'The Proposal'

One Month Diary

Graphic design, photography, illustration, print
30 pages, full colour, 12cm x 12cm concertina book.

Everyday there are moments to remember; thoughts we quickly scribble down in notepads or perhaps items saved in old boxes.
The One Month Diary is a collection of thirty images that records what occurred each day during a month, thoughts, meetings, people, news and emotions. The images were created in mixed media, from collecting found objects, snap shots, making sketches,and using various textures and materials.
The images are collected in a small, square concertina book, which can be folded out to a long continues strip.The calendar dates are printed on a separate strip of tracing paper layered on top of the images, but can be removed to reveal the images in full. The materials used are paper, card, tracing paper and Velcro.
The aim was to generate a large quantity of ideas, imagery and designs to develop a personal and original visual language.

This is just a few examples of pics, I'll add more soon.

Little Red Ridinghood

Graphic design, illustration, bookbinding, print
A4, 12 page, full colour printed book, hand stitched paper and cardboard

This work is a modern adaptation of the brothers Grimm fairytale of Little Red Ridinghood.The story is set in a modern, urban and undefined location. It follows the teenager Little Red Ridinghood as she makes her way through the city jungle to visit her sick grandmother. The illustrations are created using mixed media; the book is handmade with traditional bookmaking techniques and bound with the stitching method. The graphic novel is aimed at an adult audience, and for the graphic novels market.

Laundry reading

It was not until he had taken out his key that he remembered his wife had changed the lock last week. What she had done was illegal: he owned the house; but he had laughed at the idea she thought he would intrude, when he wanted to be as far away as possible.

The Umbrella, Midnight All Day, Hanif Kureishi, Faber and Faber Ltd, 1999