I am a creative web media designer working for BDP, Europe's largest interdisciplinary practice of architects, designers and engineers in central London
The nature of my work spans from web and intranet design to graphic design and illustration and this site is a showcase to demonstrate the breadth of my work, transferable design skills and artistic input.
NEW! A promotional microsite for A Life in Art & Design - an exhibition to celebrate the career of John Wood, a product and furniture designer and design educator.
Much of my graphic work over recent years has been included in:
From early childhood, I have have had a passion for drawing. From this I developed keen interests in painting, watercolours, graphic design, typography, web media, hand and digital illustration.
I followed a natural path from drawing as a childhood hobby to studying graphic design and visual communication design to postgraduate level and then into working practice. When the opportunities arise, I like to take time to draw as I it often underpins much of my design work and reinforces observation skills, the understanding of light, form and composition.
The brief for the Freccia Rossa project was to create a theme encapsulating the spirit of the Mille Miglia 1000km race that started in Brescia back in 1927.
A combination of hand drawn work and Photoshop was used to generate ideas that would be a consistent theme alongside the centre branding and wayfinding graphics. Some of the artwork used was the very early conceptual work that I’d never intended for use. However, the client liked the raw hand drawn feel and decided to implement it. I had initially produced more informed, better developed and appropriate artwork for this project but since having visited the complex and seen the work throughout, overall I'm pleased with the outcome.
Photographs by David Barbour
