I have recently been looking at alternative mediums in which to create aesthetic styles and have subsequently become obsessed with the scanner.

I had never truly considered aspects of art such as form and colour as singular tools of creation before watching a documentary on Mondrian and then Picasso soon after. The emphasis and importance that Mondrian in particular placed upon these two aspects of his work was almost pathological. It opened my eyes to the ways in which we can experiment with these two characteristics and motivated me explore these areas myself.

Deja is a modern take on a 30's Art Deco style, it is highly contrasted in weight and is ideal for headlines. The font also features certain special characters with extra, bold serifs for experimenting with.

Bland Sans is a sans-serif typeface I designed for use on my 52fac.es project and with my Aesthetic Exercise series. It is the first attempt I have made at a truly readable sans-serif and works well at sizes down to 6 or 7pt. It has been designed to blend in to the background rather than stand out on it's own and is available for purchase here.

The works that follow are all digital manipulations (randomly generated by the computer) of four abstract paintings. In this short zine I wanted to explore the aesthetics that arise when combining abstract physical and digitial media.

In my classes I have recently been debating the value and aesthetic qualities of art within literature with particular reference to how we judge art. Inevitably the timeless question arose during my studies: What is art?

This then lead me to many other questions, namely:

Is this work less significant or ‘good’ because it is computer generated?

Are any emotions or thoughts evoked as a result of the images meaningless due to their creators lack of such human traits?

Are any human interpretations of these images meaningless due to their calculated formation?



You can view the entire zine on NoLayout.

In my continued efforts to venture from the clean cut lines often associated with graphic design I have been using my hands a lot more recently. My hands and, more specifically, sharpies. Decay is a small zine documenting one of my many attempts with the pen.



You can view the entire zine on NoLayout.

52faces is a project I set up to explore typography and share my creations with people. Essentially I am aiming to create a typeface for every week of the year. You can see the site over here.