Change the World 9 to 5 is published by Hardie Grant. It aims to give people ways in which they can incrementally better the world around them by performing small actions at work. making someone a coffee. Recycling paper. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator. They all sound like pretty wishy washy little things don't they? But if everyone started making these little changes, who knows where we could end up.
Book cover
Poster
The Motor Accident Commission of South Australia wanted to draw attention to the number of people who are injured on Adelaide's roads every day.
This tram wrap i created invites passers-by to find the 20 injured people hidden in the crowd. it's a Where's Wally kind of thing.
When the tram was out on the road, I took a road trip with my wife, daughter, mum and dad to see it in action. We spent a long day walking around Adelaide during which we saw a whole lot of trams. Unfortunately, none of them were mine. Exhausted, we decided to call it a day and head back to our lodgings. lIterally seconds later this beautiful thing came rumbling around the corner and we were able to go home happy!
There is an exhibition that is held in London every year which has the aim of raising money for good causes.
Artists are invited to design sleeves for 7' vinyl singles, which are auctioned at the closing night of the exhibition. The artists chooses their song from a short list of ten or so by various artists across various genres and eras. I was lucky, because one of the songs on the list when I was invited, was Art School by The Jam. When I was sixteen they were just about my favourite band.
Fight Like A Girl is a book by the Melbourne author Clementine Ford. These images were submitted as potential cover designs.
Ford has a very strong feminist voice in her writing and I wanted my designs to reflect this without being too obvious. Of course, I avoided women in boxing gloves or wearing bandanas while flexing their biceps. We've all seen that a hundred times!
I took two distinct directions in the designs I created. Firstly I used my daughter as inspiration. She is young and cheeky, and of course I want to see a world where she has exactly the same opportunities as any other person.
In the second group of designs I used images of women making strong contributions to feminist causes, to human causes and to world causes, whether they be anti-nuclear protesters at Greenham Common or a gathering to recognise the International Year of Women (1975).
I do not own the rights to the photographs used here.
Photograph by Jane Bown
Unknown Photographer
Photograph by Dorothy Marder
IRL is a tech company which provides mathematical resources for high schools. The content is fairly dry, so I created a number of characters who are designed to make the students' experience more engaging.
Each character is represented by a different colour. When I designed this teacher resource and marketing document, I found that those characters and colours made very strong and disctinctive building blocks.
Final IRL logo and shortlisted designs.
Trash Can Days and its sequel Trash Can Nights tell the humorous and heartwarming story of a group of Californian middle school students as they navigate their way through the travails of teenage life.
Disney Hyperion had seen my cover for Change the World 9 to 5 and wanted me to create something similar for these two books.
The four main protagonists are "hidden' somewhere in each image. Can you find them?
Death by Coconut is a humourous book which lists fifty ways that you are more likely to be killed than by a shark. In recent years there has been a lot of anti-shark fervour in Australia and this book sets out to counter this in a lighthearted way.
Boating
Hippos
Magpies
Skiing
I created a group of infographics for the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation which aimed to convey the negative effects of gambling on various sectors of the community, such as young people and those experiencing mental health issues.
Andrew Mueller is an Australian journalist. He is a travel writer, rock journalist and foreign correspondent and this book collects various writings from those three crazily unrelated (or are they?) spheres.
The important questions I faced when designing this cover were; how funny should it be, and how should I combine the three strands of Mueller's writing? I liked the idea of the game exquisite corpse, a parlour game made popular by the Dada artists. A piece of paper is folded into three and the head, torso and legs of a figure are drawn by three different people without any knowledge of what the others have drawn.
This is a 15 second animation created for DFS Portfolio Solutions. It is designed to be shown at the start of presentations and on their website.
The video is a graphic depiction of what happens when you trust your final future in DFS. You give them your nest egg. They build a protective shell around it. You are given a smooth ride through the uneven fluctuations of the market. Over time your nest egg grows, matures and opens like a golden flower.
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