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Strathclyde Undergraduate Prospectus
I was put in charge of this last year, and its now available in both print and online here. I've uploaded a few of the section intro spreads to my portfolio.
The process was quite reliant on images provided from the university, and sourcing very limited stock. One freezing cold day in February with photographer Tom Muir was enough to shoot four locations, most notably for the Sauchihall street panoramic across the inside front and back covers.
You can download the full prospectus, or individual sections here.
The Big Christmas Invite
The last few years i've had time to make cards for the holiday season. This time I've just been too busy, and planning what we're doing for our house party is taking up valuable thinking time. But I did have a spare afternoon to come up with a snazzy invite. Only by email - enjoy.
Four issue later ...
After waiting a year I've finally decided to put some work up from gay travel magazine Out Traveler. As usual, full sized versions are available to see on flickr right here.
These have been the most informative graphics i have ever worked on. Meticulous detail to copy has made this a refreshing and eye opening project i'm happy to have been involved with.
White Light Media website
There haven't been any updates or new work in a while. Don't worry though I'm still alive. Since moving into a new job at White Light Media as a designer I've been dedicating my time to them, and side projects have taken a back seat.
One of the first jobs there was to come up with a new website. Many days, and input from everyone there has resulted in the new site which you can see by clicking the link above. It simply couldn't have been put together without the expertise of Nick at Primitive State. Many thanks to him, I'm sure he'll be happy to not hear from me for a while after this project.
My Sawyer nickname is...
TYPE INDICATION™
A friend and colleague of mine Mark McCormick has launched his website recently. If you ask me, his graphics blown anything else being done right now out of the water. Incredible levels of detail combined with a clean simple style are perfectly suited to any newspaper reader looking for a little more. With redesigns of graphics for The Guardian and The Publico already, he's going far fast.
TYPE INDICATION™
Full sized work on Flickr
I've decided to put up work at its original size on Flickr. Now you can see most things at excruciating detail if the 600px versions aren't enough for you.
Go to the Flickr set
Threadless t-shirt winner
Its taken a while, but I finaly have a design up on Threadless.com. All of the guys sizes have sold out in one day, not to shabby if I don't say so myself. I didn't even get time to buy myself one.
Up and running
Four colour black is a term coined from "four colour printing", and "two colour black" where 40% of cyan is also used to print rich black. By adding cyan, magenta, and yellow it becomes "four colour black". It is virtually impossible to print text over this.
Given that four colour black is a term not fondly used it serves its purpose brilliantly as my alias.
This is version 2.0 of my online portfolio. A selection of new work is available to browse in the Portfolio section, and random observations will surprisingly be found in the new Observation section. I suppose you could say this is a blog, but I think thats a dirty word so I wont say it... again.
Enjoy,
Adam