Coldwood Community Foundation_Logo Design

My Runners-Up Entry for Photoshop Creative Readers' Challenge, Issue 87

Runners-Up Artwork for the Readers' Challenge

My Winning Entry for Photoshop Creative Readers' Challenge, Issue 81

My Winning Entry 'The Kingdom'

Creative Typography_Design Tips

For any Graphic Designer, typography can a daunting subject if they are not familiar with the principles of typography even at a basic level.  I personally had an ongoing battle with typography in my less experienced years in design.  How do you choose the right font? And all fonts look the same !  Those were primarily my negative thoughts.  However with age and experience I am personally getting to grips with typography. I see typography as a more skeletal structure of your design now, because its not visually pleasing as an image, typography can often be neglected.

In this blog I'd like to share with you a basic understanding of using type creatively from my personal experiences.  This isn't a full detailed and outlined course on typography looking at the anatomy, hierachy, composition of typography. This post is a more of a playful experiment in using type creatively. 

Creative Experiment:

My quick typographic experiment

Sofiya Make-Up Artist_Logo Design



Final logo in colour, and solo tone black and white

Studio Momentum_Logo Identity Creative Process

ClickBox_Logo Identity Creative Process

Logo Design Process_Stock Box

Logo Design Project Questionnaire

Before commence any Logo/Branding Project, the first task for me is to sit down with the client or email them over a quick questionnaire for them to fill in regarding the project.  The questions are simple and help to get the client involved with the project from the start.  An involved client is a happy client. The collective answers then provide the designer a design brief to focus on and follow as a ground foundation.  The questionnaire can also protect the designer if a client turns around and disputes something they mentioned at a later stage; having the questionnaire written in the clients words helps the designer to fall back on the answers written by the client for any disagreements.  Written information from the client is a much safer source than verbal information, as verbal information gets forgotten or misinterpreted. 

My New Business Cards



Business Card Front

Digital Illustration_The Kingdom_02

Digital Illustration_Social Outcast_Fashion Pollution





Social Outcast

Social Awareness Campaign Project_NSPCC_Burnt Doll

Reading Society Crompton Library_Logo Design

Creative Freedom_Digital Illustration

Apocalyptic World_Digital Illustration

Apocalyptic Manchester

Digital Illustration_Natures Struggle

All nature is rooted down to the Earth.  As being rooted, we all face struggles being alive, and the falling leaf resembles the 'hope' we all reach out to grab.

Digital Illustration_The Fallen

This Illustration was about experimenting with colour and texture to create an old distressed and gothic like feel. 

Logo Design Process: Oldham Youth Forum

Design Brief:

A new non-profitable Charity Organization called ‘Oldham Youth Forum’ were in need of an identity to kick start their campaign.  The aims of organization are to help support the local youths in the local community and prosper them with a better future through the organizations support and guidance.

The look and feel of the logo has to illustrate a welcoming feel, freedom, fun, safe environment, colourful, energy and illustrate youth.   

The final logo had to work both in full colour and also solo black and white, to make it more versatile to implement across all mediums of the organization from stationary to physical implementation of the logo on uniforms etc.

The logo had to be also iconic, where it can be used as just an icon on its own without the Organizations name, to make it further more versatile.  The icon needs to be aesthetic and clearly state the organizations aims and objectives of helping Youths.

Digital Illustration_Fashion Pollution_03



3rd Illustration in the "Fashion Pollution" Series