Sins Serif: Confessions of a Typographer at Pick Me Up –Somerset House

I'm very excited to be taking part in this year’s Pick Me Up, a brilliant annual graphic arts festival based at Somerset House in London.

Running for its fifth year, Pick Me Up is a vibrant contemporary festival showcasing everything graphic art-related, from both new and established illustrators and designers showcasing their work, to events, talks and interactive workshops to get involved in.

On Monday 5 May, Purpose have been invited to organise a day of typographic loves, hates and guilty pleasures entitled ‘Sins Serif: Confessions of a Typographer’. We’ve got a range of sinful activities lined up, including a series of sermons and creative workshops, where you’ll have the chance to create your very own typographic masterpieces. In need of some soul cleansing? Why not enter our very own confession booth and share all your typographic guilty pleasures.

Moving away from the traditional art fair, the festival looks set to be a fun, eclectic mix of events, and you can find out more about the programme here. You can also follow Sins Serif through their Twitter account here - make sure you tweet your confessions to @SinsSerif if you’d like to see them projected around the event space.

Join us on 5 May and seek typographic redemption at Somerset House.

YCN Interview

I was recently interviewed by the team at YCN about my recent collaboration with Royal Mail, and the tough task of telling ten Remarkable stories within 35mm of space.

As a 2013 YCN Award winner, I was invited to share my role in the Remarkable Lives project along with some of the challenges we faced – namely trying to tell these “incredibly rich stories in such a limited amount of space”.

Find out more about what I've been up to since winning the award and the process behind creating the stamps, in the interview here.

InsideOut SF Poster

We were recently approached at Purpose by Mucho, and AIGA San Francisco to contribute a poster depicting our interpretation of the city of San Francisco, for an upcoming exhibition entitled InsideOut SF.

The exhibition will explore the variety of interpretations and opinions on this popular destination. A stellar list of contributors from the Bay Area (Inside) and leading creatives from around the World (Out), were asked to give their graphical perception of the city.

Our earliest memory of San Francisco comes from the geography classroom and learning about the world’s fault lines – the most famous being the San Andreas Fault. We experimented with the fragility of a city on a fault line and produced a two leaved poster. The top sheet being torn in half through middle of the typography, to reveal the fault line running through San Fran.

The posters will be on display and available for purchase in a silent auction at the AIGA/SF Fall Gala at Terra Gallery, on 12 November, with money raised funding scholarships and educational and community events throughout the year.

The posters were produced on two different GF Smith Colorplan embossings, printed in two colours, hand torn and the two leaves then combined to create the final poster. A huge thanks to GF Smith for providing the lovely embossed Colorplan and to Darwin Press for all their help with the print.

http://insideoutsf.org/ 

YCN Professional Awards

I am extremely delighted to announce that I have been selected as one of the lucky 25 winners of a YCN Professional Award. 

The award is a brand new professional award programme for emerging creative talent internationally.

It aims to elevate, celebrate and recognise outstanding talent rising up within the creative industries internationally. This award programme has been created for those who have graduated, or begun working professionally, in the last 8 years.

The award ceremony is this Thursday at Shoreditch house where I will be able to meet the other winners and pick up my shiny trophy designed by Craig Ward. Read more here http://www.ycn.org/awards/ycn-awards/2012-2013

Simon Beattie – Shortlist 5 gets in book at D&AD;

The latest shortlist I produced for Simon Beattie in collaboration with good friend Robin Howie won an 'In Book' award at this years D&AD awards. Great stuff

Apprenticeships identity wins Bronze Cube

A major re-brand I have been working on at Purpose, For Apprenticeships, for the past year has picked up a coveted ADC Bronze Cube from the Art Directors Club Awards. The work will be live soon on the Purpose website soon so keep your eyes peeled.