Work in progress with Gareth Fisher

Work in progress with Gareth Fisher, artist and President of the Royal Scottish Academy for a catalogue for an exhibition at Summerhall Lab Gallery, Edinburgh, 8 March – 6 April 2025. 

Manipulate Festival 2025 Final Bits

Some final bits of work that I designed for Manipulate Festival 2025, Edinburgh’s international festival of animated film, puppetry and visual theatre. Above is the slide that I designed that was projected as a background at the various discussion panels and film screenings that took place duiring the festival. Illustration by Yifei Xiang. Below is the advert that I designed which appeared in The Skinny magazine. It’s always exciting to see things that I have designed on my computer appearing in the non-digital world!

   

Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse Leaflet

This is a leaflet that I designed, along with other printed items, for the Friends of the Institut français d’Écosse. Based in Edinburgh, the charity was formed twenty-five years ago to support and promote the deep ties between Scotland and France. Drawn from across Scotland and run by a management committee which meets regularly, their aim is to raise funds on behalf of the French Institute. 

As part of the design work that I have been undertaking, I have updated and digitised the Friends logo – which was originally designed by Dalrymple – to include the additional word d’Écosse. The original logo was typeset in Caslon Doric but I have re-typeset it in Founders Grotesk, a more freely available typeface. For the leaflet, I selected Minion Pro as a complementary typeface to be used alongside Founders Grotesk.

6 page DL roll folded leaflet | Finished size: 99mm x 210mm | Flat size: 297mm x 210mm | Printed By Halcyon Print on 150gsm offset

Manipulate Festival Lanyards

Here are some lanyards that I designed for Manipulate Festival 2025 which starts today, Wednesday 12 February. Go Team Manipulate!

Manipulate Festival 2025

Here are the posters that form part of an identity that I designed for Manipulate Festival 2025, Edinburgh’s international festival of animated film, puppetry and visual theatre, bringing the very best of international and Scottish work to audiences across Edinburgh and beyond. This is the third time that I have worked with Manipulate Arts, the organiser of the festival. It is always exciting to spot the posters as they appear around Edinburgh in the run-up to the festival.

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Manipulate Festival 2025 Assets

Here are some of the other assets that I designed for the Manipulate Festival 2025 including digital screen posters, vinyls, and press advertisements, showing how the original design was adapted for different formats, sizes and shapes and for different types of information.

Manipulate Festival 2025 Programme

This is the Manipulate Festival 2025 programme guide which uses a variation of the design of the poster (see previous posts) as a front cover, alongside a gradient background taken from the poster design with colours from Yifei Xiang’s illustration. In order to fit a lot of information in a small space, the typography sets up a hierarchy of information for the various events of the festival including use of symbols to indicate wheelchair access etc. The programme guide is 8 pages, double gatefold, folded to A5, it is printed on an uncoated paper.