Ed Essex : Graphic Designer

Music Video: Maybes by Mount Kimbie

Project: This was a personally set project I completed in my final year at the Edinburgh College of Art. I chose to visually interpret music and made a video for the track 'Maybes' by Mount Kimbie. The video focuses on colour, shape, form and light and I wanted to achieve a rhythm of editing that was sympathetic to the song. Below are a series of posters I created using manipulated photographs as part of the same project.

Book Cover Design: The Secret History

Project: This is a book cover I illustrated and designed for Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'. My design achieved 3rd place for the Penguin Design Award.

Advertising Campaign: Ministry of Sound

Project: The Ministry of Sound wanted an ambient ad campaign to ignite interest in the brand before a product launch in Summer 09. My idea was to personalise ice cream vans, promoting the club on the street in the day or at night. Representatives could talk to punters about the new products and up and coming events and play personalised ice cream van jingles.

Screen Print: Lock Down Poster

Project: The brief here was to visually interpret an audio piece between two garbage truck drivers in New York. At first I was intrigued by the conversation but before long I found the characters were quite attention seeking and nonsensical. The typography attempts to show the degradation of importance in information over time. I chose an A1 size poster format for the brief because I wanted to draw people in to read the piece, only to make them realise that what is written is effectively useless information.

Illustration: Electric Bird

Project: This is an illustration I made as a self initiated project. I enjoy drawing the surreal and the use of character creation is quite consistent within my illustrative work. Amongst other things the painter Josh Keyes and the design studio Village Green particularly inspirational.

Typeface Design: Tollcross

Project: This is a typeface I've designed called Tollcross after where I live in Edinburgh. This was a self initiated task to create a typeface with an illustrative element to it. Part of my inspiration for type design comes from the slick fonts designed by the Argentina based Negro agency and some more illustrative display fonts by Non Format.

Web Application: Facebook Buttons

Project: These are a series of buttons I created for the designers of the web application songforsomeone.com. Each button plays a musical tune that is customised to the users personal details. These buttons and several others are also part of a facebook application viewable at, http://apps.facebook.com/musicalmessages/

Web Application: Virgin Unite

Project: I formed part of a design team at AKQA in 2007 working on a web application for Richard Branson's charity arm, Virgin Unite. I Created a version of the Rockwell typeface for the project and designed sets to head the web pages. More examples of the work I did for the headers on the Virgin Unite website can be seen at www.virginunite.com

Flyer: The Bongo Club

Project: This was a freelance project I did for the Bongo Club in Edinburgh. This slightly alternative design proved to be quite popular and the monthly DJ set sold out on several occasions.

Logo Design: British Red Cross

Project: This was a Logo design made for the British Red Cross' recruitment arm. The guidelines were that it must only use Helvetica and black, white and red colours.

Poster Design: ECA Degree Show Poster

Project: This was a design competition to create a poster to promote the Graphic Design degree show at the Edinburgh Art College. The only limitations of the brief were that it should be designed for two colour printing. I won the competition and consequently it was printed and distributed to various design agencies around the UK.

Illustration: Red Door Gallery

Project: This a piece of work that was exhibiting in Edinburgh's Red Door Gallery, where my illustrations are regularly put up for sale.

Typographic Layouts: Rockwell & Cut Paste

Project: I regularly practice typographic layouts, these are a couple of ideas I had for potential magazine layouts. 'Rockwell' explains the origins of the Rockwell typeface while 'Cut Paste' discusses the history of collage.

Contact

Telephone: 07594 287 352
Email: edessex@googlemail.com