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Click on the images to enlarge.Front Cover Table of Contents and Introduction This editorial is based on the letter 'U'. The magazine is  called "uni" and includes a double page spread (above) on Adrian Frutigers life as a type designer and his typeface 'Univers'.

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Sexual HarrassmentRacial Discrimination PoliciesPersonal DevelopmentSports and Social Club These are a set of employee handbook covers for Unigate the dairy.  They all have milk bottles photographed from above and use the coloured tops to produce an idea based on the specific title for each handbook.

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This is my packaging for jams that came from Jamaica, branded "JAM JAH". The corrugate card is supposed to look like rusty corrugated metal that you can find on a Jamaican beach hut or shanty house. The card was  painted so that when the jars were stood together they would look like the rastafarian flag. 

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When the coat hanger is upside down it shows a butchers hook and the copy at the bottom reads about the slaughter of rabbits for their rabbit fur. When the coat hanger is turn around the right way the copy at the bottom reads about what items of clothes are made using rabbit fur.

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Brief: Undertakers? A great career opportunity. Convince school leavers that they should pursue a career in the funeral industry.

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The brief was to design a poster for the Tate Modern Gallery to promote an Exhibition of 20th Century Art, which is sponsored by Lego and would have the information about it in a swiss type style. A take on the Andy Warhol piece of Marilyn Monroe / Che Guevara.

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"I have two goals. The first is that everything must have an idea; it cannot just look good.The second is that it has to look good.With out visual beauty even a good idea will not pass.Graphic design requires both ingredients but the first priority is the idea." Paul Rand (Graphic Designer)

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I was assigned the letter "U". I had to find a word that began with that letter and turn it into a simple idea. I used the word "unattached". The project was about economy and less is more. Restricted to typefaces, letters, numbers, punctuation and other characters out of my type specimen book.

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My first term is all  hand rendering, which seemed a bit daunting to me as i like to sleep snuggled up with my macbook and due to not being the handiest person with scissors and glue, but computers where banned for the full first 12 weeks. But it's to teach the principles of design and make me think hard and consider the affects of my decisions. A week before I was to start University a letter

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I'v started this blog as a a new years resolution to act as a journal to document the next three years of my life experience at University. Iv just finished my first 12 weeks at Somerset College of Arts and Technology where i'm studying a degree in graphic design with Plymouth University. Ill be posting my work over the forth coming weeks and hopefully by the end of it ill have something to

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