PADgraphics

A few recent designs

2011-08-18T22:27:00.000-07:00

ZebraReach.com

2011-05-13T10:10:00.001-07:00

This is one of my favourite recent designs. ZebraReach.com (coming soon) is a centralized website where you can market events, send email updates, and post to Twitter and Facebook! All you need to use Zebra Reach is a web browser and internet connection. The logo I designed consists of a hand reaching out, the zebra theme is achieved through the shape the hand is making and the use of white space zebra stripes coming together to form a zebra head.

Breadcrumb logo

2011-05-13T10:05:00.000-07:00

This is a logo I designed for Breadcrumb... which is a simple, intuitive, friendly and powerful hospitality point-of-sale system that provides the single best user experience for managers, owners, chefs, waiters and bartenders. I wanted to design a logo to reflect the simplicity and friendliness of the system.

Bentos

2010-11-25T07:49:00.000-08:00

Japanese meals in a box logo design.

Compass Leasing & Property Management

2010-11-25T07:46:00.000-08:00

Compass Leasing & Property Management

Summify Social Reader

2010-08-13T16:10:00.000-07:00

Summify are a team of two talented hacker entrepreneurs from Romania, passionate about online software and internet startups! They previously interned at Google and Microsoft and are passionate about programming contests like IOI and TopCoder.

They have built a social news reader... Summify

People are increasingly getting their news mainly from the social networks they're part of, but this is rapidly getting overwhelming. If you're connected with a few hundred people and companies it's hard to stay on top of the news they share. There's currently no way to get the important stuff without going through all your news.

Summify gives you a river of news in a way that you can consume it in minutes, rather than hours. The important stuff bubbles up at the top so, however much time you have at your disposal, you always know you're reading the important stuff first. They achieve this by using your social and interest graphs to curate your news, applying an algorithm similar to Facebook's EdgeRank to rank it, and wrapping it all in a easy to use interface.

They required a logo to symbolize social news reading... a nice newspaper icon seemed to be the solution... Summify

Wrap Someones Heart in a Quilt

2010-07-26T04:48:00.000-07:00

This is a design I have produced for a small home business, run by a single mum, who hand makes beautiful patchwork quilts.

Reveal Diagnostics

2010-06-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Reveal Diagnostics create 3D scans of the head/mouth and large x-rays (but mostly 3D) for dentists placing implant crowns. It's like a CAT scan of the head/mouth, only higher resolution. This is a cutting edge technology (look up Sirona Galileos to see it) in an emerging dental market. Most high end dentists use or want to use this type of technology, but it's price is prohibitive. Reveal Diagnostics offer the scans without buying the entire scanning machine. They required a 3D logo that reflected the nature of their business.

Peterson, Krische & Van Horn DDS

2010-06-30T08:25:00.000-07:00

PKV are a classy dental practice who requested a logo to reflect this. They required something a little outside of the box and away from the usual comic styled teeth and toothbrushes. This design reflects the ideal everyone wants for their teeth pure and natural like a pearl. The 3 pearls also represent the 3 doctors in your practice this combined with classic typography will give the right impression to new and existing patients and shows you are a well established practice. It will provide a feeling of confidence because they have dared to go for a logo which is a little more abstract and unique and do not need the usual clichéd dental logos of toothbrushes, teeth and cheesy smiles.

SEO Review Guide

2010-06-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

This 3D logo was designed with an inspection aspect in mind. The focus of the SEO Review Guide is to provide advice, analysis, technical and marketing support to online businesses to help them make the most of their websites.

MAOTD

2010-06-30T08:16:00.000-07:00

MAOTD is focused on building a community of platform-agnostic users and developers. Users can recommend and vote on applications, games, utilities, and any other mobile software. Developers can bring more attention to their product as well. Android, iPhone, Blackberry, etc. Because they are open to all platforms, the entire user and development community will be welcome. And as new platforms come out, they can roll them right into the fold and give those brave new users and developers greater opportunity to grow their base. This logo was produced to symbolise the daily review aspect of their website with an app type calendar icon forming the logo.

CSD

2010-06-30T08:12:00.000-07:00

This new logo is the cornerstone of CSD new branding efforts as they plan to expand their business and launch their first website.

Cubes - Cinema 4D

2010-03-25T19:04:00.001-07:00

Continuing my cubism theme this is my first animation produced with Cinema 4D, its very short and simple but has a nice effect to it

Particle Face

2010-03-22T21:56:00.000-07:00

Just playing around with some after effects 3rd party plugins and some green screen footage recorded at uni...

Cubism

2010-03-21T10:33:00.000-07:00

A project exploring the use of Trapcode Form in After Effects

Illuminated Organics

2010-02-13T04:24:00.000-08:00

My latest project is to create a short abstract animation based around one of a selection of title themes. I have chosen the title "Illuminated Organics". When I read this title I instantly had thoughts of the strange yet beautiful glowing creatures in the depths of our oceans, my animation centres around this concept.

This is my first draft and is in need of a few tweaks, but gives a good impression of how the animation will look once completed.

Due to youtubes obsessiveness with compression the picture quality is not perfect, so is best viewed in HD... and make sure you have your sound on

Ideas into Reality

2009-11-21T10:08:00.000-08:00

Ideas into Reality Journal cover, my concept is to give it a design magazine feel. I'll upload the journal once its complete.

Drive By Fly By

2009-11-14T23:10:00.000-08:00

Playing around with Adobe After Effects... I have created a short title sequence for a fictional Thriller entitled "Drive by Fly by" only using still images... just a bit of fun and still very rough around the edges, but you get the idea :o)

UBSU logo

2009-11-05T04:07:00.000-08:00

This is a concept logo I have designed for the University of Bolton's Student Union. With the Student Union having such a wide a varied function, I felt it is impossible to include every element of the organisation into one logo. So I have simplified it down to a more basic explanation of them. I have based my design on the idea that the student union is there to support students day and night, with the yellow/orange representing daylight and the dark blue representing night time, the small lighter blue arrow shape to the bottom left symbolising "and in to the early hours too... sometimes".

The pantone colours used have been lifted directly from the current University of Bolton logo, to add an element of being within the University. The image above is from a page of the PDF presentation I have put together, obviously the finished logo itself does not have the guide lines and measurements.

Brunel' Timeline

2009-10-06T05:07:00.000-07:00

Pictured above is my first project of the 2nd year of my graphics degree. We were tasked to design a "triptych" exhibition stand for a fictional Brunel exhibition sponsored by the Design Museum.

The little instruction manual to positive thinking

2009-08-24T03:59:00.000-07:00

The little instruction manual to positive thinking, a print design for a self help pamphlet

Rob Tomlin Photography

2009-08-22T09:55:00.000-07:00

Logo design for Manchester based photographer Rob Tomlin.

Anyone got a square hole punch?

2009-07-10T16:23:00.000-07:00

This is a selection of concept business card designs incorporating my square hole concept.

Letterheads and Business Cards

2009-07-09T10:40:00.000-07:00

Letterhead and Business Card concept. A logo consisting of an arrow pointing up at an angle made up of small squares. The small squares that are not part of the arrow are printed, however, the arrow its self is made up of punched out square holes to add a twist to the design. A clean elegant san serif typeface finishes off the design for that professional look.

2009-07-07T06:10:00.000-07:00

Another concept ... don't you just want to peel off that 'a'

2009-07-07T06:07:00.000-07:00

Concept logo having some fun with a metallic dog and ball.

2009-07-07T06:04:00.000-07:00

Concept logo for Genio Studio

2009-07-07T06:03:00.000-07:00

Concept business card design.

2009-07-07T06:01:00.000-07:00

A playful mix of typography and gestalt theory.

2009-07-07T05:59:00.000-07:00

Concept logo for a consulting company.

JTF logo...

2009-05-06T10:51:00.000-07:00

Logo designed for JTF Automech, a new automotive repair company, they wanted a tougne in cheek, fun design. After some variations around the theme this is the logo they decided upon.

Whitworth Art Gallery Logo...

2009-05-05T09:43:00.000-07:00

A concept logo I designed for the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester... got to be better than their current logo, look it up... its an awful design.

I based the 'W' part of the logo on the side elevation of the new-ish sculpture court at the gallery.

plain paper logo...

2009-05-03T17:22:00.000-07:00

This is a concept logo I have designed for an imaginary company using Illustrator.

I have been experimenting with 'origami' logos recently, a design fad that has a nice clean look if done well.

101 recipes

2009-05-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

This is a design for an A3 poster I am currently working on, entitled 101 recipes... looks great pinned up on my kitchen wall ....

Inspired by.....

2009-04-23T10:33:00.001-07:00

This is a poster I have designed for an imaginary exhibition taking place at the Whitworth art gallery in Manchester. The poster is to celebrate 1950s design, I have chosen one of my faviorite designers from that era, Saul Bass, for my inspiration for this design.

Revised design .....

2009-04-23T09:38:00.000-07:00

This is my revised design for the AME open day in June.

new solutions

2009-03-26T11:20:00.001-07:00

I have been exploring further solutions for the 1984 AIDS poster using a figure ground technique.

Its Puzzling

2009-03-24T10:20:00.000-07:00

This poster design is another 'type as image' uni assignment, this was my first attempt at this design. Unforuntaley after feedback received from my lecturer I have been asked to reconsider the design... I will be keeping the jigsaw puzzle concept though, back to the drawing board I guess...

Type as Image

2009-03-24T10:15:00.000-07:00

We were tasked at university to design a CD single cover for one of six songs, I choose 'There is a light that never goes out' by The Smiths. The brief stated we are not use any images, just type (type as image module).

Use Imagination Here....

2009-03-24T07:16:00.000-07:00

My Blue Peter moment... I put to use my skills with some paper, scissors and double sided sticky tape (got to love that stuff) to create this prop for use on the tfive website to symbolise the film & video course.

Insert Ideas Here...

2009-03-24T07:15:00.000-07:00

More double sided sticky tape fun :o)

& Here...

2009-03-24T07:10:00.000-07:00

Book Illustration for the tfive website. I based the illustration around my logo design for the website.

Be Creative Here...

2009-03-24T06:44:00.000-07:00

3D visulisation of our lecture room, a bit of fun for an assignment to create a mocked up website for the design floor of Bolton uni ... this is one of the images I used