop screen, three candidate cards side by side.

The Evolution of Society

A poster series photographed where it was meant to live: shop windows, hoardings and street furniture.

An editorial poster on a street-furniture panel: a lowercase f on a blue ground, photographed on a shopping street.

The same series in a shop window, a green panel with a cut-out letterform, seen through the glass.

Three posters of the series side by side on a wall, in blue, green and orange, above two chairs.

An orange poster of the series pasted on a hoarding among other bills.

Joey Negro @ Gorilla

One artwork taken across a square post, a wide banner and a six sheet.

The Joey Negro artwork animating, the green maze pattern behind the type shifting.

The Joey Negro at Gorilla poster: the name in orange slab capitals over a green circuit-like pattern.

The same artwork as a wide banner, the type left and the pattern running right.

The poster in a bus shelter, photographed on a suburban road.

LOVE MCR

A heart built from the city's worker bee, made for the appeal after the Manchester Arena attack.

The LOVE MCR mark: a heart built from the worker bee symbol repeated in red on white.

The bee heart printed on a white t-shirt, photographed on a red ground.

ARCHITEC

Letterforms built as objects and photographed, rather than drawn.

An experimental letterform built as a folded white paper structure, photographed on a dark ground.

A letterform built from stacked orange bricks, on a dark ground.

A letterform built as a white angular slab, lit from above on a dark ground.

Baby Box Shop

A storefront built inside Amazon, where the layout is the only thing you control.

The Baby Box Shop Amazon storefront in full: a header with Pink Gifts, Blue Gifts, Neutral Gifts and Accessories, a row of product thumbnails, then alternating lifestyle photographs and customer review quotes down the page.

Concertina CD Case

A CD case that unfolds into one continuous printed surface, the stripes only resolving into a mark when the folds close.

A concertina CD case opened out, the folded panels printed in rainbow stripes that form an X across the fold, beside the grey sleeve carrying the same X as a flat mark.

The same package photographed further: the record in its striped sleeve, the concertina standing open, and the folds lit from the side against black so the zig-zag reads as a structure.

Cocktail Spec

A drinks spec sheet, then the same system as an A-board outside the bar.

A cocktail specification sheet on a clipboard, drinks drawn as flat purple and yellow icons with their builds beside them.

The same sheet as an A-board outside a bar, the icons in white on black.

Obtogon

A display alphabet drawn on an octagonal grid.

The Obtogon alphabet, lowercase letters drawn from octagonal segments in white on black.

Anthony Burgess Book Covers

Three Burgess titles on one system: a flat colour per book, hand-drawn lettering, and a single line-drawn object carrying the story.

A set of Anthony Burgess covers: A Clockwork Orange on orange, One Hand Clapping on teal and MIF on lime, each with hand-drawn lettering and one line-drawn object, shown as flats and as printed paperbacks.

Limbo In Motion

Animated cuts of the Limbo Radio identity, made for the feed.

An animated Limbo Radio cut: a character above the LIMBO RADIO banner, with the evening schedule and its DJ names cycling beneath.

A second Limbo Radio animation, colour blocks sliding behind the mark.

A third Limbo Radio animation, the show titles cycling.

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