Fresh is a natural soap bar company, which is palm oil and plastic free, caring for both you and the environment. Our sustainable resources are crafted delicately to ensure a soothing experience, leaving you smelling heavenly and feeling fresh. Fresh is an innovative...
Koffee provides an insightful glimpse to Cardiff’s independent coffee scene, It focuses on great coffee but more importantly the personalities of the coffee shops behind the unique flavours and communities they create. Coffee can be linked to some of the better...
SOPHA is a branding and UX project, for a web-based fusion food recipes service. An idea comes to me about a year ago, to share my mothers recipes online. After some discussion with my mother (my client of this project), the direction of this service has turned to the...
Over the last 3 years I have continuously strived to gain and improve my knowledge in the field of graphics. I was always passionate about experimenting with new technologies and forms of design and gain inspiration from other fields as well. Also, the most important...
‘The Diff Pub Guide’ is a branding campaign that aims to provide tourists coming to the capital with an insight into Cardiff’s real pub culture. By helping them to get a true essence of the city this will attempt to reduce pub closures in the capital. Since 2003, 46...
As society progresses, more and more people are accepting things that are not considered the norm from their usual life. This includes certain things that are heavily focused on in other cultures. One of the major things becoming more popular in western society is...
Within my show space I have included my final major project from my third year graphic communication course, in which I made an editorial piece. This combined my strengths in graphics along with my photography skills. The purpose of this magazine is display the...
My project Generation fashion magazine is a project based around fashion on a budget. The street style looks included inside the magazine are all based around the fashion of today and all the photography of the models in these looks was taken by me. I felt that I...
This body of work aims to change the way people speak about the anxiety-disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. OCD is a serious mental illness, effecting around 750,000 people in the UK, and too often the term ‘a little bit OCD’ is used to describe behaviours which...
Welcome to Tide Magazine. Myself and the people featured within this magazine are a group of like-minded individuals who are passionate about our coastline and community. Join us in our pursuit to uncover and expose all that is good about Cornwall, and to also show...
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurological condition. People tend to think of Parkinson’s as being an old person’s disease. However, whilst the disease affects one in 100 people over age 60, some people are diagnosed at 40 or younger. Having Parkinson’s can...
A refection and guide on the journey that you go through whilst studying BA Graphic Communication at Cardiff Met. Pointing out all the important elements from current students perspectives such the getting there process of driving, catching a train or the bus into...
This project explores social mobility in contemporary England. Investigating the link between geographical location and levels of social mobility achievable by the people in those areas. Some of the factors influencing social mobility include standard of education...
My Project SpeakEasy was created to effectively convey the importance of communication and free speech. Speakeasy is a Graphic Communication Novel, illustrated and written by Myself. The story is set in a dystopian future on earth. The base idea is that everyone is so...
The All-Natural Alternative Product To Reliving Stress And Anxiety This project explores the issues relating to anxiety from kids as young as 11-14 with mental deficiencies such as ADHD and autism and explores natural ingredients like natural chicle that helps the...
This project satorises 3 issues in contemporary society through illustration, animation and accompanying case studies. From the Brexit Stalemate, to Modern Art world’s fixation on economic capital and finally the dangers online dating spaces like tinder can pose for...
“Bottom’s Up!” is a campaign targeted at young men due to the worrying lack of awareness that is preventing them from acting sooner regarding concerns they might have about the most common cancer in men; Prostate Cancer. Using humour, my campaign is unapologetically...
A project featuring the GUNK!, an illustrated band presented here in the form of a music video with supporting CD and publications. The aim of the project is to empower young people both as a form of entertainment and as a project which allows them to use creativity...
The project ‘My Life with Vascular Dementia’ is aimed at the friends and family of those that have dementia. Its purpose is to teach people about the other side effects of the disease, disrupting the stereotype surrounding dementia and memory loss. Its aim is also to...
“… I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.” - Margaret Atwood – Cat’s Eye. My work is a mixture of personal memories and research. I’m interested in fairy tales, the...
Codey is an illustrator working to be as helpful as possible to explain difficult subject matter through imagery. The use of humour and honesty about their experience allows them to explore difficult topics like mental health, faith, and gender identity to challenge...
I wanted to show my more personal work in this year’s final degree show. I do a lot of fine portraiture work, but this kind of loose ink painting is what I find more relaxing and enjoyable to do, even though it is not as appreciate by the general public as my more...
In my work I reflect on my own fascination and wonder with the world and universe. Asking the exciting question of our very own existence is one of the greatest enquiries we have, as is the drive to understand the mechanics nature. As one of my great intellectual...
My work explores student life as a journey and as a phenomenon. The images offer a glimpse into what its like to be today’s student, from crazy and spontaneous moments to confusing and sad times. The rollercoaster of student life is something that can be understood...
An important part of Chinese folk culture, the Chinese Zodiac represents twelve animals corresponding to the year in which people are born: the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Inspired by Chinese New Year paintings, I...
The book ‘Far Away from Home’ tells about the daily life and feelings of my own experience of being a Chinese student living in the UK. When I returned to China during the summer vacation, Many of my friends back home ask me to tell them what life is like studying in...
I have explored the term multi-generational through portraiture and textiles. I think that it is important to relate to all generations of families, in particular, the elderly. My project focuses on my grandmother’s life. I have delivered the anecdotes which I can...
Kill Your Conscience is a work in progress graphic novel, which depicts the dystopian world of New York City, in the year of 2038, and revolves around the problems of today’s world, such as homelessness, war, death, and other topics, the main topic being mental...
Exploring my personal experience of living in and around Hay-on-Wye in the form of a map and interactive story, to guide visitors around the town. With accompanying wallpaper, gift wrap and posters. The project provides a cohesive body of work celebrating the town and...
When we grow up, we come to realize that life isnt what your thought and the reality is never as good as what your expectations. I asked my friends to talk about the difference between how they expected life to be, and how it actually is. Experience has taught me that...
Illustration for me is storytelling. It is exploring. It is expanding on the visual narrative and telling tales to comfort, to bring joy, or to inform. In my work, I enjoy using soft colours and tend to use either watercolour or digital mediums to produce it. Most...
What makes us uniquely human? From biological definitions, we’re made up of 46 chromosomes, approximately 37.2 trillion cells and a unique mix of brain chemicals that make us feel emotions. From many people’s spiritual and personal point of view, one common theme...
How do you build a feminist? With sugar and spice, along denim, body hair, and of course, the souls of men they’ve consumed. But what happens when a feminist isn’t what you think? When a feminist is your daughter, girlfriend, sister? How to Build a Feminist explores...
I am an illustrator and writer who creates short comics and illustrations heavily influenced by nostalgia, surrealism, anime and pop culture from the 90s. Using both traditional and digital methods of creating illustrations, I hope my work leaves its audience with a...
The aim of this work is aimlessness. My work reflects on the mundane moments in life. Day-to-day trivial experiences accumulate and become significant. Through image-making I explore the negative aspects of my life to reveal the value within. I use comics and...
My work started with the idea of traces, I wanted to experiment with what is left behind. After developing the idea I focused on environmental traces looking how the natural traces are being disturbed by human traces. Developing a series of weavings that show how...
My illustration practise is all about colour spectrums, visual storytelling and pattern design. I am an illustrator determined to use my creative and imaginative skills to raise awareness, encourage understanding and get people to start talking about issues that...
It all starts with something simple. What many may overlook as everyday routine can be extremely meaningful to the right person. As an illustrator I like to focus on these smaller moments in life and use my work to reflect this; I utilise my work as an avenue to...
My initial ideas for this film revolved around the mixing of dreams and reality. How can a state of mind be conveyed though animation? I felt that the technique of stop motion specifically, as it’s grounded in reality (inanimate physical objects), is particularly good...
As an avid horror enthusiast, which stems from my father’s love of cult horror classics that influenced my upbringing, my work explores the popular genre of slasher horror and stop motion animation. Influenced by what has always unsettled me, and old school 80’s...
My final Project is an adaptation of a story written by Babs Horton. The story is a Holiday romance about an English school mistress who is caught swimming naked on a secluded beach in Spain. Initially I was inspired to paint my animation using oil paint on glass...
I have been developing my style of cut-out style stopmotion using backlighting and a multiplane for some time now. The most important influences of my work are Lotte Reiniger, Yuri Norstein, and Gekidan Inu Curry. The use of textiles and other materials play a key...
I’ve been part of BA Animation for 3 years. After completing my BTEC in Northern Ireland, BA Animation at Cardiff Metropolitan University was a natural progression. The course has never tied us down but has encouraged us to reach for beyond the stars. I have practiced...
The issue of substance abuse mainly affecting teens in my hometown inspired me to create images that responded to this theme and by looking at this problem, I created imagery through the medium of screen-printing to express ‘subtle’ substance abuse. My work aims to...